Some Soccer News for Oct 6, 2015
Landon Donovan: Jurgen Klinsmann should be fired if USA loses to Mexico. Video from ESPNFC.
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Former USA defender Thomas Dooley is at the helm of the Philippines national team. From the Guardian.
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Giovani dos Santos is OUT of the Mexico squad for the CONCACAF Cup due to some sort of muscle strain.
-No replacement player has been named to the roster.
Here is the full Mexico roster:
G: Alfredo Talavera (Deportivo Toluca FC), Moises Munoz (CF America), Jonathan Orozco (CF Monterrey)
D: Arturo Rivas (CF Tigres UANL), Rafa Marquez (Hellas Verona FC), Diego Reyes (Real Sociedad Futbol), Jorge Torres (CF Tigres UANL), Miguel Layun (FC Porto), Hector Moreno (Philips Sport Vereniging Eindhoven), Hector Herrera (FC Porto), Paul Aguilar (CF America)
M: Israel Jimenez (CF Tigres UANL), Jonathan dos Santos (Villarreal CF), Andres Guardado (Philips Sport Vereniging Eindhoven), Javier Aquino (CF Tigres UANL), Jose Juan Vazquez (Club Leon FC)
F: Raul Jimenez (SL Benfica), Carlos Vela (Real Sociedad Futbol), Javier Hernandez (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Jesus Corona (FC Porto), Oribe Peralta (CF America), Carlos Esquivel (Deportivo Toluca FC)
USA v MEX on Sat Oct 10 at 8:30pm CT on FS1.
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The big league with the least amount of unpredictability at the top is the Bundesliga. While England has 3 or 4 teams who could win the title, and Spain with only 2, its Germany that is the least interesting of all. Luckily the rest of the league is wide open! By Raphael Honigstein of the Guardian.
-My question always stays the same: Why do German teams keep selling their best players to Bayern?
-By the way - Honigstein's latest book Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World is out today! I have my copy and will share my thought when I am done reading it.
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Minnesota United has set a new club record for goals scored in a single season at 48. And there are still 4 games to play.
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Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper Tim Melia has been voted MLS Player Of The Week
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These are the fabulous 5 MLS Goal Of The Week candidates. (The easy winner this week features not one but two ankle breaker moves!)
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And the NASL Player Of The Week is Ft Lauderdale Strikers forward Stefano Pinho.
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Finally, these are the candidates for NASL Play Of The Week.
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OFF TOPIC:
"He showed up late to the lobby of a hotel to meet one of his daughters and her friend, wearing a pair of expensive slacks and nothing from the waist up. Whatever sense of shame he’d had no longer existed." A popular and successful doctor goes off the deep end. And how does the judicial system treat a case like this? Is it morals or medical? One helluva story! From California Sunday Magazine.
The Bird Is The Word
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Former USA defender Thomas Dooley is at the helm of the Philippines national team. From the Guardian.
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Giovani dos Santos is OUT of the Mexico squad for the CONCACAF Cup due to some sort of muscle strain.
-No replacement player has been named to the roster.
Here is the full Mexico roster:
G: Alfredo Talavera (Deportivo Toluca FC), Moises Munoz (CF America), Jonathan Orozco (CF Monterrey)
D: Arturo Rivas (CF Tigres UANL), Rafa Marquez (Hellas Verona FC), Diego Reyes (Real Sociedad Futbol), Jorge Torres (CF Tigres UANL), Miguel Layun (FC Porto), Hector Moreno (Philips Sport Vereniging Eindhoven), Hector Herrera (FC Porto), Paul Aguilar (CF America)
M: Israel Jimenez (CF Tigres UANL), Jonathan dos Santos (Villarreal CF), Andres Guardado (Philips Sport Vereniging Eindhoven), Javier Aquino (CF Tigres UANL), Jose Juan Vazquez (Club Leon FC)
F: Raul Jimenez (SL Benfica), Carlos Vela (Real Sociedad Futbol), Javier Hernandez (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Jesus Corona (FC Porto), Oribe Peralta (CF America), Carlos Esquivel (Deportivo Toluca FC)
USA v MEX on Sat Oct 10 at 8:30pm CT on FS1.
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The big league with the least amount of unpredictability at the top is the Bundesliga. While England has 3 or 4 teams who could win the title, and Spain with only 2, its Germany that is the least interesting of all. Luckily the rest of the league is wide open! By Raphael Honigstein of the Guardian.
-My question always stays the same: Why do German teams keep selling their best players to Bayern?
-By the way - Honigstein's latest book Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World is out today! I have my copy and will share my thought when I am done reading it.
dN
Minnesota United has set a new club record for goals scored in a single season at 48. And there are still 4 games to play.
dN
Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper Tim Melia has been voted MLS Player Of The Week
dN
These are the fabulous 5 MLS Goal Of The Week candidates. (The easy winner this week features not one but two ankle breaker moves!)
dN
And the NASL Player Of The Week is Ft Lauderdale Strikers forward Stefano Pinho.
dN
Finally, these are the candidates for NASL Play Of The Week.
dN
OFF TOPIC:
"He showed up late to the lobby of a hotel to meet one of his daughters and her friend, wearing a pair of expensive slacks and nothing from the waist up. Whatever sense of shame he’d had no longer existed." A popular and successful doctor goes off the deep end. And how does the judicial system treat a case like this? Is it morals or medical? One helluva story! From California Sunday Magazine.
The Bird Is The Word
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