since the men have a new professional league now and the women have a new WPSL team, has anyone heard any rumors about PR developing a women's professional league?
No idea from my understanding their one of the new teams in the league, I could understand if River, Quintana, Humacao, Sevilla (which is a renamed Islanders B) put stars since they have all won league tittles before in other leagues and some , Quintana, have been around almost 30 years. To add some faqs, many teams that are playing in both A and B divisions of the league have been around as amature sides for several years and some for decades (Quintana and Don Bosco), from what I was told from my father there use to be a Atletico de San Juan in the 50s-60s but i doubt they have any connection between them, but it could probably explain the stars. I would have to check the PR Soccer History book that I have to see if its true.
Marco Velez scored Toronto's only goal in a 1-0 win over Montreal in their Canadian Championship on Tuesday night. That gives Velez his 2nd goal of the year, and puts him in second place in Toronto scoring, behind Dichio who has 4.
Marcos Velez will be in Houston on June 8th. I got tickects right behind the goal (season tickets that is). I will be wearing my blue PRNT jersey and will take my PR Flag with me. I will even make a sign that says "Marcos Velz, PR the apoya pero el Dynamo va a ganar" I am stoked. I hope he sees me and gives me his jersey.
I dont see him staying much longer after this season, his been a inefective striker, and only has one goal to his name playing with the islanders. What has kept him in the squad has been his low cost and his ability to hold on to the ball and waist time during games PR is winning and at his age he dosnt have room for improvement.
I really thought he was an asset to the team Were the Olympic Team players that bad that they couldn't fit into the Islanders? I heard that they were shown the door because of they work papers, not because they were bad. Am I wrong?
Well his a 30 year old striker compiting against 20,21,22 year olds his still has amazing ball control, but thats the problems he need more to compete. So I dont see him staying much longer. Plus hi isnt that fit, his goten better in shape but his still not very game fit. Yes the main problem with the cubans was that the Islanders dint want to deal with the hassel of having to work throw the paperwork and burocracy.
I understand you live in PR; so, if you go to the games and you can talk to Alberto you can tell him that you know everybody used to call him "El Calvo" and that you heard it from somebody who used to live in Building #40, I can assure you he'll get a kick out of that. Back to soccer, I really hope he gets his career back on the right track, I am pretty sure he loves PR so I'd love for him to stay there, if not somewhere else but he's one of my favorites and I used to live right accross his building, so I will always root for him. Regarding the Cuban players without papers, do you see them being signed with the Islanders when they get they paperwork?
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that Marco Velez recently became the answer to a trivia question. Which player scored the first-ever goal in Montreal's Saputo Stadium? As a TFC fan I wasn't very impressed by his play early on, and that penalty he conceded in LA against the Galaxy still makes my blood boil, but the last handful of games he's been rock-solid and he's been quite dominant in the air. In fact both his goals have been headed in off of free kicks.
Jeje, you guys figured out what we already knew, Velez has amazing heading abilities and his a very solid defender. He had 4 or 5 goals with the islanders only one of them wasnt a header but it was a bouns of a header that the keeper stoped and he kicked in.
Is today's PR v. Honduras match being televised anywhere? Has Honduras called up its full strength team?
does anyone know anything about the game? i found a honduran newspaper thats supposed to have live gamecast...but they are saying the game might be suspended till tomorrow cuz of heavy rains. anyone know if this is true? http://www.tiempo.hn/
PR 0-4 HOU, not a bad result for PR just think just 5 year ago we where loosing 10-0 to the likes of Antigua and St. VIncent and know we manage to get a decent result against a giant.
LOL since when is 4-0 a decent result and since when is Honduras a giant? It's a shit result but it's not really surprising. Most level minded fans knew it was coming. Not like the spazzos on hiapr who thought we were going to tie .
Well we are ranked 3rd best team in the CONCACAF according to FIFA and we are on a 7 game streak without loosing, we have beaten Colombia,Paraguay,Panama,Ecuador(in this streak) and so on....... soo maybe Giant maybe not be the word to describe Honduras but were not far from it. Anyways field conditions were bad, since we had torrential rain and lots of puddles all over the field, the score could have been much higher.
I'm not gunna lie, but seeing the score at the half I was hoping we could keep it 2-0 or 3-0. I wasn't even discarding the idea of scoring a goal! I didn't see the game, and just followed a written commentary, but didn't we have a couple of good counter attacks early in the first half? Anyways, I think the field conditions helped us out because it made Honduras' attack much less precise. Honduras...giant? Hardly. Honduras...not far from it? Please. They are way ahead of PR, but those friendly wins don't mean much. And I'm pretty sure that it takes more than 1 WC appearance to be anything close to a "giant". All in all, the result was to be expected...and to be honest before the first half was played I was expecting something closer to 8-0. I wouldn't call it a shit result, but it definately is waaaaay better than getting mashed by the likes of Antigua and such! If we can keep them to a tie in San Juan, or maybe a closer 1-0 or 2-0 loss I think it would not be too bad. I think that yesterday's game marks good progression in developing a quality NT and is hopefully a sign of even better thigns to come.