An American in Nepal and Nepal Football Club investment discussion

maybe we should start our own Nepal Football Fan Club US....we can email them about puting a "chapter" in the US. I'm sure they would give us free memberships. Hell, someone can even make a website. Wallace Jackson can be our honarary president.

 

actually all kidding aside this is quite interesting.

 

photo

Great photo, Scoey - I especially like the defender (#3) guarding the OUTSIDE of the post!

 

He might want to instruct his defenders on what it means to guard the post on a set piece. I'm not sure what the guy closer to the camera is doing.

Any chance babelfish will add a Nepali to English option so we can follow Wallace's career more closely and learn the bizzare soccer idioms of yet another language?

 

Re: photo

Darn, Ismitje, you beat me to it!!!

Perhaps he is trying to avoid giving up any more corners? Do they play by the old USISL rule where the team with the most corners in a game gets and extra point in the standings? (I'm not kidding, for those of you who don't remember the year of the wacked out experiments in the USISL.)

 

i love this thread so i'm bumping it back to the first page.

 

Best thread ever...

and the footballnepal website - classic, my favorite part of the site is the age category for the national team roster;



2003 Asian Cup Squad



Name:
Age:
Club Team:
Biography:

Goalkeepers

Chaudhary, Channu Ram
30's
Tribhuvan Army
Has been the Army goalkeeper for ages.

Singh, Upendra Man
30's
Friends Club
Nepal's number one for the last half decade. He made a name for himself playing for clubs in Goa, India.

Defenders

Adhikari, Anil
30's
Mahendra Police
Known as "Nepali Jaap Stam" because of his hair style. Has had a distinguished career with MPC.

Chaudhary, Dev Narayan
30's
Mahendra Police
Greatest Nepali defender in the last 2 decades. Played for Indian giants East Bengal in the mid 90's.

Gautam, Narottom
mid 20's
Mahendra Police
Solid role player at club level

Manandhar, Narayan
mid 20's
Friends Club ??
Has all the physical attributes and is slowly planting himself in the national team defense.

Shrestha, Rakesh
mid 20's
Mahendra Police
Nepal's most consistent defender in the last few years.

Thapa, Sagar
under 20
Friends Club
Another Friends Club player that has ridden the clubs recent success all the way to the national team.

Tuladhar, Sunil
30's
Boys Union
Long serving defensive midfielder for the national team.

Midfielders

Khadgi, Rajesh
mid 20's Manang Marsyangdi
Yet another MMC player to make the national team.

Lama, Deepak
mid 20's
Manang Marsyangdi
Member of the 2000 Olympic squad.

Maharjan, Bal Gopal
30's
Friends Club
Has had a distinguished career with club teams all across the region. Some health concerns recently.

Neupane, Nabin
early 20's
Manang Marsyangdi
Up and coming prospect that was with the under 16's that went to Vietnam

Shrestha, Raj Kumar
?
Friends Club
Must have caught the eye at the 2002 Birthday Cup where he played for the Pokhara XI side.

Thapa, Ananta
mid 20's
Mahendra Police
Impressed with the 2000 Olympic team and has reestablished himself in the national team.

Thapa, Kumar
mid 20's
Manang Marsyangdi
Nepal's midfield general. Captain of MMC.

Forwards

Budathoki, Ramesh
mid 20's
Mahendra Police
A star player for Nepal's most accomplished club team.

Khadka, Hari
late 20's
Mahendra Police
Greatest Nepali player of the last decade. A goal scoring machine who plays quite often in Bangladesh.

Rayamajhi, Nirajan
mid 20's
Friends Club
Poster boy of Nepali football. Scored 7 goals in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers.

Rayamajhi, Rajan
mid 20's
Manang Marsyangdi
Basanta Thapa's right hand man at MMC.

Tamang, Sukra
mid 20's
Friends Club
Influential wing player. Brilliant performances with the the 2000 Olympic team.

Tamang, Surendra
mid 20's Galaxy Club
Got the call to the national team after going on a goal spree during club tournaments in 2002.

Thapa, Basanta
mid 20's
Manang Marsyangdi
Part of Nepal's three prong attack with Khadka and N. Rayamajhi. Super star at club level.


Freddy Adu, eat your heart out, we can argue about the age of EVERY one of these guys, especially Raj Kumar Shrestha

Forza Nepal

 

The Birthday Cup? I think this is a special tournament that provides a birthday party for people who apparently don't have their own birthday.

 

YOU'RE NOT ASIAN!!!! GET YOU BACK TO PENNSYLVANIA!

 

Galaxy Club. Hmm. It would be nice for the Galaxy to have a farm club in Nepal... we wouldn't even have to rename it.

Sigi, sign Surendra Tamang now!

 

Re: photo

I wondered what ever happened to Mike Burns.

 

Man... Katmandu Club is really begining to dip into the the transfer market. This is a story about the team's final game, with comments from the coach about how he felt the season went.

funny too that the coach is looking at a season with only 4 yellow cards given as an accomplishment.

http://www.socceragenepal.com.np/news/news.php?action=news_list&sno=157

 

TWO Americans...

http://www.anfanepal.com/news.php?newsid=96

"Kathmandu Club’s American player Kenneth Williams also conceded yellow in today’s match."

Kenneth Williams apparently played for Louisiana College alongside Wallace Jackson. Williams is listed as a forward, though he apparently played in midfield at least once for Kathmandu Club. The only other mention of Williams in any match report is the yellow card on July 30.

Jackson's performance, meanwhile, seems to have been Barthezesque. He's made a lot of spectacular saves this season, but he also committed at least two howlers: in a 2-0 loss to NRT on June 10 (fumbled weak shot that would have gone wide, allowing opposing striker to clean up) and in a 2-0 loss to Sankata Club on July 15 (failed to save a shot that was going straight at him).

Apparently both of them have gone from being regular starters on a lousy college team in Louisiana to playing for a lousy team in Nepal...

Nepalese league standings

 

Re: Re: photo

OMFG ROTFL.

Classic.

 

Re: TWO Americans...

Dude, the Mahendra Police Club is second. The Youth Club is last. I can see the headlines now...Police Club beats Youth Club.

 

Re: TWO Americans...

What'd these guys move to Nepal to smoke hashish, mountain climb and commune and realize that they could play soccer in order to survive. I mean how the heck do you wind up going from playing soccer for a college in Lousiana to playing in Nepal?

 

Re: Re: TWO Americans...

six hits of acid, a little league chest protector, 50 feet of garden hose, a cattle tazer, and a small prop plane.

 

Re: Re: photo

Man, I was going to say that the kid on the far post has better tactical awareness than Mike Burns...

 

Re: Re: photo

Nearpost, heck ... the one on the far post looks like a girl!

 

bump
for being the funniest damn thread I have read in a long time!

 

bump

 

This just in...

After selling Johnny Walker to Arsenal, the Metrostars are desperately searching for a new keeper. They are interested in Wallace Jackson but Kathmandu Club are playing hardball. They're holding out for two tubs of Ghee and a servicable yak.

 

Re: This just in...

so long as I'm not the one that has to "service the yak" that sounds like a good price

 

Thread. Must. Not. Die. Ever.

I wonder if this guy ever gets any Nepalese fan mail in error.