According to DCist, Untied knows How to sell a stadium. Of course, having private funding behind the deal goes a longer way than asking for handouts for rich sports team owners. And beyond all the talk of job opportunities, affordable housing, and economic development, DC United officials have sworn that their stadium will be privately-financed, […]
My friend David R. sent me the link to a paper from the investigating the effect that international footbal competitions have on the stock market. The authors found a statistically significant decline in stock returns after losses in World Cup elimination matches. Their model attributes the loss effect on reduced productivity or loss revenues. Curiously,
The Soccer blogs aggregator continues to grow and last night I rolled out a new feature. You can now search the articles in the database and subscribe to the search results as an RSS or XML feed. I hope this will be really useful if you write a blog or are interested in a particular
The World Cup draw is tomorrow! The US barely missed being one of the eight seeded teams (but rival Mexico was seeded), chiefly because of the poor showing at the 1998 Cup. The FIFA rankings have a long memory, unfortunately. On the flip side, another strong run in Germany would go a long ways towards
Jeff Agoos retired today. His career included championships with DC United and San Jose, and a year with the Metrostars, and 134 caps for the national team. Although he had a penchant for costly own goals or mistakes – the ones against Jamaica in the 98qualifiers and in the Portugal map during the 2002 World
As I was walking to Simon and listening to Marketplace today (yes on the radio, I haven’t gotten into regularly listenting to podcasts yet), I heard a very positive piece on Major League Soccer’s 10th season, ABC and soccer: Goal? Ed Derse states that MLS has made it (don’t tell fans of San Jose Earthquakes
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DC United wants to build itself a new stadium (privately financed)in Anacostia, and has found that putting on soccer clinics for kids is a good way to build goodwill with the community. Its also nice to see Alecko Eskandarian in that picture after he was out for the season due to a severe concussion. "They
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