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Well things kind of went the way that many people kind of expected it today, plenty of people last
night were predicting that Jalil Anibaba and AJ Soares would be off the board when KC picked at the
10 spot. Soares went to the Revolution at the 6 spot while Anibaba almost fell to the Wizards, but
was grabbed by Chicago at the 9 spot.
So Thursday I watched the Nats practice for the Chile game. The lack of excitement around Southern
California for this game is palpable, sadly enough. Beating Chile won't make us a world power, and
losing to them won't kill the sport. But it's the first step of a long process, and I wanted to get
a closer look.
SBI Combine Spotlight: AJ Soares from Soccer By Ives on Vimeo.
Dave Clark asked me to put together a review of the action today for SAH since I was able to
catch some of the games live. I also went back and re-watched the highlights and the game feed. You
can see it all on the MLS site.
Overall, the games were pretty pedestrian. The pace was noticeably slower than in the MLS and
it's clear that many of the players are having a hard time connecting up with their new
teammates.
It's that time of year again, it's time for another MLS draft and tomorrow in Baltimore KC will get
the rights to 3 players for the next season. KC has the 10th, 32nd, and 46th picks tomorrow.
There's been tons of speculation on who is going to be taken in the draft by KC. It seems like
every mock draft has a different person being taken in the number 10 spot.
The New England Revolution found itself on the outside of the playoff picture looking in last
season. In an effort to avoid a repeat of that scenario, the Revs looked to shore up its defense by
landing one of the top centerback prospects in the MLS SuperDraft, taking California's A.J. Soares
with the sixth overall pick.
With the US national team kicking off their2011 schedule tomorrow night against Chile, LA Galaxy
defender AJ DeLaGarza hopes to impress and be part of Bob Bradley's plans moving forward.
Here at CCN we haven't got too involved with the whole transfer window nonsense. Perhaps the
recent good performances have dulled our hunger; perhaps the return of various players just make
things look a bit better.
Before the window we'd have identified the following needs:
a defender of some sort.
Is this the Tottenham Hotspur we never beat, the team intending to go deep into the Champions'
League, and which contains some of the most irresistible attacking players in the country? It
must be.
This team could have lost 7-0 today. Fulham had to make do with four. Spurs made a gift of
them all, but Fulham would point to tremendous pressure to force these mistakes, and faultless
execution in taking advantage of them.
