It was two years ago that this very site did something bold. Bold isn't always good, though. No,
this bit of boldness was met with collective displeasure we'd only gone and drawn parallels with
Antonio Valencia's style of football with that of ... Garrincha's. Alegria do Povo,
himself.
Put all your partisanship aside and enjoy the ball in flight. It's been switched crossed field
from the inside-left position by the skillful, balding, English bulldog in ballet slippers to the
man on the right touch in all black boots and pomade-infused black hair. Taken out of the air with
the inside of the foot and stopped dead by the simplest of grace, the game has changed from a waltz
on spiked Lucozade to an aguardiente-inspired pasillo remix.
For the third team in the two plus month old 2011 MLS Season a player has suffered a broken bone as
a result of a tackle. This weekend it was Javier Morales of Real Salt Lake who broke his ankle
during this tackle by Chivas USA's Marcos Mondaini:
This tackle induced injury comes on the heels of two other high profile incidents where tackles
resulted in broken bones.
