Put Soccer Players in Texas Sports Hall of Fame

[VioletCrown]

Y'all probably know about this, but I didn't see any thread about it. I've always kinda wondered about it myself, but always figured that it was too big a windmill to tilt at.

Soccer players deserve spot in Texas Sports Hall of Fame-Ft. Worth Star Telegram (http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/3769278.htm)

But with someone else taking the lead, I'm inclined to do as the writer says.

Look out, dinosaurs!

[PaulGascoigne]

I really have no doubt whatsoever that if anybody gets into the Texas Hall of Fame it should be Kyle Rote Jr. before any of those people you just mentioned. I'll be happy to have hometown kids Overbeck and Agoos get in. Tatu doesn't play the beautiful game, but a mutation, so I don't even put him in the same category. Deering--probably not. Jason Kreis should be a shoe-in in about 10-12 years.

[Alex Sanz]

Kreis 100x more than Deering, for what he's done to the local soccer scene.

Tatu, even though an indoor player, still deserves to be there for keeping soccer alive here for many, many years.

And I would put Jago in there too.

[Texan]

Amen to Kyle Rote Jr. I'm actually quite surprised he is not already in because when I was just a youngster he was a fairly big name in a much less crowded Metroplex sports scene.

[Chamo]

At the bottom of the Sidekicks recently released schedule is this little beauty.

[/b]All games are on Fox Sports 1190 AM[/b]

It is too bad the Burn cannot bring enough to the table to get that kind of coverage.

La locura rojinegra.

[ElJefe]

Originally posted by Chamo
At the bottom of the Sidekicks recently released schedule is this little beauty.

All games are on Fox Sports 1190 AM

It is too bad the Burn cannot bring enough to the table to get that kind of coverage.

La locura rojinegra.
No Sidekicks games on TV. I'm sure that if the Burn had a TV-less existence, they'd have more games on the radio.

[ElJefe]

Incidentally, the soccer figures to go in right now should be Kyle Rote Jr., Tatu, and Gordon Jago.

For much of the '80s and the early '90s, Tatu really represented soccer in Dallas-Ft. Worth. You could walk down the street around here, and even if they could only name two soccer players, those names would be Pele and Tatu. And of course, Rote helped lay the foundation for all of this back in the '70s. Finally, Jago has been a giant for the game behind the scenes, even if most of his work was in indoor soccer.

Maybe in a few years, Kreis, Agoos, and Deering could join them.

[inferno man]

And where would any of these people have been if the Tornado had never existed. Lamar Hunt

[ElJefe]

Originally posted by inferno man
And where would any of these people have been if the Tornado had never existed. Lamar Hunt
I'll bet that Lamar Hunt is already in it.