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I have no proof that this is going to happen, but in my head I see Freddy Adu and Jozy Altidore
meeting in Andorra or somewhere in the Pyrenees mountains this week on a day off from training.
They'll sit at the bar, order a rare cognac (because those two are sooooo legal in Europe) and then
one of them will hold his snifter aloft and belt out the following toast:
"To Charles Renken, the next "next big thing" in American soccer.
If a team does poorly, or as is the case in modern-day football, fails to entertain, the blame
falls on the manager. That sounds right until you consider that if those bloody millionaires
running aimlessly on the pitch had followed instructions, and if the opposition had turned around
and grabbed their ankles as asked, the [.
Schalke's 3-3 draw with hated local rivals Borussia Dortmund this weekend was a Shakespearean
affair in just about all the senses of that adjective.
There was certainly history. The Blues may hold the slight all-time head-to-head advantage over
Borussia, but as any Dortmund fan will tell you, the men in yellow have won a league title in the
past half-century, whereas Schalke haven't.
Sometimes it only takes one player to turn a game from an almost genial affair, to your typical
men's game complaint session. We're winding down the adult leagues as well, and the men's playoffs
are right around the corner, and even though both of these two teams are inside the playoff zone
(and presumably would like to stay there), the first half was downright nice - although I could see
one person who could, if he wanted, light the fuse that could turn it it into something nasty.
