Some Soccer News for Jan 25, 2016

It's Day 25 of 2016.


Ventura Alvardo 1-4 Omar Gonzalez
-The two USA players went head to head on Saturday night and Pachuca went to the capital and cleaned house on America. Gonzalez had a good game, while Alvarao had a bad game. Pachuca's first goal was an Alvarado own goal, and the second started when Alvarado gave the ball away cheaply and was then not aggressive in tracking back to slow down attackers. Chalk up 3 points for Gonzalez.
-After 3 rounds in Liga MX only 2 teams are left with perfect records; Leon and Monterrey have 9 points.

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Bob Bradley's biggest hurdle is that he is American. By James Montague of the New York Times.

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Ale Bedoya scored midweek in the French Cup and again this weekend in Ligue 1 play for Nantes. That is a good week!

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CONCACAF has announced its Best 11 and other awards for 2015. Men and Women.
-Carli Lloyd and Chicharito were named Player Of The Year
-2 American Men in Best 11:
Michael Bradley - USA + Toronto
Tim Howard - USA + Everton
-1 MLS player in Best 11:
Roman Torres - PAN + Seattle Sounders
-4 USA Women in Best 11:
Carli Lloyd - USA + Houston Dash
Alex Morgan - USA + Orlando Pride
Becky Sauerbrunn - USA + Kansas City
Hope Solo - USA + Seattle Reign
-2 USA college players in Best 11:
Raquel Rodriguez - CR + Penn State
Diana Saenz - CR + South Florida

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CONCACAF has also stated that reformation of the federation is needed and these are the proposals.

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I live in a great neighborhood! Northeast Minneapolis.

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1955 Algeria - a brutal place to be - Algerian nationalist and French colonists going at each others throats with vicious and deadly results. Into this stepped French Algerian author Albert Camus. Many of those same (and very different yet related) scenarios are still being played out today. Can anyone do something to change the course? By Robert Zaretsky of the New York Times.

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RBNY gave new contracts to Shaun Wright-Phillips, Mike Grella, Sal Zizzo and Luis Robles. Good move.

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Despite all the consternation it looks like Didier Drogba is headed to Montreal for preseason!

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In 2013 Brian Haynes led Atlanta Silverbacks to the NASL Final, was named the leagues Coach of the Year, and then he was fired. Haynes tells us about this time in Atlanta, where he has been since then and why there are so few black coaches in American soccer. By Alex Schieferdecker of Northern Pitch.

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How is it going for Zinedine Zidane as head coach of Real Madrid? By Sid Lowe of the Guardian.

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Holy crap! Leicester City is back in 1st place in the Premier League. Wow. By 3 points over both Man City and Arsenal. Amazing.
-Meanwhile Aston Villa is doomed. They are now 11 points from safety at the very bottom of the standings.

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Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend's action. From the Guardian.

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Bundesliga Matchday 18 summarized. AKA, Dortmund was great! From Deutsche Welle.



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