Both DCenters and Maradawga are rightly criticizing DC United Coach Piotr Nowak for helping to blow the current Adu controversy out of proportion. If you’re not up to speed, Freddy was suspended by the coach for Friday’s playoff game because he didn’t apologize to the team for his earlier comments about playing time. Its disheartening […]
Steven Goff reports that the team is healthy and ready for playoffs. The Adu whine fest seems to have blown over, hopefully before it distracted the team from the playoffs. United’s first playoff match is tonight at Chicago, where the team has had some success this season. The regular season games against the Fire were
Freddy Adu complains in an interview that he isn’t getting enough playing time. He’s scored some beautiful goals this season, but he’s frustrated that his performance in games and practices isn’t translating into more playing time. "I got [MLS] player of the week, and the next week I’m sitting on the bench," Adu said. "I’m
My friend Chris, has suspicions that I’m a bit of a Freddy hater. He’s just confused, see I’m just not a fan of players who dribble too much and end up passing up a shot at goal (see Marco Etcheverry or Jaime Moreno). But against Real Salt Lake, he had a great solo effort goal
Steven Goff is reporting that Brian Carroll has been called up for the world cup qualifier against Panama. Caroll’s had a strong season, leading United in minutes played. That’s not to say that he’s been a stellar player every game. He had a stretch of games around the middle of the season where it seemed
Funny soccer goals: Sometimes the ball is determined to go into the net no matter what the players want to do. (ht: Off Wing Opinion).
Soccer-Specific-Stadiums are all the rage in Major League Soccer these days, as a way for the League to control costs (mainly stadium rental) and keep ancillary revenues, Dallas opened their own stadium this summer, Chicago has one on the way for next year, the Metrostars finally decided to pay for their own for 2007, and
Just read that Bobby Convey scored twice this weekend. Its good to see him bounce back like that for his club after missing and having a shot blocked in the US qualifier last week. He had to go and prove me wrong. When he missed his breakaway against Trinidad & Tobago last week I told
Can we hope that DC has a solid foundation for future success because it’s got a great crop of young American talent? Santino Quaranta is making a case for being a regular national team player. Undrafted rookie, as Rob Stone likes to remind us on ESPN ad naseum, Bobby Boswell is a serious contender for
Usually I’d just quitely file this in my delicious feed but let me say that I’ll be quite glad to see Amado Guevara leave MLS and if there’s anything I can do to speed the process along, let me know! While he may be a talented player, I more often remeber him for bad fouls,