It's mostly stuff you've heard before, but I thought I'd post it anyway. He was nice enough to answer all my questions. http://www.majorleaguesoccer.net/news/offseason.html Mod's Note: Just fixed the link.
Great work! I've really never heard him say a word about DC United. I know he's a politician but "he done well" with that interview.
The bit about former Deputy Mayor John Koskinen caught my eye and actually he will be the Interim Director of the US Soccer Foundation (not US Soccer). This is VERY cool, John is a great guy and obviously very connected in DC. http://www.ussoccerfoundation.org/mediarel/display_E_70425.html Not sure what his long range career plans are but maybe he'll stay on. K
Nice little piece .... Can you get them to update the scrolling news from 2003 midseason to 2004 preseason news I just read that we traded away Curtis for Cerritos.
Oh come on. You can't convince me that Williams knows that much about DC soccer tradition and about DC United. This has got to have been made up as a spoof. And a lame one at that.
I can tell you that it's no spoof (I wrote the article). Now, it was an email conversation so he had time to review his answers, but from all I've heard, the Mayor does know his soccer. Maybe he's not quite on the level as some of us, but comparatively speaking, he's a very knowledgable Mayor. Do you think the mayor of Columbus (Michael Coleman) could name players from the Chicago Sting?
I have stayed out of this debate almost completely for its entire existence. But I've gotten fed up with it enough by now to have something to say. If all of you who live in the suburbs are truly fed up with how the D.C. government works, then you should move into the city and vote for people who are going to effect change. Just sitting around in the suburbs waiting for it to happen and lobbying to get the stadium as close as possible to where you live regardless of how it effects people in all the other jurisdictions doesn't do any good. That's all I'm going to say about this. I don't mean to offend, I'm just sick of seeing the same debate over and over again.
I'm not offended. But the reason I moved away from the city after living in Eastern Market for several years was I couldn't take the incompetence, corruption and blatant hypocrisy of the DC city government. Trust me, It wasn't easy giving up a 10 minute walk to RFK. But "voting for change?" Please. There aren't enough people in DC to vote for kind of change it needs, and that's the real tragedy. And just so we're clear, I didn't say I didn't want it in DC - quite the contrary. When I say "City of DC" I mean the government. Keep it in private hands and away from any city government intereference.