Thursday, July 26, 2012

Some Soccer News for Thu Jul 26, 2012

STARTERS

The 4th episode of the du Nord Futbol Show podcast is now ready for you to listen. Check it out right here.

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All credit goes to David Beckham for spending the previous 2 days in London on official England Olympic duty, flying to Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon, starting for the MLS All Stars on Wednesday night and playing 74 minutes, helping them beat Chelsea culminating with a trademark long range pass of perfection, fulfilling tons of media requests, then getting back on an airplane to return to London for more Olympic duty. At 37 years old the guy is quite the amazing athlete.
-Imagine what the guy could accomplish if he dedicated himself to the LA Galaxy full time over the past 5 years.

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Tim Cahill is now officially a member of the New York Red Bulls. Video.
-Brian Lewis of the New York Post delivers to us an official statement from Cahill.

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There are only two more days in the MLS summer transfer period, so expect a bunch more moves.

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

Matchday 2 on Saturday. Are you ready?

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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

MENS OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT

Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated with a wrap up of Matchday 1 at the men's tourney.

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)

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Matches + Scores:

GROUP STAGE
Matchday 1
-Thu Jul 26
UAE 1-2 Uruguay
Great Britain 1-1 Senegal
Mexico 0-0 N Korea
Gabon 1-1 Switzerland
Belarus 1-0 New Zealand
Brazil 3-2 Egypt
Spain 0-1 Japan
Honduras 2-2 Morocco
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

QUOTE OF THE DAY

I was asked by the mgr to step up and play 90 in place of an injured teammate. I would do the same for any teammate. Time to #RISEandSHINE.
-Jay DeMerit on Twitter last night after being asked to go the full 90 in the All Star game last night after originally being scheduled to go only 45.

ODD BUT 100% TRUE

The Aug 12 New England Revolution home game will be paired with a 3 fight boxing card at Gillette Stadium. After the Revs game fans can stay to watch some local boxers go at it, and for an additional $100/$60/$40 they can get a seat near the ring. (Otherwise they will fill some unannounced seats in the stadium to watch the fights.)
-Hey look, at least they are trying something new. I will let you be the judge on whether or not it sounds stupid.

VIDEO OF THE DAY

ABC Nightline with a feature on David Beckham and the London Olympics.

MLS 2012 ALL STAR GAME

Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com has a whole bunch of post-game quotes.

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Christopher Vito of Delaware County Daily Mail with more quotes on and from the Philadelphia Union contingent.

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Kerith Gabriel of the Philadelphia Daily News says that the All Star players really enjoyed themselves.

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John Smallwood of the Daily News with some post-game and over-all analysis.

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Chelsea provided their own match report.

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Great moment of the night was the Philly fans singing "You're not English over there" to all the American posers who watch big teams from around the world, especially the EPL, but take every chance they get to put down MLS. Nicely played!

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Aurelien Collin suffered two facial fractures in his collision with Michael Essien. He is expected to be out up to 2 weeks. He was going to miss the Open Cup championship anyway due to yellow card accumulation. So he will get more time to rest.

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Tim Cahill was in the stands in Philadelphia last night.

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Great passers sprung the MLS goals - Donovan, Henry, Beckham, DeRosario and Beckerman.

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I couldn't decide between Jay DeMerit and Dwayne DeRosario for MVP.

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Match + Score:
-Wed Jul 25 MLS 3-2 Chelsea(England) - MLS goals by Chris Wondolowski, Chris Pontius + Eddie Johnson. Che goals by John Terry + Frank Lampard.
Venue: PPL Park - Chester PA
Atten: 19,236 - a stadium record

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)
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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)
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23 CD Chivas USA (-8)
22 Colorado Rapids (-3)
22 FC Dallas (-5)
19 Portland Timbers (-16)

MLS TEAM AND PLAYER NEWS

General News

Jeff Carlisle of ESPN with his weekly MLS column, on Chris Wondolowski and the goal record, Tim Cahill to New York, the surging Galaxy, the playoff races and the supporters shield.

Player Transactions

Chicago Fire has loaned midfielder Rafael Robayo to Millonarios of Colombia, the team from wence he came.

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Sporting Kansas City has signed 23 year old goalkeeper Scott Angevine who was formerly a member of their academy.

DC UNITED

Craig Stouffer of the Examiner talks to one of the new investors in DCU Jason Levien. Priorities 1, 2 + 3 are a new stadium.

REAL SALT LAKE

Martin Renzhofer of the Tribune says the Salt Lake staff is keeping tabs on the standings and possible playoff scenarios already.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC

Marc Weber of the Province conducts a Q + A with the teams new midfielder Barry Robson.

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John Molinaro of Sports Net writes about Whitecaps assistant coach Carl Robinson.

USA U20 TEAM

The team lost the 3rd place game at the annual Milk Cup in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

And Mexico wins yet another youth tournament. They have been absolutely destroying it the past 3 or 4 years. World beware.

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Matches + Scores:
Playoffs
-Thu Jul 26
1st Place - Denmark 0-3 Mexico
3rd Place - USA 3-4 Chile - USA goals by Walker Zimmerman, Benji Joya + Victor Pineda(PK).
5th Place - N Ireland 1-0 Turkey

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Roster
G:
Cody Cropper - Unattached
Kendall McIntosh - Santa Clara
D:
AJ Cochran - Wisconsin
Holden Fender - Concorde Fire
Eric Miller - Creighton
Juan Pablo Ocegueda - UANL Tigres
Boyd Okwuonu - North Carolina
Walker Zimmerman - Furman
M:
Benji Joya - Santos Laguna
Mikey Lopez - North Carolina
Collin Martin - DC United Academy
Daniel Metzger - Maryland
Dillon Serna - Colorado Rapids Academy
Wil Trapp - Akron
F:
Daniel Cuevas - Santos Laguna
Alfred Koroma - Solar Chelsea
Victor Pineda - Chicago Fire
Mario Rodriguez - Kaiserslautern

AMERICANS IN EUROPE

Michael Bradley scored his first goal for Roma last night opening the scoring in the 2nd half against Liverpool.
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The Sentinel in Stoke writes about other teams trying to steal Geoff Cameron away from Stoke City at the last minute.
-Thanks to Bart for the link.

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More from the Sentinel as former Stoke player an current Orlando head coach Adrian Heath raves about Cameron.

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Game Action:

UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - Second qualifying round - 2nd Leg
Daniel Antunez - Inter Turku - Jul 26 - played the whole game but got blown out 0-5 v Twente.
Giuseppe Funicello - Thor Akureyri - Thu Jul 26 - played the full 90 but lost 0-1 v Mlada Boleslav.
Leo Krupnick - Maccabi Netanya - Thu Jul 26 - on the bench as they won 0-1 at KuPS.
Etchu Tabe - KuPS - Thu Jul 26 - went the distance but lost 0-1 v Maccabi Netanya.

AMERICANS IN MEXICO

Only 1 American played in the Copa last night, and that was defender Ventura Alvarado making his debut for America in a losing effort.

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Game Action:

COPA MEXICO - Matchday 1
Ventura Alvarado - America - Wed Jul 25 - went the distance but lost at Veracruz.
Adrian Ruelas - Veracruz - Wed Jul 25 - on the bench but did not play as they won 2-1 v America.

COPA MEXICO

Only 2 of the 8 Liga teams who played on Wed got a win, so another big night for the 2nd division!

Group Stage
28 teams - 14 from Liga (all but top 4 who are in CONCAChampions) + 14 from Asencio

Group 1
3 Dorados
1 Est Tecos
1 Morelia
0 Leon
Group 2
3 Altamira
3 Cruz Azul
0 Atlas
0 Toros Nexa
Group 3
3 Univ Guadalajara
1 Atlante
1 La Piedad
0 Pachuca
Group 4
3 Chiapas Jaguares
3 San Luis
0 Pumas Morelos
0 Necaxa
Group 5
3 Correcaminos UAT
3 Veracruz
0 America
0 Queretaro
Group 6
1 Merida
1 Tijuana
1 Celaya
1 Pumas UNAM
Group 7
3 Lobos BUAP
3 Irapuato
0 Puebla
0 Toluca

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Matchday 1
Matches + Scores:
-Wed Jul 25
Pumas Morelos 1-2 San Luis
Cruz Azul 3-0 Toros Neza
Univ Guadalajara 1-0 Pachuca
Celaya 0-0 Pumas UNAM
Irapuato 3-2 Puebla
Altamira 3-2 Atlas
Atlante 1-1 La Piedad
Veracruz 2-1 America

Matchday 2 is next Tue + Wed.

ENDERS

If the trailer for 2001: A Space Odyssey was cut today for a summer 2012 release, what would it look like?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Revs... It sounds stupid.

12:41 AM  

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