Some Soccer News for Wed Apr 25, 2012
STARTERS
Brad Friedel has now started 300 consecutive games in the English Premier League!
dN
As punishment for their financial meltdown this spring Rangers FC will be banned from making new player signings for 1 year, and previous owner Craig Whyte has been banned for life from Scottish football at any level.
MINNESOTA STARS FC
Match & Score:
-Sat Apr 28
Atlanta Silverbacks v Minnesota Stars FC - 6:30PM CT
Venue: Silverbacks Stadium
And our local watch party for this gamewill be held in Blaine at Bricks Pub will be at our usual spot in St Paul - the Sweetwater.
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
There are 135 teams in our league!
LateNight504FC managed by Alan Kansas is still in 1st Place!
TASTIEST MLS GAME OF THE WEEKEND
A good looking game tonight as Dallas hosts Salt Lake at 7:30pm CT
DC United v Houston Dynamo on Sat Apr 28 - 6:30PM CT at RFK Stadium
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Apr 24, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Semifinals
Both Spanish teams are out, and the dream finish that so many wanted is not going to happen. Bayern Munich pulled off a great match and advanced to the final in a Penalty Kick Shootout.
Ever more dramatically both advancing teams won while playing the second game on the road.
And now Bayern will get to play the Final in their home stadium as was previously already picked to host the game.
Sid Lowe of the Guardian on Barcelona's defeat, and what that means for the future.
Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune says Barcelona is defeated and broken.
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (1st Leg scores included)
-Tue Apr 24
FC Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea FC - Che advances 3-2 on aggregate.
-Wed Apr 25
Real Madrid 2-1 Bayern Munich (1-2) - Series ends tied 3-3, with both teams having 1 road goal to negate the tiebreaker, and BM wins it 3-1 in a Penalty Kick Shootout - RM goals both by Cristiano Ronaldo(1 via PK). BM goal by Arjen Robben(PK).
2011-12 CONCACACHAMPIONS
FINAL
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (with 1st Leg score included)
-Wed Apr 25
Santos Laguna v Monterrey (0-2) - 7pm CT on Fox Soccer
WHAT A JOKE
It appears as though homophobia is alive and well in the top levels of Mexican soccer.
Yahoo reports that the Mexican Football Federation will not punish two players who pretended to kiss after one of them scored a goal, but the federation did release a statement saying "This kind of image cannot be allowed before the public, fans, children. It cannot be seen as a good example."
So remember kids, if you are in the presence of a member of the Mexican football federation do not be seen kissing a member of the same sex.
BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL DAY
Joe Cannon has a blog! Its about goalkeeping.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Why in the world is Portland playing a friendly against Aston Villa on the same night as the MLS All-Star Game against Chelsea?
WELL WELL WELL
New football writing quarterly magazine XI hit their Kickstarter fundraising goal today!
STAT OF THE DAY
Do you want to know why I think it might be difficult for a MLS team to break into the Twin Cities sports market? Here are the per-game average number of tickets sold to the top 7 sports teams already in the market:
Vikings 62,800
Gopher football 50,800
Twins 34,200
Wild 17,800
Timberwolves 17,600
Gopher basketball 13,700
Gopher hockey 10,200
That is a lot of tickets already sold. And I am not even addressing the dozens of other factors that make this market unique.
MLS MATCHES & SCORES
Week 8
-Wed Apr 25
FC Dallas v Real Salt Lake - 7:30PM CT
Venue: FC Dallas Stadium
-Sat Apr 28
Montreal Impact v Portland Timbers - 1:00PM CT
Venue: Olympic Stadium
New York Red Bulls v New England Revolution - 2:30PM CT on NBCSN
Venue: Red Bull Arena
Philadelphia Union v San Jose Earthquakes - 6:00PM CT
Venue: PPL Park
DC United v Houston Dynamo - 6:30PM CT
Venue: RFK Stadium
Columbus Crew v Vancouver Whitecaps FC - 6:30PM CT
Venue: Crew Stadium
Chicago Fire SC v Seattle Sounders FC - 7:30PM CT
Venue: Toyota Park
Real Salt Lake v Toronto FC - 8:00PM CT
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium
Colorado Rapids v CD Chivas USA - 8:00PM CT
Venue: Dick's sporting Goods Park
LA Galaxy v FC Dallas - 9:30PM CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center
Bye: Sporting Kansas City
MLS STANDINGS
EAST
21 Sporting Kansas City (+9)
12 DC United (+4)
10 New York Red Bulls (+3)
8 Chicago Fire SC (0)
8 Houston Dynamo (0)
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7 Philadelphia Union (-2)
7 Columbus Crew (-3)
6 New England Revolution (-3)
5 Montreal Impact (-8)
0 Toronto FC (-9)
WEST
16 San Jose Earthquakes (+8)
15 Real Salt Lake (+4)
11 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (0)
10 Seattle Sounders FC (+4)
10 FC Dallas (-2)
-----
9 LA Galaxy (0)
9 CD Chivas USA (-1)
9 Colorado Rapids (-2)
7 Portland Timbers (-2)
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
COLUMBUS CREW
Adam Jardy of the Dispatch writes about the return from injury of Danny O'Rourke.
-But is he really healthy?
A few more team notes from Jardy.
FC DALLAS
Blas Perez has been suspended 1 game by the league for an elbow he planted on the jaw of Vancouver's Jordan Harvey last weekend.
Todd Date of 3rd Degree writes about the significant presence Perez has been early in the season for FCD.
Date also has an article on Matt Hedges the teams only SuperDraft pick this year centerback Matt Hedges who is inching toward the first 11.
PORTLAND TIMBERS
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America with an article on forward Kris Boyd, looking at the start to his career in MLS.
REAL SALT LAKE
James Edward of the Deseret writes that the team is looking to respond to a bad loss tonight in Dallas.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS
Joshua Mayers of the Times with a Sounders injury update.
TORONTO FC
John Molinaro of Sports Net reports that TFC head coach Aron Winter has declared: "We’re making the playoffs."
-That is a fairly easy promise to make, cuz if they don't make the playoff he will get fired anyway.
MLS SUMMER FRIENDLIES
Here is the complete schedule of all the big club matches going on this summer pitting MLS teams against European teams.
NASL SCOREBOARD
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Apr 25
Fort Lauderdale Strikers v Puerto Rico Islanders
-Sat Apr 28
Carolina RailHawks v San Antonio Scorpions
Atlanta Silverbacks v Minnesota Stars
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Fort Lauderdale Strikers
dN
Standings
10 Puerto Rico (+7)
5 Minnesota (+1)
5 Fort Lauderdale (+1)
5 Tampa Bay (0)
3 Carolina (0)
3 Atlanta (-2)
2 San Antonio (-4)
1 Edmonton (-3)
Watch online
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated with an article on Clint Dempsey's great season.
dN
Brian Sciaretta of Yanks Abroad reported on Twitter today that "midfielder Danny Williams tore a muscle in his shoulder while in weight room and will be out at least a month."
-The AP reports that he will be out for up to 6 weeks. Making it tough for to join the USA for the first two World Cup Qualifying matches.
dN
AP also reports that Timmy Chandler has signed a new contract to stay at Nurnberg through the 2014-15 season.
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
Semifinals
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (1st Leg scores included)
-Thu Apr 26
Athletic Bilbao v Sporting CP (1-2)
Valencia v Atletico Madrid (2-4)
COPA LIBERTADORES
The Knockout Stage begins on Wednesday.
Round of 16
Matches & Scores:
1st Leg
-Wed Apr 25
Internacional v Fluminense
Bolivar v Santos
-Tue May 1
Cruz Azul v Libertad
Atletico Nacional v Velez Sarsfield
-Wed May 2
Boca Juniors v Union Espanola
Emelec v Corintians
Vasco Da Gama v Lanus
-Thu May 3
Deportivo Quito v Universidad Chile
Brad Friedel has now started 300 consecutive games in the English Premier League!
dN
As punishment for their financial meltdown this spring Rangers FC will be banned from making new player signings for 1 year, and previous owner Craig Whyte has been banned for life from Scottish football at any level.
MINNESOTA STARS FC
Match & Score:
-Sat Apr 28
Atlanta Silverbacks v Minnesota Stars FC - 6:30PM CT
Venue: Silverbacks Stadium
And our local watch party for this game
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
There are 135 teams in our league!
LateNight504FC managed by Alan Kansas is still in 1st Place!
TASTIEST MLS GAME OF THE WEEKEND
A good looking game tonight as Dallas hosts Salt Lake at 7:30pm CT
DC United v Houston Dynamo on Sat Apr 28 - 6:30PM CT at RFK Stadium
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Apr 24, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Semifinals
Both Spanish teams are out, and the dream finish that so many wanted is not going to happen. Bayern Munich pulled off a great match and advanced to the final in a Penalty Kick Shootout.
Ever more dramatically both advancing teams won while playing the second game on the road.
And now Bayern will get to play the Final in their home stadium as was previously already picked to host the game.
Sid Lowe of the Guardian on Barcelona's defeat, and what that means for the future.
Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune says Barcelona is defeated and broken.
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (1st Leg scores included)
-Tue Apr 24
FC Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea FC - Che advances 3-2 on aggregate.
-Wed Apr 25
Real Madrid 2-1 Bayern Munich (1-2) - Series ends tied 3-3, with both teams having 1 road goal to negate the tiebreaker, and BM wins it 3-1 in a Penalty Kick Shootout - RM goals both by Cristiano Ronaldo(1 via PK). BM goal by Arjen Robben(PK).
2011-12 CONCACACHAMPIONS
FINAL
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (with 1st Leg score included)
-Wed Apr 25
Santos Laguna v Monterrey (0-2) - 7pm CT on Fox Soccer
WHAT A JOKE
It appears as though homophobia is alive and well in the top levels of Mexican soccer.
Yahoo reports that the Mexican Football Federation will not punish two players who pretended to kiss after one of them scored a goal, but the federation did release a statement saying "This kind of image cannot be allowed before the public, fans, children. It cannot be seen as a good example."
So remember kids, if you are in the presence of a member of the Mexican football federation do not be seen kissing a member of the same sex.
BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL DAY
Joe Cannon has a blog! Its about goalkeeping.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Why in the world is Portland playing a friendly against Aston Villa on the same night as the MLS All-Star Game against Chelsea?
WELL WELL WELL
New football writing quarterly magazine XI hit their Kickstarter fundraising goal today!
STAT OF THE DAY
Do you want to know why I think it might be difficult for a MLS team to break into the Twin Cities sports market? Here are the per-game average number of tickets sold to the top 7 sports teams already in the market:
Vikings 62,800
Gopher football 50,800
Twins 34,200
Wild 17,800
Timberwolves 17,600
Gopher basketball 13,700
Gopher hockey 10,200
That is a lot of tickets already sold. And I am not even addressing the dozens of other factors that make this market unique.
MLS MATCHES & SCORES
Week 8
-Wed Apr 25
FC Dallas v Real Salt Lake - 7:30PM CT
Venue: FC Dallas Stadium
-Sat Apr 28
Montreal Impact v Portland Timbers - 1:00PM CT
Venue: Olympic Stadium
New York Red Bulls v New England Revolution - 2:30PM CT on NBCSN
Venue: Red Bull Arena
Philadelphia Union v San Jose Earthquakes - 6:00PM CT
Venue: PPL Park
DC United v Houston Dynamo - 6:30PM CT
Venue: RFK Stadium
Columbus Crew v Vancouver Whitecaps FC - 6:30PM CT
Venue: Crew Stadium
Chicago Fire SC v Seattle Sounders FC - 7:30PM CT
Venue: Toyota Park
Real Salt Lake v Toronto FC - 8:00PM CT
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium
Colorado Rapids v CD Chivas USA - 8:00PM CT
Venue: Dick's sporting Goods Park
LA Galaxy v FC Dallas - 9:30PM CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center
Bye: Sporting Kansas City
MLS STANDINGS
EAST
21 Sporting Kansas City (+9)
12 DC United (+4)
10 New York Red Bulls (+3)
8 Chicago Fire SC (0)
8 Houston Dynamo (0)
-----
7 Philadelphia Union (-2)
7 Columbus Crew (-3)
6 New England Revolution (-3)
5 Montreal Impact (-8)
0 Toronto FC (-9)
WEST
16 San Jose Earthquakes (+8)
15 Real Salt Lake (+4)
11 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (0)
10 Seattle Sounders FC (+4)
10 FC Dallas (-2)
-----
9 LA Galaxy (0)
9 CD Chivas USA (-1)
9 Colorado Rapids (-2)
7 Portland Timbers (-2)
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
COLUMBUS CREW
Adam Jardy of the Dispatch writes about the return from injury of Danny O'Rourke.
-But is he really healthy?
A few more team notes from Jardy.
FC DALLAS
Blas Perez has been suspended 1 game by the league for an elbow he planted on the jaw of Vancouver's Jordan Harvey last weekend.
Todd Date of 3rd Degree writes about the significant presence Perez has been early in the season for FCD.
Date also has an article on Matt Hedges the teams only SuperDraft pick this year centerback Matt Hedges who is inching toward the first 11.
PORTLAND TIMBERS
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America with an article on forward Kris Boyd, looking at the start to his career in MLS.
REAL SALT LAKE
James Edward of the Deseret writes that the team is looking to respond to a bad loss tonight in Dallas.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS
Joshua Mayers of the Times with a Sounders injury update.
TORONTO FC
John Molinaro of Sports Net reports that TFC head coach Aron Winter has declared: "We’re making the playoffs."
-That is a fairly easy promise to make, cuz if they don't make the playoff he will get fired anyway.
MLS SUMMER FRIENDLIES
Here is the complete schedule of all the big club matches going on this summer pitting MLS teams against European teams.
NASL SCOREBOARD
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Apr 25
Fort Lauderdale Strikers v Puerto Rico Islanders
-Sat Apr 28
Carolina RailHawks v San Antonio Scorpions
Atlanta Silverbacks v Minnesota Stars
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Fort Lauderdale Strikers
dN
Standings
10 Puerto Rico (+7)
5 Minnesota (+1)
5 Fort Lauderdale (+1)
5 Tampa Bay (0)
3 Carolina (0)
3 Atlanta (-2)
2 San Antonio (-4)
1 Edmonton (-3)
Watch online
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated with an article on Clint Dempsey's great season.
dN
Brian Sciaretta of Yanks Abroad reported on Twitter today that "midfielder Danny Williams tore a muscle in his shoulder while in weight room and will be out at least a month."
-The AP reports that he will be out for up to 6 weeks. Making it tough for to join the USA for the first two World Cup Qualifying matches.
dN
AP also reports that Timmy Chandler has signed a new contract to stay at Nurnberg through the 2014-15 season.
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
Semifinals
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg (1st Leg scores included)
-Thu Apr 26
Athletic Bilbao v Sporting CP (1-2)
Valencia v Atletico Madrid (2-4)
COPA LIBERTADORES
The Knockout Stage begins on Wednesday.
Round of 16
Matches & Scores:
1st Leg
-Wed Apr 25
Internacional v Fluminense
Bolivar v Santos
-Tue May 1
Cruz Azul v Libertad
Atletico Nacional v Velez Sarsfield
-Wed May 2
Boca Juniors v Union Espanola
Emelec v Corintians
Vasco Da Gama v Lanus
-Thu May 3
Deportivo Quito v Universidad Chile
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