Some Soccer News for Jun 1, 2016
It's Day 153 of 2016.
We are hearing that the reason the Minnesota governor has not signed the legislation connected to the Minnesota United stadium bills is because deep inside this political clusterfuck is something related to the Minnesota Vikings Jawa Sandcrawler stadium that needs to get fixed. It really does figure that once again the Vikings are wreaking havoc with Minnesota United. Bullshit.
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US Open Cup returns on Wed Jun 1 with Round 3. Several very interesting looking matches.
Carolina RailHawks v Charlotte Independnce
LA Maquina v LA Wolves
But more importantly:
Saint Louis v Minnesota United - 7:00pm CT, stream it right here via YouTube
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The NFL is still king in the USA, by many many many miles, but for Americans age 12-24 soccer is now #2 over basketball. From the Economist.
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USA v Colombia is coming up on Friday night. Here are a couple things to keep in mind:
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Michael Bradley tell us where he thinks his team is at right now. By Jeff Carlisle of ESPNFC.
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A breakdown of team USA using some vital stats. By Doug McIntyre of ESPNFC.
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After five underwhelming years for the USMNT where is this optimism coming from for Copa America? By Paul Kennedy of Soccer America.
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Copa America Centenario predictions by Grant Wahl, Brian Straus, Avi Creditor, and Alex Abnos of Sports Illustrated.
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Here are all the details of American broadcasts and peripheral TV programming for Copa and Euro. Will be one helluva busy 5 weeks of soccer on TV. By Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated.
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Oh he of the magnificent ponytail and black fingernails, Paco Palencia, has been named the new Pumas UNAM head coach. Goth is back baby! Crank up the Bauhuas!
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Ricardo Velazco of Real Monarchs named USL Player Of The Week
Lynn Williams of Western New York Flash named NWSL Player Of The Week
Joe Cole of Tampa Bay Rowdies named NASL Player Of The Week
Ola Kamara of Columbus Crew named MLS Player Of The Week
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Who needs Kei when you have Ola!?!? This dude and Bradley Wright Phillips both had hat-tricks last weekend.
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I love a great team goal, and I stupidly forgot to link to this one yesterday - My man DaMarcus Beasley with a nice finish after a perfect through ball from Alex gave Houston an important road goal and a much needed point.
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MLS Week 14:
-Wed Jun 1
Philadelphia v Columbus
DC v Seattle
Portland v San Jose
-Thu Jun 2
New York City v Salt Lake
Dallas v Houston
LA v Kansas City
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2016 Canadian Championship Semifinals:
1st Leg
-Wed Jun 1
Ottawa v Vancouver
Toronto v Montreal
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Euro 2016: The complete guide to every team and player. From the Guardian.
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If you don't read Simon Kuper you are missing out - he always has the good stuff:
The Bird Is The Word
We are hearing that the reason the Minnesota governor has not signed the legislation connected to the Minnesota United stadium bills is because deep inside this political clusterfuck is something related to the Minnesota Vikings Jawa Sandcrawler stadium that needs to get fixed. It really does figure that once again the Vikings are wreaking havoc with Minnesota United. Bullshit.
- Follow the Twitter feed of Brian Quarstad for all the details. (You don't have to have twitter to follow someone's feed in a web browser)
- The governor is asking for a "special session" to sort out this and several other details, or he will VETO the whole thing!
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US Open Cup returns on Wed Jun 1 with Round 3. Several very interesting looking matches.
- 3 Derby matches:
Carolina RailHawks v Charlotte Independnce
LA Maquina v LA Wolves
But more importantly:
Saint Louis v Minnesota United - 7:00pm CT, stream it right here via YouTube
dN
The NFL is still king in the USA, by many many many miles, but for Americans age 12-24 soccer is now #2 over basketball. From the Economist.
dN
USA v Colombia is coming up on Friday night. Here are a couple things to keep in mind:
- Colombia will not make the mental mistakes that Ecuador and Bolivia did.
- John Brooks will not be able to make errors against those fearsome strikers.
- The three forwards up top will need to keep out of each others way as much as work together - Dempsey, Wood and Zardes made this mistake more than once against Bolivia, and they will get very few chances against this better opponent.
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Michael Bradley tell us where he thinks his team is at right now. By Jeff Carlisle of ESPNFC.
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A breakdown of team USA using some vital stats. By Doug McIntyre of ESPNFC.
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After five underwhelming years for the USMNT where is this optimism coming from for Copa America? By Paul Kennedy of Soccer America.
- Honestly, I don't get it. I do like the little buzz the young kids bring, but nothing else about this team makes me sit up and take notice. Has everyone forgotten last year at this time the team got wins over Germany and Netherlands that in the end meant nothing as the horror of the Gold Cup followed. This blathering about this tournament being played in the USA did NOTHING last summer.
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Copa America Centenario predictions by Grant Wahl, Brian Straus, Avi Creditor, and Alex Abnos of Sports Illustrated.
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Here are all the details of American broadcasts and peripheral TV programming for Copa and Euro. Will be one helluva busy 5 weeks of soccer on TV. By Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated.
dN
Oh he of the magnificent ponytail and black fingernails, Paco Palencia, has been named the new Pumas UNAM head coach. Goth is back baby! Crank up the Bauhuas!
dN
Ricardo Velazco of Real Monarchs named USL Player Of The Week
Lynn Williams of Western New York Flash named NWSL Player Of The Week
Joe Cole of Tampa Bay Rowdies named NASL Player Of The Week
Ola Kamara of Columbus Crew named MLS Player Of The Week
dN
Who needs Kei when you have Ola!?!? This dude and Bradley Wright Phillips both had hat-tricks last weekend.
dN
I love a great team goal, and I stupidly forgot to link to this one yesterday - My man DaMarcus Beasley with a nice finish after a perfect through ball from Alex gave Houston an important road goal and a much needed point.
dN
MLS Week 14:
-Wed Jun 1
Philadelphia v Columbus
DC v Seattle
Portland v San Jose
-Thu Jun 2
New York City v Salt Lake
Dallas v Houston
LA v Kansas City
- The league is then off until Jun 18.
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2016 Canadian Championship Semifinals:
1st Leg
-Wed Jun 1
Ottawa v Vancouver
Toronto v Montreal
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Euro 2016: The complete guide to every team and player. From the Guardian.
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If you don't read Simon Kuper you are missing out - he always has the good stuff:
Costliest mistake in Atletico Madrid's history: they won toss for shootout + chose to kick 2nd, although team going 2nd has just 40% chance— Simon Kuper (@KuperSimon) May 31, 2016
The Bird Is The Word
posted by brucio at 16:01
1 Comments:
As excited as I am about Nagbe and - to a lesser extent in 2016 - Pulisic, it's hard to be optimistic when our coach continues to refuse to start the same back 4 in back-to-back games. Out of all his many many flaws, that continues to be the most egregious.
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