It would be easy for me to sit here at my little keyboard, mocking someone who had the courage to chase their dream. It would also be easy for me to eat, sleep and breathe. Just because something's easy doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. I plan to tell people that even if Giuseppe Rossi did declare for the US, he'd have been dropped for Herculez. Simon Elliott's going to the World Cup. Giuseppe Rossi…
Saw three games today. Chelsea-Villa was one of those European games I'm going to point to as proof that MLS isn't THAT bad. Don't get me wrong, Union-United wasn't beautifully played by any stretch of the imagination. But at least it was energetic and exciting. I guess they wanted to put on a good show for Joe Biden. Hey, you know who's really horrible this year? DC United. I can only imagine how infuriating it…
An Akron Beacon Journal blogger has reported that SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE AKRON UNIVERSITY NCAA CHAMPIONS will enter the MLS draft in two weeks. Along with likely senior draftees midfielder Anthony Ampaipitakwong and defender Chris Korb, underclassmen Darlington Nagbe, Kofi Sarkodie, Michael Nanchoff, Zarek Valentin and Perry Kitchen have all signed Generation adidas contracts and will be available for selection on January 13. I suppose it's too much to hope that Caleb Porter will say…
Bill pretty much pre-empted the joke about which jersey Jair Marrufo got last night. I assume based on the refereeing it was a Chivas USA shirt, but I can't imagine he needs a dishrag that badly. I think it was simply consideration on the part of the viewing audience to keep the game close. No one thinks Zach Thornton got a bad jump on the second goal, and ten years ago he catches that free…
(If the audio autolaunches, send your complaints directly to Huss or Dark Knight, not me. I'm innocent) Credit where it's due, the boys at Major League Soccer Soccer have apparently changed their minds and have now posted the video. Not piling on, but a lot of people complained that they didn't get a good look at it, so here it is in all it's glory. I'm gonna guess that it's worse than you envisioned, as…
Now that MLS and the Players Union have agreed to meet with a mediator in the room – a move which smells an awful lot like window dressing for the unions' impending El Foldo routine – it's time to stop tiptoeing around the singularly ugly truth, something which we haven't heard much of recently. The Players Union has obviously told their membership that the message they need to deliver when being interviewed on the subject…
It should be a great time to be a fan of Ayr United. Ayr (pronounced ‘air’) had a poor season last year, but are currently top of Scottish League One having already won more games this season than they did last season, and as I’m writing this are on a 13-match unbeaten streak, which is the longest currently in all 4 Scottish divisions. Instead, fans of Ayr, known as the Honest Men, have been dismayed…
Well, five years wasn't enough to properly evaluate Chris Wondolowski. But looking back on SuperDrafts are like looking back on memorable road accidents. So let's get the conclusion out of the way. You don't build a winner through the MLS SuperDraft. You build a winning MLS team through trades and discovery players. The 2006 SuperDraft proves this to an embarrassing degree. Then again, so do all the other SuperDrafts. The MLS SuperDraft is little more…
Juergen Klinsmann, who will be working for ESPN during the World Cup, had A FEW WORDS with an AP reporter about Landon Donovans' time at Bayern and the decision to pass on the USMNT Head Coaching job. California Klinsy told the AP that he decided not to take the job "because he wasn't guaranteed top players" for the 2007 Copa America and CONCACAF Gold Cup: "There were different opinions, you know, what players could…
On Sunday, QPR’s relegation from the Premier League was confirmed when they travelled to Manchester City in a win-or-bust situation and, in a performance which pretty much summed up their season, meekly lost 6-0. Unfortunately for QPR fans, this season wasn’t really any different from when they were relegated two seasons ago. Once again they had Harry Redknapp in charge; a man I don’t believe is suited to managing in the modern game anymore. Once…