The US Open Cup Final Metros fall in Cup final - Michael Lewis NY Daily News Ralph's goal wins Cup title for Fire - Chicago Daily Herald Fire pops cork on celebration - Chicago Sun-Times MetroStars: Denied U.S. Open Cup by Fire - Star-Ledger MetroStars fall short in championship of U.S. Open Cup - Daily Record Metros Fall Short in Cup Final Metros play it cool as they prepare for Fire - North Jersey Herald (day late) Other MLS news Rookie forward moves Nate Jaqua back to bench - Naperville Sun Fire drops Hoffman from stadium list - Hoffman Estates Review Fire benefits from 'pent-up demand' upon return to Soldier Field - Chicago Daily Herald Fire to make final stadium decision soon - Chicago Daily Herald Rapids' youngsters run over Guatemala - Rocky Mountain News Other soccer news Buddle's goal trumps Haitians, fans - Miami Herald Chelsea's billionaire owner has stockpiled amazing talent - San Diego Union-Tribune Disputed goal keys Uruguay's win over Mexico - Chicago Sun-Times Over 40k in Chicago with an ill-tempered crowd. Silver soccer celebration - Herald-Sun Wilson back from Tehran - Stanford Daily
I love this quote! ''I hate that team,'' frustrated MetroStars general manager Nick Sakiewicz said. ''I thought we fixed this problem when we got Bradley.'' Obviously not!
MLS denies that Chivas will get extra foreigners: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/7027626.htm
Thank you, Noah. This is all that matters: Major League Soccer denied claims made by Chivas Executive President Ivar Sisniega to the Mercury News that the Mexican club's proposed MLS expansion franchise will be allowed to carry more foreigners than other teams. MLS spokesman Trey Fitz-Gerald said Chivas USA will use the same set of rules as everyone else. Each team is limited to three senior internationals, who are 25 or older. However, teams may have an unlimited number of youth internationals, who are younger than 25, but there may only be 20 of them league-wide. Currently, there are 13 youth internationals in MLS.
Not quite sure this is the right thread...but it is media. Capital of the New Soccer Nation - LA City Beat And yes, that is BS poster TommyMack (the ex-Burn fan who found the light in LA) on the cover. Scary huh?
I submit, as part of the MLS Spite Campaign 2004, everyone picks up a couple more youth internationals. There's no reason that number can't be 20 by 2005. Then, all we need to do is leave nothing but white-bread gringos unprotected in the expansion draft to make my campaign a success.
Like I said the other day, I think the comments about bending the rules have come almost exclusively from Sisniega. Didn't he say the rules would be changed around the time of the All-Star Game, only to be contradicted by Vergara a day or two later?
Exactly. If Sisniega ever says the sun rises in the east, I'm getting up early the next morning just to double-check.
Very astute for the posters that picked up on that Siengra (or whatever his name is) was the only one making the comments about the Senior International spots. Just because one author states a possability doesnt mean that Chivas USA will be a Chivas youth team. Does anyone actually know what kind of youth or reserve teams they already feild. I suppose that it would actually be a pretty smart move for Vierga to do so, it could build up American interst for his Mexican side. However, unless MLS drastically changed the way player contracts were owned, wouldn't that be prohibative. I know there's been a lot of speculation and suspicion as to what Chivas USA will be, but maybe we all just need to take a big breath before ranting about something. Some great articles today btw. Good news about the Chicago stadium, not so great news about the attendance at the Open Cup final, but I think it was the right move not to play it in Chicago.
There can be only 20 youth internationals at one time currently there are 13. If Chivas want to pick up 7 then fine, they still ave 11 other players to fill the roster. If SI's get bumped up by one player to 4 then, 7 players will be mexican-american players or green card holders. They won't win with 7 youth internationals. If a team could then all 20 spots would be filled by now.
Glad to hear the Chivas confirmation news. Both for the fact that it's good news for all MLS followers, and because it makes those fools who have been so quick to always bitch about how MLS will let them circumvent the rules and how they will give up on the league look like idiots. Until something is officially said by the league, Don Garber, and the investor/operators, we should all calm down and take everything as a rumor at best. My soccer dream is that someday, all Bigsoccer posters will just trust that the money people behind our league actually know what they are doing and have a sound plan in mind for soccer in America.
I share that dream, but our hopes along these lines are contending with the history of American soccer in the 20th century, during which the money people who ran all the leagues from the ASL through the NASL and beyond tended to shoot themselves (and our game) in the foot. To say nothing of those who ran the WUSA, who shot themselves in the head. MLS does give me more confidence with each passing year... but then again, I'm old enough to have lost the NASL, too.