New Spurs In Old Boots: Friedel at Tottenham

He dove the right way, but it was a perfect penalty. It hit the left post and then caromed in.

 

Highlights

http://www.footytube.com/video/tottenham-stumbles-against-fk-dnipro-258342?tchan_ov_vidgrid

 

Fwiw, Sep 3, 1992 was Friedel's national team debut, but he was still an amateur at the time, playing for UCLA.

 

Pretty sure he has been seen drinking liquid radioactive waste and had almost defeated Sasquatch in a wrestling match in the Ohio Northwoods before game wardens arrived on the scene.

 

Does UCLA honor their worthwhile alum?

 

UCLA's end-of-season team awards are named after Friedel, Caligiuri, Cobi Jones, Joe-Max, Sigi Schmid, and ... current coach Jorge Salcedo named one after himself.

This leaves Bocanegra as probably the biggest snub.

 

i am from china，so i have a question。after UCLA，why he sign a contract with USSF？and USSF can receive transfer fee from turk？

 

The US didn't have a real professional league at the time and Americans weren't highly thought of in Europe, so there were few professional options for the national team players. The USSF created a 2 year long national team camp so the players would have a place to train and get games. I don't know if they got a transfer fee for Friedal, but they held his player card so they certainly could have. The start of this article has a little more information about the training camp.

 

thanks a lot！

 

So his contract ends this summer. Is he going to retire and focus on coaching?

 

Brad is going to be a pundit for BBC's world cup coverage this summer.

 

Is that Robbie Savage?

 

By the way, the ball in Brad's hand is the Moon.

 

Danny Mills, Jason Roberts, Savage, Chris Waddle, Friedel.

 

Thats the radio team, I think.

Henry and Ferdinand in the studio. Klinsmann was a good pundit at the last World Cup, but I believe hes busy. Probably be free after the group stage, eh lads?

Shame theres no Seedorf this year, and we have to listen to that prat Rio

 

Nice little summer gig for ole Brad. Another 1st for an American.

 

Friedel reads 'mean tweets':

 

Is he a free agent? Did he get re-signed?

 

I'm curious about that as well. I've a feeling they will decide once the Cup is over and whether Lloris resigns. If not I'd wager he gets a final 1 year deal. If he was going to retire, he'd have announced it by now.

 

If Friedel plays anytime after Sept. 30 of next season, he would become the oldest player to ever play in the Premier League.

http://www.barriesview.com/2013/11/the-10-oldest-players-in-premier-league-history

 

Brad update!

He's been offered a contract extension by Spurs.

Reports believe Tottenham Hotspur have offered new contracts to Brad Friedel and Souleyman Coulibaly. #THFC

— Hotspur Related (@HotspurRelated) May 23, 2014

Secondly, here he is reading tweets about himself, pretty humorous.

 

I promise it wasn't me who tweeted him about his accent. Promise.

 

Just realized the video had already been posted, my bad.