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And the hits just keep on comin'. While I am still (eagerly) awaiting the arrival of my review copy
of Grant Wahl's ‘The Beckham Experiment,' I was sent the link to a story published in today's
Boston Globe regarding The Golden One's reaction to time he spent at a local hotel. According to
the story, Old Spice was appalled by the deplorable conditions that greeted him when the team
arrived at the Sheraton Braintree Hotel, located just outside of Boston, for an away game against
the New England Revolution.
It is not uncommon for a coach to be fined for comments made about officiating, but when you see
why Tony DiCicco was fined the other day, it certainly seems like the WPS is walking the line with
disciplining a coach who didn't say anything over the top.
The WPS Disciplinary Committee fined Boston Breakers coach Tony DiCicco $750 for comments after the
game that had "an effect prejudicial and detrimental to WPS including public criticism of game
officials and WPS officiating generally.
Ok, so the United States gave Brazil all it could handle in the 2009 Confederations Cup final,
falling to the 5-time World Cup champions, 3-2.
But what does it really mean?
According to the Boston Globe's Mark Stokes, this final could be the match that pushes soccer into
the forefront of American sports.
It's hard to believe, perhaps, but tonight D.C. United wraps up its regular season series with
the New England Revolution - just 12 games into the 2009 League campaign. D.C. stole points at home
back on April 17 thanks to a goal in extra time from Ben Olsen, resulting in a 1-1 draw. Tonight,
the Black-and-Red will be without #14, however, as he is still recovering from a hamstring strain,
while Christian Gomez was also left behind due to an injury (bruised toe) suffered in last week's
game against Real Salt Lake.
USA 3 : 0 Egypt
USA 3, Egypt 0: The Highlights - Soccer By Ives
Against All Odds, U.S. Reaches Confederations Semis - Soccer y Futbol
Glory! Egypt 0 : 3 United States - Prost Amerika
Davies: US Victory Satisfying - Yanks Abroad
US Advances To Confederations Cup Semis - Associated Press
Heart & Passion Finally Came Back To Advance Into The Semis - MLS Talk
USA 3 - 0 Egypt: A Few Thoughts - MLS Daily
Houdini Lives.
Sounds ominous, I now ... but I'm just talking about the beginning of the end of the month,
here. It's been a frozen, snowy January - in fact I can't remember the last time I saw bare
ground here in NH. Not that I'm complaining. So long as it's mostly snow (as opposed to
ice) [...]
Tonight, D.C. United faces the New England Revolution for the first time in 2009. The game is
set to kickoff at 7 p.m. ET at RFK Stadium and will be broadcast on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. You
can listen on the radio in English (1050 AM) or in Spanish (730 AM).
The coaching staff will have a difficult task ahead of them this evening, as nearly every player
on the 24-man roster is available.
Americans Abroad / USMNT
European Clubs Eyeing Clark And Davies - Soccer By Ives
Davies Evaluates Tournament, Future - Yanks Abroad
Castillo For USA? - Soccer Insider
An Attempt At Perspective - Match Fit USA
Soccer May Just Have Arrived In America - Corner Kicks (Boston Globe)
An American Fan's View From Baghdad - Goal (NY Times)
Castillo: 'I Would Play For The United States' - USSoccerPlayers.
EXTRA SPECIAL STARTERS
Love Is In The Air!
Our friend Jeremy Olson aka DigitalGopher caught the Montreal Impact in full meltdown mode last
Saturday night during a 3-0 loss to our Minnesota Thunder.
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So word has it that the upcoming HUUUGE Mexico v USA World Cup qualifier will not be shown on a
channel that 99% of us fans can get. Telemundo owns the rights to all games from Mexico, and their
plan is to broadcast it in English on a spin-off channel they have called Mun2.
At least, that's what my mom always tells me, mostly because I married a guy whose surname is
Toole. But it's true--soccer fans, use the right tools for the job. In this case, the job is banner
construction.
Hi, my name's Prairie, and I make banners. What started out as a way to spruce things up around the
games at Gillette Stadium turned into a hobby and now sort of a freelance job.
QUESTION ON MY MIND
So who is joining me in Chicago on Saturday for the Fire game against New England? How many times
have I seen these two duke it out? Like old timey boxing? Can't wait! See you there!
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Real Salt Lake followed New York's lead from last year and knocked the defending MLS Cup winners
out of the playoffs in the first round.
New England Revolution defender Jay Heaps has decided to retire from professional soccer and will
make the official announcement later this week, according to a report in the Boston Globe. His
leadership and experience will be sorely missed by New England, who fielded two rookies (Kevin
Alston, Darrius Barnes) alongside Heaps in defense for the majority of the 2009 season.
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Thursday morning, USA v Brazil, at 8:55am Central time. Where will you be watching? I will be at
the Sweetwater as usual. See you there. (location details in the right hand column) Please come say
hi!
dN
Wow! Am I a dumbass or what? Yesterday I made a little fuss over the fact that 4 MLS teams have
this coming weekend off.
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Bernardo Fallas of the Houston Chronicle says that MLS order the Houston Dynamo media department to
change credit on a goal last weekend from a Bobby Boswell Own Goal to a Fabian Espindola goal. If
this is true it's totally bogus.
TEAM USA - CONFEDERATIONS CUP
See you on Wednesday afternoon at the Sweetwater to watch the Semifinal miracle game for the USA.
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Landon Donovan On if the USA's run in the tournament gained respect for U.S. Soccer: "... we're at
the point where we don't want respect, we want to win."
CONFEDERATIONS CUP SOUTH AFRICA 2009
Final match:
-Sun Jun 28
USA 2-3 Brazil - USA goals by Clint Dempsey & Landon Donovan.
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Frank Dell'apa who covers soccer in our country as well as anyone over the past 20 years has
started a blog, Soccer Confidential, to help us all keep tabs on the interesting stuff that only he
can dig up. I love it. Welcome to blogland Frank. (Dell'apa's main gig was with the Boston Globe,
where last year he was removed from the soccer beat to cover the Boston Celtics NBA team.
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Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer reports that Red Bull New York coach Juan Carlos Osorio has
resigned. His assistant Richie Williams will once again be at the wheel of the company truck.
MLS
Do you think Houston got a talented player in Luis Landin?
QUESTION ON MY MIND
Will we ever know what happened in the Charlie Davies car accident? Who was driving? How did the
crash occur? What was he doing out past 3am? Maybe he had special dispensation from the coach to be
out late. Who knows.
Maybe this info is too private, but I know that these are things the fans would like to read about.
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DC United announced that head coach Tom Soehn has resigned, so the team now join New York, Kansas
City and Toronto in the hunt for a new leader.
MLS PLAYOFF NEWS
It was great to see that New England had scrubbed their field of all football lines for Sunday's
game.
