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The Philadelphia Union selected the first 10 players in a league expansion draft yesterday.
Highlighting Union head coach Peter Nowak's 10 selections are MLS veterans Alejandro Moreno and
Shavar Thomas, both of whom started 17 games for their respective clubs in 2009. Moreno, a
Venezuelan international, just completed his eighth year in MLS, has scored 43 regular season goals
in his career, and scored in MLS Cup 2008 for the Columbus Crew.
CHICAGO (May 28, 2009) — U.S. Men's National Team assistant coach Peter Nowak has resigned from
his position with U.S. Soccer to pursue other career opportunities.
Nowak served as head coach Bob Bradley's top assistant for more than two years, and led the U.S.
Under-23 Men's National Team during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
That's right ... this will be our last post in this here YNT Blog, as the brand new ussoccer.com
launched this afternoon. You can still find archived blog entries here, that highlight everything
from the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup through the launching of the Development Academy and the 2008
Beijing Olympics, not to mention silver and gold medal efforts at the FIFA U-17 WWC and FIFA U-20
WWC, respectively.
Spain's La Liga is littered with impressive youngsters. Youngsters who are superstars in the
making. Youngsters who have shown that their future clearly lies at one of Spain's, or Europe's,
big guns rather than at their current mid to lower table employers. Here are the best eleven of
them.
Formation: 4-3-3 (Admittedly not a perfect 4-3-3, but close enough).
Spanish sports fans have gained a sad reputation for abject behaviour toward minority groups.
English fans will remember the night in November 2004 when Spanish fans hurled racist abuse and
made monkey chants at England's black players in a match between the two countries. This prompted
Ashley Cole to announce that he will never play for a club in "racist Spain".
Spanish sports fans have gained a sad reputation for abject behaviour toward minority groups.
English fans will remember the night in November 2004 when Spanish fans hurled racist abuse and
made monkey chants at England's black players in a match between the two countries. This prompted
Ashley Cole to announce that he will never play for a club in "racist Spain".
