Quakes' Coach Acknowledges Team's Obstacles - San Jose Mercury News Back with the USA - Raleigh News Rapids Look to Cure Cotton Bowl Blues - Rocky Mountain News Season on the Line at Rose Bowl - L.A. Daily News (Fred Robledo, he'll pop up for other papers) Friedel Comfortable Abroad (AP) - Chicago Tribune Revs Out to Reach Semis for First Time - Providence Journal-Bulletin Burn thinking Big in Series Finale - Dallas Morning News Facing Elimination, Again - Chicago Tribune Fire at Revolution - Chicago Sun-Times Beasely, Bradley say Fire will reach MLS Cup - Chicago Daily Herald Rapids Determined to Stay Alive - Denver Post Ammann to Retire - Washington Post Heated Rivalry Continues - K.C. Star Hartman trying to Keep his Focus - L.A. Times Bayern Munich Faces Early Elimination - L.A. Times Galaxy Tonight - L.A. Times FIFA to Test extra Goal-Line Refs (AP) - N.Y. Times (missed?, note on the "joker") Revs know the Fire Drill - Boston Herald Hernandez Central Figure - Boston Herald Hoping for Home Field - Columbus Dispatch (1460thefan) it's a bit early, so i expect some boston globe articles in a bit... wouldn't be surprised if some other stuff pops up -jim
Thanks, Jim. Fire fans will get a kick out of this article, where the writer laments the fact that the Quakes had trouble getting the same line-up on the field 3 times in a row.
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Thought you'd dig that one. You know, the Fire might have actually been able to repeat line-ups from game to game down the stretch, but if said line-up includes Billy Walsh, it doesn't count.
no problem, i always like being able to give you a break i just hope that san jose writer doesn't sire any children... it's one thing to make note of things that hurt a team through out the course of the season, it's another to act like none of those things took place with the rest of the teams in the league
don't knock walsh sure he ain't as good offensively as other fire players... but compared to vaud or gray as d-mid or a 4th back... i'd take walsh as a d-mid any day, losing armas hurt... the fire haven't been able to hold down the back without 2 d-mids and even then whitfield: acl armas: acl wolff: acl nowak: mcl hristo: knee surgery (mcl?) nugent: meniscus tear sleeth: meniscus tear razov: dislocated shoulder, surgery when season is over... has scored 3 goals since this injury daniv: tore something in his big toe and needed surgery beasely: knee problems earlier razov: i believe, besides the shoulder, he has missed games due to injury that's two nobodies and a bunch of somebodies... and i am probably missing injuries when the fire attempted to sign dispy selolwane to help out the offense, dipsy contracted chicken pox
Gotta love the first 2 paragraphs from the KC star article: "Wizards coach Bob Gansler brought the 2000 MLS Cup trophy into the locker room Monday morning as incentive for the players who were somewhere else during that magical season. "Los Angeles coach Sigi Schmid is unable to use that motivational ploy. All the Galaxy has to show for its seven years in Major League Soccer is three runner-up finishes, including last year's 2-1 loss to San Jose in the title game."
in case anyone missed the meaning behind the thread title... if LA is knocked out tonight, any hope of someone winning the domestic treble is gone treble: US Open Cup, MLS Supporter's Shield, MLS Open Cup
Here's a good one that came from Kansas City, it's similar to the favorable article out of Denver a few days ago. Look out sports fans, here come the Wizards
Great column. What beat does he normally cover? He later apologizes for a comment he made two years ago about how no one cares about the Wizards. Sachin
The KC Star piece also illustrates a key concept that Frank DeFord fails to understand when he compares soccer to mumblety-pegs (a bizarre game from his childhood) in arguing that kids may play soccer, but they don’t grow up to become soccer fans: if you want the soccer-playing kiddies to become long-term MLS fans you have to give them a local MLS team to follow. Otherwise, they’re likely to grow up and forget about soccer just like DeFord has been saying for years. There's a reason why many of the kids who grew up playing youth soccer from, say, 1984-1996 didn't grow up to become fans of pro soccer. Hopefully, the ol’ boys who gather up at Phil’s ranch after the MLS season will keep that concept in mind when the conversation turns to expansion.
anderson, that's a great point that I actually haven't heard before. The last wave of soccer children in the 70s didn't become fans, but not because the "if they play it as children, then..." premise is wrong. It's because they had nothing to follow. Probably won't do much to shut up soccer critics (they'll ask "well, why have leagues failed so many times?"), but it answer the question for me.
The problem in American soccer has been one of vision and leadership, not of fans not wanting to watch it. Sachin