Some News for Tue May 24, 2011
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL
Could erupting volcano Grimsvotn in Iceland wreak havoc on the final? Airports not far from London (Glasgow & Newcastle) are already closed and its just Tuesday.
Match & Score:
Barcelona v Manchester United - 1pm CT on Fox
Venue: Wembley Stadium - London
TEAM USA
Gold Cup
The team will begin training Thu May 26 in Cary NC.
Center Line Soccer has audio from Chris Wondolowski discussing his inclusion on the team.
And once that happens the official blog will begin to fill up with the goods.
CONCACAF GOLD CUP
Here are all the team's rosters for the tournament.
No Carlos Vela on the Mexico squad.
STORY OF THE DAY
Paul Tenorio of the Washington Post with an article on the growing influence of elite soccer academies on high school age players. (thanks to @ussoccer_ynt on Twitter for the link)
There is one glaring sentence in this article that is just very wrong: "Supporters of the high school game point to the current U.S. national pool and the number of players who played not only high school soccer, but other sports as well."
The vast majority of the USA national team players did not have this Development Adademy program to play in because as the article points out the academy league is only 4 years old. (And yet it has produced a player for this current roster in Juan Agudelo.)
I'm pretty sure the players all would have loved to be on an even higher level team than they did at age 17.
Finally, almost half of the guys on the current USA roster were part of the Dev Academy league predecessor the USA residency program in Bradenton FL: Landon Donovan, Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, Jonathan Spector, Robbie Rogers, Eric Lichaj, Freddy Adu, Jonathan Bornstein and Oguchi Onyewu were all in the system.
FACT OF THE DAY
Barclays Premier League Team of the Decade, as chosen by current Premier League managers.
Goalkeeper – Edwin van der Sar - Fulham & Manchester United
Left fullback – Ashley Cole - Arsenal & Chelsea
Right fullback – Gary Neville - Manchester United
Centerback - Nemanja Vidic - Manchester United
Centerback – John Terry - Chelsea
Left midfield – Ryan Giggs - Manchester United
Right midfield – Cristiano Ronaldo - Manchester United
Central midfield – Paul Scholes - Manchester United
Central midfield - Steven Gerrard - Liverpool
Forward – Didier Drogba - Chelsea
Forward – Alan Shearer -Newcastle
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Futbolr has video of an interview they did with Red Bulls centerback Tim Ream. Its on their You Tube page.
WHY?
AP with more on Cruz Azul goalkeeper Jose de Jesus Corona's headbutting insanity.
-Here is video of the despicable fight. Be warned, it is not pretty.
MLS MATCHES, SCORES & STANDINGS
Week 11
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 25
New York Red Bulls v Colorado Rapids - 6:30PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: Red Bull Arena
Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps FC - 7:00PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field
Seattle Sounders FC v FC Dallas - 9:00PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: Qwest Field
LA Galaxy v Houston Dynamo - 9:30PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: The Home Depot Center
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
FC DALLAS
FC Dallas tech director Barry Gorman checks in with us as he continues his non-stop life on the road searching for more great players for Dallas.
MLS/USA & RELATED RUMORS
Today's ridiculous name in the hopper: Jerzy Dudek
MLS OFFENSIVE STATS LEADERS
As of Tue May 24
Goals:
7 Landon Donovan
6 Charlie Davies
5 Thierry Henry
5 Chris Wondolowski
4 Will Bruin
4 Diego Chaves
4 Brad Evans
4 Shalrie Joseph
4 Marco Pappa
4 Emilio Renteria
Assists:
6 David Beckham
6 Brad Davis
5 Davide Chiumiento
5 Kalif Alhassan
5 Jack Jewsbury
Ten tied with 3
NASL SCOREBOARD
Matches & Scores:
-Mon May 23
FC Edmonton 2-1 NSC Minnesota Stars - FCE goals by Kyle Porter. NSC goal by Simone Bracalello.
dN
Standings (as of Mon May 23):
19 Carolina RailHawks (+10 GD) (8 GP) 2.38 PPG
13 FC Edmonton (-2 GD) (7 GP) 1.86 PPG
12 NSC Minnesota Stars (+3 GD) (8 GP) 1.50 PPG
10 Puerto Rico Islanders (0 GD) (6 GP) 1.67 PPG
9 FC Tampa Bay (0 GD) (7 GP) 1.29 PPG
7 Fort Lauderdale Strikers (-2 GD) (7 GP) 1.00 PPG
4 Montreal Impact (-1 GD) (6 GP) 0.67 PPG
2 Atlanta Silverbacks (-8 GD) (7 GP) 0.29 PPG
US OPEN CUP
MLS Qualifying: - 3rd Stage
Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 24
San Jose Earthquakes v Chicago Fire
-Wed May 25
Sporting Kansas City v New England Revolution
The 2 winners of this stage advance to the tournament proper.
USA U20 TEAM
In France for a couple of friendly matches, the USA drew game 1 and lost game 2.
Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 17
France 3-3 USA - USA goals by Conor Doyle, Josh Gatt & Luis Gil.
-Thu May 19
France 1-2 USA - USA goal by Conor Doyle.
US Soccer gives us the details from the 2nd game.
USA U18 TEAM
USA U18 team in Portugal for the Lisbon International tournament.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 25
USA v Netherlands
-Thu May 26
USA v Portugal
-Sat May 28
USA v Finland
Roster
G:
Jeff Gal - Sockers FC
Jon Kempin - Sporting Kansas City
D:
Michael Ambrose - FC Dallas Academy
Jack Coleman - FC Dallas Academy
Bryan Gallego - New York Red Bulls Academy
Jordan McCrary - U North Carolina
Juan Pablo Ocegueda - UANL Tigres
Boyd Okwuonu - FC Dallas Academy
Walker Zimmerman - Furman U
M:
Luis Gil - Real Salt Lake
Daniel Metzger - New York Red Bulls Academy
William Packwood - Birmingham City
Victor Pineda - Chicago Fire
Alex Shinksy - U Maryland
Christopher Somerville - Baltimore Bays Chelsea
Wil Trapp - Crew Soccer Academy
F:
Villyan Bijev - Cal Odyssey
Luis Rendon - FC Richmond Magic
Khiry Shelton - Lonestar SC
Jonathan Top - FC Dallas Academy
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Freddy Adu had a good and bad Monday. Yes he was chosen for the USA Gold Cup squad, but his club team lost badly in the 1st Leg of their promotion playoff series.
dN
Game Action:
TURKEY - 1. Lig Promotion Playoffs
Freddy Adu - Caykur Rizespor - 1st Leg Mon May 23 - started and played 65 min as they lost 4-0 at Orduspor.
dN
Coming Up:
DENMARK - Superliga -
Clarence Goodson - Brondy - Wed May 25 v Nordsjaelland
Michael Parkhurst - Nordsjaelland - Wed May 25 at Brondby
Chris Rolfe - AaB - Wed May 25 v SonderjyskE
CANADA
Canadian Championship
Final
2nd Leg (1st Leg scored included)
-Wed May 25
Toronto FC v Vancover Whitecaps (1-1)
The winner advances to the preliminary round of the CONCACAF Champions League.
dN
International Friendly
Match & Score:
-Wed Jun 1
Canada v Ecuador - in Toronto
ENGLAND
When Saturday Comes wonders if more use of play-offs could liven up the English league that is stuck with the same few teams making all the big head lines year after year.
-This poses a lot of different questions, which I love, and long time readers of du Nord know that I love love love MLS playoffs.
SPAIN
Phil Ball of ESPN on the last day of the Primera season, and after 20 years in the top flight - the relegation of Depor.
ITALY
Gabriele Marcotti of the Wall Street Journal on fans in Italy. Its a big deal.
ARGENTINA
Tim Vickery of BBC looks at the importance of Carlos Tevez to Argentina. Is the team better with out him?
COPA LIBERTADORES
Semifinals
Matches & Scores:
1st Leg
-Wed May 25
Santos Futebol Clube v Club Cerro Porteno
-Thu May 26
Club Atletico Penarol v Club Atletico Velez Sarsfield
Could erupting volcano Grimsvotn in Iceland wreak havoc on the final? Airports not far from London (Glasgow & Newcastle) are already closed and its just Tuesday.
Match & Score:
Barcelona v Manchester United - 1pm CT on Fox
Venue: Wembley Stadium - London
TEAM USA
Gold Cup
The team will begin training Thu May 26 in Cary NC.
Center Line Soccer has audio from Chris Wondolowski discussing his inclusion on the team.
And once that happens the official blog will begin to fill up with the goods.
CONCACAF GOLD CUP
Here are all the team's rosters for the tournament.
No Carlos Vela on the Mexico squad.
STORY OF THE DAY
Paul Tenorio of the Washington Post with an article on the growing influence of elite soccer academies on high school age players. (thanks to @ussoccer_ynt on Twitter for the link)
There is one glaring sentence in this article that is just very wrong: "Supporters of the high school game point to the current U.S. national pool and the number of players who played not only high school soccer, but other sports as well."
The vast majority of the USA national team players did not have this Development Adademy program to play in because as the article points out the academy league is only 4 years old. (And yet it has produced a player for this current roster in Juan Agudelo.)
I'm pretty sure the players all would have loved to be on an even higher level team than they did at age 17.
Finally, almost half of the guys on the current USA roster were part of the Dev Academy league predecessor the USA residency program in Bradenton FL: Landon Donovan, Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, Jonathan Spector, Robbie Rogers, Eric Lichaj, Freddy Adu, Jonathan Bornstein and Oguchi Onyewu were all in the system.
FACT OF THE DAY
Barclays Premier League Team of the Decade, as chosen by current Premier League managers.
Goalkeeper – Edwin van der Sar - Fulham & Manchester United
Left fullback – Ashley Cole - Arsenal & Chelsea
Right fullback – Gary Neville - Manchester United
Centerback - Nemanja Vidic - Manchester United
Centerback – John Terry - Chelsea
Left midfield – Ryan Giggs - Manchester United
Right midfield – Cristiano Ronaldo - Manchester United
Central midfield – Paul Scholes - Manchester United
Central midfield - Steven Gerrard - Liverpool
Forward – Didier Drogba - Chelsea
Forward – Alan Shearer -Newcastle
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Futbolr has video of an interview they did with Red Bulls centerback Tim Ream. Its on their You Tube page.
WHY?
AP with more on Cruz Azul goalkeeper Jose de Jesus Corona's headbutting insanity.
-Here is video of the despicable fight. Be warned, it is not pretty.
MLS MATCHES, SCORES & STANDINGS
Week 11
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 25
New York Red Bulls v Colorado Rapids - 6:30PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: Red Bull Arena
Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps FC - 7:00PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field
Seattle Sounders FC v FC Dallas - 9:00PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: Qwest Field
LA Galaxy v Houston Dynamo - 9:30PM CT on Direct Kick
Venue: The Home Depot Center
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
FC DALLAS
FC Dallas tech director Barry Gorman checks in with us as he continues his non-stop life on the road searching for more great players for Dallas.
MLS/USA & RELATED RUMORS
Today's ridiculous name in the hopper: Jerzy Dudek
MLS OFFENSIVE STATS LEADERS
As of Tue May 24
Goals:
7 Landon Donovan
6 Charlie Davies
5 Thierry Henry
5 Chris Wondolowski
4 Will Bruin
4 Diego Chaves
4 Brad Evans
4 Shalrie Joseph
4 Marco Pappa
4 Emilio Renteria
Assists:
6 David Beckham
6 Brad Davis
5 Davide Chiumiento
5 Kalif Alhassan
5 Jack Jewsbury
Ten tied with 3
NASL SCOREBOARD
Matches & Scores:
-Mon May 23
FC Edmonton 2-1 NSC Minnesota Stars - FCE goals by Kyle Porter. NSC goal by Simone Bracalello.
dN
Standings (as of Mon May 23):
19 Carolina RailHawks (+10 GD) (8 GP) 2.38 PPG
13 FC Edmonton (-2 GD) (7 GP) 1.86 PPG
12 NSC Minnesota Stars (+3 GD) (8 GP) 1.50 PPG
10 Puerto Rico Islanders (0 GD) (6 GP) 1.67 PPG
9 FC Tampa Bay (0 GD) (7 GP) 1.29 PPG
7 Fort Lauderdale Strikers (-2 GD) (7 GP) 1.00 PPG
4 Montreal Impact (-1 GD) (6 GP) 0.67 PPG
2 Atlanta Silverbacks (-8 GD) (7 GP) 0.29 PPG
US OPEN CUP
MLS Qualifying: - 3rd Stage
Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 24
San Jose Earthquakes v Chicago Fire
-Wed May 25
Sporting Kansas City v New England Revolution
The 2 winners of this stage advance to the tournament proper.
USA U20 TEAM
In France for a couple of friendly matches, the USA drew game 1 and lost game 2.
Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 17
France 3-3 USA - USA goals by Conor Doyle, Josh Gatt & Luis Gil.
-Thu May 19
France 1-2 USA - USA goal by Conor Doyle.
US Soccer gives us the details from the 2nd game.
USA U18 TEAM
USA U18 team in Portugal for the Lisbon International tournament.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 25
USA v Netherlands
-Thu May 26
USA v Portugal
-Sat May 28
USA v Finland
Roster
G:
Jeff Gal - Sockers FC
Jon Kempin - Sporting Kansas City
D:
Michael Ambrose - FC Dallas Academy
Jack Coleman - FC Dallas Academy
Bryan Gallego - New York Red Bulls Academy
Jordan McCrary - U North Carolina
Juan Pablo Ocegueda - UANL Tigres
Boyd Okwuonu - FC Dallas Academy
Walker Zimmerman - Furman U
M:
Luis Gil - Real Salt Lake
Daniel Metzger - New York Red Bulls Academy
William Packwood - Birmingham City
Victor Pineda - Chicago Fire
Alex Shinksy - U Maryland
Christopher Somerville - Baltimore Bays Chelsea
Wil Trapp - Crew Soccer Academy
F:
Villyan Bijev - Cal Odyssey
Luis Rendon - FC Richmond Magic
Khiry Shelton - Lonestar SC
Jonathan Top - FC Dallas Academy
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Freddy Adu had a good and bad Monday. Yes he was chosen for the USA Gold Cup squad, but his club team lost badly in the 1st Leg of their promotion playoff series.
dN
Game Action:
TURKEY - 1. Lig Promotion Playoffs
Freddy Adu - Caykur Rizespor - 1st Leg Mon May 23 - started and played 65 min as they lost 4-0 at Orduspor.
dN
Coming Up:
DENMARK - Superliga -
Clarence Goodson - Brondy - Wed May 25 v Nordsjaelland
Michael Parkhurst - Nordsjaelland - Wed May 25 at Brondby
Chris Rolfe - AaB - Wed May 25 v SonderjyskE
CANADA
Canadian Championship
Final
2nd Leg (1st Leg scored included)
-Wed May 25
Toronto FC v Vancover Whitecaps (1-1)
The winner advances to the preliminary round of the CONCACAF Champions League.
dN
International Friendly
Match & Score:
-Wed Jun 1
Canada v Ecuador - in Toronto
ENGLAND
When Saturday Comes wonders if more use of play-offs could liven up the English league that is stuck with the same few teams making all the big head lines year after year.
-This poses a lot of different questions, which I love, and long time readers of du Nord know that I love love love MLS playoffs.
SPAIN
Phil Ball of ESPN on the last day of the Primera season, and after 20 years in the top flight - the relegation of Depor.
ITALY
Gabriele Marcotti of the Wall Street Journal on fans in Italy. Its a big deal.
ARGENTINA
Tim Vickery of BBC looks at the importance of Carlos Tevez to Argentina. Is the team better with out him?
COPA LIBERTADORES
Semifinals
Matches & Scores:
1st Leg
-Wed May 25
Santos Futebol Clube v Club Cerro Porteno
-Thu May 26
Club Atletico Penarol v Club Atletico Velez Sarsfield
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