STARTERSBoth Charlie Davies and Tim Ream were named to their respective team's game day 18 player roster
for this weekend.
dN
Today was the 2nd preseason game of the year for Vancouver and guess what: "20'- old friend Atiba
Harris gets first caution for hard tackle on sideline against Bengelloun".
STARTERS
Medio Tiempo with an article saying CONMEBOL is making a huge proposal to CONCACAF for the 100th
Anniversary of CONMEBOL in 2016 - scrap the Copa America, scrap the Gold Cup and hold 1 joint
tournament in the United States with 10 CONMEBOL teams and 8 CONCACAF teams!
STARTERSFabio Capello has quit as coach of England, over the FA's decision to not allow the idiot John
Terry to be captain.
-I guess Capello felt undermined by the decision and could not be in charge of his team at Euro
2012.
-Stuart Pearce has been named interim head coach.
(Summary is not available.)
For ALL fans of Minnesota Stars FC
The annual event is upon us.
Along with the usual slate of comparing winter beards of the male attendees and electing a new
board of directors we have lots of planning to do.
What can you do to help make the Dome Opener a success?
Got an idea for tifo?
STARTERSRidge Mahoney of Soccer America reports sad news that Harry Keough of the USA World Cup team that
beat England in 1950 has passed away.
dN
Vancouver & Seattle faced off in a "friendly" yesterday: 10 yellow cards and 1 red card. Oof!
dN
Another week, another huge day for the LA Galaxy as they sign a new loan deal with Sao Paolo for
the services of central midfielder Juninho, one of the unsung heroes of their great 2011 season.
STARTERS5 minutes into their first preseason game of the year Atiba the Hun Harris of Vancouver picks up a
yellow card for a reckless tackle. The more things change the more they stay exactly the same!
dN
Crazy cool idea! All Colorado Rapids fans that have renewed their season tickets for the 2012
season, as well as those that purchase new seats by March 1, 2012, will have their names printed
into the design of the Rapids authentic home jerseys in 2013 and 2014!
STARTERSUSA will play a friendly against Canada on Sun Jun 3 at BMO Field in Toronto. 6pm CT on the new NBC
Sports.
dN
RUMOR: Sat May 26 USA v Scotland - Friendly - EverBank Field, Jacksonville FL - all other info
TBD
DISASTER IN EGYPTAlex Labidou of Goal.
STARTERSIts just 37 days until the 17th season of MLS begins.
AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS 2012The African Cup of Nations Quarterfinals are all set for this weekend.
dN
Jonathan Wilson of the Guardian on Equatorial Guinea against Ivory Coast.
BREAKING NEWS:
Disaster in Egypt.
Fans of Al Masry in Port Said stormed the field today after a big upset win over Al Ahli, and then
all hell broke lose. As of this posting 73 people are reportedly dead and at least 1000 more
injured. There has been little word yet on how the deaths occurred, but a stampede is being blamed
for most of it.
STARTERS
Wow! Philadelphia really wanted to get rid of Sebastian Le Toux! After he did not get signed by
Bolton this week they turned around and sold him to Vancouver today.
-Why in the world would they dump their best player???
-Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com with the Le Toux saga.
STARTERS
Remember two weeks ago when forward Kris Boyd of Rangers turned down Houston? Well, today he signed
with Portland!! Hoooo-Weeeee! Bet he won't receive a friendly welcome when he makes his first visit
to whatever that new stadium in Houston is called.
dN
After getting a yellow card in the first minute of play(!
STARTERSLandon Donovan set up both Everton goals today as they knocked Fulham out of the FA Cup. Clint
Dempsey was a non-factor for Fulham, who are terrible away from home. And of course Tim Howard
guarded the entrance to the cave like a momma bear as usual for Everton. And a 4th American was
even on the team sheets today as Marcus Hahnemann was the Everton back up keeper.
Here is the USA group schedule for the next round of World Cup qualifying:
Group A
Antigua & Barbuda
Guatemala
Jamaica
USA
Matches & Scores:
-Fri Jun 8
USA v Antigua & Barbuda
-Tue Jun 12
Guatemala v USA
-Fri Sep 7
Jamaica v USA
-Tue Sep 11
USA v Jamaica
-Fri Oct 12
Antigua & Barbuda v USA
-Tue Oct 16
USA v Guatemala
Venues and Times to be announced.
STORY OF THE DAY
James Montague of the New York Times with an article on one of the surprise teams in all of world
soccer right now - Ironi Kiryat Shmona in Israel.
Argentine-American Bryan Gerzicich is a key member of the team.
LANDON DONOVAN V CLINT DEMPSEY
FA Cup Match
-Fri Jan 27
Everton v Fulham - live at 2pm CT on Fox Soccer
TEAM USA - EL EQUIPO DE TODOS
The team is done with the annual January training camp.
