And, ladies and gents, we have our first real goal of the year frontrunner. Seattle's own Fredy Montero makes a flash appearance with a thunderclap from on high to set the final score at 2-0 in a tone-setting win over the Galaxy. Watching this game tonight made me wonder whether Bruce Arena conceded defeat before the opening whistle blew.

Every single "worthy" own goal might be better than the last, and this one might be better than them all. It surely, at least, is the most unique.

Like Swan Lake meets a carnival carousel, Hassan Hissein, of Foullah Edifice in Chad, goes round and round in the most elegant, if unaware, manner, before side-footing a chipped shot into the back of the net.

Every single "worthy" own goal might be better than the last, and this one might be better than them all. It surely, at least, is the most unique.

Like Swan Lake meets a carnival carousel, Hassan Hissein, of Foullah Edifice in Chad, goes round and round in the most elegant, if unaware, manner, before side-footing a chipped shot into the back of the net.

Tunisia The team to beat at Africa Cup of Nations 2012? is a post from: Just Football

My latest African football column for FourFourTwo looks at Tunisia and whether they are the team to beat at this year's AFCON:

For a team that could just as easily be sitting at home watching on TV, they made a pretty good start.

Mrisho Ngassa Scores In World Cup Qualifying

The former trialist with the Sounders helped Tanzania to a 2-1 away win against Chad on the 11th. The second leg is the 15th. The winner advances to the second round a group stage with Ivory Coast, Morocco and Gambia.

Ngassa played as a right winger in the Manchester United friendly and is expected back for 2012 training camp.

Their Words When we built this roster one of the first things we kept in mind was depth. DC United assistant coach Chad Ashton. Other Sources FIFA technology testing moving too slow for MLS - from The Sporting News's Brian Straus: The Galaxy's euphoria became frustration in an instant. Five quiet milestones about to be reached - from MLSsoccer.

Logan Mankins and the New England Patriots have been haggling over a long-term contract for years. On Wednesday, the two sides reportedly came to an agreement. There aren't any dollar figure amounts yet but the deal is said to be for six season. Logan Mankins was set to make a little bit more than $10 million this season.

Kickoff from Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium at 1:00PM GMT, 8:00AM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on ESPNUK in England and FSC in America, as well as on LFCtv online for those with a season pass.

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It's six weeks since the close of the 2010-11 season, and Liverpool's already set to kick off 2011-12 with a preseason visit to Guangzhou to face Guangdong Sunray Cave.

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As the Union prepare for a derby with DC United, the Philly Soccer Page turned to DC assistant Chad Ashton for his thoughts on his own team, the Union, and how a coaching staff can manage its locker room chemistry.

Philly Soccer Page: One of the things DC Coach Ben Olsen said recently was that Philadelphia's strong defense is really what separates these two teams.

Just a quick note to tide me over til morning.
Toronto looked shaky at the start but found some style and looked more and more coherent as the game wore on. I think JDG had one of his better games in a Toronto uniform tonight. The pairing with Tony Tchani seems to be a promising one.
Chad did not score, but he came very close.

After a five-day tryout proved that he was a good teammate who lacked enough soccer skills, NFL star Chad Ochocinco got what he was hoping for Tuesday — a spot on the reserve team for Sporting Kansas City.

Now he'll work out a couple of times a week with the MLS team's reserve squad, which is what he was hoping for all along.

No Chad Ochocinco didn't earn a Major League Soccer contract, but he wasn't given his walking papers either.

After his trial with Sporting Kansas City came to an end, Ochocinco was granted the opportunity to continue working out with the club's reserve team as long as he'd like until the NFL lockout situation is resolved.

I'd say my main critiques from what I've seen of Chad Ochocinco the soccer player are:#1 -His overall footwork is all wrong, in pretty much any situation. It's worse than his touch, which would probably soften significantly if he was out there 5 days a week for a few months or more.#2 - As to the touch.

Another new edition of From the Byline to the Back Post to check out. If you're going on the buses to Chicago tonight it'll give you some listening material. Then you can even ask me about it if you want. This week Thad and I discuss the reserve league, Aurelien Collin, Chad Ochocinco, the game against Chivas, me finally getting to see a win on the road, this week's game in Chicago, and the Comets.

We exchange three questions with Andy Edwards of The Daily Wiz in order to get some insider prespective on Sporting KC as they come to town on Saturday. Andy's answer to my first question is below and the other five questions in the exchange are after the break.

Hot Time In Old Town asks The Daily Wiz

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So today was the first day of Chad Ochocinco's 4 day trial with Sporting Kansas City, and the media circus that was destined to follow was in tow. And after one day I think there's two words that Wizards fans are going to be hearing a lot of over the rest of this week, humble pie. After his first training session with the team, Ochocinco used the word humble in one form or another more times than I think anyone would care to count.

I now am formulating the next great and powerful entertainment Top 5'er, probably to drop this weekend. I won't divulge the precise topic, but will tip off that the impressive young lady at right has easily made the honor roll...#1 - The Chad Ochocinco experiment has begun. His Bengals coach is displeased, but the player says "pfft".

Chad Ochocinco (or Johnson, not sure what he goes by now) is trying out today with Sporting KC.

The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver has always talked about his skills on the real football field and today he will begin a four-day tryout with the Major League Soccer team in Kansas City.

You can watch his tryout live here.

Last week on Twitter, Kei Kamara and Teal Bunbury tweeted at Cincinnati Bengals' wide receiver, Chad Ochocinco, saying he should come train with Sporting KC now that the NFL has locked the players out. I'd avoided comment on the topic at the time because I figured it was just going to go away with out anything so I really did not want to get on it.

By Dr. Raf Crowley As I was mulling over different topics to write about this week, I discovered a link on the 4-letter's Soccernet website that said in the midst of the NFL lockout, Chad Ochocinco is going to try out for Sporting Kansas City. In the vein of MLS-style preview pieces that we've been [.

Washington, D.C. (January 21, 2011) - D.C. United Head Coach Ben Olsen and Assistant Coach Chad Ashton, along with players Clyde Simms and Marc Burch will be making appearances at the Virginia Youth Soccer Association Convention in Crystal City, Va. beginning tonight.
On Friday, January 21, Olsen will be at the VYSA Convention from 6:45 p.

65 goles en 65 juegos de Cristiano Ronaldo con el Real Madrid, una estadística tremenda. En un clásico madridista mas en el Vicente Calderon donde nuevamente Jose Mourinho festejo el triunfo y gol de Cristiano como solo el sabe hacerlo.
Cristiano Ronaldo tambien salió inspirado y dio un pase sin ver que desafortunadamente Di Maria no supo aprovechar (ver el pase)
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