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rugman
08 Sep 2007, 08:35 AM
With all the new influx of talent to the league this year MLS has come up with the Newcomer Award for a player with prior playing experience. The good news is that DC has two players up for the award. Luci and Fred. The bad news is that DC has two players up for the award. I'm thinking this is a good way to give away a sort of second MVP award. Here is a list of potentials for the award from MLS.net:
Juan Pablo Angel - Forward, New York Red Bulls
Cuauhtémoc Blanco - Forward, Chicago Fire
Conor Casey - Forward, Colorado Rapids
Luciano Emilio - Forward, D.C. United
Fred - Midfielder, D.C. United
Maykel Galindo - Forward, Chivas USA
Carlos Marinelli - Midfielder, Kansas City Wizards
Guillermo Barros Schelotto - Midfielder, Columbus Crew
Juan Toja - Midfielder, FC Dallas
As a fan of the league, the biggest impact players so far are Lucio, Angel and Toja. I would really like to see Luci get either the MVP or Newcomer award. I hope he can keep up his form and take one.
What do you think of the award and are there others out there seriously competing for the league MVP not on the newcomers list?
Blondie4DCU
08 Sep 2007, 09:39 AM
Well if a player is up for newcomer of the year and that player wins the League MVP award, I think they would also have to receive the newcomer award. Because if you happen to be the league MVP, you'd have to be the most impressive newcomer, you know, since you're the most valuable player in the entire league..
right?
Bootsy Collins
08 Sep 2007, 09:42 AM
Well if a player is up for newcomer of the year and that player wins the League MVP award, I think they would also have to receive the newcomer award. Because if you happen to be the league MVP, you'd have to be the most impressive newcomer, you know, since you're the most valuable player in the entire league..
right?
You would think. But this is MLS we're talking about.
Sanguine
08 Sep 2007, 11:07 AM
As a fan of the league, the biggest impact players so far are Lucio, Angel and Toja.
I'd have to include Galindo in with this group as well.
RedAndBlack
08 Sep 2007, 11:46 AM
I would like to see Emilio win, but I think it will probably be Angel
Th4119
08 Sep 2007, 01:08 PM
This has been such a great year for MLS as a whole. Beckham's arrival and the publicity that came with it was just the start. That list up there is chock full of quality players, and are just the type that this league needs to thrive. On top of that, it's just been a great year. Some good soccer, some better goals, and a New York player scoring from 40 yards on his own net.
MattMathai
08 Sep 2007, 01:10 PM
I would like to see Emilio win, but I think it will probably be Angel
Only if Angel wins the golden boot.
Both are newcomers to the league, both are influential forwards. If Emilio wins the scoring title, he should get this award. Maybe re-brand it as the "Best value for the money" award, since he'll have led the league in scoring for 10% of Angel's contract...
BBBulldog
08 Sep 2007, 07:40 PM
Emilo and Fred already won worst Brazilian in the world award, they had to share it :/
Boloni86
09 Sep 2007, 06:30 AM
No Nick Addlery?
Vasco
09 Sep 2007, 06:10 PM
Emilo and Fred already won worst Brazilian in the world award, they had to share it :/
goofball.
Emilo should win the trifecta.
MVP, newcomer award and the golden boot.
rugman
09 Sep 2007, 06:12 PM
goofball.
Emilo should win the trifecta.
MVP, newcomer award and the golden boot.
I'm thinking they came up with this to share the wealth so to speak. I don't think you will see anyone win both the MVP and Newcomer award.
Of course, he took a couple of big steps towards one of them the past 4 days.
AlecW81
09 Sep 2007, 06:16 PM
Don't you think it would be kinda silly to have the MVP be a newcomer, yet not win the Newcomer Award? Granted this is MLS and stranger things have happened, but if Emilio continues this latest hot streak and finishes with 22-25 goals (which is more than realistic at this point given our upcoming schedule) and wins the Boot by say 2-3 goals over Angel or Johnson, how can you not name him the MVP and Newcomer of the Year?
rugman
09 Sep 2007, 06:25 PM
You answered your question before you asked.
Granted this is MLS
No I don't think they will do that. This is a way to give out more recognition to more players.
superdave
09 Sep 2007, 06:44 PM
People keep saying "this is MLS" as if Don Garber will pick the winners. But won't it be a media vote? Further, have any awards given out been as crazy as a guy winning MVP but not winning Newcomer of the Year would be? Yeah, Moreno should have won MVP over Guevara, I thought, and most of y'all thought, but that's NOT the same thing as what we're talking about here. I suppose if there are different groups voting and Emilio barely wins MVP he might barely lost NOTY.
Vasco
09 Sep 2007, 07:33 PM
newcomer of the year award comes from the NHL.
You have the rookie of the year.
then you have a guy who has played professionally somewhere else, he is to old for rookie of the year. he gets the newcomer of the year award.
DCUPopeAndLillyFan
09 Sep 2007, 08:17 PM
Here is a list of potentials for the award from MLS.net:
Conor Casey - Forward, Colorado Rapids
Please tell me you're not serious.
Sundevil9
09 Sep 2007, 09:03 PM
newcomer of the year award comes from the NHL.
You have the rookie of the year.
then you have a guy who has played professionally somewhere else, he is to old for rookie of the year. he gets the newcomer of the year award.
There is no 'Newcomer' of the year in the NHL, but they had to institute new rookie status rules when then Soviet players started to come over.
gocaps
09 Sep 2007, 11:31 PM
I think this is a good idea for an award, especially since the traditional American definition of "rookie" makes no sense for MLS. That goofball definition is how Sergei Makarov won the Calder Trophy (rookie of the year) in the NHL even though he was 31 years old and had been playing elite professional hockey for years.
Angel was on fire early, but like the rest of RBNY he's gone to shit as the year has progressed. The three highest impact guys on that list are Emilio, Galindo, and Schelotto. Blanco might have joined them but he only came in a couple of games ago.
Th4119
09 Sep 2007, 11:32 PM
Reason #235 why baseball in this country is ridiculous:
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050730/050730_ichiro_hmed_5p.hmedium.jpg
How this man got "Rookie" of the Year is beyond me.
Marco10
10 Sep 2007, 12:11 AM
I think they should call it the taylor twellman award as they should have had this award the year he was "drafted".
Seriously, I hope it goes to a very young pro, not a guy like Emilio or Angel or whoever. You think those guys care about a ridiculous trophy like "newcomer of the year"?!?
You want your trophies to be something people actually put out some serious effort to get. In other words be something worth a lot more than just another way to honor foreigners who are signed to come here and do a job and actually do that job. Seems a bit lame to assume otherwise isn't it?
I think the reverse award should be called the Metrostar Medal for most useless foreigner.