Some Soccer News for Jan 27, 2016

It's Day 27 of 2016.


A vision of the "superblock" surrounding the new Minnesota United stadium was rolled out in St Paul yesterday. By Frederick Melo of the Pioneer Press.

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Young RBNY and USA centerback Matt Miazga is on his way to Chelsea. And because he has a EU (Polish) passport he does not need an English work permit. Wow. Jeff Carlisle of ESPNFC fills us in.
-Doug McIntyre of ESPN reported that Miazga has left the USA January camp.

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LA Galaxy has signed 35 year old English left fullback Ashley Cole from Roma. No one should forget that he called MLS a "relax on the beach" league.

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Portland gave head coach Caleb Porter a new contract.

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Landon Donovan's wife gave birth to a new baby today. Huge congrats to them.

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San Jose kicks off preseason training - the 2nd year under head coach Dom Kinnear. Lots of injuries. Big things are expected, but this actually sounds kinda grim. By Elliot Almond of the San Jose Mercury News.

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Good morning. If you didn’t hear last night, @Ourand_SBJ and I have confirmed that Fox will broadcast the Copa América Centenario.

— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) January 27, 2016

-No surprise with ESPN showing the Euro's which overlap. I guess NBC Sports could have been in the running too.
-Press release: "All 32 matches will be broadcast live from June 3-26 on FOX, FS1 and.or FS2."



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