Some Soccer News for Wed Jun 20, 2012
STARTERS
I believe that soccer leagues around the world spending millions of dollars for electronic goal-line technology that will be used only on rare occasions is NOT a good use of money at all. That money can be spent on more players, and a fraction of it can be spent hiring more referees to patrol the area at each goal. A much much much much better use of money.
-And to make it pretty funny I wrote the preceding before the "goal" by Ukraine was not given. Yes it sure looked like a goal on TV replays, but the referee standing right on the line made his call that we all have to live with. Was it a goal or not? Would electronic goal-line technology have called it a goal? We will never no. But I still stand by my opinion. Yes refs get it wrong, but if we held players to the same perfection standards we held referees then there would be no players left to field a team.
dN
US Soccer reports the sad news that former USA national team manager Alkis Panagoulias has passed away. RIP coach.
dN
Didier Drogba has signed with Shanghai Shenhua in China and will join Nicolas Anelka.
THE ULTIMATE IN PATHETIC BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF UEFA
UEFA has shown their complete hypocrisy when it comes to fighting racism. Check this out:
-Nicklas Bendtner of Denmark scored a goal at the EURO tournament then pulled up his shirt to show off the waist band of his undershorts that featured the name of a personal commercial sponsor. For that they fined the player 100,000 Euros and suspended him from the national team's next competitive match.
-Russia has been deducted 6 points from the 2016 Euro qualifying tournament and fined 120,000 Euros for fan violence and supporters displaying that monstrous banner that read "THIS IS RUSSIA" (basically saying Poland is Russia and not an independent country) in the stands.
-Meanwhile Croatian supporters were found to have used racist chants and banners, and their federation has been fined the pittance of 80,000 Euros.
UEFA has yet to rule on German supporters unfurling a Neo-Nazi banner.
These people who run UEFA are some of the lowest cretins on the planet. Their idea of stamping out racism is like wiping out smoking by wagging a finger at it.
Pathetic.
STORY OF THE DAY
Our great Friend In Football Rich Allen runs the Fulham FC dedicated website Craven Cottage Newsround and recently laid out this very revealing statistical analysis of the rise of Clint Dempsey. As Rich himself said, a bit dry but might interest some 'mericans. I think it will more than interest them.
Classic Rich Allen:
Dempsey has now scored 50 times for Fulham: 10 with his left; 25 with his riiiight, 12 with his head and, entirely summing the man up, 3 with ’other’.
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jun 19, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
KICKSTARTER
Howler is a new magazine about soccer.
It's a big, glossy publication that will come out four times a year with distinctive, original writing about American and international soccer, as well as some of the most striking art and design you'll find in any publication being made today.
And there are still 9 days to go in their fund raising campaign at Kickstarter.
Become part of the movement today.
As a precursor to the publication of the magazine the staff has assembled a "game day program" titled Turnstile. It's a beautiful piece of work and you can check it out right here:
iPad version
PDF version
The magazine now also has a Tumblr site.
MINNESOTA STARS FC
Match + Score:
-Sat Jun 23
Minnesota Stars v Fort Lauderdale Strikers
Venue: NSC Stadium - Blaine
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jun 19, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
UEFA EURO 2012
Lets check in and see how we are doing in the du Nord & Friends ESPN Euro Bracket Predictor!
England and France fill in the last two spots in the Quarterfinal bracket.
Top news sources:
UEFA
Guardian
Marca
As
France Football
Gazzetta Dello Sport
Kicker
World Soccer
ESPN
dN
Standings
GROUP D
7 England
4 France
3 Ukraine
3 Sweden
dN
Matches + Scores:
Group Stage
-Tue Jun 19
Sweden 2-0 France
England 1-0 Ukraine
Quarterfinals:
-Thu Jun 21
Czech Republic v Portugal - 1:45pm CT
-Fri Jun 22
Germany v Greece - 1:45pm CT
-Sat Jun 23
Spain v France - 1:45pm CT
-Sun Jun 24
England v Italy - 1:45pm CT
Semifinals:
-Wed Jun 27
Czech Republic/Portugal winner v Spain/France winner - 1:45pm CT
-Thu Jun 28
Germany/Greece winner v England/Italy winner - 1:45pm CT
Final:
-Sun Jul 1
1:45pm CT
HMMMM, INTERESTING
Nick Firchau of MLSsoccer.com reports that Seattle midfielder Osvaldo Alonso is now a USA citizen. So could he play for the USA national team?
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Chattanooga FC will be hosting a big friendly between two Mexican powerhouse teams Club America v Pachuca!
Match + Score:
-Sat Jul 7
Club America v Pachuca
They have set an ambitious goal of 20,000 attendance for this game!
-All of the details are right here.
MLS MATCHES AND SCORES
WEEK 16
Matches + Scores:
-Wed Jun 20
Real Salt Lake v LA Galaxy - 8:00PM CT
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium
Houston Dynamo v Toronto FC - 8:00PM CT
Venue: BBVA Compass Stadium
Colorado Rapids v San Jose Earthquakes - 8:30PM CT
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park
Seattle Sounders FC v Sporting Kansas City - 9:00PM CT
Venue: CenturyLink Field
CD Chivas USA v Montreal Impact - 9:30PM CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v New York Red Bulls - 10:00PM CT
Venue: BC Place
MLS STANDINGS
EAST
30 DC United (+10)
28 Sporting Kansas City (+9)
26 New York Red Bulls (+6)
21 Chicago Fire SC (0)
19 Columbus Crew (0)
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19 Houston Dynamo (-1)
17 New England Revolution (0)
15 Montreal Impact (-3)
8 Philadelphia Union (-7)
3 Toronto FC (-15)
WEST
32 Real Salt Lake (+11)
27 San Jose Earthquakes (+10)
25 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (+2)
24 Seattle Sounders FC (+4)
19 Colorado Rapids (+1)
-----
15 CD Chivas USA (-8)
14 LA Galaxy (-5)
13 Portland Timbers (-4)
13 FC Dallas (-10)
MLS NEWS
The 3 Toronto players, Nick Soolsma, Miguel Aceval and Luis Silva, that were arrested in Houston on Sunday night have been sent back to Toronto to await punishment.
-The Canadian Press with a little more info.
Colorado has signed centerback Drew Moor to a multi-year contract extension.
-The team also announced that they have signed 19 year old Irish midfielder Shane O’Neill from their academy team.
David Ferreira is back to practice with FC Dallas. The 2010 league MVP has seen very little training field grass under his feet since a horrible broken ankle knocked him out 13 months ago.
The player that du Nord called the Rookie of the Year last season, centerback AJ Soares of New England, is the only second year player to start every game this year.
Real Salt Lake has signed former New England midfielder Kenny Mansally who was a free agent.
San Jose has signed fullback Jed Zayner who had been a free agent.
FC Dallas has loaned Moises Hernandez to Comunicaciones in Guatemala.
TOP MLS GOAL SCORERS
Through Sun Jun 17:
11 Kenny Cooper
11 Chris Wondolowski
9 Thierry Henry
7 Maicon Santos
7 Saer Sene
6 Will Bruin
6 Fabian Espindola
6 Chris Pontius
6 Alvaro Saborio
SOCCER IN MINNESOTA
The Minnesota Thunder Academy U15-16 team and the Shattuck St Marys U15-16 and U17-18 teams are both in the US Development Academy playoffs that begin on Mon Jun 25 in Dallas TX.
-Tournament details
NASL SCOREBOARD
Matches and Scores:
-Sat Jun 23
Carolina RailHawks v FC Edmonton
Atlanta Silverbacks v Puerto Rico Islanders
Tampa Bay Rowdies vs San Antonio Scorpions
Minnesota Stars FC v Fort Lauderdale Strikers
Watch online
Standings
22 San Antonio (+7)
20 Puerto Rico (+10)
17 Minnesota (+1)
16 Fort Lauderdale (-2)
15 Tampa Bay (-3)
14 Carolina (0)
11 Edmonton (-1)
8 Atlanta (-12)
USA U15 TEAM
The team played this week in the Copa Mexico U15 Tournament.
The team beat Costa Rica on Tuesday but Wednesday's game against Colombia ended scoreless and the USA were eliminated from the tournament.
Matches and Scores:
-Mon Jun 18
USA 0-1 Spain
-Tue Jun 19
USA 3-1 Costa Rica - USA goals by DJ Villegas(2) + Sebastian Elney.
-Wed Jun 20
USA 0-0 Colombia
Roster
G:
JT Marcinkowski - San Jose Earthquakes Academy
Abraham Romero - LA Galaxy Academy
D:
David Chavez - Juventus Sport Club
Chris Gomez - PDA
Malcolm Jones - Chivas USA Academy
Pablo Pelaez - Albion SC
Peter Schropp - Omaha FC
Max Stiegwardt - Minnesota Thunder Academy
Sean Wilson - PDA
M:
Amir Bashti - San Jose Earthquakes Academy
Coy Craft - FC Dallas Academy
Collin Fernandez - Chicago Fire Academy
Maduabuchi Obinwa - FC America Premier
Martin Salas - FC Dallas Academy
Ben Swanson - Columbus Crew Academy
Alejandro Vergara - LA Galaxy Academy
DJ Villegas - Davis Legacy
F:
Mukwelle Akale - Minnesota Thunder Academy
Malcolm Dixon - New York Red Bulls Academy
Sebastian Elney - Boca United
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Greg Seltzer of MLSsoccer.com sees the growing economic recession in Europe having a negative effect on Americans playing in and hoping to play in those leagues.
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Sonny Guadarrama will be playing for Merida FC in the Mexican 2nd division next season.
CANADA
Paul Attfield of the Toronto Globe + Mail says the national team is starting to find a ground swell of long needed fan support.
I believe that soccer leagues around the world spending millions of dollars for electronic goal-line technology that will be used only on rare occasions is NOT a good use of money at all. That money can be spent on more players, and a fraction of it can be spent hiring more referees to patrol the area at each goal. A much much much much better use of money.
-And to make it pretty funny I wrote the preceding before the "goal" by Ukraine was not given. Yes it sure looked like a goal on TV replays, but the referee standing right on the line made his call that we all have to live with. Was it a goal or not? Would electronic goal-line technology have called it a goal? We will never no. But I still stand by my opinion. Yes refs get it wrong, but if we held players to the same perfection standards we held referees then there would be no players left to field a team.
dN
US Soccer reports the sad news that former USA national team manager Alkis Panagoulias has passed away. RIP coach.
dN
Didier Drogba has signed with Shanghai Shenhua in China and will join Nicolas Anelka.
THE ULTIMATE IN PATHETIC BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF UEFA
UEFA has shown their complete hypocrisy when it comes to fighting racism. Check this out:
-Nicklas Bendtner of Denmark scored a goal at the EURO tournament then pulled up his shirt to show off the waist band of his undershorts that featured the name of a personal commercial sponsor. For that they fined the player 100,000 Euros and suspended him from the national team's next competitive match.
-Russia has been deducted 6 points from the 2016 Euro qualifying tournament and fined 120,000 Euros for fan violence and supporters displaying that monstrous banner that read "THIS IS RUSSIA" (basically saying Poland is Russia and not an independent country) in the stands.
-Meanwhile Croatian supporters were found to have used racist chants and banners, and their federation has been fined the pittance of 80,000 Euros.
UEFA has yet to rule on German supporters unfurling a Neo-Nazi banner.
These people who run UEFA are some of the lowest cretins on the planet. Their idea of stamping out racism is like wiping out smoking by wagging a finger at it.
Pathetic.
STORY OF THE DAY
Our great Friend In Football Rich Allen runs the Fulham FC dedicated website Craven Cottage Newsround and recently laid out this very revealing statistical analysis of the rise of Clint Dempsey. As Rich himself said, a bit dry but might interest some 'mericans. I think it will more than interest them.
Classic Rich Allen:
Dempsey has now scored 50 times for Fulham: 10 with his left; 25 with his riiiight, 12 with his head and, entirely summing the man up, 3 with ’other’.
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jun 19, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
KICKSTARTER
Howler is a new magazine about soccer.
It's a big, glossy publication that will come out four times a year with distinctive, original writing about American and international soccer, as well as some of the most striking art and design you'll find in any publication being made today.
And there are still 9 days to go in their fund raising campaign at Kickstarter.
Become part of the movement today.
As a precursor to the publication of the magazine the staff has assembled a "game day program" titled Turnstile. It's a beautiful piece of work and you can check it out right here:
iPad version
PDF version
The magazine now also has a Tumblr site.
MINNESOTA STARS FC
Match + Score:
-Sat Jun 23
Minnesota Stars v Fort Lauderdale Strikers
Venue: NSC Stadium - Blaine
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jun 19, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
UEFA EURO 2012
Lets check in and see how we are doing in the du Nord & Friends ESPN Euro Bracket Predictor!
England and France fill in the last two spots in the Quarterfinal bracket.
Top news sources:
UEFA
Guardian
Marca
As
France Football
Gazzetta Dello Sport
Kicker
World Soccer
ESPN
dN
Standings
GROUP D
7 England
4 France
3 Ukraine
3 Sweden
dN
Matches + Scores:
Group Stage
-Tue Jun 19
Sweden 2-0 France
England 1-0 Ukraine
Quarterfinals:
-Thu Jun 21
Czech Republic v Portugal - 1:45pm CT
-Fri Jun 22
Germany v Greece - 1:45pm CT
-Sat Jun 23
Spain v France - 1:45pm CT
-Sun Jun 24
England v Italy - 1:45pm CT
Semifinals:
-Wed Jun 27
Czech Republic/Portugal winner v Spain/France winner - 1:45pm CT
-Thu Jun 28
Germany/Greece winner v England/Italy winner - 1:45pm CT
Final:
-Sun Jul 1
1:45pm CT
HMMMM, INTERESTING
Nick Firchau of MLSsoccer.com reports that Seattle midfielder Osvaldo Alonso is now a USA citizen. So could he play for the USA national team?
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Chattanooga FC will be hosting a big friendly between two Mexican powerhouse teams Club America v Pachuca!
Match + Score:
-Sat Jul 7
Club America v Pachuca
They have set an ambitious goal of 20,000 attendance for this game!
-All of the details are right here.
MLS MATCHES AND SCORES
WEEK 16
Matches + Scores:
-Wed Jun 20
Real Salt Lake v LA Galaxy - 8:00PM CT
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium
Houston Dynamo v Toronto FC - 8:00PM CT
Venue: BBVA Compass Stadium
Colorado Rapids v San Jose Earthquakes - 8:30PM CT
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park
Seattle Sounders FC v Sporting Kansas City - 9:00PM CT
Venue: CenturyLink Field
CD Chivas USA v Montreal Impact - 9:30PM CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v New York Red Bulls - 10:00PM CT
Venue: BC Place
MLS STANDINGS
EAST
30 DC United (+10)
28 Sporting Kansas City (+9)
26 New York Red Bulls (+6)
21 Chicago Fire SC (0)
19 Columbus Crew (0)
-----
19 Houston Dynamo (-1)
17 New England Revolution (0)
15 Montreal Impact (-3)
8 Philadelphia Union (-7)
3 Toronto FC (-15)
WEST
32 Real Salt Lake (+11)
27 San Jose Earthquakes (+10)
25 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (+2)
24 Seattle Sounders FC (+4)
19 Colorado Rapids (+1)
-----
15 CD Chivas USA (-8)
14 LA Galaxy (-5)
13 Portland Timbers (-4)
13 FC Dallas (-10)
MLS NEWS
The 3 Toronto players, Nick Soolsma, Miguel Aceval and Luis Silva, that were arrested in Houston on Sunday night have been sent back to Toronto to await punishment.
-The Canadian Press with a little more info.
Colorado has signed centerback Drew Moor to a multi-year contract extension.
-The team also announced that they have signed 19 year old Irish midfielder Shane O’Neill from their academy team.
David Ferreira is back to practice with FC Dallas. The 2010 league MVP has seen very little training field grass under his feet since a horrible broken ankle knocked him out 13 months ago.
The player that du Nord called the Rookie of the Year last season, centerback AJ Soares of New England, is the only second year player to start every game this year.
Real Salt Lake has signed former New England midfielder Kenny Mansally who was a free agent.
San Jose has signed fullback Jed Zayner who had been a free agent.
FC Dallas has loaned Moises Hernandez to Comunicaciones in Guatemala.
TOP MLS GOAL SCORERS
Through Sun Jun 17:
11 Kenny Cooper
11 Chris Wondolowski
9 Thierry Henry
7 Maicon Santos
7 Saer Sene
6 Will Bruin
6 Fabian Espindola
6 Chris Pontius
6 Alvaro Saborio
SOCCER IN MINNESOTA
The Minnesota Thunder Academy U15-16 team and the Shattuck St Marys U15-16 and U17-18 teams are both in the US Development Academy playoffs that begin on Mon Jun 25 in Dallas TX.
-Tournament details
NASL SCOREBOARD
Matches and Scores:
-Sat Jun 23
Carolina RailHawks v FC Edmonton
Atlanta Silverbacks v Puerto Rico Islanders
Tampa Bay Rowdies vs San Antonio Scorpions
Minnesota Stars FC v Fort Lauderdale Strikers
Watch online
Standings
22 San Antonio (+7)
20 Puerto Rico (+10)
17 Minnesota (+1)
16 Fort Lauderdale (-2)
15 Tampa Bay (-3)
14 Carolina (0)
11 Edmonton (-1)
8 Atlanta (-12)
USA U15 TEAM
The team played this week in the Copa Mexico U15 Tournament.
The team beat Costa Rica on Tuesday but Wednesday's game against Colombia ended scoreless and the USA were eliminated from the tournament.
Matches and Scores:
-Mon Jun 18
USA 0-1 Spain
-Tue Jun 19
USA 3-1 Costa Rica - USA goals by DJ Villegas(2) + Sebastian Elney.
-Wed Jun 20
USA 0-0 Colombia
Roster
G:
JT Marcinkowski - San Jose Earthquakes Academy
Abraham Romero - LA Galaxy Academy
D:
David Chavez - Juventus Sport Club
Chris Gomez - PDA
Malcolm Jones - Chivas USA Academy
Pablo Pelaez - Albion SC
Peter Schropp - Omaha FC
Max Stiegwardt - Minnesota Thunder Academy
Sean Wilson - PDA
M:
Amir Bashti - San Jose Earthquakes Academy
Coy Craft - FC Dallas Academy
Collin Fernandez - Chicago Fire Academy
Maduabuchi Obinwa - FC America Premier
Martin Salas - FC Dallas Academy
Ben Swanson - Columbus Crew Academy
Alejandro Vergara - LA Galaxy Academy
DJ Villegas - Davis Legacy
F:
Mukwelle Akale - Minnesota Thunder Academy
Malcolm Dixon - New York Red Bulls Academy
Sebastian Elney - Boca United
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Greg Seltzer of MLSsoccer.com sees the growing economic recession in Europe having a negative effect on Americans playing in and hoping to play in those leagues.
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Sonny Guadarrama will be playing for Merida FC in the Mexican 2nd division next season.
CANADA
Paul Attfield of the Toronto Globe + Mail says the national team is starting to find a ground swell of long needed fan support.
posted by brucio at 17:48
2 Comments:
I've got to say I disagree Bruce. All you need is a pinhole camera in the post, a reviewer in the media booth, and a minute pause after possible goals. That's no more time than players spend rolling around.
How about instead of every league worldwide, we start with the World Cup Finals and Euro 2000.
Plus, I agree with Graham on how easy this could be. We don't even need the pinhole camera these days with all the coverage.
And I'm for goal coverage only, not things like the Henry handball from France-Ireland.
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