Kartik Krishnaiyer of Major League Soccer Talk invited me onto his show to discuss the ongoing situation between the USL-1 Team Owners Association (TOA) and the United Soccer League. As you know, the USL announced Nike's sale of the league to NuRock Holdings last week after a supposed high bid was awarded to a group headed up by Jeff Cooper of St.

We had a request via Twitter for Tony Limarzi's call of Sunday's final two goals. You ask, we deliver.

Emilio's game-tying goal in the 90th minute:

And here's the call on Chris Pontius' game-winner just a minute and a half later that captured the win for the Black-and-Red:

I'll provide a dollar to anyone that accurately transcribe what Tony says during the run-up to Chris' goal.

The Minnesota Thunder opened their 2009 preseason workouts on Friday. In attendance was Nic Platter, senior goalkeeper for the team who was wearing the familiar Thunder goalkeeping training kit rather than the DC United one he had donned the last 3-weeks. Platter took a few minutes after the teams workout to explain the reason that [.

Inside Minnesota Soccer talks with South African native, Jonathan Greenfield who plays central defense for the Minnesota Thunder. Greenfield tells us about his offseason with the Baltimore Blast of the National Indoor Soccer League and the exciting final which saw Greenfield finally win a championship after two other finals left him disappointed.

Steve Olson seen on far left at US Cup 1993 in a match between Brazil and Germany

Todays guest is Steve Olson who is currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer of the National Sports Center. Olson was certified as a referee in 1973 and certified as a National referee in 1983. He became a FIFA assistant referee in 1992 and retired from professional refereeing in 1997 to start a family.

You're all familiar with DC101's DJ-extraordinaire Roche (3-7 p.m. every day on 101.1!). What you may or may not know, is he is a big soccer guy and a D.C. United supporter through and through.

Roche approached me several weeks ago about his desire to do a podcast with United and MLS guys, but he didn't want it to be your run of the mill soccer podcast.

Taylor and Tim Twellman

As part of the Schawan's USA Cup tournament, Taylor Twellman came to Minnesota to speak to high school players.

Tim Twellman, former Minnesota Kicks player joins Taylor Twellman of the New England Revolution in a very fun and informative conversation concerning life growing up for Taylor as a multi-sport athlete and having numerous professional athletes including his father as role models.

Yesterday, Roche of DC101 had Chris Pontius on his show as a guest to discuss Sunday's game against Real Madrid. Listen to the full interview below..

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After Saturday's 0-0 draw between the Galaxy and Chivas USA, Bruce Arena and Preki each seemed a bit more upbeat than you'd expect. Perhaps because at the point that each team went down a man, the respective coaches were probably praying for or at least would have been content with a draw, which is exactly what they got.

... where a fired-up Sengkang Punggol defeated the newly-crowned League Cup champions, Brunei DPMM 2-1, coaches of both sides shared their thoughts with the media after the match.

• Sengkang Punggol's caretaker coach Aide Iskandar's comment after the game.
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Shadow Boxing football is a joy to watch actually.
As what Super Reds had shown us how fundamental skills were being applied to curb a superior team like SAFFC, who were, honestly, out-of-sort hours ago.
Pending how individual look at it, for me it was a joy to watch despite the snail-paced of football played as it's not very often we seen such simplicity style of being played in an era when the game is getting more complex with list of dubious formations and much focused on pace, rather than the basic skills we first taught to master at very young age.

The Carleton men's soccer team coached by Bob Carlson who is in his 13 year with the Knights are 8-1 in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and 12-3 overall. They are now on a 10-game winning streak and have moved up to number 2 in the NSCAA ranking for the North region in Division III.

Today's guest is Teal Bunbury of the Akron of Ohio Zips soccer team. Teal has been a resident of Minnesota since 2000 growing up in Prior Lake. He played for the Rochester Thunder PDL team this past summer and has 17 goals for Akron this season. As a sophomore he leads the NCAA in scoring.

The Minnesota Thunder opened their 2009 training with a session on Friday morning at the National Sports Centers indoor facility. While the sun was shining outside, temperatures remained in the 20's°. However, Inside temps were much warmer as the team prepared for the following days scrimmage in Cedar Rapids Iowa with MLS opponent, Kansas City [.

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Minnesota native Tony Sanneh is a 15 year veteran of the game. Tony is back on the field with his old boss, Bruce Arena, playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Tony had the weekend off and found himself back in his home state. Inside Minnesota Soccer caught up with him last Saturday at the Minnesota Thunder's [.

The most recent ESPN Soccernet podcast - with Jen Chang, Andrew Hush and David Mosse - discusses United's stadium situation.

Listen here.

The discussion starts just after the 9:00 minute mark.

With the Minnesota Thunder 2009 home opener just 2 days away, Inside Minnesota Soccer sits down with Thunder head coach, Don Gramenz.

Gramenz talks to IMS about the team and asses their long April road-trip. He also tells us what the team must do to improve their record and gives us his insight into some of the latest signings.

Inside Minnesota Soccer talks with South African native Jonathan Greenfield, who plays central defense for the Minnesota Thunder. Greenfield tells us about his offseason with the Baltimore Blast of the National Indoor Soccer League and the exciting final which saw Greenfield finally win a championship after two other finals left him disappointed.

Russell Hurder is the Thunder kit sponsor - for now

Thunder fans were all abuzz when the team took the field on Saturday evening for their home opener. Not only because the team was making their first appearance on the NSC field in nearly 7 months but also because of the red logo on the front of the new Nike kits that Minnesota was wearing.

Here's Tony Limarzi's call from Santinio Quaranta's game-tying goal Saturday night at Chivas.

Here's the audio from Bryan Namoff's appearance on KALL700 earlier tonight.

After doing admirably in the hated beep test and being put through a workout by the training staff, Danny Szetela sat down with our intern Anthony to chat. Among the topics discussed: why he wanted to be in D.C., his U.S. National Team aspirations, his time abroad in Italy and Spain, his preferred position and last night's win over Rochester.

Bruce McGuire walks in front of an empty Azteca Stadium. Photo by Kevin Joseph

Most soccer fans in Minnesota who follow the game outside of the state of Minnesota are familiar with the web site called duNord Futbol which is the work of our own Bruce McGuire. A contingent of Minnesota fans were down in Mexico for the game last week and McGuire was one of them.

Junior Molly Rouse ruled the midfield for the Gophers. Photo By Jeremy Olson - www.digitalgopher.net

Coach Mikki Denny-Wright could not have scripted it any better. After a week full of rain and bad weather, the sky's cleared and the air dried out. With temperatures at game time in the low 70's°, a perfectly blue sky and a nearly full house of 987 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium, the Gophers soccer team just needed a win to end the evening perfectly for coach Denny-Wright.

Kartik Krishnaiyer of Major League Soccer Talk invited me onto his show to discuss the ongoing situation between the USL-1 Team Owners Association (TOA) and the United Soccer League. As you know, the USL announced Nike's sale of the league to NuRock Holdings last week after a supposed high bid was awarded to a group headed up by Jeff Cooper of St.

The Carleton men's soccer team, coached by Bob Carlson who is in his 13th year with the Knights, are 8-1 in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and 12-3 overall. They are now on a 10-game winning streak and have moved up to number 2 in the NSCAA ranking for the North region in Division III.

The usual suspects are back again, this time discussing the press statement released yesterday by US Soccer regarding the decision not to sanction any 2nd division league for the 2010 Season.

Pasion Naranja's Kristian Vázquez, The Katirk Report and SPA's Kartik Krishnaiyer, and your truly discuss with Set Piece Analysts host Richard Farley the ins and outs of US Soccer's press release.

The Minnesota Thunder opened their 2009 preseason workouts on Friday. In attendance was Nic Platter, senior goalkeeper for the team who was wearing the familiar Thunder goalkeeping training kit rather than the DC United one he had donned the last 3-weeks. Platter took a few minutes after the teams workout to explain the reason that [.

The Minnesota Thunder opened their 2009 training with a session on Friday morning at the National Sports Centers indoor facility. While the sun was shining outside, temperatures remained in the 20's°. However, Inside temps were much warmer as the team prepared for the following days scrimmage in Cedar Rapids Iowa with MLS opponent, Kansas City [.

Minnesota native Tony Sanneh is a 15 year veteran of the game. Tony is back on the field with his old boss, Bruce Arena, playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Tony had the weekend off and found himself back in his home state. Inside Minnesota Soccer caught up with him last Saturday at the Minnesota Thunder's [.

Some more post-game audio from Sunday.
Eduardo Lillingston apparently speaks English, but he preferred to talk after Sunday's game in Spanish. I had my digital recorder closer to him and further away from the translator but there is some English thrown in there if you need the help.
Anyway, here's Lillingston talking about the game and MLS and telling me he was going to enjoy the win before thinking about the Galaxy.

I jumped in a bit late on the Jesse Marsch conversation so that's why it starts kind of mid-sentence.
Also, a bit of a disclaimer: I wore a Mexican club's jersey to the game so that's what he's referring to.
Here's the link to the audio.

I got my digital recorder back and finally have time to post some stuff.
First up is the press conference from Sunday. Preki joined us and talked about the game and some of the performances. The fun started late in the press conference after Preki fielded a question on the Galaxy and whether he watched the game on Saturday or not.

With the Minnesota Thunder 2009 home opener just 2 days away, Inside Minnesota Soccer sits down to talk with Thunder head coach, Don Gramenz.

Gramenz talks to IMS about the team and asseses their long April road-trip. He also tells us what the team must do to improve their record and gives us his insight into some of the latest signings.

Steve Olson seen on far left at US Cup 1993 in a match between Brazil and Germany

Today's guest is Steve Olson who is currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer of the National Sports Center. Olson was certified as a referee in 1973 and certified as a National referee in 1983. He became a FIFA assistant referee in 1992 and retired from professional refereeing in 1997 to start a family.

Taylor and Tim Twellman

As part of the Schwan's USA Cup tournament, Taylor Twellman came to Minnesota to speak to high school players concerning a company his father Tim works for that matches student athletes up with colleges for recruiting. I was able to arrange an interview with Taylor and thought it might be fun to included his father in the conversation.

Last night, Tom Soehn was a guest on Rochester's 'Soccer Is A Kick In The Grass' radio program to discuss tonight's game versus the Rhinos. T-Soehn is the first guest on the program, while the hosts also talk to the Rhino's all-time leading goal-scorer, Doug Miller.

Earlier today, United President Kevin Payne and Real Madrid executive (and former stud player) Emilio Butragueño held a conference call today with media to discuss the two club's upcoming friendly on August 9. Listen to the entire call below.