The categories are: best rookie, future nats starter, biggest surprise and biggest bust. The deadline is August 15th, so let's starting voting guys. http://www.socceramerica.com/poll/2003JulyPoll.asp Also I got the latest issue in the mail yesterday with Preki on the cover, they have a nice one-page article on Mike. It's nothing new but it was still cool to see him in there.
Kenny Arena is listed. Are they out of their mind? I wonder why they left out Sharlie Joseph of the Revs. He has started just about every one of their matches.
Re: Kenny Arena For that category I selected Anna Nicole Smith. You can't vote for Arena for "biggest bust" since that would mean there were high expectations for him. Gave best rookie to Clark and biggest surprise to Magee. The category for "Future National Team Starter" should have been reworded as "First Future Starter" since they are many names on that list that we'll be seeing soon. By the way, in that Soccer America edition, Paul Gardner brought up an interesting point that no else has about the infamous "4th substitution" game vs DC. Neither Howard nor Gaven had uniform numbers on their shirts and should not have been allowed to play by the officials.
Vote for Chicago rookies for future nats starter. That should guarantee us the Easten conference championship.