You know what's even more cool than winning a Super Bowl?
Levees.
Tell you what, instead of giving Haiti money, let's give them an NFL team. Since apparently that makes everything all better.
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Hey, speaking of sports being incredibly important. I see that the United States Soccer Federation, otherwise known as NORTH KOREA, "unanimously" re-elected Sunil Gulati to as Grand Poobah. How could this possibly have happened, after reading months and months of messages about how Gulati has a conflict of interest with Kraft Soccer, how he bungled horribly the Bob Bradley hiring, and how he stupidly failed to certify either USL-1 or the NASL? I haven't been this mad since someone told me sarcasm doesn't work on blog posts.
Unanimous, huh? Tell me something, how man of you voted? Who out here actually had a voice? Did you even know there was an election? Who...well, you know, I'm actually skirting on a valid point here, so maybe I should drop the snotsnark.
A couple of years ago, when the disgusting greedbags who run CONCACAF decided there was money to be made in the creation of a CONCACAF Champions League, modeled after similar competitions around the world (but, of course, most notably in Europe), they found there was one slight problem:
Despite the fact that almost every flea-bitten third world sinkhole of a country with more than a couple dozen residents and/or cattle has a domestic professional league and could thus send a "Champion" thereof to serve as fodder for the Mexican sides, our neighbor to the North had, as has been noted in this space once or twice in the past, no national league.
And unlike in the case of most of the other countries who find themselves similarly leagueless - eg. Guyana, Montserrat and the Cayman Islands - Canada actually...click here to read more...
Femexfut made official what we all had known for months. Mexico’s alternate strip will be black. As a traditionalist, if the alternate was not going to be white, I would have preferred the claret (guinda) that Mexico used for years. The black looks nice, I guess. Who am I to judge, though? My favorite all-time strip was the Aztec Calendar infused shirt from 1998.
Chivas made it four in a row to start the Bicentenario tourney with a 2-0 win last night over a plucky Queretaro team that has been re-energized by Club America legend, Carlos Reynoso. After changing managers at an alarming rate (even for Mexican clubs, it was pretty excessive), Chivas seemed to have settled nicely with an inside man, Jose Luis Real, and are playing some of their best futbol in years. Chicharito Hernandez...click here to read more...
Remember when I ranted about a fake Fred joining DC United? Well, for several weeks now, the Galaxy have done them one better. Alex, Juninho and Leonardo are going to bring a little samba flavor to look, I'm sorry, can we or they seriously take a minute or two to come up with new names?
Okay, no one's going to think that the AC Milan coach is back in the United States to hunt down and finish off Tab Ramos. But there's also a Leonardo at NAC Breda, one at Shakhtar, one at AEK, and God knows how many more.
It's actually almost plausible that the Galaxy got the Juninho from Boro, or the one from Lyon, but this is another one.
I already had trouble keeping the Alexes straight. Hey, the Galaxy did have a partnership with Chelsea, it COULD have been one of the famous ones.
I don't care how cultural it is. I don't care who it's a tribute to. I don't care how few last names there are in Portuguese. The Screen Actors Guild makes people come up with unique names - that's why...click here to read more...
Dumpster diving in Google trying to corroborate my memories of the 1998 World Cup, I came across this post from this very site:
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In fact, I kinda have the suspicion that w/in 5 years time, "Amy Wynalda" will be cited as the most important factor in the US' failure that WC as opposed to the true problem: 3-6-1.
uclacarlos, visionary. Although he was a couple of years off - it only took a little over two years.
Mark Ziegler with a great article here. Makes up for saying a lockout by MLS owners was likely.
[quote]“Not playing the position (outside right defender) I wanted him to play, or (him) going out the night before the Belgium game was one thing,” Sampson said of two prior issues with Harkes. “I could have overcome that and I was prepared to find a way to work it out. After I was informed of...click here to read more...
The nominations for Strangest Soccer Story of the Year 2010 may not be closed quite yet but we've got one today that's going to be tough to beat.
One of the most commented-on stories in US Soccer history, after possibly Belo Horizonte and The Shot Heard Round the World has been Steve Sampson sending John Harkes home from France '98 after ceremoniously naming him "Captain for Life".
At the time it was said that, to make a long story short, Harkes was acting like it was his team or, put another way, was getting a bit too big for his britches.
It now appears that if Harkes was having problems in his britches that Eric Wynalda's wife was the one responsible, according to comments Wynalda himself made on Fox Football Fone-in on Monday night.
Please, enough with the FC's. This goes for you too, ACSTL. It's already tired and played. We have official nicknames in this country. If you want to be traditional, call yourselves the Tigers or the Crimson or whatever. Leave the FC for the UK.
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The Galaxy should wear white shirts with blue shorts at home. Not just because it looks good, but because it makes all the road teams look ridiculous. Maybe Manchester United can rock the dark shirt and white shorts look, but precious few others can.
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Wow. MLS without Steve Ralston.
So that leaves...
*goes to MLSnet...players page...sort by years of experience....*
That leaves Corben Bone, Krzysztof Krol, Andrew Dykstra, Sean Johnson....
*hits the sort button again*
That leaves Jesse Marsch as the last original original. (Jaime Moreno didn't show up until midseason in 1996.) I guess Ante Razov missed a whole year in Spain or wherever - I couldn't...click here to read more...
No one has started the season hotter than Javier Hernandez
If you’re a striker whose national team has historically had trouble finding the net, and you are on an absolute white-hot tear, life is pretty good for you. The fact that it is happening right before a world cup is monumental. Javier Hernández, you could not have picked a better time in your career to showcase your stuff.
Chivas has won its first three games of the season for the first time in over 10 years. And in each of the victories, young Mr. Hernández, “El chicharito”, if you will, has tallied a brace in each of the three games. I know what some of you are thinking, it’s only a matter of time before he cools off. And you are right. No one can keep up a 2 goals per game average. But it is not as if this is a fluke either.
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