Some Soccer News for Tue Jan 3, 2012
BREAKING NEWS: Is Oscar Pareja about to become the new head coach of the Colorado Rapids?
-He was a player for the Dallas Burn, and is currently the director of the very successful FC Dallas academy.
STARTERS
This is one man dangling a piece of meat over a pack of ravaging wolves.
dN
The first day of MLS teams preseason training begins on Sun Jan 15!
dN
As was expected American Ted Howard was promoted from deputy to general secretary of CONCACAF, replacing Chuck Blazer.
dN
I see that Liverpool wised up and decided not to appeal the 8 game suspension of Luis Suarez.
-If I was on the review board and he appealed that suspension I would have tagged on 4 more.
dN
Now "they" all say that David Beckham will not move to Paris, but rather he will stay in LA.
dN
And another LA Galaxy player, Robbie Keane is in London to train with Tottenham during the MLS offseason.
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jan 3, 2011 - new music mix at Spotify
STORY OF THE DAY
Jack McCaffery of the Delaware County Daily Times does an interview with Philadelphia Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz. Includes video.
TEAM USA - EL EQUIPO DE TODOS
The annual January training camp begins today in Phoenix AZ then moves to Carson CA, and ends in Panama.
dN
David Smith of Yanks Abroad talks to Benny Feilhaber about his return to Team USA for the first time in 15 months.
dN
International Friendlies
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Jan 21
USA v Venezuela
-Wed Jan 25
Panama v USA
dN
USA Roster
G:
Bill Hamid - DC United
Sean Johnson - Chicago Fire SC
Nick Rimando - Real Salt Lake
D:
Geoff Cameron - Houston Dynamo
AJ DeLaGarza - LA Galaxy
Omar Gonzalez - LA Galaxy
George John - FC Dallas
Zach Loyd - FC Dallas
Michael Parkhurst - FC Nordsjaelland
Heath Pearce - CD Chivas USA
M:
Kyle Beckerman - Real Salt Lake
Ricardo Clark - Eintracht Frankfurt
Benny Feilhaber - New England Revolution
Jeff Larentowicz - Colorado Rapids
Brek Shea - FC Dallas
Graham Zusi - Sporting Kansas City
F:
Juan Agudelo - New York Red Bulls
Teal Bunbury - Sporting Kansas City
CJ Sapong - Sporting Kansas City
Chris Wondolowski - San Jose Earthquakes
USA U23/OLYMPIC TEAM
The USA U23/Olympic team trained in Lakewood Ranch Florida until Dec 23.
dN
US Soccer give us video from the final day of camp.
dN
There will be another camp later in January.
BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL DAY
Helen Pidd of the Guardian tells the story of Union Berlin fans funding their team themselves.
DO YOU REALIZE
Steve Goff of the Washington Post reports that TV viewing for the two upcoming USA friendlies is a mess.
-And the game in Italy is getting closer to being confirmed.
DID YOU KNOW?
El Pais has named Neymar of Santos as the South American Player of the Year.
-Oscar Tabarez of the Uruguay national team was named Coach of the Year.
HMMMMM, VERY INTERESTING
Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated gets out the crystal ball and tells us what the big stories of 2012 will be for soccer in America.
WELL WELL WELL
The BBC has an in-depth interview with Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp on the topic of an Englishman managing the English national team. And it was posted in the BBC Business section.
-Thanks to Nick for the link.
OOF
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America reports that Eddie Johnson's run at Puebla in Mexico is done after just 3 DAYS!
-The team says he showed up completely out of shape.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
A 60 minute long documentary film on Thierry Henry:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
The links to this were making the rounds on Twitter today, but it has been posted on line for a month. Why has no one been talking about this? Its very well made.
-Thanks to Jack for sending the links to us.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
The BBC shares with us John Terry's picture on packages of cigarettes in India! As a warning!!!!!
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
DC UNITED
Austin da Luz and Jed Zayner have been invited to the teams preseason camp to try and win a new contract.
HOUSTON DYNAMO
In case you missed it, the Dynamo have handed head coach Dom Kinnear a new 3 year contract.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
NYRB has supposedly signed 26 year old Swedish centerback Markus Holgersson from Helsingborg.
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES
The Quakes are reportedly chasing another loan prospect from Tottenham and hoping that player can be as successful as loanee Simon Dawkins was last year.
MLS/USA RELATED RUMORS
Silly name(s) of the day: Samuel Eto'o, Obafemi Martins & Dejan Stankovic.
USA U20 TEAM
Head coach Tab Ramos leads the U20's through a 10 day training camp that began on Mon Jan 2 in Ft Lauderdale.
USA U20 roster
G:
Jesus Guzman - Santos Laguna
Daniel Medina - UANL Tigres
Tyler Miller - Northwestern
Andrew Wolverton - Penn State
D:
Bolu Akinyonde - Seton Hall
Mikey Ambrose - FC Dallas Academy
AJ Cochran - Wisconsin
Sean Cunningham - Molde
Phanuel Kavita - Clemson
Eric Miller - Creighton
Juan Pablo Ocegueda - UANL Tigres
Boyd Okwuonu - North Carolina
Jalen Robinson - DC United Academy
Matt Wendelken - Marist
DeAndre Yedlin - Akron
Walker Zimmerman - Furman
M:
Seth Casiple - Cal
Daniel Cuevas Granados - Santos Laguna
Hector Delgado Cha - America
Christian Duarte - Texans SC Houston
Daniel Garcia - FC Dallas Academy
Luis Gil - Real Salt Lake
Flavio Guzman - FC Dallas Academy
Collin Martin - DC United Academy
Tyrone McCargo - Nuremberg
Caleb Stanko - Freiburg
Wil Trapp - Akron
Jose Villarreal - LA Galaxy
F:
Villyan Bijev - Fortuna Dusseldorf
Amadou Dia - Clemson
Alfred Koroma - Solar Chelsea
Duke Lacroix - Penn
Uvaldo Luna - UANL Tigres
Jack McBean - LA Galaxy
Sean Okoli - Wake Forest
Omar Salgado - Vancouver Whitecaps
USA U18 TEAM
Head coach Richie Williams takes the U18's through an 8 day training camp that began on Mon Jan 2 in Ft Lauderdale.
USA U18 Roster
G:
Ethan Horvath - Real Colorado
Zackary Steffen - FC Delco
D:
Miguel Alves - PDA
Robert Michael Amick - De Anza Force
Suliaman Dainkeh - DC United Academy
Dylan Greenberg - Albertson SC
Trevor Haberkorn - Solar Chelsea
Matthew Habrowski - Crew Soccer Academy Wolves
Jalen Markey - Seattle Sounders FC Academy
Miguel Polley - Chicago Fire Academy
M:
Kellyn Acosta - FC Dallas Academy
Osvaldo Chavez - Texas Rush
Marco Delgado - CD Chivas USA Academy
Nicholas Gaitan - Argentinos Juniors
Romain Gall - FC Lorient
Adam Najem - New York Red Bulls Academy
William Raygoza - LA Galaxy Academy
F:
Jordan Allen - Real Salt Lake AZ
Paul Arriola - Arsenal FC
Justin Dhillon - LA Galaxy Academy
Benjamin Lopez - Real Salt Lake AZ
Zach Pfeffer - Philadelphia Union
Ben Spencer - CD Chivas USA Academy
Jaime Villareal - LA Galaxy Academy
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Sky Sports talks to Everton manager David Moyes who says Landon Donovan is looking ready to play.
-Short video clip of Moyes talking Donovan.
Oguchi Onyewu scored a goal for Sporting in the weird Portuguese League Cup which includes a Group Stage.
dN
Game Action:
ENGLAND - Premier League
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - Mon Jan 2 - went the full 90 as they won 2-1 v Arsenal.
Brad Friedel - Tottenham - Tue Jan 3 - played the whole game as they v West Brom.
Brad Guzan - Aston Villa - Mon Jan 2 - went the distance but lost 0-2 v Swansea.
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - Mon Jan 2 - played the entire match as they won 1-2 at QPR.
ENGLAND - Championship League
Conor Doyle - Derby County - Mon Jan 2 - on the bench as they won 0-1 at Hull.
Jonathan Spector - Birmingham - Mon Jan 2 - started and went 86 min getting a yellow card as they drew 1-1 at Peterborough.
ENGLAND - League One
Anton Peterlin - Wallsall - Mon Jan 2 - started and played 61 min but lost 2-1 at Bury.
PORTUGAL - League Cup - Group Stage
Oguchi Onyewu - Sporting CP - Mon Jan 2 - went the full 90 scoring a goal as they drew 1-1 at Rio Ave.
SCOTLAND - Premier League
Carlos Bocanegra - Rangers - Mon Jan 2 - went the distance as they won 3-0 v Motherwell.
Mo Edu - Rangers - Mon Jan 2 - started and played 76 min getting a yellow card as they won 3-0 v Motherwell.
SCOTLAND - First Division
Dominic Cervi - Greenock Morton - Mon Jan 2 - went the full 90 as they won 3-1 v Ayr United.
dN
Coming Up:
ENGLAND - Premier League
Tim Howard - Everton - Wed Jan 4 v Bolton
MEXICO
The Primera Division Clausura begins this Friday!
Opening Round
Matches & Scores:
-Fri Jan 6
Morelia v Tijuana
-Sat Jan 7
Monterrey v Chiapas Jaguares
Queretaro v America
Cruz Azul v UANL Tigres
Santos Laguna v Pachuca
Guadalajara v Atlante
San Luis v UNAM Pumas
-Sun Jan 8
Toluca v Estudiantes Tecos
Puebla v Atlas
CANADA
Nigel Reed of the CBC pours some cold water down the pants of expectations at TFC, the Whitecaps and the Impact. Rightfully so.
ENGLAND
Jonathan Wilson at Sports Illustrated looks at the chaotic business of Blackburn Rovers.
Barry Glendenning, John Ashdown and Rob Smyth of the Guardian with five things we learned from watching the Premier League this weekend.
The FA Cup Round of 64 takes place this coming weekend.
Premier League Standings - Top 5 teams (20 games played)
48 Manchester City
45 Manchester United (19 GP)
42 Tottenham (19 GP)
37 Chelsea
36 Arsenal
SPAIN
La Liga is on break until Jan 7.
dN
Copa Del Rey - Round of 16
Matches & Scores:
1st Leg
-Tue Jan 3
Mirandes 2-0 Racing Santander
Albacete 0-0 Athletic Bilaboa
Alcorcon 2-1 Levante
Real Madrid 3-2 Malaga
-Wed Jan 4
Real Sociedad v Mallorca
Barcelona v Osasuna
-Thu Jan 5
Cordoba v Espanyol
Valencia v Sevilla
FRANCE
Ligue 1 is on break until Jan 14.
Ben Lyttleton of Sports Illustrated gives us his list of the top 10 French league transfer prospects.
GERMANY
The Bundesliga is on break until Jan 20.
ITALY
Serie A is on break until Jan 7.
ENDERS
Chad Barrett works on hitting the target during offseason training! If only it were that easy.
-He was a player for the Dallas Burn, and is currently the director of the very successful FC Dallas academy.
STARTERS
This is one man dangling a piece of meat over a pack of ravaging wolves.
dN
The first day of MLS teams preseason training begins on Sun Jan 15!
dN
As was expected American Ted Howard was promoted from deputy to general secretary of CONCACAF, replacing Chuck Blazer.
dN
I see that Liverpool wised up and decided not to appeal the 8 game suspension of Luis Suarez.
-If I was on the review board and he appealed that suspension I would have tagged on 4 more.
dN
Now "they" all say that David Beckham will not move to Paris, but rather he will stay in LA.
dN
And another LA Galaxy player, Robbie Keane is in London to train with Tottenham during the MLS offseason.
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jan 3, 2011 - new music mix at Spotify
STORY OF THE DAY
Jack McCaffery of the Delaware County Daily Times does an interview with Philadelphia Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz. Includes video.
TEAM USA - EL EQUIPO DE TODOS
The annual January training camp begins today in Phoenix AZ then moves to Carson CA, and ends in Panama.
dN
David Smith of Yanks Abroad talks to Benny Feilhaber about his return to Team USA for the first time in 15 months.
dN
International Friendlies
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Jan 21
USA v Venezuela
-Wed Jan 25
Panama v USA
dN
USA Roster
G:
Bill Hamid - DC United
Sean Johnson - Chicago Fire SC
Nick Rimando - Real Salt Lake
D:
Geoff Cameron - Houston Dynamo
AJ DeLaGarza - LA Galaxy
Omar Gonzalez - LA Galaxy
George John - FC Dallas
Zach Loyd - FC Dallas
Michael Parkhurst - FC Nordsjaelland
Heath Pearce - CD Chivas USA
M:
Kyle Beckerman - Real Salt Lake
Ricardo Clark - Eintracht Frankfurt
Benny Feilhaber - New England Revolution
Jeff Larentowicz - Colorado Rapids
Brek Shea - FC Dallas
Graham Zusi - Sporting Kansas City
F:
Juan Agudelo - New York Red Bulls
Teal Bunbury - Sporting Kansas City
CJ Sapong - Sporting Kansas City
Chris Wondolowski - San Jose Earthquakes
USA U23/OLYMPIC TEAM
The USA U23/Olympic team trained in Lakewood Ranch Florida until Dec 23.
dN
US Soccer give us video from the final day of camp.
dN
There will be another camp later in January.
BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL DAY
Helen Pidd of the Guardian tells the story of Union Berlin fans funding their team themselves.
DO YOU REALIZE
Steve Goff of the Washington Post reports that TV viewing for the two upcoming USA friendlies is a mess.
-And the game in Italy is getting closer to being confirmed.
DID YOU KNOW?
El Pais has named Neymar of Santos as the South American Player of the Year.
-Oscar Tabarez of the Uruguay national team was named Coach of the Year.
HMMMMM, VERY INTERESTING
Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated gets out the crystal ball and tells us what the big stories of 2012 will be for soccer in America.
WELL WELL WELL
The BBC has an in-depth interview with Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp on the topic of an Englishman managing the English national team. And it was posted in the BBC Business section.
-Thanks to Nick for the link.
OOF
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America reports that Eddie Johnson's run at Puebla in Mexico is done after just 3 DAYS!
-The team says he showed up completely out of shape.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
A 60 minute long documentary film on Thierry Henry:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
The links to this were making the rounds on Twitter today, but it has been posted on line for a month. Why has no one been talking about this? Its very well made.
-Thanks to Jack for sending the links to us.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
The BBC shares with us John Terry's picture on packages of cigarettes in India! As a warning!!!!!
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
DC UNITED
Austin da Luz and Jed Zayner have been invited to the teams preseason camp to try and win a new contract.
HOUSTON DYNAMO
In case you missed it, the Dynamo have handed head coach Dom Kinnear a new 3 year contract.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
NYRB has supposedly signed 26 year old Swedish centerback Markus Holgersson from Helsingborg.
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES
The Quakes are reportedly chasing another loan prospect from Tottenham and hoping that player can be as successful as loanee Simon Dawkins was last year.
MLS/USA RELATED RUMORS
Silly name(s) of the day: Samuel Eto'o, Obafemi Martins & Dejan Stankovic.
USA U20 TEAM
Head coach Tab Ramos leads the U20's through a 10 day training camp that began on Mon Jan 2 in Ft Lauderdale.
USA U20 roster
G:
Jesus Guzman - Santos Laguna
Daniel Medina - UANL Tigres
Tyler Miller - Northwestern
Andrew Wolverton - Penn State
D:
Bolu Akinyonde - Seton Hall
Mikey Ambrose - FC Dallas Academy
AJ Cochran - Wisconsin
Sean Cunningham - Molde
Phanuel Kavita - Clemson
Eric Miller - Creighton
Juan Pablo Ocegueda - UANL Tigres
Boyd Okwuonu - North Carolina
Jalen Robinson - DC United Academy
Matt Wendelken - Marist
DeAndre Yedlin - Akron
Walker Zimmerman - Furman
M:
Seth Casiple - Cal
Daniel Cuevas Granados - Santos Laguna
Hector Delgado Cha - America
Christian Duarte - Texans SC Houston
Daniel Garcia - FC Dallas Academy
Luis Gil - Real Salt Lake
Flavio Guzman - FC Dallas Academy
Collin Martin - DC United Academy
Tyrone McCargo - Nuremberg
Caleb Stanko - Freiburg
Wil Trapp - Akron
Jose Villarreal - LA Galaxy
F:
Villyan Bijev - Fortuna Dusseldorf
Amadou Dia - Clemson
Alfred Koroma - Solar Chelsea
Duke Lacroix - Penn
Uvaldo Luna - UANL Tigres
Jack McBean - LA Galaxy
Sean Okoli - Wake Forest
Omar Salgado - Vancouver Whitecaps
USA U18 TEAM
Head coach Richie Williams takes the U18's through an 8 day training camp that began on Mon Jan 2 in Ft Lauderdale.
USA U18 Roster
G:
Ethan Horvath - Real Colorado
Zackary Steffen - FC Delco
D:
Miguel Alves - PDA
Robert Michael Amick - De Anza Force
Suliaman Dainkeh - DC United Academy
Dylan Greenberg - Albertson SC
Trevor Haberkorn - Solar Chelsea
Matthew Habrowski - Crew Soccer Academy Wolves
Jalen Markey - Seattle Sounders FC Academy
Miguel Polley - Chicago Fire Academy
M:
Kellyn Acosta - FC Dallas Academy
Osvaldo Chavez - Texas Rush
Marco Delgado - CD Chivas USA Academy
Nicholas Gaitan - Argentinos Juniors
Romain Gall - FC Lorient
Adam Najem - New York Red Bulls Academy
William Raygoza - LA Galaxy Academy
F:
Jordan Allen - Real Salt Lake AZ
Paul Arriola - Arsenal FC
Justin Dhillon - LA Galaxy Academy
Benjamin Lopez - Real Salt Lake AZ
Zach Pfeffer - Philadelphia Union
Ben Spencer - CD Chivas USA Academy
Jaime Villareal - LA Galaxy Academy
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Sky Sports talks to Everton manager David Moyes who says Landon Donovan is looking ready to play.
-Short video clip of Moyes talking Donovan.
Oguchi Onyewu scored a goal for Sporting in the weird Portuguese League Cup which includes a Group Stage.
dN
Game Action:
ENGLAND - Premier League
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - Mon Jan 2 - went the full 90 as they won 2-1 v Arsenal.
Brad Friedel - Tottenham - Tue Jan 3 - played the whole game as they v West Brom.
Brad Guzan - Aston Villa - Mon Jan 2 - went the distance but lost 0-2 v Swansea.
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - Mon Jan 2 - played the entire match as they won 1-2 at QPR.
ENGLAND - Championship League
Conor Doyle - Derby County - Mon Jan 2 - on the bench as they won 0-1 at Hull.
Jonathan Spector - Birmingham - Mon Jan 2 - started and went 86 min getting a yellow card as they drew 1-1 at Peterborough.
ENGLAND - League One
Anton Peterlin - Wallsall - Mon Jan 2 - started and played 61 min but lost 2-1 at Bury.
PORTUGAL - League Cup - Group Stage
Oguchi Onyewu - Sporting CP - Mon Jan 2 - went the full 90 scoring a goal as they drew 1-1 at Rio Ave.
SCOTLAND - Premier League
Carlos Bocanegra - Rangers - Mon Jan 2 - went the distance as they won 3-0 v Motherwell.
Mo Edu - Rangers - Mon Jan 2 - started and played 76 min getting a yellow card as they won 3-0 v Motherwell.
SCOTLAND - First Division
Dominic Cervi - Greenock Morton - Mon Jan 2 - went the full 90 as they won 3-1 v Ayr United.
dN
Coming Up:
ENGLAND - Premier League
Tim Howard - Everton - Wed Jan 4 v Bolton
MEXICO
The Primera Division Clausura begins this Friday!
Opening Round
Matches & Scores:
-Fri Jan 6
Morelia v Tijuana
-Sat Jan 7
Monterrey v Chiapas Jaguares
Queretaro v America
Cruz Azul v UANL Tigres
Santos Laguna v Pachuca
Guadalajara v Atlante
San Luis v UNAM Pumas
-Sun Jan 8
Toluca v Estudiantes Tecos
Puebla v Atlas
CANADA
Nigel Reed of the CBC pours some cold water down the pants of expectations at TFC, the Whitecaps and the Impact. Rightfully so.
ENGLAND
Jonathan Wilson at Sports Illustrated looks at the chaotic business of Blackburn Rovers.
Barry Glendenning, John Ashdown and Rob Smyth of the Guardian with five things we learned from watching the Premier League this weekend.
The FA Cup Round of 64 takes place this coming weekend.
Premier League Standings - Top 5 teams (20 games played)
48 Manchester City
45 Manchester United (19 GP)
42 Tottenham (19 GP)
37 Chelsea
36 Arsenal
SPAIN
La Liga is on break until Jan 7.
dN
Copa Del Rey - Round of 16
Matches & Scores:
1st Leg
-Tue Jan 3
Mirandes 2-0 Racing Santander
Albacete 0-0 Athletic Bilaboa
Alcorcon 2-1 Levante
Real Madrid 3-2 Malaga
-Wed Jan 4
Real Sociedad v Mallorca
Barcelona v Osasuna
-Thu Jan 5
Cordoba v Espanyol
Valencia v Sevilla
FRANCE
Ligue 1 is on break until Jan 14.
Ben Lyttleton of Sports Illustrated gives us his list of the top 10 French league transfer prospects.
GERMANY
The Bundesliga is on break until Jan 20.
ITALY
Serie A is on break until Jan 7.
ENDERS
Chad Barrett works on hitting the target during offseason training! If only it were that easy.
posted by brucio at 17:20
3 Comments:
IS Ronaldinho GOING LA OR WHAT?!?!?!
"IS Ronaldinho GOING LA OR WHAT"
I would say No Chance. But stranger things have happened.
Besides, if Bex really does return to LA then they already have their 3 DP's and can't sign another.
I want the Minnesota soccer experience to be more like this: "Fans drink pints of Berliner Pilsner and chainsmoke while chanting and singing continuously for 90 minutes; at halftime men urinate against the perimeter fence before buying €2 Eberswalder sausages – a local brand which sponsors the scoreboard."
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