The first couple of days of the Beach Soccer World Cup have delivered quite a lot of tits and ass action... as you can now see by the new thumbnail gallery feature I've finally enabled... yay me! Anyway, I've even thrown in a highlight of last nights humiliating 8-1 drubbing ...

Do you remember the Cheerleaders of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Marseille 2008? Well the 2009 version of them came out during the Summer of 2009 for the Euro Beach Soccer League (Euro BS League or EBSL). In case you didn't know, it's an annual European competition in beach soccer that allows national teams [.

I believe that it is absolutely key for the Rowdies to do some grassroots, innovative marketing to be successful. They have decided to resurrect the Rowdies' name and associate themselves with the NASL team.
Take a look at what DC United of MLS is doing to promote their US Open Cup final showdown with Seattle Sounders FC.

Actually, the title of this post may be a bit misleading since I do recall reading a recent Offside blog post where the author claimed to know nothing about soccer in St. Louis except "the spanking hot Hope Solo." Anyhooo, our Fearless Leader™ is having a training camp next week with the usual suspects plus a few of the current NCAA Div 1 standouts.

GOALKEEPERS - Jon Busch (Chicago Fire), Troy Perkins (Valarenga), Luis Robles (Kaiserslautern)

DEFENDERS - Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Clarence Goodson (IK Start), Jay Heaps (New England Revolution), Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew), Michael Parkhurst (Nordsjaellands), Heath Pearce (Hansa Rostock)

MIDFIELDERS - Davy Arnaud (Kansas City Wizards), Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Colin Clark (Colorado Rapids), Sam Cronin (Toronto FC), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders), Stuart Holden (Houston Dynamo), Logan Pause (Chicago Fire), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)

FORWARDS - Freddy Adu (Benfica), Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo), Kenny Cooper (FC Dallas), Charlie Davies (Hammarby), Santino Quaranta (D.

The recent swine flu scare has been weighing heavy on everyone's minds lately. People have been advised to avoid public places if possible and stay indoors. For the people of Mexico City this head has been taken very seriously.

As a precaution to the spread of the flu virus officials of the Mexican First Division have decided that this weekend games will be played without fans.

Below are the pics Crocs and I took at the Beach Soccer event in Oceanside, California on Sunday!

If you see your picture feel free to right click on it, then save it to your computer. It's free so have at it!

"Wait, your finger is covering the lens!

The Xtreme Soccer League announced today that Rookie of the Year and Milwaukee Wave player Marco Terminesi has signed a contract with the Minnesota Thunder of USL-1 and will join the team this week.

Terminesi, 24, is a native of Woodbridge, Ontario. He comes off a season in which he scored 52 points for the Wave, second in the XSL.

Tati Rossi is proudly sporting her JMS Academy Training top at one of her local soccer fields in Oceanside, California! Her Dad is the legendary Coach Gino on Twitter and runs one of the best beach soccer tournaments in the country called the Southern California Beach Soccer Championships!

I'm preparing for my first two-week vacation in three years, so there's no column today.

I'll return next Tuesday with a review of the forthcoming Spanish-language futbol movie "Rudo Y Cursi," which opens May 8 in L.A., and a look at soccer movies in general.

A couple of items of note to pass along:

*CONCACAF this morning announced it was postponing indefinitely the region's Beach Soccer Championship scheduled to begin Wednesday in Puerto Vallarta due to the spread of swine flu in Mexico.

image via Puerto Rico Islanders

This week's guest on the Jared Montz Soccer Podcast is John Krause of the Puerto Rico Islanders. John plays center back for the Islanders and helped lead them on their dream run in the CONCACAF Champions League tournament. Unfortunately the team was defeated in the semi finals in an absolute nail biter!

image via Leonard Griffin (this was taken in New Zealand during the Galaxy's off season tour)

This week's guest on the Jared Montz Soccer Podcast is Leonard Griffin of the LA Galaxy. Leonard (Leo) is an excellent player who has been around professional soccer for about 6 years now.

I'm a bit overwhelmed with the soccer available this weekend, and excited.
The only live soccer I'll be seeing was this morning, when the West End Terrorists (Jacob's team, though they now only use their name privately and on the team sheet are just, 'West End') won their second indoor game 8:2, against the Feral Rats.

The spectacle that was the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup came to a close tonight in Dubai and I learnt two things by being at the match... a) The Swiss should stick to making watches, chocolates and secretive bank accounts and b) no matter what country, weather or terrain, ...

The recent swine flu scare has been weighing heavy on everyone's minds lately. People have been advised to avoid public places if possible and stay indoors. For the people of Mexico City this head has been taken very seriously.

As a precaution to the spread of the flu virus officials of the Mexican First Division have decided that this weekend games will be played without fans.

Soccer - Summer is fast approaching and it is time for beach soccer adjournments. Next week there will be the a tournament here in Oceanside California which follows by another one in San Diego and many more to come across country.

But Sand gets hot when you play on it in summer time also you never know what kinda things you can step on that is why there is Sand soccer socks.

Saturday was a great day at the beach in Oceanside, California! Crocs and I walked around all day and said hello to everyone we could! I wanted to get the pictures up as soon as possible so you can enjoy them! I promise a more formal blog post and video telling the story of the weekend will be coming soon!

Sorry it took a day or two to get the rest of the Saturday pictures up! Crocs was very popular so I have a lot of pics!!

Just like last time if you see your picture feel free to right click on it and then save it to your computer for Free!

Shannon Boxx and I pose for a pic with crocs!

A few weeks ago before I left my beach soccer trip in Oceanside, California I interviewed Mitch Day of the English Beach Soccer National Team on MontzTV. Mitch is a great guy and will be sporting some Jared Montz Soccer gear this week at the European Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers in Spain!

Hector Reynosa of Club Gualdajara uses Sebastian Penco of Chile's Everton as a spittoon. The Chilean media saw this as a way of intimidating players using the threat of swine flu. Reynosa later apologized but said he was reacting to taunts calling him "a leper."

Its quite graphic but it tell us that swine flu fears are causing havoc with soccer matches all across Latin and Central America with clubs like Boca Juniors expressing concern about traveling to Mexico to meet SLP in the Copa Libertadores.

On Wednesday of this week I am flying to Oceanside, California to be a special guest at the Southern California Beach Soccer Championships! One of the people behind this great event is Gino Rossi. He and I met via Twitter (follow him @BeachSoccer) a few months ago and got to talking soccer and next thing you know I am on my way to California for the 2nd largest beach soccer event in the country!

Part 2 of Jimmy interview...I ask Jimmy about his post playing career, TV, Radio. How much longer he thinks he will play. He talks about the possibility of coaching as well. Talks about Preki and his coaching. Jimmy discusses Coach Zavagnin and giving him a hard time.Look for Jimmy on Fox Soccer Channel and his Beach Soccer color commentary.

The Xtreme Soccer League announced today that Rookie of the Year and Milwaukee Wave player Marco Terminesi has signed a contract with the Minnesota Thunder of USL-1 and will join the team this week.

Terminesi, 24, is a native of Woodbridge, Ontario. He comes off a season in which he scored 52 points for the Wave, second in the XSL.

When I was in Oceanside, California a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet Alex Kotler who runs his own company called Football Partnerships. He was a cool guy and he has a pretty sweet Football (soccer) business to business type social network thing going. As a business person I am now a fan and I stay up to date with the great information he is putting out.

Even if you didn't necessarily need it, it's definitely nice to be reminded of why exactly you chose to devote unscrupulous time, love, thought, and effort towards something so supplementary and perhaps even pointless, depending on your worldview. I'm afforded these moments almost daily on a wide-scale level with sports (see above picture), but as my mania is dominated around the (traditionally) white ball with a dozen black pentagons (and the brown grooved ball with black trim - probably more so), Chelsea-Inter at the Rose Bowl a turn of the moon ago was about as good a reminder as could possibly be received stateside.

CSKA coach Luboslav Penev suspended a bunch of players on the team recently for late-night partying.
Then the team went over his head and reinstated the guys.
Penev subsequently resigned and the team is not honoring it.
Craziness.
Now some links:

• New Anfield naming rights?

Mit viel Freude kann ich euch heute verkünden, dass wir hier auf Fritten, Fussball & Bier ein Gewinnspiel zum Kinofilm von Eric Cantona machen dürfen. Sein neuer Film „Looking for Eric" spielt er sich selbst und versucht einem gescheiterten Fan das Leben auf seine Art und Weise nahe zu bringen. Der Film des britischen Meisterregisseurs [.

The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup kicks off today on Jumeirah Beach and I'm going to be heading down there as often as I can to get in on it. Having to 'work for the man' means I don't get the pleasure of being able to frolic around Dubai chasing ...

Monday 16th November
19:45 Coleraine v Glenavon, IFA Premiership, Sky Sports 1 & HD1
Not much to talk about this week. The last knockings of World Cup qualifying is underway with precious little local interest. So instead, Sky have wheeled out this rare gem from Northern Ireland.
Tuesday 17th November
19:45 Northern Ireland v Czech Republic, U21 International , Sky Sports 1& HD1
This is a European Championship Qualifier.

Nachos. Sleeping in. Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Oh yeah, and beach soccer.

Another action packed day at the Jumierah beach soccer stadium and another day when I think my obsessive fascination with cheer leaders has reached crisis level. I would sound the alarm, but there's still 4 days left in this tournament, so I ain't pulling the plug just yet! Teams to ...

There's nothing new here. Brazil will take home another world title in the beach football. This Sunday in Dubai, Brazil beat Switzerland 10 5 in the final and won its 4 title in a row. In 5 editions of the World Cup, Brazil did not win only the first one in 2005.

I think very soon no one will invite Brazil to play beach football.

Uruguayan beach soccer player, you have lost my respect.
Or that dude's scream does some damage.