Officially, it's still Ivan's. So, there should be some exotic three way competition for charity. Winner get's #8. Have the three of them (or the two able bodied ones...or Ivan can have a proxy) go through a series of skills drills, have it open for fans to come at say $2 to $5 a head.
I propose getting their wives to have a three-way Jell-O wrestle for it. That I'd pay good money for.
Re: #8 Where is the fun in that? I believe that if Ivan retires, the precious #8 will get moved. If Ivan doesn't then he retains the precious #8 for another season... The bigger question is if Harkes gets #6!
It appears stoitchkov gets 8, stewart 9 and kovalenko 21. I suppose that could change, but that was the last I heard.
Re: Re: #8 Without question. It's his damn number. Judah and Lazo were only renting it until he got back to DC.
the real #23 While Pope may be DCU's #23, he chose the number because it was Michael Jordan's, so it wouldn't really bug me if say another North Carolinian wanted to do the same.
Re: Re: #8 yeah good luck with that one. Sorry Earnie was never the world renoun player Hristo is/was. it will be Hristo end of story!!!!!!!! Bet you money on it! 100 bucks.
Let's hope that #9 brings Earnie more health, motivation and, most importantly, goals than it did for that guy who wore it last year.
perhaps...um.....David Stokes??? I am with lanky134 on this one, however. Retire that bad boy and hang it from the upper level.
Re: the real #23 I once asked his father if that was the case, and he said it was merely a coincidence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51930-2003Jan27.html at the bottom. Stoitchkov will wear #8. McKinley isn't coming back this season.
not that it probably matters but earnie never wore #8 for NAC, just the Nats. i pressume you have more lattitude on your club than on the select team to choose a number, so he may not have been all that attached to 8.
Update as of 1/29/03 from DC United's Website Alegria, Jose 13 Behonick, Michael 22 Carroll, Brian - Convey, Bobby 15 Curtis, Ali 28 Eskandarian, Alecko - Etcheverry, Marco 10 Ivanov, Galin 3 Kovalenko, Dema 6 McKinley, Ivan - Namoff, Bryan 12 Nelsen, Ryan 7 Olsen, Ben 14 Petke, Mike - Prideaux, Brandon 4 Quaranta, Santino 25 Quintanilla, Eliseo 20 Reyes, Milton 5 Rimando, Nick 18 Stewart, Earnie - Stoitchkov, Hristo 8 Stokes, David - Swann, John - Warren, Doug 1 Woodworth, Hayden -
Tino would look much better in the #11 shirt. I just don't see #25 having good karma for him - time for a change...
NOOOO! No one should EVER don the #11 shirt again! It's cursed. Look at the various people who have worn that number: Jason Moore Chris Albright Pete Marino Villegas Burn the #11 shirt now.