Ian Joy is trying his luck again. This time with Hamburger SV Reserves. Read this already last week, so I don't know if he's still there. A 21 year old called Shawn Gregerzac aims to get a contract at Kickers Offenbach. He is forward and played for a college in Washington, but they didn't mention whether D.C. or state.
Hmm, there is a Sean Giudice who was a senior forward at the University of Washington, but web search isnt producing anything on "Shawn Gregerzac".
Well, that confirms that Ian Joy is in the Gus Kartes camp: Officially MIA. Here's what appears to be his "official" website. It needs an update. http://www.ianjoy.com/# Never heard of the other guy. Thanks for the news, however. Any news of John Wilson in Germany?
Here's a fansite that seems to confirm that it is Sean Giudice (that's the correct spelling) after all. http://members.aol.com/muench76/news.htm He's a 1982 who transfered to UW after playing two years at Cal St. Fullerton. Was a senior this year. http://gohuskies.ocsn.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/giudice_sean00.html He's also played for Seattle Hibernian & Caledonian which is a top men's team out West. And here's some strange German graph I don't get. http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/wort-des-tages/2004/01/26/US-Amerikaner.html Finally, here's a feature article on the guy. http://gohuskies.ocsn.com/sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/020304aaa.html
Sorry with the confusion regarding the name of the player. Probably the kicker guy sat at a press conference, heard the name and spelled it the way he guessed to be right... The thing with the graph is weird. Apparently they pick out lines from the net saying "US-Amerikaner", but I got no clue why they do it, what they want with it and what the graphs are all about.
That is off-topic, but looks rather interesting. US-American was the "word of the day" of this page, which is about the german thesaurus, on the 26. of Jan. 04. This word of the day is choosen by automatically evaluating news-tickers and newspaper-webpages. (The procedure actually seems to be sophisticated, e.g. the words are compared with their average appearance, if i got that right.) The graph shows, which words are significantly often mentioned in connection with that word, it even takes into account on which side, left or right and thus before and after the word. If you click on "Assoziationsgraphen aus dem Wortschatz-Deutsch zum Vergleich anzeigen", you get to a page which shows the words with are usually mentioned in in close connection with "US-Amerikaner". Many of these are names of tennis-players. ;-) (If you advance to the 2. level of detail) Also interesting: The listing of significant right and left neigbors, which you get if you go to "Haupteintrag" (main entry) and then "nachschlagen!". Clint Mathis is not there, yet, but Tony Sanneh is. ;-) I don't really see the informational value yet, though. Weird stuff.