I didn't see a thread on this, but Davies just scored to put Hammarby up 2-1 in the 2nd half. 64th minute now Hammarby 2-1 Djurgården
you have to pay about $11 per game, but you can watch Allsvenskan games with amazing quality streaming at www.canalplus.se I think it steams at either 1.1 or 1.2Mb/sec
Final: Hammarby 3-1 Djurgården. Davies played quite well I thought. Smart on the ball and took his goal very well.
Highlights of the entire game including the goal are up: http://watchsocceronline.blogspot.com/ He took his goal very well. Nice to see him continue to do well. I really hope he makes a transfer to a bigger league.
Wow, that goalkeeper is about as mobile as a lamp post. Sweden seems to have goalkeeping quality that's even lower than MLS quality (which seems really poor this year to me for some reason). Still a pretty sweet goal by Charlie though.
there's a couple of pretty terrible keepers in MLS right now so long as thornton is starting... MLS won't have much room to talk about their keeping depth... maybe girth though
Its odd though. The way the USA produces quality goalkeepers, you'd think that would be one of MLS's stronger points.
Nice goal from Davies. The defending wasn't the best, but who cares. It was still a quality move to create space, a nice burst of pace and a precise finish. Brad Friedel, Tim Howard, Kasey Keller, Marcus Hahnemann, Brad Guzan. All of these guys ply their trade or have played the majority of their careers in Europe. Aside from those guys, the U.S. doesn't have a wealth of international level talent in goal. Matt Reis, Joe Cannon, Adin Brown and Troy Perkins are all serviceable, but none would be in particularly high demand for your average top-32 natoinal team. Matt Pickens was one of the better keepers in MLS before moving to England, and rode the bench for QPR in the CCC.
Not saying that you're wrong, but our best keepers compare quite favorably to the best keepers of most national teams in that top 32 range, so it would be odd if most of those national teams wouldn't have some use for our depth in that position. Or to address the earlier point, you would think that a nation with a relatively high number of top league players in net would have enough depth to make the position a strength in its domestic league. For instance, we had 4 American keepers starting in the Premier League last season alone. Outside of the US, Brazil, and the nations in which the top 4 leagues are located, I honestly can't think of a single country with 4 keepers that have started regularly in those leagues in the past few years, especially not for multiple seasons like ours have. Likewise, you'd be hard pressed to find more than 4 nations with two active keepers as good as Howard and Friedel.
It's precisely because of the USA's reputation for goalkeepers that MLS is so thin in them right now...the good ones are in demand. The position takes a while to develop though, so the lag time on restocking is significant.
How someone like Zac Thorton starts and Chris Seitz is on the bench is just remarkably unfair to me. when is his contract up? and the transformation from charlie davies to swedish goalkeepers to MLS goalkeepers to chris seitz is complete
i guess im in no real position to argue it out either, he's atop the west so its obvioiusly working for him.
Whu? Norway was brainstorming ways to cap Perkins after 1/2 year in Valarenga. Watch more mediocre leagues, and you'll be amazed that some pretty top leagues aren't offering contracts to guys in MLS. Watching the highlights of Edu's goal the other day in Scotland, I was shocked at the level of goalkeeping.
still, it would be a supreme injustice if Seitz wasnt starting in MLS by 2011, with 3 MLS teams being shired in by then. Too much talent to be sitting on the bench. He needs to be at Phili, Portland, or Vancouver starting within the next two years. oh....um, yeah, solid goal by Davies as well