How the hell can that be? They're the world famous Cosmos, legendare warriors of the artificial pitch and 1980's disco night club. (My favorite part is where they're "actively shopping" several players on the "transfer market" What kind of mental disease or delusion do you have to have to think that bunch of MLS (largely Crew) castoffs and rejects is worth a bucket of warm piss to anybody, anywhere?) They've never come close to being profitable. 3000 people, most of them freebies, doesn't even cover the stadium rental. Never has. So it's not that they're suddenly - shockingly - losing money. Rather, it appears that as all the Saudis have had to tighten their belts as oil prices plummeted, they've discovered that the whole Cosmos thing was a terrible bet that's getting more and more terrible as time goes on. It's an unprofitable venture with virtually no path to anything other than more losses. It appears that they may have finally decided that this whole thing amounts to throwing good money after bad. The sad thing - not that anyone is shedding any tears - is that they were offered the chance to be NYC2, and turned it down in favor of a fantasy peddled by film flam artists. If they would have been willing to take a little less money they'd be a modestly profitable concern with an encouragingly optimistic future in 10 or 20 years and a resale value in the $200 million range. Instead they're going to end up with Jack Squat and I will laugh myself into a coma.
"We've assembled a team of Columbus Crew rejects. How do we market them?" "Let's call them the New York Cosmos." "Genius!"
Why in the hell would they use Bermuda at this latitude for a field that will be in use as late as December? I know IU has a turf science program. Are they trying to prove something?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ purdue has a turf science program. that doesn't seem like something we would have, but i could be wrong.
Plane carrying Brazilian club team Chapecoense has crashed. 75 reported dead, 6 reported survivors. They were flying to Colombia to play the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final.
Jesus. You know, this is one of those things that's always in the back of everyone's mind when you think about the miles logged by professional athletes in the air. Especially around these parts, where these flights often take place with the complication of ice and snow in the wintertime. No one ever actually expects... wow.
Just saw a twitter post with a video of the whole team celebrating a win just 5 days ago, followed by a picture from the same locker room today, with just 3 players sitting around somber.....they were guys that didnt make the team to travel to medellin. Super heartbreaking. Prayers to everyone lost.
It's relative to the player/ball. If a goalie gets beat near post, that means the side of the goal that the shot is coming from.
This went through my head when I took my first job out of college that had 50% travel. But then I realized that being a pilot was actually a relatively safe job, compared to, say, farming and law enforcement. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't get a little nervous flying still to this day (since I'm not in control).
of course, now I work in the airfield industry, and some of the stories I hear about latin American airports* are a bit unnerving. *having mostly to do with lack of reliable power
I'm guessing most who care are following news of the crash closely, but I'll update anyways. Sounds like the 3 players will remain in intensive care for some time. Major trauma will do that. The goalie who survived had a leg amputated. Two defenders survived. One has lumbar (lower) spine damage (no word if this includes spinal cord injury and probable paralysis though) and the other had severe head and upper torso trauma. Haven't found anything specific about the 3 other survivors other than that they're all in intensive care. If you're inclined to pray, do so. The team they were meant to play in the South America champions league equivalent in the semifinal has requested that the Brazilian team be awarded the champion title, and many Brazilian teams are making requests (wearing their team jerseys, loaning players for free, trying to allow them to avoid relegation for a few years while they recover and rebuild) to show support.
I'm not sure if anyone else here is a hockey fan, but this is Lokomotiv Yaroslavl all over again. Never would've been too soon for a repeat of that. This is crushing.
No, but I'm interested in hearing what year that happened, and his long it took them to recover, if they ever did.
2011 Link They took a year off but were allowed back in the KHL after that season. Had they wanted to play, there would have been a draft of players from other teams.
It can take a year to find out how bad a spinal injury is with Spinal Shock, they have some drugs that can help but they need to be immediately.
Spinal shock is with spinal cord injury. The spine can be fractured without damaging the spinal cord. Supposedly he could still move his legs, so even if it was a spinal cord injury, it's a decent sign that he'll have leg function (though that doesn't mean he will be able to walk without assistance).
Taliaferro had a miraculous recovery. At this point, if all three of these players do well enough that they don't have mental issues (due to traumatic brain injuries, PTSD, etc.) and live happy lives , that will be a huge success. Supposedly Neto may play soccer again. Sounds like hopeful talk from loved ones at this point. Especially since he has supposedly had 3 or 4 surgeries. Hard to predict how any of them will do after only days.