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Discussion in 'MLS: News & Analysis' started by Stuart95, Sep 9, 2024.

  1. Stuart95

    Stuart95 Member+

    Mar 11, 2012
    NoVA
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Your Sunday Kickoff: A midfielder in goal in Columbus, Benteke claims Golden Boot lead
    https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/your...l-in-columbus-benteke-claims-golden-boot-lead

    Best of the MLS Action: Matchday 31 + USMNT vs Canada
    https://www.vavel.com/en-us/soccer/...he-mls-action-matchday-31usmnt-vs-canada.html

    ‘I don’t care if I get fined’: Revolution’s Caleb Porter had a fiery response to referee controversy
    https://www.boston.com/sports/new-e...aleb-porter-comments-mls-referee-controversy/

    Stuart Armstrong tells his new MLS club what it was like to play for ‘very tough’ Celtic
    https://www.67hailhail.com/news/stu...at-it-was-like-to-play-for-very-tough-celtic/

    Americans who have played in the Scottish Premiership
    https://worldsoccertalk.com/amp/news/stars-and-stripes-scotland-american-players-making-their-mark/

    Lionel Messi's wife Antonela Roccuzzo embraces unexpected lizard experience while going full 'soccer mom' for son Thiago's first game of new season for Inter Miami youth team
    https://www.goal.com/en-sa/lists/lionel-messi-wife-antonela-roccuzzo-unexpected-lizard-experience-soccer-mom-son-thiago-inter-miami-youth-team/bltf7b0f33008904ad5
     
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  2. Stuart95

    Stuart95 Member+

    Mar 11, 2012
    NoVA
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Today's name the badge (name the league):
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  3. jaykoz3

    jaykoz3 Member+

    Dec 25, 2010
    Conshohocken, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Australian second Division?
     
  4. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    #4 falvo, Sep 9, 2024
    Last edited: Sep 9, 2024
    I believe this is the logo of Saint George Sports Club of the Ethiopian Premier League.

    My great uncles used to watch them when Italy invaded Ethiopia after WW2 and settled there.

    Former Sampdoria player , who was also on Italy’s 1982 WC winning roster, Beppe Dossena used to coach them.
     
  5. PanAfricaFootball

    PanAfricaFootball New Member

    New England Revolution
    United States
    Dec 13, 2023
    Ethiopia’s most famous club, Saint George SC from Addis Ababa!
     
  6. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    #6 falvo, Sep 9, 2024
    Last edited: Sep 9, 2024
    Cool that Thiago Messi is playing for Inter Miami’s U-12 team.

    Looking back 4 years ago, time goes by very fast and before you know it, Thiago will be 16 or 17 which will be the age for him to go pro.

    I wonder if he will be a fraction of the player his dad is or was?

    It’s never easy for a son to follow in a famous players footsteps.

    I recently read one of David Beckham’s kids just retired from soccer to become a model so he probably saw the writing on the wall and realized that he was never going to be a great player.

    I also saw that Francesco Totti’s son, Christian, at 18-19 made his debut for Serie D side in Italy.

    The Italian press has been highly critical of him saying he moves and looks like a meatball.

    Sad that he has to go through that.

    Nonetheless, here is hoping Thiago makes it!
     
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  7. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Guys like Totti’s kid should come to MLS, or more likely the USL, just to avoid that crap.

    There was a spell about 12 years ago where MLS brought in Rooney’s brother, and someone else’s brother, and some guy named Johnson who had been highly touted at I think ManU but didn’t pan out…point being, America is a good place to play if you’re a Messi, but it’s also a healthy environment for Messi Jr.

    Give your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to just play soccer without all the tabloid bullshit….
     
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  8. falvo

    falvo Member+

    Mar 27, 2005
    San Jose & Florence
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    #8 falvo, Sep 9, 2024
    Last edited: Sep 9, 2024
    Exactly!

    Totti stated in an interview that if his son can’t make the grade, he should give it up.

    What I think many former player’s , especially those who settle in the US and Canada should pressure their kids into getting an education and/or playing at a D1 , NCAA school.

    Maybe the soccer won’t be as good as a third or fourth division but the facilities at most top universities across the USA anyway , are top notch and better than most pro teams I've seen across Europe.

    A guy I recently spoke to played for Roma’s youth teams and then played for the Cal Bears.

    He said no one e in Italy anyway, had fields , weight rooms and athletic equipment like our colleges have.

    He ended up playing 4 years and got a degree.

    Heck even our junior colleges have great fields.

    Until a year ago or so, Alex Delpiero’s kids were also living in LA playing youth ball as he owns a restaurant called N10.

    I know their fathers on the one hand would like them to succeed as pros but on the other, it’s not always in the cards and they should face reality.
     
  9. AeroNaught

    AeroNaught Member+

    Atlanta United
    Feb 14, 2007
    Birmingham, AL
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  10. Stuart95

    Stuart95 Member+

    Mar 11, 2012
    NoVA
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Winner, winner!
     
  11. Stuart95

    Stuart95 Member+

    Mar 11, 2012
    NoVA
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ironically, they played Ethiopian Coffee SC in DC yesterday IMG_4005.jpeg
     

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