1/15/03: Three Days

Milton Nunez to MLS?

Huah!

 

http://standartnews.mtel.net/english/sport/index.htm

Bulgarian newspaper reports Ivanov to DC is a done deal.

 

Not soccer, but perhaps of interest to many people in here:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1771/

The Minneapolis StarTribune is running a special series of reports on Latin America's increasing influence in Major League Baseball. The above link will take you to four articles. The first (dated 1/12) mentions how, last season, 26.1% of major leaguers were foreign-born. In 1970, the number was 10%.

Soccer has been called a foreign game by its detractors in the States. But I suspect that the percentage of foreigners in MLS isn't too different that what we see in MLB (I'm just guessing here). But perception is reality sometimes.

Anyway, that 26% stat is one I'll keep tucked away the next time someone in earshot calls soccer a "foreign" (whatever that means) sport.

 

Dan Loney - 1/15/03

Mr. Loney doing his thing over at CSN re the SuperDraft.

http://66.221.11.74/columnists/loney/0301015loney.shtml

 

Cool, maybe he'll get to meet up with Stoichkov, if he gets traded to DC in a few weeks to be player/coach.

I like this comment from Kansascity.com;
"This is an important convention for the association. It not only will let people know we're here, but let people know we're going to be here."


-VON