Portuguese Americans/Canadians who follow MLS [R]

Re: Portuguese following the MLS[R] let's keep a eye on the american kids

tonight on fox soccer channel, 8pm live game

New England vs Metrostars

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Re: Portuguese following the MLS[R] let's keep a eye on the american kids

we gave it away
leading 0-1, and Johnson only makes one sub, when the game was already away, I think he lost his job after -0-1

 

my son leaves in North Adams Mass, around the Pitfield area

 

Re: Mls

don't worry they won't, they just got get the new stadiums going, for the NASL was a total different league, the Cosmos with there money spend they just ran everybody out of business, most of the teams were made of old veterans, in today's standards they with last 5 minutes against the young americans, its no surprise the USA is rank #6th in the world, the attendances part, they were not the worse but they draw over 14,000 fans at game, looking at portuguese attendances 4,000 more per game, they are in the right track, should they invest more money on some big names? yes, but that's the next step

 

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Monday, Oct. 31, 2005

Mike Woitalla
Executive Editor
Soccer America Magazine
With Paul Kennedy, Ridge Mahoney, Paul Gardner & Bryan Alvarez

1. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
2. WINNERS & LOSERS: Fire burns D.C. United; Cancela saves Revs
3. FOCUS: A lesson from the Rapids
4. FOR THE RECORD: MLS summaries, College, Soccer on TV

1. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

"Did Freddy do enough to remedy the situation. I would flip it and say, 'Did D.C. United do enough to remedy it?'"
-- Richard Motzkin, agent of Freddy Adu, who played the second half of D.C. United's 4-0 loss to Chicago after being suspended for the first leg, reportedly for complaining about a lack of playing time and failing to apologize. (Washington Post)

"An agent doesn't run our team. And, frankly, his agent doesn't decide where he plays."
-- D.C. United president Kevin Payne on reports that agent Richard Motzkin will discuss Freddy Adu's future with Adu's family and team officials. Payne said he "can't imagine" Adu playing for a different team next season. (USA Today)

"[Arsene] Wenger has a real problem with us and I think he is what you call in England a voyeur. He is someone who likes to watch other people. There are some guys who, when they are at home, have this big telescope to look into the homes of other people and see what is happening. Wenger must be one of them -- and it is a sickness."
-- Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho on Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. (BBC)




2. WINNERS & LOSERS: Fire burns D.C. United; Cancela saves Revs

Winners:

A season after failing to reach the playoffs, Coach Dave Sarachan's CHICAGO FIRE has reached the semifinals thanks to an emphatic 4-0 win over D.C. United in which IVAN GUERRERO notched two goals, including curving left-footed 25-yard strike that befuddled D.C. keeper Nick Rimando. In the semifinal, Chicago faces NEW ENGLAND, which over came a 1-0 first-leg loss to the MetroStars and a 1-0 deficit in the second leg to win 3-2 on aggregate. JOSE CANCELA ignited the Revs' comeback when he came off the bench in the 62nd minute, scoring the Revs' first goal six minutes later and setting up the Pat Noonan for the second with a corner kick. Khano Smith struck the third goal.

STEVE SAMPSON, his job in jeopardy after a .500 regular-season record and fourth-place finish in the West, can breath easier after his Los Angeles Galaxy ousted San Jose, the league's top regular-season team. The Galaxy's 1-1 tie in San Jose gave it 4-2 aggregate win to earn a semifinal encounter with Colorado. The Rapids, playing 66 minutes with a man down, beat Dallas on penalty kicks after a 2-2 tie.

AC MILAN ended Juventus' perfect Italian Serie A run with a 3-1 win that gave Juve its first blemish after starting the season with nine straight wins. Juventus, which fell on goals by Clarence Seedorf, Kaka and Andrea Pirlo, maintains a two-point lead over AC Milan at the top of the standings.

Losers:

D.C. United playmaker CHRISTIAN GOMEZ's clever playmaking and appearance in the fan section earlier this season had turned him into one of league's most likable players. But he finished 2005 in disgrace when he was ejected for spitting at Chicago defender C.J. Brown with the score 3-0. A fine volley by Jesse Marsch gave Chicago a 4-0 win, ousting the defending champs.

After falling to Colorado on penalty kicks, FC DALLAS won't be a part of the MLS Cup its new Pizza Hut Park will host. New England, which lost MLS Cup 2002, 1-0, to Los Angeles, is the last team to have a home advantage in the final. The Galaxy failed to make it to Home Depot Center finals in 2003 and 2004.

Newly promoted Wigan Athletic downed Fulham, 1-0. Fulham's American defender Carlos Bocanegra started and played 89 minutes until suffering a muscle injury while Brian McBride came on for the final eight minutes. Goalkeeper Brad Friedel got shelled as his Blackburn went down, 4-2, to leader Chelsea. Defender Jonathan Spector got his second start of the season for Charlton, which fell, 1-0, to Bolton.

In Germany, Borussia M'Gladbach, with American Kasey Keller in goal, fell, 2-1, at Borussia Dortmund in front of 80,100 fans. It ended fifth-place Gladbach's five-game undefeated streak. Gregg Berhalter and Energie Cottbus got thumped, 4-1, by Freiburg but remain second in the German Second Division.

American defender OGUCHI ONYEWU, who has two red cards in 12 games, picked up his second yellow of the season in Standard Liege's 2-1 loss to Excelsior Mouscron. Standard still has a two-point lead at the top of the Belgian Juliper League standings.

In Norway, Aalesund, whose goalkeeper is former New England Rev Adin Brown fell, 3-0, to Viking and will drop to the Second Division next season.




3. FOCUS: A lesson from the Rapids

By Paul Gardner

The impressive thing ... the vastly impressive thing ... about Colorado's PK win over Dallas was the ordered, skillful, intelligent, and at times even attractive, way that the Rapids played with 10 men ... playing short-handed invariably means a team will pack their defense and, yes, Colorado did that ... it also means a team will indulge in time-wasting activities and, yes goalkeeper Joe Cannon was stupidly blatant about that ... but above all it usually means that a team loses its soccer brains, assuming that it has any, and starts whacking the ball aimlessly out of defense ... anywhere will do, just hit it hard and high ... so you can guarantee that one poor guy, the token guy they've left up front, will be galloping all over the field chasing long balls that he's never going to catch up with ... but you never know, that's the thinking, after all it means that the opponents have to keep at least two defenders, usually three, back and, supposedly, it eats up the clock ... Colorado played it differently and beautifully ... they chose to keep the ball on the ground, to keep playing it upfield with short and medium-range passing ... rarely did the Rapids look like a team that was playing with 10 men, at no point did they resort to the brainless, aimless long-ball nonsense ... ball possession makes opponents nervous, too, and it eats up the clock ... above all it maintains a realistic chance of scoring, and it keeps the players' attention concentrated where it should be: on playing soccer ... it would have been a lot easier for Leo Cullen and Terry Cooke and Mike Petke and the splendid Pablo Mastroeni and company to keep belting the ball away ... but they abjured that route, which meant that Jovan Kirovski, Jean Philippe Peguero and Jeff Cunningham were able to find passing partners, to pose a real threat to the Dallas defense ... Colorado kept trying to play soccer and for once the soccer gods, a pretty perverse crowd on the whole, smiled ... the Rapids, all of 'em, from coach Fernando Clavijo on upwards and downwards, deserve a lot of credit for the way they handled this one.

 

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SOCCER AMERICA REPORT CARDS: MLS Quarterfinals, first leg

1. DC UNITED 0 CHICAGO 4
(Chicago wins, 4-0, on aggregate.)

Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C.
D.C. United 0 Chicago 4
Goals: Stewart (Thiago) 10, Guerrero 37, Guerrero (Rolfe) 50+, Marsch (Guerrero, Thiago) 67.
Yellow cards: D.C. United -- Olsen 21, Filomeno 7, Adu 80; Chicago -- Segares 52.
Red card: D.C. United -- Gomez 55.
Referee: Kevin Stott
Att.: 20,089.

Even before Christian Gomez was red-carded for spitting at C.J. Brown, the Fire had wrapped this one up thanks to three first-half goals, including a pair of beauties from Ivan Guerrero. Two rookies played key rolls: Chris Rolfe with his tenacious forays into the heart of the D.C. attack and Jack Stewart with the early headed goal that exposed United's shaky backline. Veteran Jesse Marsch added a beautiful volley to finish off the defending champ.

REPORT CARD (1=low; 5=average; 10=high)

D.C. United -- 3 Rimando, 3 Namoff, nr Erpen (3 Boswell, 5), 4 Prideaux, 4 Quaranta ( 5 Adu, 46), 4 Carroll, 2 Gomez, 5 Olsen, 5 Kovalenko, 6 Moreno, 3 Walker (4 Filomeno, 46),

Chicago -- 6 Thornton, 7 Brown, 7 Curtin, 7 Segares, 7 Stewart (5 Sanneh, 74), 8 Thiago, 8 Marsch, 7 Pause, 9 Guerrero, 6 Jaqua (nr Herron, 79), 8 Rolfe (5 Barrett, 70),




2. NEW ENGLAND 3 METROSTARS 1.
(New England wins, 3-2, on aggregate)

Oct. 29 in Foxboro, Mass.
New England 3 MetroStars 1
Goals: Cancela (Twellman) 68, Noonan (Cancela 1) 73, Smith (Dempsey 1) 83; Djorkaeff (Galvan Rey 1) 59.
Yellow card: New England -- D. Hernandez 31.
Referee: Brian Hall
Att.: 9,581

A snow-strewn field, frigid rain, and a 2-0 deficit after Youri Djorkaeff scored didn't deter the Revs. Sub Jose Cancela provided the cutting edge that had been lacking and his corner stranded a flailing Tony Meola to provide Pat Noonan's headed equalizer. Khano Smith polished off a determined run up the right flank with a crisp shot for the winner.

REPORT CARD (1=low; 5=average; 10=high)

New England -- 5 Reis, 6 Heaps, 5 Parkhurst, 4 Franchino (6 Riley, 65), 5 Ralston, 6 Dempsey, 4 D.Hernandez (8 Cancela, 62), 6 Joseph, NR Leonard (6 Smith, 23), 7 Twellman, 7 Noonan.

MetroStars -- 5 Meola, 4 J.Hernandez, 3 Mendes, 5 Agoos, 4 Gaven, 4 Bradley, 4 Guevara, 4 Lisi (NR Razov, 85), 4 Stammler, 6 Djorkaeff, 5 Galvan Rey.




3. DALLAS-COLORADO (2-2, Colorado, 5-4, on PKs)
(aggregate score, 2-2; Colorado advances on PKs)


Oct. 29 in Dallas
FC Dallas 2 Colorado 2
Goals: Ruiz (Mina, Rhine) 67, Ruiz (Gbandi, Vanney) 105; Cunningham (Cooke, Nkong) 19, Kotschau (Cooke) 106.
Yellow cards: Dallas -- Rhine 57, Valakari 63, Gbandi 92+. Colorado -- Mastroeni 48, Denton 68, Cannon 91+, Kirovski 92.
Red card: Colorado -- Nkong 54.
Referee: Terry Vaughn
Att.: 10,104

Two strikers benched for most of the first leg hit the net: Jeff Cunningham opening the scoring for Colorado and Carlos Ruiz getting both Dallas goals. After Alain Nkong was ejected for throwing an elbow, the Rapids gave a lesson on coping with a man-down. Ruiz hit a penalty kick against the post in overtime. Colorado midfielder Ritchie Kotschau scored his first goal in more than two years to send the game to penalty kicks.

REPORT CARD (1=low; 5=average; 10=high)

Dallas -- 4 Garlick, 3 Goodson, 4 Jolley, 5 Vanney, 6 Gbandi, 6 O'Brien, 4 Valakari, 6 Rhine (5 Pareja, 100), 3 Wilson (6 Mina, 46) 7 Nunez, 8 Ruiz.

Colorado -- 7 Cannon, 6 Cullen (6 Peguero, 101), 5 Petke, 5 Denton, 7 Cooke, 6 Beckerman, 8 Mastroeni, 5 Nkong, 5 Ben Dayan (7 Kotschau, 79), 7 Cunningham, 7 Kirovski.




4. SAN JOSE 1 LOS ANGELES 1
(Los Angeles wins, 4-2 on aggregate)

Oct. 29 in San Jose, Calif.
San Jose 1 Los Angeles 1.

Goals: Ching (Mullan) 42; Grabavoy 1 (Donovan, Vagenas) 67.
Yellow cards: San Jose -- Gray 44, Clark 89.
Referee: Alex Prus
Att.: 17,824

Defender Ugo Ihemelu and midfielder Pete Vagenas led a resilent Galaxy effort that frustrated a sputtering San Jose attack. A scuffed Kevin Hartman clearance gave Brian Mullan the opportunity to hit Brian Ching with a pinpoint cross, but Ned Grabavoy capped a fine night's work by slotting home a perfect feed from Landon Donovan. Hartman atoned for his error with some clutch late saves.

REPORT CARD (1=low; 5=average; 10=high)

San Jose -- 5 Onstad, 4 Gray (5 Goldthwaite, 74), 4 Califf, 5 Robinson, 5 Barrett (4 Cerritos, 72), 6 Mullan, 4 Clark, 4 De Rosario, 3 Chung, 5 Ching, 3 Moreno.

Los Angeles -- 6 Hartman, 5 Albright, 7 Ihemelu, 5 Marshall, 5 Dunivant, 4 Jones (nr Naldo 78), 4 Nagamura, 7 Vagenas, 6 Grabavoy (4 Gordon 72), 6 Donovan, 5 Gomez.

 

Landon Donovan for Sportsman of the year

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ABC, ESPN bought the rights for the world cup 2010 and 2014 for 100million dollars

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1. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

"At the end of the day, we can't be the owner. We're going to sell San Jose, one way or the other."
-- AEG president Tim Leiweke, who said the chances of the Earthquakes playing in San Jose next season are "50-50." San Jose and Kansas City are the only two MLS teams not yet selling season tickets for next year, according the the San Jose Mercury News. (San Jose Mercury News)

"We've been doing this for four years. We put $20 million into it. I know people like to kick us and say we haven't treated the city well, but the reality is we saved the franchise here and we've stuck by it."
-- Leiweke. (San Jose Mercury News)

"If he is ready to apologize from Highbury about quotes about Chelsea, then I'm ready to do the same. But of course it's not a personal thing. The intention was not to hurt the man, the human being, of course not. I have respect for him as a human being as he's a successful man and nobody has helped him to arrive where he's arrived. As a manager, too. It's the same, he's done very good things."
-- Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho extends on olive branch to Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, whom Mourinho had likened to a peeping Tom. (AFP)


"But there have been too many quotes about Chelsea - some hard, like for example that one about the moral leadership, some funny, like when he said I'd only won one Premiership title. I cannot win two in one season!"
-- Mourinho. (AFP)




2. MLS: The final four coaches

In MLS semifinal action, Coach Fernando Clavijo's Colorado takes on Steve Sampson's Los Angeles on Saturday (9 pm ET, live on Fox Soccer Channel). On Sunday, it's Coach Steve Nicol's New England hosting Dave Sarachan's Chicago (3 pm ET, live on ESPN2).

Coached a national team
Sampson (USA, 1995-98), Costa Rica (2002-03).

Head coached in a World Cup
Sampson (USA, 1998).

Coached in an MLS Cup
Sarachan (2003, loss to San Jose), Nicol (2002, loss to Los Angeles).

Coached college soccer
Sarachan (Cornell, 1989-97), Sampson (Santa Clara, 1986-90).

Won collegiate national title as coach
Sampson (Santa Clara, 1989).

Won a pro league title as coach
Clavijo (1997 Continental Indoor Soccer League with Seattle Seadogs)

Played pro ball
Nicol, Clavijo, Sarachan.

Played in a World Cup
Clavijo (USA, 1994), Nicol (Scotland, 1986).

Red-carded in a World Cup game
Clavijo (vs. Brazil, 1994)

Played in the European Cup
Nicol (Liverpool)

Born and raised abroad
Clavijo (Uruguay), Nicol (Scotland)




3. UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Chivas USA training facility

Chivas USA, which has been sharing the Home Depot Center with the Los Angeles Galaxy, will have a training facility of its own next spring in the city of Bells Gardens, where ground was broken on the $10 million Bell Gardens Sports Center. It will include four natural grass fields and two artificial turf fields.

Chivas USA will also hold reserve-team practices and host Futbolito tournaments and soccer clinics at the Center, which lies 13 miles from Home Depot Center, where Chivas USA will continue to play its games.

The complex was funded by the city of Bell Gardens.

"When we saw what they were undertaking and we talked to them about partnering with them and lending our support from a commercial standpoint and bringing sponsorship to the facility - from a programming standpoint, bringing what we do best to the facility - they saw it as a win-win, we saw it as a win-win," Chivas USA General Manager Whit Haskel told mlsnet.com.