The Red and Black will be taking on Eliseo Quintanillas former club on Saturday October 26. http://dcunited.com/index.cfm/section=main&cont_id=131573
of course it had to be that weekend...the only weekend in October that I have definite plans for ..doh
I, thank the lord, will be out of town that weekend sparing myself what would actually be a pretty tough decision regarding whether or not to go.
How can I get tickets with Barra Brava? Do I have to get them now or the day of the game? How many people can I bring with me?
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Will any of the La Norte guys be in the house? I might be down for this if they're representing DCU that night.
damn i was gonna go to holland that weekend the see NAC play on the 25th. i guess now i'll have to go in november.
There might be guests. But all MLS rosters are frozen until after MLS Cup, so there shouldn't be any roster moves.
I am assuming that this game is part of the price of acquiring Quintanilla. Remember, he came here on a "rent-to-buy" option. I'd guess that one way to get past the transfer fee deal is to tell the team "fly up here and we'll split the gate with you." Payment in dollars, an exhibition in an area where they'll get a lot of fans (and can also get good papusas in N.Va), is probably too good of a deal to pass up. So I'd expect that this match means Quintanilla will soon be announced as having been acquired by United (rather than returned to Aguila).
When they announced it, I wondered if we had offered to help MLS pay for his transfer fee with this game. And you can get good pupusas in Mount Pleasant and Adams Morgan, too (that was dinner for me last night, actually)!
Actually, here's my take on the situation. Normally, there'd be a transfer fee. And then we'd have to convince MLS to pay it (difficult to do since they paid one, a modest one, but one none-the-less for Reyes). Instead, we work out a deal with Aguila. We play them in an exhibition (which is good for them--get PR, players get to travel someplace they like, do some shopping, yet get good fans on a serious field and big stadium, maybe we split the receipts) and suddenly, Quintanilla is available on a free transfer! Which means we just cut the league out of the decision. I have no inside info on this but I bet that's how it worked out in this instance. We're giving them an exhibition in leu of a transfer fee. As for the pupusas, I agree, they're available throughout the DC area. But NoVa (El Zunzal and all the other places along Columbia Pike) probably has the biggest concentration of Salvadoran eateries for my money!