Top of the League. But BANG..... in today's game --- and I'm out for a while. Has been a tight schedule lately. With lots of joy (stay positive) ....like in the latest matches, and where a little more lucky goalkeeper in the one in the mega stadium in Seoul last week could have made it a deserved 3-1 win over a team I have often admired. http://www.kleagueunited.com/2019/07/team-k-league-player-ratings.html (Test results expected tomorrow or Thursday) In the mean time - knee watching - waiting. If you care to: Wish us/me luck!
Has there been a Mix-up? 1157298314699612161 is not a valid tweet id Here it is in English - and not deleted (I hope) Seunghoon is the reason Ulsan climbed to #1 spot in K-league this week.Moreover, professionalism dictates me to celebrate if the ball finds the net behind Seunghoon tomorrow.Yet... our common past, friendship and group bonding does not allow that.Sorry, either way. pic.twitter.com/A9NIawT3P5— Mix Diskerud (@MixDiskerud) August 2, 2019
News: 1) Three more points (3p), and we have made it into the playoffs (cut at top 6). 2) Ola to DC. Seems like this/our killer duo is not meant to be (for a while). 3) Haters emerged due to my last (ever so soft) two tweets. Why? 4) I am allowed to train "to capacity" again. 5) It is hot.
1162240480177872897 is not a valid tweet id "You don't know me but you don't like me, You say you care less how I feel How many of you that sit and judge me Ever walked the streets of Ulsan?"
I just changed the tweet a tiny bit, for a slight improvement, if you bother to check. But please explain your wild "translation", or your pun or humor, because I don't really get it. Maybe I have been in Korea too long, or not long enough? What is your actual suggestion, freisland?
It was just a... well, "joke" is too strong a word. A "riff" on your "walking the streets of Uslan" and "haters coming out from two soft posts" comments. Just my own obscure banter. No malice intended. 복구에는 시간이 걸렸지 만 이제 Mix는 더 이상 부상을 입지 않습니다. 준비 됐어. 울산의 거리를 걷는 동안 좋은 말과 편안한 제스처에 감사드립니다.Recovery took time, but now back from injury. I am ready! Thanks for all nice words and gestures - while walking the streets of Ulsan.— Mix Diskerud (@MixDiskerud) August 16, 2019
Mix Diskerud: The Last Piece of the Puzzle https://t.co/LXWYu0txQY pic.twitter.com/XvV2SOhfxJ— Fighting Stripes Football (@FSFootball_) August 29, 2019
@miklagard plays chess, knows Magnus Carlson, and is a soccer player. So he will probably find this article about the training regimens of grandmasters interesting. https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/i...sen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess
This is what I just tweeted today: Sportsstatistikere, Er jeg den første nordmann som har vunnet den regulære serien i den øverste ligaen i et land utenfor Europa/UEFA? Eller bare i Asia, eller bare i Korea? (I fotball da selvfølgelig) Translated: Sports statisticians, Am I the first Norwegian who has won the regular season series in the top flight in a country outside Europe/UEFA? Or just so in Asia, or just so in Korea? (In soccer, of course) So can BigSoccer help me from the U.S. side? Am I the first American to do that in Korea? First American in Asia? Outside CONCACAF there must have been several - but who? Outside CONCACAF and UEFA there probably have been lots fewer, but who? (Trivia isn't always easy to check. Are any of you less clueless than I?)
Congrats Mix. I have a question I'm not sure you can answer publicly but figure I'll ask anyway. Has the current Berhalter coaching staff reached out to you at all?
Several Yanks have won while playing for Rangers...Beasley, Bocanegra, Edu, and Reyna off the top of my head. Tom Dooley won with Kaiserslautern in 1991. I think that was the year after they got promoted, too. John O'Brien won twice with Ajax. Beasley won twice with PSV. The US legitimately was a 2nd tier soccer power in the 1920s and many players went to Europe. Don't know if any of them won leagues. That's all I've got off the top of my head.
I would imagine/assume plenty of dual nats with at lease one American/CONCACAF parent have won titles in Asia. Find it hard to believe that 70 years of military presence in the region wouldn't have produced one boy or girl who would've gone on to soccer greatness. This forum is actually probably the most definitive history. Searching 'korea' reveals a few guys: https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/austin-berry-to-south-korea.2017161/#post-31846365 as well as https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/kang-soo-il-jeju-united.1947860/#post-26015269 who's had a good deal of success in Korea but never won anything either. Truth is, as in most things, the best we can deal with is an incomplete set of data. But as far as what that data tells us, the answer is probably yes. This makes you a true trailblazer (as far as the path is known and has been revealed-- which is at best that of one with us all huddled behind each other, with a flashlight shining across a vast empty horizon) and for that you've burned a path through our hearts, if not our minds, as well. Well done! 당신의 길이 계속 밝게 빛날 수 있기를 바랍니다!
Look to the Philippines. Lots of Yanks playing there. OJ Porteria was part of the league champion in the Philippines in 2017 and 2018 (and they lead the table with 5 games to go). Miguel Tanton is also on the squad in 2019.
Look at the Israeli second division, too. Quite a few Yank-eligible players there. And Nico Olsak is in their top division, the Ligat ha'Al. There was a time around 2010-2014 when we had a nice crop in Finland too, guys born in the USA of Finnish background, a couple in the bottom of the Veikkausliiga & the rest in the Ykkönen. We have an impressive number of Yanks abroad, but mostly playing in bad teams in garbage leagues. Not the case with Mix, although the K-League (that otherwise is just as watchable as MLS) has had a poor year in the AFC Champions.
Based on my research, you are definitely the first American to win a regular season top flight in Korea. You are probably also the first American to do so in an Asian league (couldn't find any Americans who won league in Japan or Australia). (Lee Nguyen didn't win any leagues in Vietnam.) Here is a list of players who won league titles or tournaments abroad: http://www.noshortcorners.com/2019/06/honor-rollers.html
Also, players who were American citizens but played for other national teams: Neven Subotic won two bundesliga titles. Felix Magath, son of an American solider, won a few Bundesliga titles as well. Brede Hangeland won Danish superliga. Thomas Delaney won some superligas as well.