Reading thumps Derby County 5-0 to win the Coca-Cola Championship, one week after earning promotion to the Premier League and with 5 games to spare. Reading midfielder Bobby Convey, one of my favorite players during his time at DC United, also earned a Player of the Month award for March. Next season, Reading will be […]
Marco Antonio Etcheverry played a fare well match in his native Santa Cruz, Bolivia last night. I hadn’t heard about the match until this week but there is a spanish language articles here, and here. There had been a rumor that President Evo Morales would play in the match but that didn’t happen. The final
The more things change the more they stay the same: Rivalry renewed: D.C. tops Red Bulls. The usual cautions about not taking the pre season as a real indicator of future performance apply here. Still, any time we beat the Metros it’s a good thing. Joe, queue up the “Same old Metros” chants! Jaime Moreno
Over at the Sports Law Blog, they have the schedule for the upcoming Future of Sports Law Symposium at Willamette University College of Law. It sounds like an interesting round up of speakers and topics. I think some MLS teams should send representatives to some of the sessions. Chivas-USA staff might be interested in "Foreign
I’m not sure how I missed this but via the Sports Economist, I saw today that Sunil Gulati’s first move as president of the USSF was to reduce the USSF board from 40 to 15. I guess this move is meant to reduce some of the political infighting between the amateur and professional wings of
The New York Red Bulls site is up now. For a team that didn’t exist until today,it’s curious to see that they drew with Chivas 3 days ago (someone forgot to photoshop that metrostars crest and edit the copy), lost to houston (same), waived Leitch and Regan, and re-acquired Steve Joley (can you say he’s
Via Bruce’s Belly, it looks like the sale of the Metrostars to Red Bull is all but done. Red Bull, yes the one that gives you wings, also bought a team in Austria and totally rebranded it. I’ve left comments on a couple blogs with my thoughts, but its worth summarizing them here. The team
The US team handily beat Guatemala 4-0 in another preparatory friendly yesterday. For the US to solidify itself as a regional power, it has to take care of the minnows without breaking a sweat. Bruce Arena has his team doing that, and yesterday emphasizes that we’ve been doing this consistently for more than a year
Via FootballCorner, swedish striker Henrik Larson is return to Helsinborg at the end of the Spanish season. The striker joined Barcelona from Celtic in 2004 but missed most of last season with a knee injury. Larsson also came out of international retirement in order to help his country qualify for this year’s World Cup finals.
Yup, its a World Cup year, that means US Soccer and MLS try to get some publicity and exposure from a non-sports magazine. This year its Maxim, as the press release on mlsnet.com tells us. I’m going to hazard a guess and say that at least these won’t be as bad as the GQ pictures
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