Some Soccer News for Mon Dec 19, 2011
STARTERS
Big Apple Soccer alerts us to a an interview that former New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul is accusing his former team of having a racist attitude when it comes to dealing with him and other players of African decent.
dN
Edson Buddle who was given an early winter vacation by the new coach at Ingolstadt last week is in London for a try out with West Ham. We wish him all the best.
STORY OF THE DAY
The New York Times takes us inside the world of the Fox Soccer Report!
TEAM USA - EL EQUIPO DE TODOS
MLSsoccer.com reports that Klinsi has hired former Bayern & Werder star Andres Herzog as a new assistant coach. Herzog is from Austria, who also played 1 season for the LA Galaxy.
USA U23/OLYMPIC TEAM
The USA U23/Olympic team is in Lakewood Ranch Florida until Dec 23 for a training camp.
dN
US Soccer takes us through an intersquad scrimmage that happened on Sunday.
-Photos from that game.
US Soccer also brings us video of the camp in Florida.
dN
There will be another camp in January.
dN
Here is the roster.
G:
David Bingham - San Jose Earthquakes
Bill Hamid - DC United
Sean Johnson - Chicago Fire
Zac MacMath - Philadelphia Union
D:
Gale Agbossoumonde - Eintracht Frankfurt
Royal-Dominique Fennell - Stuttgarter Kickers
Sebastien Ibeagha - Duke
Kofi Sarkodie - Houston Dynamo
Zarek Valentin - Montreal Impact
Jorge Villafana - Chivas USA
Andrew Wenger - Duke
Sheanon Williams - Philadelphia Union
M:
Freddy Adu - Philadelphia Union
Bryan Arguez - Montreal Impact
Joe Corona - Tijuana
Danny Cruz - Houston Dynamo
Mikkel Diskerud - Stabaek
Dilly Duka - Columbus Crew
Jared Jeffrey - Mainz
Sebastian Lletget - West Ham
Amobi Okugo - Philadelphia Union
Kelyn Rowe - UCLA
Michael Stephens - LA Galaxy
F:
Terrance Boyd - Dortmund
Will Bruin - Houston Dynamo
Teal Bunbury - Sporting Kansas City
Jann George - Nurnberg
Joe Gyau - Hoffenheim
Jack McInerney - Philadelphia Union
Andrew Wooten - Kaiserslautern
CLUB WORLD CUP
Final
Barcelona in a rout! And it wasn't even that close. Santos are just not in their league.
Just glorious!
Amazing video highlights.
We are seeing something very special with this team over the past 5 years.
It could be a long time before we see something like this ever again.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Sun Dec 18
Barcelona 4-0 Santos - Bar goals by Lio Messi(2), Xavi Hernanadez & Cesc Fabregas.
BIG EUROPEAN CLUB MATCHES
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Dec 17
Schalke 5-0 Werder Bremen - a serious beating by Schalke over the previously 5th place team shows that they are for real.
Sevilla 0-3 Real Madrid - Sev is not close to being in Madrid's league. RM re-claims their 3 point lead in the standings.
-Sun Dec 18
Manchester City 1-0 Arsenal - the loss leaves Arsenal 12 points out of 1st place. while Man City looked strong.
Lazio 2-2 Udinese - neither could change their contender status into leader status.
Napoli 1-3 Roma - Rom got a big with that they needed to keep their season alive.
PSG 0-0 Lille - #2 & #3 both had a chance to take the top spot in France but they choked on their own vomit.
DID YOU KNOW?
Inside World Football reports that American Ted Howard will replace Chuck Blazer as CONCACAF general secretary. Thanks to BQ for the link.
HMMMMM, VERY INTERESTING
Luke Lohr of The MLS Reserves talks to several of the game's top voices in American soccer broadcasting and asks their opinions on where their role is headed, and what the viewers really want from them.
WELL WELL WELL
Alexi Lalas has a new daily podcast called The Shot. Find it on iTunes.
OOF
Reuters reports that Sevilla president Jose Maria de Nido has been found guilty of fraud in a non-soccer related case and given a 7 1/2 year jail sentence! Wow, that is some fraud. He will appeal his verdict.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Clint Dempsey scored a great goal against Bolton this weekend. See it here. LINK FIXED
The goal was set up for Costa Rican Bryan Ruiz, and then approx 1 minute later Dempsey set up Ruiz for another goal! CONCACAF magic!
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Ricky Rubio of the Minnesota Timberwolves got to meet Kevin Friedland of the Minnesota Stars today, and even got his own Star jersey!
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
General News
Dave Martinez of Empire of Soccer has words from Red Bulls and Mexico veteran centerback Rafa Marquez talking about the growth of MLS and the difficulties he as faced.
dN
Player Transactions
San Jose bought Honduran winger Marvin Chavez from Dallas.
dN
Andres Mendoza of Columbus has signed to play for Atlante in Mexico.
dN
CD CHIVAS USA
Scott French of ESPN tells us about some CUSA targeted players.
COLUMBUS CREW
Centerback and captain Chad Marshall has signed a new contract with the team through the 2015 season.
FC DALLAS
Todd Date of 3rd Degree breaks down the sale of Marven Chavez to San Jose.
dN
Joshua Mayers of the Seattle Times does a quick Q & A with centerback George John.
MONTREAL IMPACT
The Impact announced the signing of 32 year old Quebec native midfielder Patrice Bernier from Lyngby in Denmark.
REAL SALT LAKE
MLSsoccer.com does a post season Q & A with head coach Jason Kreis.
MLS/USA RELATED RUMORS
Soccer 365 with lots of rumors concerning Cedric Fabien, Babjide Ogunbiyi, Thierry Henry, El-Hadji Diouf, Diego Restrepo, Greg Garza and many more.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Carlos Bocanegra (Rangers), clint Dempsey (Fulham) and Tony Taylor (Atletico CP) all scored goal this weekend.
dN
Both Jozy Altidore and Mo Edu were subbed out at halftime this weekend.
dN
All 3 Americans were in the starting line up for Rangers.
dN
Frank Simek was back in the Carlisle line up after a long injury recovery.
dN
Greg Seltzer of MLSsoccer.com reports that Matthew Dunn is signing with OFK Belgrade in Serbia.
dN
Game Action:
BELGIUM - Pro League
Sacha Kljestan - Anderlecht - played the entire match as they won 3-2 v Lokeren.
ENGLAND - Premier League
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - played the full 90 scoring a goal and setting up the other as they won 2-0 v Bolton.
Brad Friedel - Tottenham - in goal as usual and they won 1-0 v Sunderland.
Brad Guzan - Aston Villa - played the whole game but lost 0-2 v Liverpool.
Tim Howard - Everton - went the distance as they drew 1-1 v Norwich.
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - played the full 90 as they drew 1-1 at Everton.
ENGLAND - Championship League
Robbie Findley - Nottingham Forest - on the bench but did not play as they drew 0-0 at Bristol City.
Danny Potts - West Ham - went the full 90 as they won 1-0 v Barnsley.
Jonathan Spector - Birmingham - Mon Dec 19 - played the whole game but lost 1-0 at Crystal Palace.
ENGLAND - League One
Mike Grella - Brentford - on the bench but did not play as they drew 1-1 at Bury.
Anton Peterlin - Wallsall - played the whole match as they drew 1-1 at Chesterfield.
Frank Simek - Carlisle United - went the full 90 as they drew 2-2 v Wycombe.
GERMANY - Bundesliga
Timmy Chandler - Nurnberg - suspended (first of two games)
Steve Cherundolo - Hannover - on the bench as they drew 1-1 at Kaiserslautern.
Fabian Johnson - Hoffenheim - went the full 90 as they tied 1-1 v Herth Berlin.
Jermaine Jones - Schalke - played the whole game as they won big 5-0 v Werder Bremen.
Daniel Williams - Hoffenheim - came on as a sub in the 66th min as they drew 1-1 v Hertha.
David Yelldell - Bayer Leverkusen - on the bench as they lost 0-3 v Nurnberg.
GERMANY - 2 Bundesliga
Matt Taylor - Paderborn - came on as a last minute sub as they won 2-3 at Fortuna Dusseldorf.
ISRAEL - Ligat Al
Bryan Gerzicich - Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona - went the distance as they won 1-0 Hapoel Haifa.
ITALY - Serie A
Michael Bradley - Chievo Verona - went the full 90 as they won 2-0 v Cagliari.
NETHERLANDS - Eredivisie
Jozy Altidore - AZ Alkmaar - started but came off at half time and they lost 2-1 at NAC Breda.
PORTUGAL - Primeira Liga
Oguchi Onyewu - Sporting - played the whole game as they drew 1-1 at Academica.
PORTUGAL - Liga de Honra
Caleb Patterson-Sewell - Atletico CP - went the full 90 but lost 3-1 at Desportivo Aves.
Tony Taylor - Atletico CP - started and went 80 minutes scoring a goal but lost 3-1 at Desportivo Aves.
SCOTLAND - Premier League
Alejandro Bedoya - Rangers - started and went 52 min as they won 2-1 v Inverness.
Carlos Bocanegra - Rangers - went the full 90 scoring a goal and getting booked as they won 2-1 v Inverness.
Mo Edu - Rangers - started but came out at half time as they won 2-1 v Inverness.
dN
Coming Up:
ITALY - Serie A
Michael Bradley - Chievo Verona - Wed Dec 21 at Lazio
ENGLAND
Jacob Steinberg, Alan Gardner, Simon Burnton and Rob Smyth of the Guardian with five things we learned from watching football this weekend.
SPAIN
Sid Lowe of the Guardian on the latest disaster that is Atletico Madrid, and the rest of the weekend in la Liga.
dN
Copa del Rey - Round of 32
2nd Leg
-Tue Dec 20
Real Madrid v Ponferradina (2-0)
Espanyol v Celta (0-0)
Sporting de Gijon v Mallorca (1-0)
Sevilla v San Roque (1-0)
-Wed Dec 21
Atletico Madrid v Albacete (1-2)
Villarreal v Mirandes (1-1)
Osasuna v Almerian (3-1)
Zaragoza v Alcorcon (1-1)
Betis v Cordoba (0-1)
Levante v Deportivo La Coruna (1-3)
Rayo Vallecano v Racing Santander (2-3)
Malaga v Getafe (1-0)
Granada v Real Sociedad (1-4)
Athletic Bilbao v Real Oviedo (1-0)
Valencia v Cadiz (0-0)
-Thu Dec 22
Barcelona v L'Hospitalet (1-0)
GERMANY
Raphael Honigstein of the Guardian on Raul leading Schalke to the top echelon of the Bundesliga, and a roundup of the rest of the weekend in Germany.
dN
DFB Pokal - Round of 16
-Tue Dec 20
Bochum v Bayern Munich
Nurnberg v Greuther Furth
Hoffenheim v Augsburg
Fortuna Dusseldorf v Borussia Dortmund
-Wed Dec 21
Hertha Berlin v Kaiserslautern
Holstein Kiel v Mainz
Stuttgart v Hamburger
Monchengladbach v Schalke
ITALY
Football Italia reports on 17 people being arrested for influencing Serie B games.
dN
Paolo Bandini of the Guardian on 2 huge Saturday games and the rest of the weekend in Serie A.
dN
Palermo has fired head coach Devis Mangia. He will be replaced by Bortolo Mutti.
EUROPE
Taca de Portugal - Quarterfinals
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Dec 20
Sporting CP v Maritimo
Academica v Desportivo Aves
Moreirense v Nacional
UD Oliveirense v Olhanense
AFRICA
10 finalists for the African Player of the Year:
-Andre Ayew - Ghana & Marseille
-Kevin-Prince Boateng - Ghana & AC Milan
-Didier Drogba - Cote d'Ivoire & Chelsea
-Samuel Eto'o - Cameroon & Anzhi Makhachkala
-Gervinho - Cote d'Ivoire & Arsenal
-Asamoah Gyan - Ghana & Al Ain
-Seydou Keita - Mali & Barcelona
-Moussa Sow - Senegal & Lille
-Adel Taarabt - Morocco & Queens Park Rangers
-Yaya Toure - Cote d'Ivoire & Manchester City
The winner will be announced Dec 22.
Big Apple Soccer alerts us to a an interview that former New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul is accusing his former team of having a racist attitude when it comes to dealing with him and other players of African decent.
dN
Edson Buddle who was given an early winter vacation by the new coach at Ingolstadt last week is in London for a try out with West Ham. We wish him all the best.
STORY OF THE DAY
The New York Times takes us inside the world of the Fox Soccer Report!
TEAM USA - EL EQUIPO DE TODOS
MLSsoccer.com reports that Klinsi has hired former Bayern & Werder star Andres Herzog as a new assistant coach. Herzog is from Austria, who also played 1 season for the LA Galaxy.
USA U23/OLYMPIC TEAM
The USA U23/Olympic team is in Lakewood Ranch Florida until Dec 23 for a training camp.
dN
US Soccer takes us through an intersquad scrimmage that happened on Sunday.
-Photos from that game.
US Soccer also brings us video of the camp in Florida.
dN
There will be another camp in January.
dN
Here is the roster.
G:
David Bingham - San Jose Earthquakes
Bill Hamid - DC United
Sean Johnson - Chicago Fire
Zac MacMath - Philadelphia Union
D:
Gale Agbossoumonde - Eintracht Frankfurt
Royal-Dominique Fennell - Stuttgarter Kickers
Sebastien Ibeagha - Duke
Kofi Sarkodie - Houston Dynamo
Zarek Valentin - Montreal Impact
Jorge Villafana - Chivas USA
Andrew Wenger - Duke
Sheanon Williams - Philadelphia Union
M:
Freddy Adu - Philadelphia Union
Bryan Arguez - Montreal Impact
Joe Corona - Tijuana
Danny Cruz - Houston Dynamo
Mikkel Diskerud - Stabaek
Dilly Duka - Columbus Crew
Jared Jeffrey - Mainz
Sebastian Lletget - West Ham
Amobi Okugo - Philadelphia Union
Kelyn Rowe - UCLA
Michael Stephens - LA Galaxy
F:
Terrance Boyd - Dortmund
Will Bruin - Houston Dynamo
Teal Bunbury - Sporting Kansas City
Jann George - Nurnberg
Joe Gyau - Hoffenheim
Jack McInerney - Philadelphia Union
Andrew Wooten - Kaiserslautern
CLUB WORLD CUP
Final
Barcelona in a rout! And it wasn't even that close. Santos are just not in their league.
Just glorious!
Amazing video highlights.
We are seeing something very special with this team over the past 5 years.
It could be a long time before we see something like this ever again.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Sun Dec 18
Barcelona 4-0 Santos - Bar goals by Lio Messi(2), Xavi Hernanadez & Cesc Fabregas.
BIG EUROPEAN CLUB MATCHES
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Dec 17
Schalke 5-0 Werder Bremen - a serious beating by Schalke over the previously 5th place team shows that they are for real.
Sevilla 0-3 Real Madrid - Sev is not close to being in Madrid's league. RM re-claims their 3 point lead in the standings.
-Sun Dec 18
Manchester City 1-0 Arsenal - the loss leaves Arsenal 12 points out of 1st place. while Man City looked strong.
Lazio 2-2 Udinese - neither could change their contender status into leader status.
Napoli 1-3 Roma - Rom got a big with that they needed to keep their season alive.
PSG 0-0 Lille - #2 & #3 both had a chance to take the top spot in France but they choked on their own vomit.
DID YOU KNOW?
Inside World Football reports that American Ted Howard will replace Chuck Blazer as CONCACAF general secretary. Thanks to BQ for the link.
HMMMMM, VERY INTERESTING
Luke Lohr of The MLS Reserves talks to several of the game's top voices in American soccer broadcasting and asks their opinions on where their role is headed, and what the viewers really want from them.
WELL WELL WELL
Alexi Lalas has a new daily podcast called The Shot. Find it on iTunes.
OOF
Reuters reports that Sevilla president Jose Maria de Nido has been found guilty of fraud in a non-soccer related case and given a 7 1/2 year jail sentence! Wow, that is some fraud. He will appeal his verdict.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Clint Dempsey scored a great goal against Bolton this weekend. See it here. LINK FIXED
The goal was set up for Costa Rican Bryan Ruiz, and then approx 1 minute later Dempsey set up Ruiz for another goal! CONCACAF magic!
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Ricky Rubio of the Minnesota Timberwolves got to meet Kevin Friedland of the Minnesota Stars today, and even got his own Star jersey!
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
General News
Dave Martinez of Empire of Soccer has words from Red Bulls and Mexico veteran centerback Rafa Marquez talking about the growth of MLS and the difficulties he as faced.
dN
Player Transactions
San Jose bought Honduran winger Marvin Chavez from Dallas.
dN
Andres Mendoza of Columbus has signed to play for Atlante in Mexico.
dN
CD CHIVAS USA
Scott French of ESPN tells us about some CUSA targeted players.
COLUMBUS CREW
Centerback and captain Chad Marshall has signed a new contract with the team through the 2015 season.
FC DALLAS
Todd Date of 3rd Degree breaks down the sale of Marven Chavez to San Jose.
dN
Joshua Mayers of the Seattle Times does a quick Q & A with centerback George John.
MONTREAL IMPACT
The Impact announced the signing of 32 year old Quebec native midfielder Patrice Bernier from Lyngby in Denmark.
REAL SALT LAKE
MLSsoccer.com does a post season Q & A with head coach Jason Kreis.
MLS/USA RELATED RUMORS
Soccer 365 with lots of rumors concerning Cedric Fabien, Babjide Ogunbiyi, Thierry Henry, El-Hadji Diouf, Diego Restrepo, Greg Garza and many more.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Carlos Bocanegra (Rangers), clint Dempsey (Fulham) and Tony Taylor (Atletico CP) all scored goal this weekend.
dN
Both Jozy Altidore and Mo Edu were subbed out at halftime this weekend.
dN
All 3 Americans were in the starting line up for Rangers.
dN
Frank Simek was back in the Carlisle line up after a long injury recovery.
dN
Greg Seltzer of MLSsoccer.com reports that Matthew Dunn is signing with OFK Belgrade in Serbia.
dN
Game Action:
BELGIUM - Pro League
Sacha Kljestan - Anderlecht - played the entire match as they won 3-2 v Lokeren.
ENGLAND - Premier League
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - played the full 90 scoring a goal and setting up the other as they won 2-0 v Bolton.
Brad Friedel - Tottenham - in goal as usual and they won 1-0 v Sunderland.
Brad Guzan - Aston Villa - played the whole game but lost 0-2 v Liverpool.
Tim Howard - Everton - went the distance as they drew 1-1 v Norwich.
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - played the full 90 as they drew 1-1 at Everton.
ENGLAND - Championship League
Robbie Findley - Nottingham Forest - on the bench but did not play as they drew 0-0 at Bristol City.
Danny Potts - West Ham - went the full 90 as they won 1-0 v Barnsley.
Jonathan Spector - Birmingham - Mon Dec 19 - played the whole game but lost 1-0 at Crystal Palace.
ENGLAND - League One
Mike Grella - Brentford - on the bench but did not play as they drew 1-1 at Bury.
Anton Peterlin - Wallsall - played the whole match as they drew 1-1 at Chesterfield.
Frank Simek - Carlisle United - went the full 90 as they drew 2-2 v Wycombe.
GERMANY - Bundesliga
Timmy Chandler - Nurnberg - suspended (first of two games)
Steve Cherundolo - Hannover - on the bench as they drew 1-1 at Kaiserslautern.
Fabian Johnson - Hoffenheim - went the full 90 as they tied 1-1 v Herth Berlin.
Jermaine Jones - Schalke - played the whole game as they won big 5-0 v Werder Bremen.
Daniel Williams - Hoffenheim - came on as a sub in the 66th min as they drew 1-1 v Hertha.
David Yelldell - Bayer Leverkusen - on the bench as they lost 0-3 v Nurnberg.
GERMANY - 2 Bundesliga
Matt Taylor - Paderborn - came on as a last minute sub as they won 2-3 at Fortuna Dusseldorf.
ISRAEL - Ligat Al
Bryan Gerzicich - Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona - went the distance as they won 1-0 Hapoel Haifa.
ITALY - Serie A
Michael Bradley - Chievo Verona - went the full 90 as they won 2-0 v Cagliari.
NETHERLANDS - Eredivisie
Jozy Altidore - AZ Alkmaar - started but came off at half time and they lost 2-1 at NAC Breda.
PORTUGAL - Primeira Liga
Oguchi Onyewu - Sporting - played the whole game as they drew 1-1 at Academica.
PORTUGAL - Liga de Honra
Caleb Patterson-Sewell - Atletico CP - went the full 90 but lost 3-1 at Desportivo Aves.
Tony Taylor - Atletico CP - started and went 80 minutes scoring a goal but lost 3-1 at Desportivo Aves.
SCOTLAND - Premier League
Alejandro Bedoya - Rangers - started and went 52 min as they won 2-1 v Inverness.
Carlos Bocanegra - Rangers - went the full 90 scoring a goal and getting booked as they won 2-1 v Inverness.
Mo Edu - Rangers - started but came out at half time as they won 2-1 v Inverness.
dN
Coming Up:
ITALY - Serie A
Michael Bradley - Chievo Verona - Wed Dec 21 at Lazio
ENGLAND
Jacob Steinberg, Alan Gardner, Simon Burnton and Rob Smyth of the Guardian with five things we learned from watching football this weekend.
SPAIN
Sid Lowe of the Guardian on the latest disaster that is Atletico Madrid, and the rest of the weekend in la Liga.
dN
Copa del Rey - Round of 32
2nd Leg
-Tue Dec 20
Real Madrid v Ponferradina (2-0)
Espanyol v Celta (0-0)
Sporting de Gijon v Mallorca (1-0)
Sevilla v San Roque (1-0)
-Wed Dec 21
Atletico Madrid v Albacete (1-2)
Villarreal v Mirandes (1-1)
Osasuna v Almerian (3-1)
Zaragoza v Alcorcon (1-1)
Betis v Cordoba (0-1)
Levante v Deportivo La Coruna (1-3)
Rayo Vallecano v Racing Santander (2-3)
Malaga v Getafe (1-0)
Granada v Real Sociedad (1-4)
Athletic Bilbao v Real Oviedo (1-0)
Valencia v Cadiz (0-0)
-Thu Dec 22
Barcelona v L'Hospitalet (1-0)
GERMANY
Raphael Honigstein of the Guardian on Raul leading Schalke to the top echelon of the Bundesliga, and a roundup of the rest of the weekend in Germany.
dN
DFB Pokal - Round of 16
-Tue Dec 20
Bochum v Bayern Munich
Nurnberg v Greuther Furth
Hoffenheim v Augsburg
Fortuna Dusseldorf v Borussia Dortmund
-Wed Dec 21
Hertha Berlin v Kaiserslautern
Holstein Kiel v Mainz
Stuttgart v Hamburger
Monchengladbach v Schalke
ITALY
Football Italia reports on 17 people being arrested for influencing Serie B games.
dN
Paolo Bandini of the Guardian on 2 huge Saturday games and the rest of the weekend in Serie A.
dN
Palermo has fired head coach Devis Mangia. He will be replaced by Bortolo Mutti.
EUROPE
Taca de Portugal - Quarterfinals
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Dec 20
Sporting CP v Maritimo
Academica v Desportivo Aves
Moreirense v Nacional
UD Oliveirense v Olhanense
AFRICA
10 finalists for the African Player of the Year:
-Andre Ayew - Ghana & Marseille
-Kevin-Prince Boateng - Ghana & AC Milan
-Didier Drogba - Cote d'Ivoire & Chelsea
-Samuel Eto'o - Cameroon & Anzhi Makhachkala
-Gervinho - Cote d'Ivoire & Arsenal
-Asamoah Gyan - Ghana & Al Ain
-Seydou Keita - Mali & Barcelona
-Moussa Sow - Senegal & Lille
-Adel Taarabt - Morocco & Queens Park Rangers
-Yaya Toure - Cote d'Ivoire & Manchester City
The winner will be announced Dec 22.
posted by brucio at 18:56
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Loved the Globe and Mail story about Fox Soccer Report. If Rafa is planning on two more years with Red Bulls it must mean no one else wants to pick up his big salary.
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