Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Some Soccer News for Tue Mar 13, 2012

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BECOME A COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOTBALL FANATICO?

"I stood in the pouring rain for two-plus hours and watched the Timbers beat Philadelphia 3-1 in the season opener. Nobody fired T-shirts from cannons at me. There was no house music pumping. No blimp dropping prizes. No tricycle rides or frisbee dogs. A large number of those inside the stadium never sat down. And if you haven't already discovered what I learned on Monday night, you are even later arriving to the party than I am."
-John Canzano, The Oregonian

This is a glorious article that perfectly describes us true fans in the stands.

NOTICE

Sign up today for MLS Fantasy Soccer Manager, and then become a member of the du Nord Futbol league using this code: 3815-897

107 teams in our league so far. Lets go for 150! Come On!

REal Ultimate Power - managed by Robert Neddermeyer is in 1st Place!

STARTERS

The NASL announced today that all second division games will again be streamed live & free via the internet at UStream. You will be able to log in to the NASL site or the UStream site to find the games.

dN

Of course he plays goalkeeper brilliantly too.
-Thanks to D.A. for the photo.

















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Radio station KALL 700 in Salt Lake talks to our man Sebastian Velasquez about his hair! This kid is incredible! Download or listen here.
-Thanks to @gnupate for the link

And no offense meant but Seba has nothing on these vatos - the Cholombians!
























DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS


du Nord at the Controls - Tue Mar 13, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.

STORY OF THE DAY

Aaron Ross of the New York Times on a historic joining-together of rival supporters groups in Egypt to protest the lack of action against aggressors in the Port Said disaster.
-Fans of Al Ahly and Zamalek stood side by side in protest.

The rest of the Egyptian Premier League season has been canceled.

Egyptian national team coach Bob Bradley continues to plan a series of ongoing training camps to at least keep his players in shape without a league to play in.

STORY OF THE DAY 2

Nicholas Rigg of the Independent on the brilliance of Marcelo Bielsa, currently the flavor of the month for Chelsea brass and fans.

USA U23/OLYMPIC TEAM

The team will play 3 games in just 6 days for the group stage of qualifying beginning on Thu Mar 22 in Nashville. If they advance beyond that then the big date to mark on your calendar is the Semifinals on Sat Mar 31 where the two winners will acquire passage to the Olympic Games in London.

dN

Training begins Tuesday in Nashville.

dN

Forward Tony Taylor of Estoril in Portugal's 2nd division has been added to the team today.

dN

Their first game is Mar 22.

dN

Roster

G:
Bill Hamid - DC United
Sean Johnson - Chicago Fire
D:
Josh Gatt - Molde
Perry Kitchen - DC United
Ike Opara - San Jose Earthquakes
Kofi Sarkodie - Houston Dynamo
Zarek Valentin - Montreal Impact
Jorge Villafana - Chivas USA
M:
Freddy Adu - Philadelphia Union
Joe Corona - Tijuana
Mix Diskerud - Gent
Jared Jeffrey - Mainz
Amobi Okugo - Philadelphia Union
Michael Stephens - LA Galaxy
F:
Juan Agudelo - New York Red Bulls
Terrence Boyd - Dortmund
Teal Bunbury - Sporting Kansas City
Joe Gyau - Hoffenheim
Brek Shea - FC Dallas
Tony Taylor - Estoril

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Round of 16 - 2nd Leg

Mario Gomez explodes for 4 goals for Bayern!

And Marseille uses a road goal to advance over Inter.

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Matches & Scores:
-Tue Mar 13
Inter Milan 2-1 Marseille series ends tied 2-2, Mar advances on away toal tie breaker - IM goals by Diego Milito & Giampaolo Pazzini(PK). Mar goal by Brandao.
Bayern Munich 7-0 Basel - BM advances 7-1 on aggregate - BM goals by Arjen Robben (2), Tomas Muller & Mario Gomez(4).
-Wed Mar 14
Chelsea v Napoli (1-3) - 2:30pm CT on Fox Soccer
Real Madrid v CSKA Moscow (1-1) - 5:00pm CT on Fox Soccer

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Adv: APOEL, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Marseille, Milan
OUT: Arsenal, Basel, Inter, Leverkusen, Lyon, Zenit

The Quarterfinal draw will be held on Friday.

2011-12 CONCACACHAMPIONS

Quarterfinals

Joshua Mayers of the Seattle Times on Santos Laguna's home field advantage.

Daniel Girard of the Toronto Star says TFC are definite underdogs to LA.

dN

Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (including 1st Leg scores)
-Tue Mar 13
Monterrey v Morelia (3-1)
-Wed Mar 14
Santos Laguna v Seattle Sounders (1-2) - 7pm CT on Fox Soccer
LA Galaxy v Toronto (2-2) - 9pm CT on Fox Soccer
-Thu Mar 15
UNAM Pumas v Isidro Metapan (1-2)

FIFASCANDALIZATIONINGS

Suspected long time financial criminal Ricardo Teixeira may have stepped down from all of his soccer posts in Brazil, but his biggest post FIFA Executive Committee Member is still on his job listing. Interesting.

TWITTERVERSE/FACEBOOKING

Gracias a Dios por este día, a mis padres mis hijos familia y a mis seguidores por tanta muestras de cariño hacia el Ratón, los quiero buco
-Blas Perez, FC Dallas forward

But here is the trouble with LITERAL translations (from the Spanish):
Thank God for this day, my parents, my children, family and my fans for such displays of affection toward the Mouse, I love oral

DO YOU REALIZE

Bruce Constantineau of the Vancouver Sun on the Whitecaps back four: Korean, American, Argentinian and Swiss/Canadian.

DID YOU KNOW?

There I was on the coach last Sunday watching some Brazilian soccer of GolTV, Corinthians v Guarani, and the broadcast team introduces a third party to their conversation, it was none other than the brain in a glass jar himself Jonathan Wilson of the Guardian! He was awesome.

THE LUNATICS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM

David Conn of the Guardian reports that despite British government members threats to institute new laws to govern football the footballing powers have done pretty much the exact opposite of what was asked of them, and now those same lawmakers are praising the football authority for the job it is doing. Confused? Yup.

STAT OF THE DAY

Barclays surveyed all 20 English Premier League managers and asked them who they think will win this season's title. The results:
Manchester City - 67%
Manchester United - 33%

FACT OF THE DAY

Clubs in Spain are said to owe $982 million in back taxes.
-The report did not give a break down of which clubs owe what. No matter, its still nuts.

THATS WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR

There are so many things to be aware of in the world that sometimes little things get missed completely. I try to make my daily focus on details and let the big picture take care of itself. Here is a great reminder of how much bigger our actions are then we realize. Pay attention, its worth it.
-Linda Grant of the Guardian on International Women's Day.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Oregonian gives us 19 fantastic photos from Jeld-Wen Field last night.

















MLS MATCHES & SCORES


WEEK 1

Matches & Scores:
-Mon Mar 12
Portland Timbers 3-1 Philadelphia Union - PT goals by Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Kris Boyd & Kalif Alhassan. PU goal by Gabriel Gomez.
Venue: JELD-WEN Field
Attendance: 20438

8 games total attendance 145,393. For an average of 18,174.

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WEEK 2

Matches & Scores:
-Sat Mar 17
Montreal Impact v Chicago Fire SC - 1:00PM CT - TSN & RDS
Venue: Olympic Stadium
San Jose Earthquakes v Houston Dynamo - 4:00PM CT
Venue: AT&T Park
FC Dallas v Portland Timbers - 7:30PM CT
Venue: FC Dallas Stadium
Sporting Kansas City v New England England - 7:30PM CT
Venue: Livestrong Sporting Park
Real Salt Lake v New York Red Bulls - 9:00PM CT
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium
Seattle Sounders FC v Toronto FC - 9:00PM CT
Venue: CenturyLink Field
CD Chivas USA v Vancouver Whitecaps FC - 9:30PM CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center
-Sun Mar 18
Philadelphia v Colorado - 3:00PM CT - NBC Sports
Venue: PPL Park
LA Galaxy v DC United - 6:00PM EDT - Galavision
Venue: The Home Depot Center

MLS MATCH NOTES

Western Conference teams drilled the East last weekend except for Houston. Wow, what a thumping up one side of the street and back down the other!

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This next weekend we will have 18 teams in action. Columbus having the bye.

MLS STANDINGS

EAST
3 Houston Dynamo (+1)
3 Sporting Kansas City (+1)
- Chicago Fire SC (-)
- Toronto (-)
0 DC United (-1)
0 New England (-1)
0 New York Red Bulls (-1)
0 Columbus Crew (-2)
0 Montreal Impact (-2)
0 Philadelphia Union (-2)

WEST
3 Colorado Rapids (+2)
3 Portland Timbers (+2)
3 Real Salt Lake (+2)
3 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (+2)
3 FC Dallas (+1)
3 San Jose Earthquakes (+1)
- Seattle Sounders FC (-)
0 CD Chivas USA (-1)
0 LA Galaxy (-2)

MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS

General News

Portland Timbers ‏midfielder Kalif Alhassan has been named MLS Player of the Week.

dN

Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com was in Portland last night and did a Q & A with MLS commissioner Don Garber & NBC Sports VP Jon Miller.

dN

Avi Creditor of Sports Illustrated with 5 thoughts from Week 1.

dN

Nick Green of the Daily Breeze looks back at Week 1 for both LA and Chivas.

dN

Player Transactions

Toronto has signed signed 24 year old centerback Logan Emory from the Puerto Rico Islanders.

dN

DC has signed 30 year old English left midfielder Lewis Neal from Orlando City (USLPro)

dN

Seattle has signed 22 year old midfielder Andy Rose who was picked in the Supplement Draft by RSL, and 23 year old midfielder Alex Caskey from the Charleston Battery (USLPro).

dN

Dallas has signed 30 year old Trinidad & Tobago international and MLS veteran forward Scott Sealy and Supplemental Draft pick defender Alex Lee.

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CD CHIVAS USA

Scott French of ESPN gives us his impressions of CUSA after the first game of the season.
-Its more positive then you would think.

COLORADO RAPIDS

Kevin Villegas of the Post gives Rapids player ratings from the Columbus game.
-I would love to see a lot more of this around MLS.

FC DALLAS

FCD is putting the finishing touches on a deal to bring in 25 year-old Colombian forward Luis Perea from who played last fall for Everton of Vina del Mar, Chile in Primera B.

DC UNITED

Steven Goff of the Post on Josh Wolff's new duel role on the team - player AND assistant coach.
-Plus some other DCU notes.

NEW YORK RED BULLS

Kristian Dyer & Michael Lewis of Big Apple write that 3 other MLS teams have been trying to pry Juan Agudelo away from NYRB.

REAL SALT LAKE

RSL has two new open international roster spots now that both Alvaro Saborio and Javi Morales have gotten their Green Cards.

MLS/USA RELATED RUMORS

Kit Holden of the Independent gives us a glimpse of the Michael Ballack that several MLS apparently want.
-Are you sure you want this guy?

MLS RESERVE LEAGUE

Houston starts the season with a win on a goal by the highly touted Brian Ownby.

Matches & Scores:
-Tue Mar 13
Houston Dynamo 1-0 Colorado Rapids - HD goal by Brian Ownby.
FC Dallas v Real Salt Lake

AMERICANS IN EUROPE

Jonathan Spector was injured in the 10th min of Birmingham's game today, but the extent of that injury was not disclosed.

dN

Michael Adubato of Yanks Abroad talks to Devan Yao who has been awarded a new 2 year contract at Boussu Dour Borinage in the Belgian 2nd division.

dN

Game Action:

ENGLAND - Premier League
Tim Howard - Everton - Tue Mar 13 - went the full 90 but lost 3-0 at Liverpool.

ENGLAND - Championship League
Jonathan Spector - Birmingham - Tue Mar 13 - started but was subbed out after just 10 minutes as they lost 3-1 at Leicester.

ITALY

Cagliari has fired head coach Davide Ballardini. He has been replaced by Massimo Ficcadenti who was fired from the same job last year.

COPA LIBERTADORES

Group Stage

Matches & Scores:
-Tue Mar 13
Lanus v Emelec
Nacional Asuncion v Deportivo Tachira
Internacional v The Strongest
Guadalajara v Defensor Sporting
-Wed Mar 14
Arsenal v Boca Juniors
Fluminense v Zamora
Cruz Azul v Corinthians
Libertad v Vasco da Gama
-Thu Mar 15
Juan Aurich v Santos
Flamengo v Olimpia

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Standings

Group 1
6 The Strongest (+2)
3 Santos (+1)
3 Internacional (0)
0 Juan Aurich (-3)
Group 2
4 Flamengo (+1)
3 Emelec (0)
3 Olimpia (0)
1 Lanus (-1)
Group 3
7 Union Espanola (+5)
4 Bolivar (-1)
3 Universidad Catholica (0)
1 Junior (-2)
Group 4
6 Fluminense (+2)
3 Arsenal (+2)
1 Boca Juniors (-1)
1 Zamora (-3)
Group 5
6 Libertad (+4)
3 Nacional (0)
3 Vasco Da Gama (0)
0 Alianza Lima (-4)
Group 6
6 Cruz Azul (+5)
4 Corintians (+2)
1 Deportivo Tachira (-4)
0 Nacional Asuncion (-3)
Group 7
6 Velez Sarsfield (+3)
4 Deportivo Quito (+1)
3 Defensor Sporting (-1)
1 Guadalajara (-3)
Group 8
7 Atletico Nacional (+6)
4 Universidad Chile (+2)
4 Godoy Cruz (-3)
1 Penarol (-5)

ENDERS

Pretty powerful video from Plan B about the riots in London last summer.

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