Some Soccer News for Fri Jul 27, 2012
STARTERS
The 4th episode of the du Nord Futbol Show podcast is now ready for you to listen. Check it out right here.
dN
New York paid approx $1.57 Million for Tim Cahill.
-And the team put his through a 7 hour medical exam to make sure their investment was sound. Wow.
dN
Seattle has supposedly signed 30 year old Designated Player midfielder Christian Tiffert from Kaiserslautern. Meaning one of the current DPs on the roster is out? Alvaro Fernandez, Fredy Montero or Mauro Rosales? Looks like its Fernandez who has been sent to Chicago in exchange for allocation money.
dN
CONCACAF Champions League group stage begins next Tuesday! Yes!
STORY OF THE DAY
Montreal's Italian striker Marco Di Vaio has been charged with failing to report attempted sporting fraud while playing a game for Bologna 15 months ago. If found guilty he could receive a suspension of 3 to 6 months from Serie A, but FIFA could ask MLS to enforce that punishment. A verdict is expected on Aug 8.
MINNESOTA STARS FC
The teams first trip to Puerto Rico this season awaits, and success their has been minimal over the years.
Matches + Scores:
-Sat Jul 28
Puerto Rico Islanders v Minnesota Stars
Venue: Bayamon Soccer Complex
TASTIEST MLS GAME OF THE WEEK
Friday night its #2 v #3 in the West: Real Salt Lake v Vancouver Whitecaps!!!
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jul 24, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
USA WOMEN AT THE OLYMPICS
Big 2nd matchday for the USA as a win would put them in prime position to be the #1 seed from their group.
dN
Group Stage
Matches + Scores:
-Wed Jul 25
USA 4-2 France - USA goals by Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan(2) + Carli Lloyd. Fra goals by Gaetane Thiney + Marie-Laure Delie.
-Sat Jul 28
USA v Colombia - 11am CT on NBCSN
-Tue Jul 31
USA v N Korea - 11:15am CT on NBCSN
dN
Roster
G
Hope Solo
Nicole Barnhart
D
Rachel Buehler
Amy LePeilbet
Heather Mitts
Kelley O'Hara
Christie Rampone
Becky Sauerbrunn
M
Shannon Boxx
Heather O'Reilly
Carli Lloyd
Lauren Cheney
Megan Rapinoe
Tobin Heath
F
Sydney Leroux
Alex Morgan
Amy Rodriguez
Abby Wambach
MENS OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT
Groups
GROUP A
3 Uruguay (+1)
1 Great Britain (0)
1 Senegal (0)
0 UAE (-1)
GROUP B
1 Gabon (0)
1 Mexico (0)
1 N Korea (0)
1 Switzerland (0)
GROUP C
3 Belarus (+1)
3 Brazil (+1)
0 Egypt (-1)
0 New Zealand (-1)
GROUP D
3 Japan (+1)
1 Honduras (0)
1 Morocco (0)
0 Spain (-1)
dN
Matches + Scores:
GROUP STAGE
Matchday 2
-Sun Jul 29
Senegal v Uruguay - 11:00am CT on MSNBC - GROUP A
Great Britain v UAE - 1:45pm CT on MSNBC - GROUP A
Mexico v Gabon - GROUP B
N Korea v Switzerland - GROUP B
Brazil v Belarus - 9:00am CT on MSNBC - GROUP C
Egypt v New Zealand - GROUP C
Spain v Honduras - GROUP D
Japan v Morocco - GROUP D
Matchday 3
-Wed Aug 1
Great Britain v Uruguay - 1:45pm CT on NBCSN - GROUP A
Senegal v UAE - 2:50pm CT in progress on MSNBC - GROUP A
Mexico v Switzerland - 11:00am CT on NBCSN - GROUP B
N Korea v Gabon - GROUP B
Brazil v New Zealand - 8:30am CT on NBCSN - GROUP C
Egypt v Belarus - GROUP C
Japan v Honduras - GROUP D
Spain v Morocco - 11:00am CT on MSNBC - GROUP D
FIFASCANDALIZATIONINGS
AFP reports that FIFA's new ethic committee has been given leeway to investigate old as well as new corruption allegations.
WHAT A JOKE
This is not a problem for MLS, its a USA immigration law issue, but the Canadian Soccer Association wants to bitch about MLS anyway. While the league has acknowledged this issue since day 1 with Canadian teams.
Kurtis Larson of the Toronto Sun writes that Canadian players are being treated unfairly by MLS in relation to rosters.
Y'ALL READY FOR THIS?
Jonah Freedman of MLSsoccer.com sees DC head coach Ben Olsen as the breakout star of the MLS All Star game.
HMMMMM, VERY INTERESTING
The quality of video on the MLS website is so poor that I only watch their stuff on the MLS You Tube channel now, its nearly twice as good. The comparison is laughable, and I don't understand why the league can't give us a top notch feed on their own website. The options are there, they just choose not to use it. Having a default setting for slower connections is fine but so many people have really high speed and not giving them the option for better quality is a bad mistake. They are losing customers by only giving them this easily fixable yet inferior product.
-Just look at this difference.
MLSsoccer.com: (their only setting)
YouTube: (and not even on the best setting)
WELL WELL WELL
Scott French of MLSsoccer.com writes about the reasons that the LA Galaxy got off to such a rotten start this season, through the words of Mike Magee.
-After starting off 3-8-2, they have now gone 6-2-1.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Philly.com has a series of interviews by Kerith Gabriel:
-Don Garber - MLS Commissioner
-Nelson Rodriguez - MLS Executive Vice President of Competition and Game Operations
-Howard Handler - MLS Chief Marketing Officer
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Robert Jonas of Center Line Soccer sneaks us this preview of Steven Lenhart Wig Night:
MLS MATCHES AND SCORES
WEEK 21
Matches + Scores:
-Fri Jul 27
Real Salt Lake v Vancouver Whitecaps FC at 8:00PM CT
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium
-Sat Jul 28
Toronto FC v Houston Dynamo at 3:30PM CT
Venue: BMO Field
Montreal Impact v New York Red Bulls at 6:30PM CT
Venue: Saputo Stadium
FC Dallas v LA Galaxy on NBCSN at 7:00PM CT
Venue: FC Dallas Stadium
Sporting Kansas City v Columbus Crew at 7:30PM CT
Venue: Livestrong Sporting Park
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC at 8:00PM CT
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park
San Jose Earthquakes v Chicago Fire SC at 9:30PM CT
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium
Portland Timbers v CD Chivas USA at 10:00PM CT
Venue: JELD-WEN Field
-Sun Jul 29
Philadelphia Union v New England Revolution on NBCSN at 6:00PM CT
Venue: PPL Park
MLS STANDINGS
EAST
38 New York Red Bulls (+8)
37 Sporting Kansas City (+7)
34 Houston Dynamo (+6)
33 DC United (+7)
31 Chicago Fire SC (0)
-----
25 Columbus Crew (-1)
24 Montreal Impact (-12)
23 New England Revolution (0)
20 Philadelphia Union (-1)
19 Toronto FC (-12)
WEST
43 San Jose Earthquakes (+17)
39 Real Salt Lake (+7)
34 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (-1)
31 Seattle Sounders FC (+4)
30 LA Galaxy (+3)
-----
23 CD Chivas USA (-8)
22 Colorado Rapids (-3)
22 FC Dallas (-5)
19 Portland Timbers (-16)
MLS TEAM AND PLAYER NEWS
General News
Avi Creditor of Sports Illustrated proposes 4 updates to the All Star Game. I like 3 of his ideas a lot.
dN
Ives Galarcep of Fox sees LA + NY beginning to pull away from the field in the roster spending category. Both teams have the max 3 designated players, and all on high salaries.
dN
Todd Date of 3rd Degree talks to Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman about a man he greatly respects - LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena. The two teams meet in Dallas on Saturday night.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY SC
Tod Palmer of the Star introduces us to new defender Neven Markovic who saw his first minutes with the club against Montpellier, at both fullback and centerback, earlier this week.
-And with injuries to Aurelien Collin and Lawrence Olum he may get his MLS debut this weekend.
MONTREAL IMPACT
Craig Forrest of Sports Net answers 5 questions about the current state of the Impact.
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
Peter Gobis of the Attleboro Sun writes that for the first time ever the Revs had no All Star caliber players this season, and its showing in the standings.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
John Duerdan of Sports Illustrated writes about Tim Cahill chosing New York over a return to his native Australia.
dN
Kristian Dyer of Big Apple Soccer talks to Joel Lindpere about his continued all-out effort for the Bulls.
PHILADELPHIA UNION
Kerith Gabriel of the Daily News writes that the Union needs to open their wallet if they want to compete.
dN
Marc Narducci of the Inquirer sees the teams chances of making the playoffs as long.
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES
Steven Lenhart is expected to return to the field after sitting out with a concussion.
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC
The Canadian Press writes about the return from long term injury of Atiba Harris, an at times quality attacking player.
-Harris is also known as an awkward player who is prone to lash out and injure opposing players, earning him the nickname Atiba the Hun.
MLS SUMMER FRIENDLIES
Matches + Scores:
-Sat Jul 28
DC United v Paris Saint-Germain(France)
Venue: RFL Stadium – Washington DC
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:
-Sat Jul 28
Fort Lauderdale Strikers v Atlanta Silverbacks
Puerto Rico Islanders v Minnesota Stars
Tampa Bay Rowdies v FC Edmonton
San Antonio Scorpions v Carolina RailHawks
Watch online
Standings
32 San Antonio (+10)
30 Tampa Bay (+4)
28 Puerto Rico (+5)
26 Minnesota (+1)
24 Carolina (+3)
24 Fort Lauderdale (-4)
16 Edmonton (-4)
14 Atlanta (-15)
USL PDL
Playoffs
SEMIFINALS
Matches + Scores:
-Sat Jul 28
Orlando City U23 v Carolina Dynamo
Seattle Sounders FC U23 v Forest City London
FINAL
-Sat Aug 4
MEXICO
Liga MX Apertura Round 2
Matches + Scores:
-Fri Jul 27
Morelia v Monterrey
Leon v Tijuana
-Sat Jul 28
America v Jaguares
Tigres UANL v Atlante
Pachuca v Atlas
San Luis v Cruz Azul
-Sun Jul 29
Pumas UNAM v Queretaro
Puebla v Toluca
Guadalajara v Santos Laguna
FRANCE
AFP reports that two French players have been suspended for abusing media during Euro 2012 - Samir Nasri 3 games and Jeremy Menez 1 game.
ENDERS
Mario Balotelli loves the UFC, and if he wasn't a football player would love to be a mixed martial arts fighter.
The 4th episode of the du Nord Futbol Show podcast is now ready for you to listen. Check it out right here.
dN
New York paid approx $1.57 Million for Tim Cahill.
-And the team put his through a 7 hour medical exam to make sure their investment was sound. Wow.
dN
Seattle has supposedly signed 30 year old Designated Player midfielder Christian Tiffert from Kaiserslautern. Meaning one of the current DPs on the roster is out? Alvaro Fernandez, Fredy Montero or Mauro Rosales? Looks like its Fernandez who has been sent to Chicago in exchange for allocation money.
dN
CONCACAF Champions League group stage begins next Tuesday! Yes!
STORY OF THE DAY
Montreal's Italian striker Marco Di Vaio has been charged with failing to report attempted sporting fraud while playing a game for Bologna 15 months ago. If found guilty he could receive a suspension of 3 to 6 months from Serie A, but FIFA could ask MLS to enforce that punishment. A verdict is expected on Aug 8.
MINNESOTA STARS FC
The teams first trip to Puerto Rico this season awaits, and success their has been minimal over the years.
Matches + Scores:
-Sat Jul 28
Puerto Rico Islanders v Minnesota Stars
Venue: Bayamon Soccer Complex
TASTIEST MLS GAME OF THE WEEK
Friday night its #2 v #3 in the West: Real Salt Lake v Vancouver Whitecaps!!!
DU NORD AT THE CONTROLS
du Nord at the Controls - Tue Jul 24, 2012 - new music mix at Spotify.
USA WOMEN AT THE OLYMPICS
Big 2nd matchday for the USA as a win would put them in prime position to be the #1 seed from their group.
dN
Group Stage
Matches + Scores:
-Wed Jul 25
USA 4-2 France - USA goals by Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan(2) + Carli Lloyd. Fra goals by Gaetane Thiney + Marie-Laure Delie.
-Sat Jul 28
USA v Colombia - 11am CT on NBCSN
-Tue Jul 31
USA v N Korea - 11:15am CT on NBCSN
dN
Roster
G
Hope Solo
Nicole Barnhart
D
Rachel Buehler
Amy LePeilbet
Heather Mitts
Kelley O'Hara
Christie Rampone
Becky Sauerbrunn
M
Shannon Boxx
Heather O'Reilly
Carli Lloyd
Lauren Cheney
Megan Rapinoe
Tobin Heath
F
Sydney Leroux
Alex Morgan
Amy Rodriguez
Abby Wambach
MENS OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT
Groups
GROUP A
3 Uruguay (+1)
1 Great Britain (0)
1 Senegal (0)
0 UAE (-1)
GROUP B
1 Gabon (0)
1 Mexico (0)
1 N Korea (0)
1 Switzerland (0)
GROUP C
3 Belarus (+1)
3 Brazil (+1)
0 Egypt (-1)
0 New Zealand (-1)
GROUP D
3 Japan (+1)
1 Honduras (0)
1 Morocco (0)
0 Spain (-1)
dN
Matches + Scores:
GROUP STAGE
Matchday 2
-Sun Jul 29
Senegal v Uruguay - 11:00am CT on MSNBC - GROUP A
Great Britain v UAE - 1:45pm CT on MSNBC - GROUP A
Mexico v Gabon - GROUP B
N Korea v Switzerland - GROUP B
Brazil v Belarus - 9:00am CT on MSNBC - GROUP C
Egypt v New Zealand - GROUP C
Spain v Honduras - GROUP D
Japan v Morocco - GROUP D
Matchday 3
-Wed Aug 1
Great Britain v Uruguay - 1:45pm CT on NBCSN - GROUP A
Senegal v UAE - 2:50pm CT in progress on MSNBC - GROUP A
Mexico v Switzerland - 11:00am CT on NBCSN - GROUP B
N Korea v Gabon - GROUP B
Brazil v New Zealand - 8:30am CT on NBCSN - GROUP C
Egypt v Belarus - GROUP C
Japan v Honduras - GROUP D
Spain v Morocco - 11:00am CT on MSNBC - GROUP D
FIFASCANDALIZATIONINGS
AFP reports that FIFA's new ethic committee has been given leeway to investigate old as well as new corruption allegations.
WHAT A JOKE
This is not a problem for MLS, its a USA immigration law issue, but the Canadian Soccer Association wants to bitch about MLS anyway. While the league has acknowledged this issue since day 1 with Canadian teams.
Kurtis Larson of the Toronto Sun writes that Canadian players are being treated unfairly by MLS in relation to rosters.
Y'ALL READY FOR THIS?
Jonah Freedman of MLSsoccer.com sees DC head coach Ben Olsen as the breakout star of the MLS All Star game.
HMMMMM, VERY INTERESTING
The quality of video on the MLS website is so poor that I only watch their stuff on the MLS You Tube channel now, its nearly twice as good. The comparison is laughable, and I don't understand why the league can't give us a top notch feed on their own website. The options are there, they just choose not to use it. Having a default setting for slower connections is fine but so many people have really high speed and not giving them the option for better quality is a bad mistake. They are losing customers by only giving them this easily fixable yet inferior product.
-Just look at this difference.
MLSsoccer.com: (their only setting)
YouTube: (and not even on the best setting)
WELL WELL WELL
Scott French of MLSsoccer.com writes about the reasons that the LA Galaxy got off to such a rotten start this season, through the words of Mike Magee.
-After starting off 3-8-2, they have now gone 6-2-1.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Philly.com has a series of interviews by Kerith Gabriel:
-Don Garber - MLS Commissioner
-Nelson Rodriguez - MLS Executive Vice President of Competition and Game Operations
-Howard Handler - MLS Chief Marketing Officer
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Robert Jonas of Center Line Soccer sneaks us this preview of Steven Lenhart Wig Night:
MLS MATCHES AND SCORES
WEEK 21
Matches + Scores:
-Fri Jul 27
Real Salt Lake v Vancouver Whitecaps FC at 8:00PM CT
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium
-Sat Jul 28
Toronto FC v Houston Dynamo at 3:30PM CT
Venue: BMO Field
Montreal Impact v New York Red Bulls at 6:30PM CT
Venue: Saputo Stadium
FC Dallas v LA Galaxy on NBCSN at 7:00PM CT
Venue: FC Dallas Stadium
Sporting Kansas City v Columbus Crew at 7:30PM CT
Venue: Livestrong Sporting Park
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC at 8:00PM CT
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park
San Jose Earthquakes v Chicago Fire SC at 9:30PM CT
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium
Portland Timbers v CD Chivas USA at 10:00PM CT
Venue: JELD-WEN Field
-Sun Jul 29
Philadelphia Union v New England Revolution on NBCSN at 6:00PM CT
Venue: PPL Park
MLS STANDINGS
EAST
38 New York Red Bulls (+8)
37 Sporting Kansas City (+7)
34 Houston Dynamo (+6)
33 DC United (+7)
31 Chicago Fire SC (0)
-----
25 Columbus Crew (-1)
24 Montreal Impact (-12)
23 New England Revolution (0)
20 Philadelphia Union (-1)
19 Toronto FC (-12)
WEST
43 San Jose Earthquakes (+17)
39 Real Salt Lake (+7)
34 Vancouver Whitecaps FC (-1)
31 Seattle Sounders FC (+4)
30 LA Galaxy (+3)
-----
23 CD Chivas USA (-8)
22 Colorado Rapids (-3)
22 FC Dallas (-5)
19 Portland Timbers (-16)
MLS TEAM AND PLAYER NEWS
General News
Avi Creditor of Sports Illustrated proposes 4 updates to the All Star Game. I like 3 of his ideas a lot.
dN
Ives Galarcep of Fox sees LA + NY beginning to pull away from the field in the roster spending category. Both teams have the max 3 designated players, and all on high salaries.
dN
Todd Date of 3rd Degree talks to Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman about a man he greatly respects - LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena. The two teams meet in Dallas on Saturday night.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY SC
Tod Palmer of the Star introduces us to new defender Neven Markovic who saw his first minutes with the club against Montpellier, at both fullback and centerback, earlier this week.
-And with injuries to Aurelien Collin and Lawrence Olum he may get his MLS debut this weekend.
MONTREAL IMPACT
Craig Forrest of Sports Net answers 5 questions about the current state of the Impact.
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION
Peter Gobis of the Attleboro Sun writes that for the first time ever the Revs had no All Star caliber players this season, and its showing in the standings.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
John Duerdan of Sports Illustrated writes about Tim Cahill chosing New York over a return to his native Australia.
dN
Kristian Dyer of Big Apple Soccer talks to Joel Lindpere about his continued all-out effort for the Bulls.
PHILADELPHIA UNION
Kerith Gabriel of the Daily News writes that the Union needs to open their wallet if they want to compete.
dN
Marc Narducci of the Inquirer sees the teams chances of making the playoffs as long.
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES
Steven Lenhart is expected to return to the field after sitting out with a concussion.
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC
The Canadian Press writes about the return from long term injury of Atiba Harris, an at times quality attacking player.
-Harris is also known as an awkward player who is prone to lash out and injure opposing players, earning him the nickname Atiba the Hun.
MLS SUMMER FRIENDLIES
Matches + Scores:
-Sat Jul 28
DC United v Paris Saint-Germain(France)
Venue: RFL Stadium – Washington DC
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:
-Sat Jul 28
Fort Lauderdale Strikers v Atlanta Silverbacks
Puerto Rico Islanders v Minnesota Stars
Tampa Bay Rowdies v FC Edmonton
San Antonio Scorpions v Carolina RailHawks
Watch online
Standings
32 San Antonio (+10)
30 Tampa Bay (+4)
28 Puerto Rico (+5)
26 Minnesota (+1)
24 Carolina (+3)
24 Fort Lauderdale (-4)
16 Edmonton (-4)
14 Atlanta (-15)
USL PDL
Playoffs
SEMIFINALS
Matches + Scores:
-Sat Jul 28
Orlando City U23 v Carolina Dynamo
Seattle Sounders FC U23 v Forest City London
FINAL
-Sat Aug 4
MEXICO
Liga MX Apertura Round 2
Matches + Scores:
-Fri Jul 27
Morelia v Monterrey
Leon v Tijuana
-Sat Jul 28
America v Jaguares
Tigres UANL v Atlante
Pachuca v Atlas
San Luis v Cruz Azul
-Sun Jul 29
Pumas UNAM v Queretaro
Puebla v Toluca
Guadalajara v Santos Laguna
FRANCE
AFP reports that two French players have been suspended for abusing media during Euro 2012 - Samir Nasri 3 games and Jeremy Menez 1 game.
ENDERS
Mario Balotelli loves the UFC, and if he wasn't a football player would love to be a mixed martial arts fighter.
posted by brucio at 16:31
2 Comments:
The MLS app on Roku is wonderful-archived games, all in hi-def...live, condensed and highlights for all games during the season for $50...
Watching the games live on MLS is great too, its the video features and highlights that are such poor quality on the MLS site.
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