FDA dusts off another copy of a Brazil story absolutely hillarious. I wonder if he has a stack of these things lying around and just submits one to his editor every now and then. Or does he just have one and changes it up a lot? http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/063/sports/Sport_reflects_life_in_Brazil+.shtml
don't get me wrong. big fan of the Globe having a regular soccer reporter. but i didn't realize that beat included a stint with National Geographic. i wonder if its his editors saying, "yeah yeah give us another one. we love 'em" wouldn't be suprising given the globe's frequent detatched intellectualism.
?? "The Revolution will be at a disadvantage when they meet LD Alajuelense in Champions Cup matches March 23 and 26, and there could be questions about the condition of the Gillette field for the Major League Soccer opener against Chicago April 13. ''It's going to be tough for us at this stage of the season, whether we are playing at home or away,'' coach Steve Nicol said yesterday. ''We have to make the best of what we do have.''" ??
what did he write?.....like 2 rev specific articles the whole time he was down there? while, gus wrote 2-3 a day...every day?
OKay, I know, sparse Revs content - and a former Rev at that - Jim Rooney. Best luck to Rooney BTW - seemed like a good guy. Patience a must for The Bob, by Ives Garlecep (for real) North Jersey Herald News On a side note, look at all the trailists making their way-in-and-out of The Bob's training camp. Looks like they're going to have to set up a shuttle flight to South America solely for MetroStars trialists.. I suppose if you were looking for cast-offs, hand-me-downs, or leftovers, you'd set up shop outside The Bob's table right now.
From Don Cuddy's most excellent article: Thank god a member of the press finally came out and said it! We all owe this man a beer.
I don't know if he drinks [Don's a fitness buff and a marathoner] - but props are always appreciated. Send them to: Jacobiterelic@aol.com
thoughts: 1. fda should just write the brazilian articles in portuguese from now on. 2. my god! yet another article on portugese soccer from cuddy! he's a regular little, little frank in training. what next? will gus find that all the good soccer loving countries have been taken by local reporters and start writing a weekly article on s. korean footy. 3. seriously, kudos to cuddy as THE ONLY reporter that wrote on the ccc issue that mentioned anything from the fans'....even one iota! thank you letter goes to him. however, i'm sure lou will have him banished from the locker room.....so that t.y. letter better go out today. ------- thanks for the address...already fired off a thanks email.
FDA dusts off another copy of a Brazil story you know, considering that we are in New England and that we don't have a Brazilian player on the team, why do i want to read about some president in Brazil. I read the article this morning at breakfast before my first class and i skipped most of it cuz it was boring me to death. Thank god for Gus. I'm sick of FDA. For every good revs article he writes, he writes 3 boring brazilian ones.
While I liked Frank's article, and am glad to have this article rather than none at all, I certainly would like to see him report on the Revs as well. What was pathetic was the tail-end of the article, where Frank mentioned that Steve Nicol is worried about the field at Gillette for the April 13 opener. Since the opener is in Chicago, maybe Steve should relax a bit. By the way, today's NY Times has an article on Brian McBride and his move back to the states, as well as a long soccer notes article.
Rev news 3/4 Portugal is Abuzz with Soccer Excitement - South Coast Standard-Times article explains why we haven't seen a piece from them of late
Re: Rev news 3/4 This is the kind of reporting that we (unfortunately) don't see from the herald or globe. The whole section on the Revs sums up our (at least most of our) sentiment on the whole CR issue as well as anything you'll read.
" There were 593 Brazilians playing in other countries last year, making soccer among the country's most successful exports." ~FDA, The Boston Globe 1) With soccer players as a major export for Brazil, how come we can't find an inexpensive attacking midfielder from there? 2) Do you think that somewhere in Brazil there is a reporter who writes almost exclusively about the history of the Rev's?
Well......there is a certain Boston writer who spends a great deal of column space on Brazilian soccer
I'm obviously in a small minority here, but I have to admit I like FDA's Brazil pieces. It might bother me if I was desperate to read about some Rev business, particularly during the season. I agree it has become a - um - specialty of his. Still, I think he does it very well, and I would much rather read a FDA Brazil piece than a non-soccer piece. Don Cuddy is the man. Coach Barry was also struck by the most frightening FDA line: ''It's going to be tough for us at this stage of the season, whether we are playing at home or away,'' coach Steve Nicol said yesterday. ''We have to make the best of what we do have.'' Not exactly brimming with optimism, is he?
Kudos to Cuddy; big, fat boos to Bottom Line Louie and his bean counting five. While the arguements about the field conditions certainly hold water, or perhaps more appropriately, mud and ice, there simply is no excuse for hiving off the possibility of advancement because of the inability to find a field, any field, in the whole goddamned country. Anyway, maybe a back to back thrashing will prove to be a tonic for the lads who are currently being groomed to a high level of fitness through two weeks in the bubble at a time when they should be running their butts off outside. Is LouLou keeping us at home to save tripling up in some Motel 6 somehere in Fla after pulling out of the Portugal trip? Maybe, just maybe there is some overarching planning here that has been done with the player's benefit in mind here. I seriously wonder what Joe Max is thinking here while he trains in a facility that looks and feels like the Stanley Park bogs. Is THIS what he came back to? Why? Maybe, just maybe I'm getting the kind of cabin fever that has put me over the edge and I'm starting to see dark plots and a morass of mediocrity brought on by ex-gridiron goons with the imaginations of baboons and the world view of, well, I'd better not get into it. I got spanked before on that one..... At the end of the day, I just have a sinking feeling that what I hoped was going to be a great year in Revland will end up being a sorry, sad writeoff for a creaking conglomerate with an aging gridiron group and some bad stadium debt. I hope not......... JIM DOW
Cuddy: "Meanwhile back in the frozen North, the Revolution have announced in a bizarre and unprecedented move. They will play both legs of their first-ever foray into international competition at their opponents stadium, in Costa Rica. ..." Unprecedented for the Revs, perhaps. Hardly unprecedented in general. For example: when was the last time an Israeli side got to play a UEFA/Champions League/Intertoto Cup home leg in Israel? Of course, the reasoning behind those venue changes is usually a little more serious than inclement weather. Meanwhile, Jeff Rusnak at the Sun-Sentinal disses the Revs, and hard: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-rusnak02mar02,0,1611958.column?coll=sfla-sports-headlines A quote: "The one MLS team that won't be in South Florida is New England, which trained in Brazil and Portugal in February and begins March at home working out in Foxboro. If there's a silver lining to losing the Fusion it's that we don't have to watch the Revs any longer. "'So far there have been quite a few balls over the top,' was forward Joe-Max Moore's evaluation of the Revs performance in Brazil. Moore added that he's more comfortable playing for a team that 'looks to keep possession in the other team's half and then looks to create chances.' "In other words, a team that plays real soccer."