Some Soccer News for Thu Feb 2, 2012
STARTERS
Its just 37 days until the 17th season of MLS begins.
AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS 2012
The African Cup of Nations Quarterfinals are all set for this weekend.
dN
Jonathan Wilson of the Guardian on Equatorial Guinea against Ivory Coast.
dN
Quarterfinals
-Sat Feb 4
Zambia v Sudan - 10am CT
Venue: Estadio de Bata, Bata
Cote d'Ivoire v Equatorial Guinea - 1pm CT
Venue: Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo
-Sun Feb 5
Gabon v Mali - 10am CT
Venue: Stade d'Angondje, Libreville
Ghana v Tunisia - 1pm CT
Venue: Stade de Franceville, Franceville
If you are in Minneapolis stop by Marinas at University & Lowry to watch the 1pm games with me.
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Wed Feb 1 - new music mix at Spotify.
STORY OF THE DAY
DISASTER IN EGYPT
Its so very sad what happened at the match in Egypt yesterday as 74 people where killed and over 1000 more were injured.
Video of an interview with Egypt national team coach Bob Bradley.
-Courtesy of Bradley's brother Jeff.
Steven Goff of the Washington Post talks to Bob Bradley later in the day.
Reuters with more details from the horrible deaths at the soccer match in Egypt yesterday.
Brent Latham of EPSN talks to several people in Egypt about the politics of this disaster.
The Daily News of Egypt reports that 2 big name Al-Ahly players have quit football after yesterday.
-One of the players is Mohamed Aboutrika who many consider the countries best player.
-The teams president, manager and coach have all quit as well.
Abdel Rahman Hussein and Martin Chulov of the Guardian with some brutal first person accounts.
The Board of Directors of the Egyptian Football Association have been fired.
This photo has been spreading around the internet today of Bob Bradley and his wife in a peace march in Cairo today. WOW!
TWITTERVERSE/FACEBOOKING
I do ask that you please stop sending curses to my Twitter account . My daughters and family read them and it is crossing a line. Thank you
@Peter_Nowak
BIG EUROPEAN CLUB MATCHES
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Feb 4
Roma v Internazionale - never pretty when these two meet, and both are desperate
Getafe v Real Madrid - a Madrid derby
-Sun Feb 5
Chelsea v Manchester United - a big match for the chase for the title rests partially on this one
Milan v Napoli - Nap still thinks they can get into the championship race
Marseille v Lyon - battle of the Olympiques
Fenerbahce v Besiktas - the first big Turkish derby since the scandal broke last summer.
-Mon Feb 6
Liverpool v Tottenham - will they both get Champions League places?
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Corinthians shirt for Copa Libertadores features photos of fans on the shirt numbers!
-Thanks to Tom D for the link.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Since when did Serie A teams start climbing in the time machine and hiring coaches from the 1950's Russia?
Lecce manager Serse Cosmi. Last weekend.
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
General News
the number of Colombians to sign in MLS this offseason rises to 10!
Player Transactions
DC signed 28 year old Albanian forward Hamdi Salihi from Rapid Vienna to a Designated Player contract.
-He has scored an impressive 53 goals in 90 games over the past 2 1/2 seasons at Rapid.
New England signs Colombian 30 year old forward Jose Moreno on a loan deal from Once Caldas.
-This will be his 11th team since 2005!
San Jose has signed another Moreno, 33 year old Colombian attacking midfielder Tressor Moreno from Santiago Wanderers.
CHICAGO FIRE
The Fire beat Florida Gulf Coast Univ 3-0 last night on goals by Marco Pappa, Dominic Oduro and Orr Barouch.
CD CHIVAS USA
Scott French of ESPN reports bad news for new signing Marvin Iraheta - he tore his ACl in his first preseason game with the team.
COLORADO RAPIDS
Eric Gorski of the Post with an article on the direction the new staff wants to take the club on the field, including hints of an important signing.
FC DALLAS
FCD launches a new official team blog.
DC UNITED
DCU takes on Swedish team Malmo today.
Craig Stouffer of the Examiner with an article on the team's newest signing Hamdi Salihi.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
NYRB releases their training camp roster.
PHILADELPHIA UNION
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com has video of coach Peter Nowak responding to former player Sebastian Le Toux ripping on as he left the club.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated with a story on the long road to recovery from a badly broken leg for Steve Zakuani.
-Wahl spends time talking to Brian Mullan too.
Joshua Mayers of the Times with a transcript of a press conference with head coach Sigi Schmid. Lots of good stuff as always from Schmid.
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC
The Caps greet new signing Sebastian Le Toux at the airport, and get this video interview.
Bruce Constantineau of the Sun with the latest on Le Toux, Camilo and Etienne Barbara.
The team gets a new contract done for impressive unknown Camilo.
MLS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Tulsa Soccer Club Hurricane in Tulsa OK has joined up to become a part of the youth academy of Sporting Kansas City.
MLS STADIUMS
Venues Today has an article on the translucent roof at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, and the same material being used in Houston at the new BBVA Compass Stadium.
TEAM USA
Leander Schaerlaeckens of ESPN on Bill Hamid. The successor to Tim Howard?
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Game Action:
ITALY - Serie A
Michael Bradley - Chievo Verona - Thu Feb 2 - went the full 90 as they won 1-2 at Novara.
AMERICANS IN SOUTH AMERICA
Tom Marshall of MLSsoccer.com reports on 16 year old Nick Gaitan moving from Argentinos Juniors to Boca Juniors.
CANADA
Canada will unveil their new shirts tonight and announce a friendly with the USA.
EUROPE
Netherlands
PSV is the 4th team in the Semis.
KNVB Beker - Quarterfinals
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Jan 31
Vitesse 1-2 Heerenveen
-Wed Feb 1
Heracles 3-0 RKC Waalwijk
AZ Alkmaar 2-1 GVVV
-Thu Feb 2
PSV Eindhoven 3-2 NEC
COPA LIBERTADORES
This is the Qualifying Round to determine the last 6 spots in the group stage.
Ronaldinho & Flamengo and Internacional advanced on Wednesday night.
Qualifying Round
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (with Group and 1st Leg score included)
-Tue Jan 31
Sport Huancayo 1-1 Arsenal - G4 - Ars advances 4-1 on aggregate.
Libertad 4-1 El Nacional - G5 - Lib advances 4-2 on aggregate.
-Wed Feb 1
Flamengo 2-0 Real Potosi - G2 - Fla advances 3-2 on aggregate.
Once Caldas 2-2 Internacional - G1 - Int advances 3-2 on aggregate.
-Thu Feb 2
Tigres UANL v Union Espanola - G3 (0-1)
Caracas v Penarol - G6 (0-4)
The group stage begins on Feb 7.
BIG PIMPIN
Corinthians shirt for Copa Libertadores features photos of fans on the shirt numbers!
-Thanks to Tom D for the link.
ENDERS
RIP Mike Kelley
Its just 37 days until the 17th season of MLS begins.
AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS 2012
The African Cup of Nations Quarterfinals are all set for this weekend.
dN
Jonathan Wilson of the Guardian on Equatorial Guinea against Ivory Coast.
dN
Quarterfinals
-Sat Feb 4
Zambia v Sudan - 10am CT
Venue: Estadio de Bata, Bata
Cote d'Ivoire v Equatorial Guinea - 1pm CT
Venue: Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo
-Sun Feb 5
Gabon v Mali - 10am CT
Venue: Stade d'Angondje, Libreville
Ghana v Tunisia - 1pm CT
Venue: Stade de Franceville, Franceville
If you are in Minneapolis stop by Marinas at University & Lowry to watch the 1pm games with me.
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Wed Feb 1 - new music mix at Spotify.
STORY OF THE DAY
DISASTER IN EGYPT
Its so very sad what happened at the match in Egypt yesterday as 74 people where killed and over 1000 more were injured.
Video of an interview with Egypt national team coach Bob Bradley.
-Courtesy of Bradley's brother Jeff.
Steven Goff of the Washington Post talks to Bob Bradley later in the day.
Reuters with more details from the horrible deaths at the soccer match in Egypt yesterday.
Brent Latham of EPSN talks to several people in Egypt about the politics of this disaster.
The Daily News of Egypt reports that 2 big name Al-Ahly players have quit football after yesterday.
-One of the players is Mohamed Aboutrika who many consider the countries best player.
-The teams president, manager and coach have all quit as well.
Abdel Rahman Hussein and Martin Chulov of the Guardian with some brutal first person accounts.
The Board of Directors of the Egyptian Football Association have been fired.
This photo has been spreading around the internet today of Bob Bradley and his wife in a peace march in Cairo today. WOW!
TWITTERVERSE/FACEBOOKING
I do ask that you please stop sending curses to my Twitter account . My daughters and family read them and it is crossing a line. Thank you
@Peter_Nowak
BIG EUROPEAN CLUB MATCHES
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Feb 4
Roma v Internazionale - never pretty when these two meet, and both are desperate
Getafe v Real Madrid - a Madrid derby
-Sun Feb 5
Chelsea v Manchester United - a big match for the chase for the title rests partially on this one
Milan v Napoli - Nap still thinks they can get into the championship race
Marseille v Lyon - battle of the Olympiques
Fenerbahce v Besiktas - the first big Turkish derby since the scandal broke last summer.
-Mon Feb 6
Liverpool v Tottenham - will they both get Champions League places?
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Corinthians shirt for Copa Libertadores features photos of fans on the shirt numbers!
-Thanks to Tom D for the link.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Since when did Serie A teams start climbing in the time machine and hiring coaches from the 1950's Russia?
Lecce manager Serse Cosmi. Last weekend.
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
General News
the number of Colombians to sign in MLS this offseason rises to 10!
Player Transactions
DC signed 28 year old Albanian forward Hamdi Salihi from Rapid Vienna to a Designated Player contract.
-He has scored an impressive 53 goals in 90 games over the past 2 1/2 seasons at Rapid.
New England signs Colombian 30 year old forward Jose Moreno on a loan deal from Once Caldas.
-This will be his 11th team since 2005!
San Jose has signed another Moreno, 33 year old Colombian attacking midfielder Tressor Moreno from Santiago Wanderers.
CHICAGO FIRE
The Fire beat Florida Gulf Coast Univ 3-0 last night on goals by Marco Pappa, Dominic Oduro and Orr Barouch.
CD CHIVAS USA
Scott French of ESPN reports bad news for new signing Marvin Iraheta - he tore his ACl in his first preseason game with the team.
COLORADO RAPIDS
Eric Gorski of the Post with an article on the direction the new staff wants to take the club on the field, including hints of an important signing.
FC DALLAS
FCD launches a new official team blog.
DC UNITED
DCU takes on Swedish team Malmo today.
Craig Stouffer of the Examiner with an article on the team's newest signing Hamdi Salihi.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
NYRB releases their training camp roster.
PHILADELPHIA UNION
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com has video of coach Peter Nowak responding to former player Sebastian Le Toux ripping on as he left the club.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated with a story on the long road to recovery from a badly broken leg for Steve Zakuani.
-Wahl spends time talking to Brian Mullan too.
Joshua Mayers of the Times with a transcript of a press conference with head coach Sigi Schmid. Lots of good stuff as always from Schmid.
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC
The Caps greet new signing Sebastian Le Toux at the airport, and get this video interview.
Bruce Constantineau of the Sun with the latest on Le Toux, Camilo and Etienne Barbara.
The team gets a new contract done for impressive unknown Camilo.
MLS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Tulsa Soccer Club Hurricane in Tulsa OK has joined up to become a part of the youth academy of Sporting Kansas City.
MLS STADIUMS
Venues Today has an article on the translucent roof at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, and the same material being used in Houston at the new BBVA Compass Stadium.
TEAM USA
Leander Schaerlaeckens of ESPN on Bill Hamid. The successor to Tim Howard?
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Game Action:
ITALY - Serie A
Michael Bradley - Chievo Verona - Thu Feb 2 - went the full 90 as they won 1-2 at Novara.
AMERICANS IN SOUTH AMERICA
Tom Marshall of MLSsoccer.com reports on 16 year old Nick Gaitan moving from Argentinos Juniors to Boca Juniors.
CANADA
Canada will unveil their new shirts tonight and announce a friendly with the USA.
EUROPE
Netherlands
PSV is the 4th team in the Semis.
KNVB Beker - Quarterfinals
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Jan 31
Vitesse 1-2 Heerenveen
-Wed Feb 1
Heracles 3-0 RKC Waalwijk
AZ Alkmaar 2-1 GVVV
-Thu Feb 2
PSV Eindhoven 3-2 NEC
COPA LIBERTADORES
This is the Qualifying Round to determine the last 6 spots in the group stage.
Ronaldinho & Flamengo and Internacional advanced on Wednesday night.
Qualifying Round
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (with Group and 1st Leg score included)
-Tue Jan 31
Sport Huancayo 1-1 Arsenal - G4 - Ars advances 4-1 on aggregate.
Libertad 4-1 El Nacional - G5 - Lib advances 4-2 on aggregate.
-Wed Feb 1
Flamengo 2-0 Real Potosi - G2 - Fla advances 3-2 on aggregate.
Once Caldas 2-2 Internacional - G1 - Int advances 3-2 on aggregate.
-Thu Feb 2
Tigres UANL v Union Espanola - G3 (0-1)
Caracas v Penarol - G6 (0-4)
The group stage begins on Feb 7.
BIG PIMPIN
Corinthians shirt for Copa Libertadores features photos of fans on the shirt numbers!
-Thanks to Tom D for the link.
ENDERS
RIP Mike Kelley
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