It’s no fun when they share the secret
Ronaldinho is a magician with the ball, or is he? (view the videos!)
Soccer
DC United Decades best XI
1. Goalie: United has never had a dominant keeper like Matt Reis or Joe Cannon that’s anchored the team. Rimando has great reflexes but can make you nervous at the same time. The early keepers had such solid defenses in front of them that it’s almost not fair. Advantage: Scott Garlick, cause he’s been a
I don’t care what color Bull you give me.
The atmosphere in the stadium was great, better than I remember last year’s home opener against Chivas. Kudos to the Metrostars for putting their short busses to use. It felt like playoff game at times, especially as DC equalized in the second half. Eskandarian, I’m so glad you scored and scored early. I was afraid
Convey & Hahneman in EPL
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
Etcheverry plays farewell match in Santa Cruz
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
High Demand for US World Cup Soccer
Via the Sports Economist, found a link to this article in the Wall Street Journal about the high demand for World Cup tickets for the USA [subscribers only]. I can’t read the article, but its safe to assume its a mainstream journalist just catching wind of the difficulties those of us who want to follow
DC United vs Red Bulls in Carolina
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
Future of Sports Law Symposium
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
Sunil Gulati’s first move
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
Ministry of Truth is not hard at work
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