Nah, Swiss bank accounts pay crap all for interest. You can do better in the Caymans or maybe The Bahamas. The catch for any of these soccer players is to be able to put enough money away now that they can afford to retire when their playing careers are over. Or better, continue on a coaches or scouts or TV annouoncers. Oh yeah, you can get a decent return on your money in Costa Rica too, and they have excellent soccer, good food, great beer, and there's a USian ExPat community in Atenas. Atenas is up in the hills, so it's a little cooler and you're closeish to Alajuela, so good soccer right near by. And lots of people in CR speak English and Spanish is easy to learn. Just in case anyone is thinking that they might need an emergency escape hatch. Just sayin.
Considering the most Swiss and/or Euro citizens make maybe on average between €1500--€2000 Euro a month, Innocent (unless he blew it all) with his $1.3 million 2016 Quakes salary can live more than comfortably all the days of his life.......
Former draft pick; Daniel Musovski bagged Player of the Week honors. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020/10/12/lafc-forward-danny-musovski-voted-mls-player-week-week-17
Sadly, Daniel Musovski like many other prospects, will have wasted away into oblivion had he remained with the Quakes....
Well that trend followed Dominic Kinnear to Houston, good promising young guys who were quite good in college like John Michael Hayden and Erik Ustruck were completely destroyed in Houston.
I know Tom Liner was a soccer coach at Foothill but didn't realize he was a tennis one also. I know he had some health issues . I hope he is doing better now.
Yes he can no longer coach soccer. He told me his health doesn't allow it and he enjoys tennis. He also told me the Earthquakes don't allow alumni into games free anymore and have alienated them.
I am shocked. Don't allow alumni into the games for free? Shocked. I mean, otherwise, they are a first cut organization, besides the incomplete stadium, lack of focus on season ticket holders, poor field, didn't follow through on youth facilities, and ineffective GMs (Doyle and Jesse).
This doesn't surprise me one little bit. One thing that was 100% clear from the moment the Wolff/Fisher people started up is that they wanted nothing to do with the prior iteration of the Quakes with the exception of being able to (illegitimately, IMO) wear the two stars over the crest. From top to bottom, the entire organization has been actively antagonistic to the old guard, with the one exception of the 20th anniversary celebration of the first MLS game. These people (the Quakes FO and ownership) are exactly like Enron (with whom I had experience when working in the electricity R&D field) - they think they're 'the smartest people in the room', and act in an arrogant manner that utterly demonstrates that self-opinion. The belief seems to be "we know baseball, and soccer is just baseball junior". They have jettisoned, eliminated, marginalized, and pretty much alienated all of the folks who were around when the Clash started...
Hes cool to talk to on social media. He's informative so is Dario Brose, Dave Salzwedel, Ryan Johnson, Joe Cannon, Troy Dayak, Julian Nash, Kelly Gray, Ryan Cochrane, Ronald Cerritos (If you speak spanish mainly), and Scott Bower. But Tom said Doyle was always fighting for the alumni to be involved to def ears. He also said Wondolowski, Thompson and Tarbel were the only players to reach out prior and post surgery to him and his family offering help.
He was able to get a new kidney? I hadn't heard that, but if that's the case I am very happy to hear that.
A really interesting zoom interview with Eric Wynalda, Jeff Agoos and Bruce Arena about the 1996 season. He touches on the Laurie Calloway situation, among other things. Merc writer Elliott Almond asks a couple good questions as well.
Anyone looking for the hate-on-Fisher posts, they got moved to his thread: https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/the-official-john-j-fisher-ownership-thread.2102920/ Good to hear about Tom Liner (catching up!) I mentioned before that Allison was our school principal and still works for the district. I was very impressed by her and totally in character for her to step up.
THAT'S SHIT!!! What an absurd, low-quality organization! Oh wait! It's us, so I should be totally unsurprised. In any situation, think what the worst we could do, then check that box. Grrrrrrrr. Go Quakesfans!! - Mark
Former Earthquake 3rd string Evan Newton has signed with NYCFC on loan for the CCL. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...er-evan-newton-loan-concacaf-champions-league
Hoesen, Lima, Tarbell. They get one or two more and they might as well be called the Austin Earthquakes.
Might as well. We almost became the San Antonio Earthquakes (or San Antonio "America" or something) in 2004, and we became the Houston Dynamo in 2006. What's another Texas city taking our team, or threatening to, among friends?