Just a few hours before the axe finally fell on Sven Goran Eriksson's tenure as Mexican national team manager, we here at SBI were able to have fun with one of his final moments in charge of 'El Tri' courtesy an image taken from Mexico's 3-1 loss to Honduras.

The picture shows Sven having words with Mexican striker Nery Castillo, who Sven also coached at Manchester City.

Unfortunately, Dasan Robinson cannot be the fall guy for this one. After his late heroics/ complete stupidity against Colorado, I can't remember that last time that I wanted kiss something and kill it at the same time, I thought the Fire were in for a long night against DC United.

With only 3 healthy defenders, the Fire entrusted the LB duties to Mike Banner, the second year youngster who weighs maybe a buck-thirty and spends most of his time playing as an attacking midfielder.

Taking a look at the CONCACAF Gold Cup schedule released today and I am struck by 3 things. Frequent Flyer Miles anyone? 3 matches in 3 different cities in every friggin corner of the US. Let#8217;s, for argument sake, say that the team starts in Toronto. They fly to LA to play Jamaica on July 3, then off [.

The Fist Pump...a sign of things to come?

I should clarify, 3 Things to Look For- From a Madrid Perspective. This is a Spanish soccer website after all.

Although the preseason is young, several trends have emerged in Real Madrid's performences and it will be interesting to see if they continue when Real take on the Old Lady of Italian Football, Juventus(Kick-off: Friday, July 31 2009, 20:30 CET).

So El Clasico is finally upon us... and what better way to embrace it than by playing one of our own games? We rounded up two loco and incredible passionate futbolitas Messa (Barca) and Leo (Real Madrid) who were more than excited to get fired up about everything from Pep's formations to the sexy jugadores themselves.