Some Soccer News for Tue Dec 6, 2011
MLS FIRST KICK 2012
The first 4 games of next season were announced today.
We will get the new kids from Montreal in game 1, Dallas hosting NYC for the NBC Sports Network debut broadcast, Chivas & Houston on a Sunday Galavision game, and Portland hosting Monday Night Futbol.
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Mar 10
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v Montreal Impact - 5pm CT on TSN
Venue: BC Place - Vancouver BC
-Sun Mar 11
FC Dallas v New York Red Bulls - 2pm CT on NBC Sports Network
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
CD Chivas USA v Houston Dynamo - 6pm CT on Galavision
Venue: The Home Depot Center - Carson CA
-Mon Mar 12
Portland Timbers v Philadelphia Union - 8:30pm CT on ESPN2
Venue: JELD-WEN Field - Portland OR
STARTERS
2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or finalists:
-Xavi Hernandez
-Lionel Messi
-Cristiano Ronaldo
No surprises there.
The three Women's finalists are:
-Marta
-Homare Sawa
-Abby Wambach
dN
Colorado Rapids managing director Jeff Plush has resigned. He recently oversaw the ouster of head coach Gary Smith and now he too is out the door. Wow.
-The team does seem like it needs new leadership though.
-Fernando Clavijo (@fclavijo) tweeted that Jim Martin is taking over the team. Martin is currently the President and CEO of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. So I don't know if he is moving over to take this role directly or adding it to his current platter or what. I can't imagine he is moving "over" as right now he is listed as the #3 guy in all of Kroenke's empire right behind Stan and his son Josh.
dN
The Vancouver Whitecaps announced the signing of 34 year old South Korean left fullback Young-Pyo Lee from Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
dN
The draw came out of the hat for the 3rd Round of the English FA Cup like this:
-Sat Jan 7
Manchester City v Manchester United
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
OK, now, we're back again.
Of course you're listening to WBAI in New York, and this program is Labrynth.
My name is Abdul Sarasian, and we are speaking with Baba or maybe Ras Baba.
"Can I give a message? Hello?"
Go ahead man.
"Yeah. I'd just like to say, um, lets have some music now, huh?"
OK. OK. Thank you.
("Yeah right.")
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Dec 6, 2011 - Brand new music mix at Spotify
STORY OF THE DAY
Clint Dempsey scored the 37th goal of his English Premier League career, making him the new all-time leading American goal scorer in Europe. Brian McBride who at one time was Dempsey's teammate at Fulham was the previous top with 36.
-Here are video highlights of Fulham's win against Liverpool and his scrappy goal. Reports say that he had an overall great game.
As long as we are talking about Clint and Fulham lets got back to Spring 2010 and that amazing goal he scored against Juventus in the Europa League knockout stages.
That was a great day.
After the first of two legs Fulham were down 3-1.
which meant they would have to win but at least 3-0 to advance.
When the line ups were announced for Leg 2 and Dempsey was not in the starting 11 all the USA fans on Twitter went nuts.
I posted a tweet and told them all to quiet down.
Then I predicted exactly what was going to transpire.
I said Dempsey would come on as a second half sub and score a dramatic game winner!
Twitter went nuts when it actually happened.
That day I became du Nordstradamus.
I laughed very hard - hahahahahahaha! Fantastic.
Here is video of that amazing Dempsey goal v Juventus.
Fulham went all the way to the Europa final that season but lost to Atletico Madrid 2-1.
TEAM USA - EL EQUIPO DE TODOS
US Soccer does a Q & A with Juan Aguedelo where he talks about his time training at Stuttgart in Germany.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Chelsea, Marseille and Zenit advanced today.
Valencia, Olympiacos, Porto and Shakhtar are out.
The last 5 will advance tomorrow.
dN
ADV: APOEL, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich
OUT: BATE, Shakhtar Dontesk, Borussia Dortmund, Genk, Dinamo Zagreb, Otelul Galati, Viktoria Plzen, Villarreal
dN
Matchday 6 - final round of group play
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Dec 6
Chelsea 3-0 Valencia - Che goals by Didier Drogba(2) & Ramires.
Genk 1-1 Leverkusen - Gen goal by Jelle Vossen. Lev goal by Eren Dirdiyok.
Olympiacos 3-1 Arsenal - Oly goals by Rafik Djebbour, David Fuster & Francois Modesto. Ars goal by Yossi Benayoun.
Dortmund 2-3 Marseille - Dor goals by Jaukb Blaszczykowski & Mats Hummels(PK). Mar goals by Loic Remy, Andre Ayew & Mathieu Valbuena.
Porto 0-0 Zenit
APOEL 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk - SD goals by Luiz Adriano & Evhen Seleznev.
Barcelona 4-0 BATE - Bar goals by Sergi Roberto, Montoya, & Pedro(2, 1 via PK).
Plzen 2-2 Milan - Plz goals by David Bystron & Michal Duris. Mil goals by Alexandre Pato & Robinho.
-Wed Dec 7
Man City v Bayern
Villarreal v Napoli
Lille v Trabzonspor
Inter v CSKA Moskva
Basel v Man United
Benfica v Otelul Galati
Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon
Ajax v Real Madrid
dN
The Round of 16 matches will be played on Feb 14, 15/21,22 & Mar 6,7/13,14.
-The draw will be held Fri Dec 16.
CONCACAF OLYMPIC QUALIFYING
The draw was done today for the CONCACAF Olympic Men's qualifying tournament.
Two Groups of four teams will play a round robin with top 2 going to knock out rounds.
The two winners of semifinals will go to Olympics.
Here are the groupings:
Group A will play in Nashville TN
Canada
Cuba
El Salvador
USA
Group B will play in Carson CA
Honduras
Mexico
Panama
Trinidad & Tobago
Semifinals and Final will be played in Kansas City KS
FIFASCANDALIZATIONINGS
John Leicester of the Associated Press reports that former FIFA president Joao Havelange has retired from public life this week, just as allegations that he took $1 Million in bribes are about to be brought into the full light of day. He has been with the International Olympic Committee but has resigned from that position.
FACT OF THE DAY
Here is the new Adidas ball for the 2012 MLS season:
Now we have to give it a test run and see how it stacks up against that fantastic new ball from Nike.
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
James Montague of the New York Times describes American Samoa's improbable FIRST-EVER win. (thanks to Kieran for the link)
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Nepali's are going wild for a long range free kick goal scored by their national team captain Sagar Thapa! They are comparing it to a glorious goal Ronaldinho hit against England in the 2002 World Cup. See both goals here.
-Thanks to Sagar Rijal for the link!
And see the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship right here.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Portland introduced their 3rd jersey for next season. Its full on retro! (Comes with explanations)
MLS SELECT TEAM - GENERATION ADIDAS EXHIBITION TOUR - NETHERLANDS
MLS gives us photos from Day 1 in Holland.
dN
Tour Itinerary
Tue Dec 6/7 - train at Ajax Academy
Wed Dec 7 - attend Champions League match: Ajax v Real Madrid
Thu Dec 8 - Game 1
Fri Dec 9/10 - train at Ajax Academy
Sat Dec 10 - attend Eredivisie match: AZ v De Graafschap
Sun Dec 11/12 - train at Ajax Academy
Mon Dec 12 - attend match: Ajax U23 v PSV U23
Tue Dec 13 - Game 2
Wed Dec 14 - Game 3
Thu Dec 15 - return
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Dec 8
Ajax Reserves v MLS-GA
-Tue Dec 13
FC Volendam v MLS-GA
-Wed Dec 14
Almere City FC v MLS-GA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Player Transactions
3 players were chosen in the Re-Entry Draft Stage 1:
-Arturo Alvarez - Salt Lake to Chivas USA
-Carlos Mendes - New York to Columbus
-Danleigh Borman - Toronto to New England
Stage 2 is next Monday - I don't know or frankly care what the difference is.
CHICAGO FIRE
The teams has signed a contract extension with captain central midfielder Logan Pause.
CD CHIVAS USA
The Amerigoats signed goalkeeper Dan Kennedy to a new contract.
DC UNITED
Steven Goff of the Post with a little tiny bit of positive news on a DCU stadium.
HOUSTON DYNAMO
The Dynos bought the contract of midfielder Luiz Camargo who had been on loan from Parana of Brazil for the second half of last season, and was starting to really fit in with the team as the season ended.
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
Frank Dell'Apa of the Globe with an article on prodigy Diego Fagundez.
Dell'Apa also writes about the re-signing of Shalrie Joseph, which is pretty huge considering the player has stated publicly last season that he would not be back for 2012. And several other Rev's team notes.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
Jane Havsy of the Daily Record introduces us to the Red Bulls new signing from their academy team centerback Connor Lade.
PORTLAND TIMBERS
MLSsoccer.com has a post season Q & A with head coach John Spencer.
REAL SALT LAKE
Real Salt Lake's veteran midfielder Andy Williams called time on his career Monday, retiring after 14 years in the league to join the RSL technical staff.
-James Edward of the Deseret writes about the end of Williams playing career.
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC
The Caps announced the signing of 34 year old South Korean fullback Young-Pyo Lee from Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
MLS EXHIBITION GAMES
LA Galaxy Asia Pacific Tour 2011
The Galaxy finish their tour 3-0-0!
Landon Donovan again missed from the penalty spot in a Penalty Kick Shootout to determine a match. But unlike MLS Cup 2009, the Galaxy won this time.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Nov 30
Indonesian Super League All-Stars 0-1 LA Galaxy - LAG goal by Robbie Keane.
Venue: Gelora Bung Karno Stadium - Jakarta, Indonesia
-Sat Dec 3
Philippines National Team 1-6 LA Galaxy - PNT goal by Phil Younghusband. LAG goals by David Beckham, Robbie Keane, Landon Donovan, Gregg Berhalter(PK) & Adam Cristman(2).
Venue: Rizal Memorial Stadium - Manila, Philippines
-Tue Dec 6
Melbourne Victory 2-2 LA Galaxy - LAG wins 4-3 in Penalty Kick Shootout - MV goals by Carlos Hernandez & Isaka Cernak. LAG goals both by Robbie Keane(both via PK).
Venue: Etihad Stadium - Melbourne, Australia
USA U17 TEAM
US Soccer introduces us to two of the stars of just finished Nike Friendlies - Junior Flores - AND - Tyler Turner.
US SOCCER DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY
USSF tells us about the role of technical advisers in development.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
David Smith of Yanks Abroad interviews Sebastian Lletget who is inching closer and closer to his senior debut at West Ham.
Clint Waddell also of YA talks to Tyrone McCargo of Nurnberg who just got his first taste of the USA at the recent Olympic training camp.
Some Americans have learned their fate for the 3rd Round of the English FA Cup matches that will be played the weekend of Jan 7.
ENGLAND - FA Cup - 3rd Round
-Sat Jan 7
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - v Charlton
Conor Doyle - Derby County - v Crystal Palace
Robbie Findley - Nottingham Forest - v Leicester
Brad Friedel - Tottenham - v Cheltenham
Brad Guzan - Aston Villa - at Bristol Rovers
Tim Howard - Everton - v Tamworth
Eric Lichaj - Aston Villa - at Bristol Rovers
Danny Potts - West Ham - at Sheffield Wednesday
Jonathan Spector - Birmingham - v Wolverhampton
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - v Burnley
dN
Game Action:
PORTUGAL - Taca de Portugal - Round of 16
Oguchi Onyewu - Sporting - Mon Dec 5 - went the full 90 as they won 2-0 v Belenenses and now advance to the Quarterfinals.
ENGLAND
Alan Gardner, Gregg Roughley and Penny Woods of the Guardian with five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend.
SPAIN
Sid Lowe of the Guardian fills us in on huge financial troubles at Racing Santander, and the rest of the most recent round in The League.
GERMANY
Raphael Honigstein of the Guardian on Bayern's return to the top of the Bundesliga amid Werder's failures and the rest of the weekend in the top German league.
ITALY
Roma had three players red carded in their loss at Fiorentina on Sunday! I love when that happens to such a nice bunch!
Paolo Bandiniof the Guardian says Roma head coach Luis Enrique is starting to feel the heat, and the rest of the weekend in Serie A.
EUROPE
Taca de Portugal - Round of 16
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Dec 1
Moreirense 2-1 Torreense
-Fri Dec 2
Maritimo 2-1 Benfica
-Sat Dec 3
Estoril 2-2 Olhanense - Olh advances 4-2 on PKs.
-Sun Dec 4
Mirandela 1-1 UD Oliveirense - UD O advances 4-3 on PKs.
Desportivo Aves 2-1 Ribeira Brava
Tirsense 0-0 Nacional - Nac advances 4-3 on PKs.
Leixoes 2-5 Academica
-Mon Dec 5
Sporting CP 2-0 Belenenses
Quarterfinals
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Dec 20
Sporting CP v Maritimo
Academica v Desportivo Aves
Moreirense v Nacional
UD Oliveirense v Olhanense
SOUTH AMERICA
The grand finale of South America's #2 club cup tournament gets underway on Wednesday featuring big clubs from Ecuador and Chile!
Copa Sudamericana - Final
1st Leg
-Wed Dec 7
LDU Quito v Universidad Chile
2nd Leg
-Wed Dec 13
Universidad Chile v LDU Quito
ENDERS
Some of the greatest music of all time:
Augustus Pablo
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
Listen to it at Spotify right now
I think its one of a small handful of the greatest albums of all time. I am blown away every time I listen to it. Its far from a conventional sounding album. Its almost all instrumental, in a style called Dub. Recorded and released in Jamaica in 1976.
The album cover has Augustus standing in front of a collage featuring Haile Selassie's picture over his left shoulder.
Selassie the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 is also known as the Rastafarian messiah, whose most famous follower was Bob Marley.
The first 4 games of next season were announced today.
We will get the new kids from Montreal in game 1, Dallas hosting NYC for the NBC Sports Network debut broadcast, Chivas & Houston on a Sunday Galavision game, and Portland hosting Monday Night Futbol.
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Mar 10
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v Montreal Impact - 5pm CT on TSN
Venue: BC Place - Vancouver BC
-Sun Mar 11
FC Dallas v New York Red Bulls - 2pm CT on NBC Sports Network
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
CD Chivas USA v Houston Dynamo - 6pm CT on Galavision
Venue: The Home Depot Center - Carson CA
-Mon Mar 12
Portland Timbers v Philadelphia Union - 8:30pm CT on ESPN2
Venue: JELD-WEN Field - Portland OR
STARTERS
2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or finalists:
-Xavi Hernandez
-Lionel Messi
-Cristiano Ronaldo
No surprises there.
The three Women's finalists are:
-Marta
-Homare Sawa
-Abby Wambach
dN
Colorado Rapids managing director Jeff Plush has resigned. He recently oversaw the ouster of head coach Gary Smith and now he too is out the door. Wow.
-The team does seem like it needs new leadership though.
-Fernando Clavijo (@fclavijo) tweeted that Jim Martin is taking over the team. Martin is currently the President and CEO of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. So I don't know if he is moving over to take this role directly or adding it to his current platter or what. I can't imagine he is moving "over" as right now he is listed as the #3 guy in all of Kroenke's empire right behind Stan and his son Josh.
dN
The Vancouver Whitecaps announced the signing of 34 year old South Korean left fullback Young-Pyo Lee from Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
dN
The draw came out of the hat for the 3rd Round of the English FA Cup like this:
-Sat Jan 7
Manchester City v Manchester United
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
OK, now, we're back again.
Of course you're listening to WBAI in New York, and this program is Labrynth.
My name is Abdul Sarasian, and we are speaking with Baba or maybe Ras Baba.
"Can I give a message? Hello?"
Go ahead man.
"Yeah. I'd just like to say, um, lets have some music now, huh?"
OK. OK. Thank you.
("Yeah right.")
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Dec 6, 2011 - Brand new music mix at Spotify
STORY OF THE DAY
Clint Dempsey scored the 37th goal of his English Premier League career, making him the new all-time leading American goal scorer in Europe. Brian McBride who at one time was Dempsey's teammate at Fulham was the previous top with 36.
-Here are video highlights of Fulham's win against Liverpool and his scrappy goal. Reports say that he had an overall great game.
As long as we are talking about Clint and Fulham lets got back to Spring 2010 and that amazing goal he scored against Juventus in the Europa League knockout stages.
That was a great day.
After the first of two legs Fulham were down 3-1.
which meant they would have to win but at least 3-0 to advance.
When the line ups were announced for Leg 2 and Dempsey was not in the starting 11 all the USA fans on Twitter went nuts.
I posted a tweet and told them all to quiet down.
Then I predicted exactly what was going to transpire.
I said Dempsey would come on as a second half sub and score a dramatic game winner!
Twitter went nuts when it actually happened.
That day I became du Nordstradamus.
I laughed very hard - hahahahahahaha! Fantastic.
Here is video of that amazing Dempsey goal v Juventus.
Fulham went all the way to the Europa final that season but lost to Atletico Madrid 2-1.
TEAM USA - EL EQUIPO DE TODOS
US Soccer does a Q & A with Juan Aguedelo where he talks about his time training at Stuttgart in Germany.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Chelsea, Marseille and Zenit advanced today.
Valencia, Olympiacos, Porto and Shakhtar are out.
The last 5 will advance tomorrow.
dN
ADV: APOEL, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich
OUT: BATE, Shakhtar Dontesk, Borussia Dortmund, Genk, Dinamo Zagreb, Otelul Galati, Viktoria Plzen, Villarreal
dN
Matchday 6 - final round of group play
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Dec 6
Chelsea 3-0 Valencia - Che goals by Didier Drogba(2) & Ramires.
Genk 1-1 Leverkusen - Gen goal by Jelle Vossen. Lev goal by Eren Dirdiyok.
Olympiacos 3-1 Arsenal - Oly goals by Rafik Djebbour, David Fuster & Francois Modesto. Ars goal by Yossi Benayoun.
Dortmund 2-3 Marseille - Dor goals by Jaukb Blaszczykowski & Mats Hummels(PK). Mar goals by Loic Remy, Andre Ayew & Mathieu Valbuena.
Porto 0-0 Zenit
APOEL 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk - SD goals by Luiz Adriano & Evhen Seleznev.
Barcelona 4-0 BATE - Bar goals by Sergi Roberto, Montoya, & Pedro(2, 1 via PK).
Plzen 2-2 Milan - Plz goals by David Bystron & Michal Duris. Mil goals by Alexandre Pato & Robinho.
-Wed Dec 7
Man City v Bayern
Villarreal v Napoli
Lille v Trabzonspor
Inter v CSKA Moskva
Basel v Man United
Benfica v Otelul Galati
Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon
Ajax v Real Madrid
dN
The Round of 16 matches will be played on Feb 14, 15/21,22 & Mar 6,7/13,14.
-The draw will be held Fri Dec 16.
CONCACAF OLYMPIC QUALIFYING
The draw was done today for the CONCACAF Olympic Men's qualifying tournament.
Two Groups of four teams will play a round robin with top 2 going to knock out rounds.
The two winners of semifinals will go to Olympics.
Here are the groupings:
Group A will play in Nashville TN
Canada
Cuba
El Salvador
USA
Group B will play in Carson CA
Honduras
Mexico
Panama
Trinidad & Tobago
Semifinals and Final will be played in Kansas City KS
FIFASCANDALIZATIONINGS
John Leicester of the Associated Press reports that former FIFA president Joao Havelange has retired from public life this week, just as allegations that he took $1 Million in bribes are about to be brought into the full light of day. He has been with the International Olympic Committee but has resigned from that position.
FACT OF THE DAY
Here is the new Adidas ball for the 2012 MLS season:
Now we have to give it a test run and see how it stacks up against that fantastic new ball from Nike.
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
James Montague of the New York Times describes American Samoa's improbable FIRST-EVER win. (thanks to Kieran for the link)
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Nepali's are going wild for a long range free kick goal scored by their national team captain Sagar Thapa! They are comparing it to a glorious goal Ronaldinho hit against England in the 2002 World Cup. See both goals here.
-Thanks to Sagar Rijal for the link!
And see the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship right here.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Portland introduced their 3rd jersey for next season. Its full on retro! (Comes with explanations)
MLS SELECT TEAM - GENERATION ADIDAS EXHIBITION TOUR - NETHERLANDS
MLS gives us photos from Day 1 in Holland.
dN
Tour Itinerary
Tue Dec 6/7 - train at Ajax Academy
Wed Dec 7 - attend Champions League match: Ajax v Real Madrid
Thu Dec 8 - Game 1
Fri Dec 9/10 - train at Ajax Academy
Sat Dec 10 - attend Eredivisie match: AZ v De Graafschap
Sun Dec 11/12 - train at Ajax Academy
Mon Dec 12 - attend match: Ajax U23 v PSV U23
Tue Dec 13 - Game 2
Wed Dec 14 - Game 3
Thu Dec 15 - return
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Dec 8
Ajax Reserves v MLS-GA
-Tue Dec 13
FC Volendam v MLS-GA
-Wed Dec 14
Almere City FC v MLS-GA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Player Transactions
3 players were chosen in the Re-Entry Draft Stage 1:
-Arturo Alvarez - Salt Lake to Chivas USA
-Carlos Mendes - New York to Columbus
-Danleigh Borman - Toronto to New England
Stage 2 is next Monday - I don't know or frankly care what the difference is.
CHICAGO FIRE
The teams has signed a contract extension with captain central midfielder Logan Pause.
CD CHIVAS USA
The Amerigoats signed goalkeeper Dan Kennedy to a new contract.
DC UNITED
Steven Goff of the Post with a little tiny bit of positive news on a DCU stadium.
HOUSTON DYNAMO
The Dynos bought the contract of midfielder Luiz Camargo who had been on loan from Parana of Brazil for the second half of last season, and was starting to really fit in with the team as the season ended.
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
Frank Dell'Apa of the Globe with an article on prodigy Diego Fagundez.
Dell'Apa also writes about the re-signing of Shalrie Joseph, which is pretty huge considering the player has stated publicly last season that he would not be back for 2012. And several other Rev's team notes.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
Jane Havsy of the Daily Record introduces us to the Red Bulls new signing from their academy team centerback Connor Lade.
PORTLAND TIMBERS
MLSsoccer.com has a post season Q & A with head coach John Spencer.
REAL SALT LAKE
Real Salt Lake's veteran midfielder Andy Williams called time on his career Monday, retiring after 14 years in the league to join the RSL technical staff.
-James Edward of the Deseret writes about the end of Williams playing career.
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC
The Caps announced the signing of 34 year old South Korean fullback Young-Pyo Lee from Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
MLS EXHIBITION GAMES
LA Galaxy Asia Pacific Tour 2011
The Galaxy finish their tour 3-0-0!
Landon Donovan again missed from the penalty spot in a Penalty Kick Shootout to determine a match. But unlike MLS Cup 2009, the Galaxy won this time.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Nov 30
Indonesian Super League All-Stars 0-1 LA Galaxy - LAG goal by Robbie Keane.
Venue: Gelora Bung Karno Stadium - Jakarta, Indonesia
-Sat Dec 3
Philippines National Team 1-6 LA Galaxy - PNT goal by Phil Younghusband. LAG goals by David Beckham, Robbie Keane, Landon Donovan, Gregg Berhalter(PK) & Adam Cristman(2).
Venue: Rizal Memorial Stadium - Manila, Philippines
-Tue Dec 6
Melbourne Victory 2-2 LA Galaxy - LAG wins 4-3 in Penalty Kick Shootout - MV goals by Carlos Hernandez & Isaka Cernak. LAG goals both by Robbie Keane(both via PK).
Venue: Etihad Stadium - Melbourne, Australia
USA U17 TEAM
US Soccer introduces us to two of the stars of just finished Nike Friendlies - Junior Flores - AND - Tyler Turner.
US SOCCER DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY
USSF tells us about the role of technical advisers in development.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
David Smith of Yanks Abroad interviews Sebastian Lletget who is inching closer and closer to his senior debut at West Ham.
Clint Waddell also of YA talks to Tyrone McCargo of Nurnberg who just got his first taste of the USA at the recent Olympic training camp.
Some Americans have learned their fate for the 3rd Round of the English FA Cup matches that will be played the weekend of Jan 7.
ENGLAND - FA Cup - 3rd Round
-Sat Jan 7
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - v Charlton
Conor Doyle - Derby County - v Crystal Palace
Robbie Findley - Nottingham Forest - v Leicester
Brad Friedel - Tottenham - v Cheltenham
Brad Guzan - Aston Villa - at Bristol Rovers
Tim Howard - Everton - v Tamworth
Eric Lichaj - Aston Villa - at Bristol Rovers
Danny Potts - West Ham - at Sheffield Wednesday
Jonathan Spector - Birmingham - v Wolverhampton
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - v Burnley
dN
Game Action:
PORTUGAL - Taca de Portugal - Round of 16
Oguchi Onyewu - Sporting - Mon Dec 5 - went the full 90 as they won 2-0 v Belenenses and now advance to the Quarterfinals.
ENGLAND
Alan Gardner, Gregg Roughley and Penny Woods of the Guardian with five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend.
SPAIN
Sid Lowe of the Guardian fills us in on huge financial troubles at Racing Santander, and the rest of the most recent round in The League.
GERMANY
Raphael Honigstein of the Guardian on Bayern's return to the top of the Bundesliga amid Werder's failures and the rest of the weekend in the top German league.
ITALY
Roma had three players red carded in their loss at Fiorentina on Sunday! I love when that happens to such a nice bunch!
Paolo Bandiniof the Guardian says Roma head coach Luis Enrique is starting to feel the heat, and the rest of the weekend in Serie A.
EUROPE
Taca de Portugal - Round of 16
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Dec 1
Moreirense 2-1 Torreense
-Fri Dec 2
Maritimo 2-1 Benfica
-Sat Dec 3
Estoril 2-2 Olhanense - Olh advances 4-2 on PKs.
-Sun Dec 4
Mirandela 1-1 UD Oliveirense - UD O advances 4-3 on PKs.
Desportivo Aves 2-1 Ribeira Brava
Tirsense 0-0 Nacional - Nac advances 4-3 on PKs.
Leixoes 2-5 Academica
-Mon Dec 5
Sporting CP 2-0 Belenenses
Quarterfinals
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Dec 20
Sporting CP v Maritimo
Academica v Desportivo Aves
Moreirense v Nacional
UD Oliveirense v Olhanense
SOUTH AMERICA
The grand finale of South America's #2 club cup tournament gets underway on Wednesday featuring big clubs from Ecuador and Chile!
Copa Sudamericana - Final
1st Leg
-Wed Dec 7
LDU Quito v Universidad Chile
2nd Leg
-Wed Dec 13
Universidad Chile v LDU Quito
ENDERS
Some of the greatest music of all time:
Augustus Pablo
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
Listen to it at Spotify right now
I think its one of a small handful of the greatest albums of all time. I am blown away every time I listen to it. Its far from a conventional sounding album. Its almost all instrumental, in a style called Dub. Recorded and released in Jamaica in 1976.
The album cover has Augustus standing in front of a collage featuring Haile Selassie's picture over his left shoulder.
Selassie the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 is also known as the Rastafarian messiah, whose most famous follower was Bob Marley.
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