Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Some News for Wed Feb 9, 2011

STARTERS

Don't miss the first ever du Nord poll. Vote here.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Ads on buses in DC! Nice! (click to enlarge)
-Stolen from the private stash of Kyle Sheldon from DCU.







WHY NOT!

The Waterloo Region Record of Kitchener, ON with an article titled "Why can’t North Americans appreciate the ‘beautiful game’?"
-While its full of pretty good observation, its also idealistic. I can't imagine that the Premier League and La Liga were distinct thriving leagues after their 15th season.

MLS/USA & RELATED RUMORS

Today's ridiculous name in the hooper: Tobe

dN

Is Houston going to sign Jamaican defender Jermaine Taylor?

MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS

CD CHIVAS USA

Acting more like an expansion team, the Goats have signed 2 MLS veterans from New Zealand - central midfielder Simon Elliott and centerback Andrew Boyens. Oof.

FC DALLAS

Todd Date of 3rd Degree gives us many FCD notes after practice yesterday.

DC UNITED

Ives Galarcep of Fox Soccer with an article on the fit between Davies and DCU.

Craig Stouffer of the Examiner looks at one of the new guys that DCU is counting on to turn things around - Dax McCarty.

Goalkeeper Steve Cronin jacked up his wrist in training today. Word on the street is that he broke some sort of bone.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY SC

Charles Gooch of the Star with an article on captain Davy Arnaud, another on the list of players who really need to step up this season for his team.

LA GALAXY

Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated on David Beckham's no-show at Galaxy preseason training.
-Many more worthy topics discussed as well.

Scott French of ESPN with plenty of Galaxy news bites.

LA played to a 1-1 stalemate with Portland. LAG goal by Paolo Cardozo.

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION

Frank Dell'Apa of the Globe with an article on goalkeeper Matt Reis who needs to have a huge season if his team is going to go anywhere.
-And some other team news.

NEW YORK RED BULLS

Match & Score:
Atlante (Mexico) v NYRB - tonight in Cancun!

PORTLAND TIMBERS

Portland got a goal from Bryan Umony to tie LA 1-1 at the Home Depot Training Center.

REAL SALT LAKE

The Lakers tied Seattle 3-3 on Tuesday down in Arizona. RSL goals by Javier Morales & Collen Warner(2).

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES

Chris Wondolowski has signed a contract extension with the Quakes. No idea how long its for.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS

The Sounders drew 3-3 with RSL yesterday. SSFC goals by O'Brian White, Lamar Neagle & Fredy Montero(PK).

Jose Romero of the Times on newly crowned Designated Player Fredy Montero. Will the new $$ change him this season?

Joshua Mayers of the Times gives us the transcript of coach Sigi's press chat today.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC

Marc Weber of the Province on big hulking New Zealand centerback Michael Boxhall who is impressing the coaches in preseason.

Jose Romero of Soccer By Ives talks to veteran goalkeeper Joe Cannon.

And our F-I-F Odeen Domingo also of Soccer By Ives talks to Jay DeMerit who is about to play his first professional soccer in North America.

The Caps signed two more players from their old D2 roster - midfielders Nizar Khalfan & Gershon Koffie.

MLS EXPANSION

Fans in Atlanta are doing their best to unite and give MLS a reason to bring a team there. The Atlanta Online Soccer Summit held a live online discussion the other night and MLS exec Dan Courtemanche joined them. Very cool.
-This is the kind of passion that needs to go along with big time financial backing (who won't say it, but they want the city to build them a stadium.) Miami has their group of passionate supporters but lack a big money man.

NASL NEWS

Brian Quarstad of IMSoccer News brings us up to date the NASL race to get sanctioning from US Soccer to play D2 in 2011.
-My instincts tells me that a deal will be worked out between the league and US Soccer that will allow the season to go forward.

USA U17 TEAM

Brent Lathan of the USA 10 Kit looks at where the USA teams sits with only a few days until the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying tournament begins.

AMERICANS IN EUROPE

Eric Lichaj has been loaned out by Aston Villa to English Championship division team Leeds United.

CONCACAF

International Friendlies

Canada lost in Greece.

Matches & Scores:
-Wed Feb 9
Greece 1-0 Canada
Mexico v Bosnia-Herzegovina
Honduras v Ecuador
El Salvador v Haiti

ENGLAND

Kabir Chibber of the New York Times with a look at the interesting and entertaining Bolton head coach Owen Coyle.

SPAIN

Phil Minshull of the BBC wonders why Barca coach Pepper Guardiola keeps signing only 1 year contracts.

UEFA

International Friendlies

Spain, England, France (over Brazil), Netherlands, Scotland, Serbia, Croatia, Greece & Croatia got wins.

Two of the biggies, Russia (by Iran) and Portugal (by Argentina) were beaten.

Germany-Italy played to a tie.

Matches & Scores:
-Wed Feb 9
Spain 1-0 Colombia
Denmark 1-2 England
France 1-0 Brazil
Argentina 2-1 Portugal
Germany 1-1 Italy
Netherlands 3-1 Austria
Luxembourg 2-1 Slovakia
Malta 0-0 Switzerland
Poland 1-0 Norway
Azerbaijan 0-2 Hungary
Bulgaria 2-2 Estonia
Iran 1-0 Russia
San Marino 0-1 Liechtenstein
Latvia 2-1 Bolivia
Scotland 3-0 Northern Ireland
Andorra 1-2 Moldova
Greece 1-0 Canada
Albania 1-2 Slovenia
Belarus 1-1 Kazakhstan
Belgium 1-1 Finland
Israel 0-2 Serbia
Turkey 0-0 S Korea
Croatia 4-2 Czech Republic
Armenia 1-0 Georgia
Macedonia 0-1 Cameroon
Cyprus 1-1 Romania - Rom wins 5-4 in Penalty Kick Shootout
Sweden 1-1 Ukraine - Ukr wins 5-4 in Penalty Kick Shootout
Mexico v Bosnia-Herzegovina

CONMEBOL

International Friendlies

Argentina won while Brazil, Bolivia & Colombia got beat.

Matches & Scores:
-Wed Feb 9
Spain 1-0 Colombia
Argentina 2-1 Portugal
Latvia 2-1 Bolivia
France 1-0 Brazil
Honduras v Ecuador

COPA LIBERTADORES

The Group Stage.

Matches & Scores:
-Wed Feb 9
Fluminense v Argentinos Juniors
Tolima v Guarani

AFRICA

International Friendlies

Cameroon, Nigeria,Senegal, Morocco, South Africa & Gabon won.

Matches & Scores:
-Wed Feb 9
Mozambique 1-1 Botswana
Namibia 1-2 Malawi
Nigeria 2-1 Sierra Leone
Macedonia 0-1 Cameroon
Tanzania 1-0 Palestine
Libya 3-2 Benin
Swaziland 0-4 Zambia
Cape Verde Islands 1-0 Burkina Faso
Gabon 2-0 Congo DR
Gambia 1-3 Guinea-Bissau
Senegal 3-0 Guinea
Morocco 3-0 Niger
South Africa 2-0 Kenya

ASIA

International Friendlies

Iran knocked off Russia, and S Korea had a scoreless draw in Turkey.

Matches & Scores:
-Wed Feb 9
Iran 1-0 Russia
Tanzania 1-0 Palestine
Malaysia 2-0 Hong Kong
Philippines 2-0 Mongolia
Cambodia 3-1 Macau
Turkey 0-0 S Korea

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

Newer Posts Older Posts