One of the big questions of the offseason, is who will be the Wizards coach next season? A few
weeks ago after the final home game, Peter Vermes talked about potentially becoming the permanent
coach for the Wizards, and Robb Heineman said that he wants to have the head coach in place before
the MLS expansion draft, the week after MLS Cup.
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The next few days promise to be big ones in US professional football. Major League Soccer has
proven this summer and into the fall to be the most compelling and competitive first division the
English speaking world. The MLS season comes down to the next few nights of football: every match
in the final weekend has an impact upon the title race, unlike the final weekends in most European
leagues.
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USL News Release Thursday, October 15, 2009
Cristian Arrieta
MONTREAL, QC – United Soccer Leagues announced Thursday at the USL First Division Championship
Series media banquet the winners of the Defender of the Year, Coach of the Year and Most Valuable
Player awards. Portland's Gavin Wilkinson was named the USL-1 Coach of the Year with Puerto Rico's
Cristian Arrieta earning the Most Valuable Player and Defender of the Year honors.
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USL News Release Thursday, October 15, 2009
Cristian Arrieta
MONTREAL, QC – United Soccer Leagues announced Thursday at the USL First Division Championship
Series media banquet the winners of the Defender of the Year, Coach of the Year and Most Valuable
Player awards. Portland's Gavin Wilkinson was named the USL-1 Coach of the Year with Puerto Rico's
Cristian Arrieta earning the Most Valuable Player and Defender of the Year honors.
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Having had the great honor to serve as a color commentator for Miami FC's local broadcasts this
season (both on USL Live and local cable), I have seen every USL-1 team in person and broken them
down. Here is my analysis of the first round of the playoffs.
#2 Carolina RailHawks (16-7-7, 55 pts) vs #7 Vancouver Whitecaps (11-10-9, 42
pts)
Carolina is just too deep for Vancouver, the defending champions who struggled much of this
season.
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Translation of Spanish article by Primera Hora:
Islanders will travel to Costa Rica without Bill Gaudette
Saturday - August 22, 2009
Esteban Pagán Rivera / Primera Hora
The Puerto Rico Islanders will travel tomorrow (Sunday) to Costa Rica to face Saprissa without
their main goalkeeper, Bill Gaudette.
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by TRAVIS CLARK
What will MLS teams be able to accomplish in the second edition of the CONCACAF Champions
League? Fans will be able to get their first glimpses this week, as the three teams representing
MLS take the field against foreign opposition.
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by TRAVIS CLARK
What will MLS teams be able to accomplish in the second edition of the CONCACAF Champions
League? Fans will be able to get their first glimpses this week, as the three teams representing
MLS take the field against foreign opposition.
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USL News 18 August @ 07:49 AM EST
After dispatching Toronto FC of Major League Soccer to earn their place in the 2009/10 CONCACAF
Champions League Group Stages, the Islanders turn their attention to another MLS foe as they face
the Columbus Crew tonight at Crew Stadium. Puerto Rico is looking to repeat their from last
season's CCL tournament that saw them within penalty kicks of the Champions League final.
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Just two days after the Puerto Rico Islanders knocked out the Toronto FC of the 2009-10 CONCACAF
Champions League, local Spanish media published a rumor that the Islanders administration was
negotiating with TFC to get defender Marco Velez on loan as a reinforcement for the remainder of
the USL season and for the Group Stage of the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League (CCL).
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Poor New York...
Poor Toronto...
At least DC United was able to advance out of the qualifying round. Luckily for them, they're in a
manageable group with Toluca, Marathon (Honduras), and either San Francisco (Panama) or San Juan
Jabloteh (T&T). San Fran is taking a 2-0 lead to Trinidad tonight.
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MLS continued poor play in CONCACAF continued this week. While DC United advanced, they added a
record where in ten preliminary round matches against teams largely from poorer leagues, MLS is win
less.
Those of us who watch football from around the globe do not rate MLS highly as a league.
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MLS Debris 04 August @ 10:01 PM EST
Here's what the three MLS teams need to do this week to make it into the group stages of the
CONCACAF Champions League:
Toronto FC
Down a goal after their home leg, things look fairly bleak. These results would get them
through:
- A win by two goals or more
- A scoring draw with two or more goals
Winning by one goal would get them to extra time, but if they couldn't get a goal in the first leg,
chances are they won't in the return leg either.
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the yorkies 03 August @ 06:42 PM EST
PUERTO RICO ISLANDERS VS. TORONTO FCJuan Ramon Loubriel Stadium - Tuesday 8:00PM EST
TV: GOL-TV
What's Spanish for deja vu? It wasn't long ago that TFC had grossly underestimated a USL squad only
to need a major win to escape humiliating defeat. Glad to see life lessons were learned back in
Montreal.
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I wonder what, exactly Colin Clarke must do get another shot in Major League Soccer? Clarke is the
head coach for the Puerto Rico Islanders of USL-1 and also presides over the Puerto Rican national
football. But it's his body of work with the giant killers of Puerto Rico that really is something
else – and that [.
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the yorkies 28 July @ 05:10 PM EST
TORONTO FC VS. PUERTO RICO ISLANDERSBMO Field - Wednesday 8:00PM EST
TV: GOL-TV
Who's wants to sing the song? "
THE CHAAAAAMPIONS!" Just like UEFA - but poor. It's
CONCACAF Champions League! Wednesday is the night where Toronto FC and their supporters finally get
to feel what its like to be Sparta Prague or FC Copenhagen.
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David Beckham is back in MLS. We hear from Beckham, Landon Donovan, Bruce Arena, Juan Carlos
Osorio and Juan Pablo Angel after LA's 3-1 win over Red Bull. Daniel Feuerstein joins us to break
down the match and talk about the state of the Red Bulls. Is this team actually worse than the
infamous 1999 Metrostars team?
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Musa Otieno (leftmost) captained Kenya to a critical World Cup Qualifying win
yesterday. But the insistence on the American leagues, MLS and USL to play through international
breaks meant Otieno was not available for his club side Cleveland City who lost twice at home in
three days to Miami FC.
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An abreviated version this week thanks to the USMNT coverage. For full coverage please reference
the excellent job Peter C. is doing with the Take Me Out to the Ballgame features.
Some quick thoughts.
- The officiating in Major League Soccer and a to lesser extent WPS and USL have been horrible
this year.
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3rd Degree 28 May @ 05:48 PM EST
"The job must be finished". The Islanders management want (Colin) Clarke to
explain his polemic decision.
The Islanders management may summon Clarke to explain why he sat down seven regulars in the game
against Trinidad (W. Connection)
Translation of excerpt of (Spanish) article by Luis Santiago Arce
(larce@elnuevodia.
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"The job must be finished". The Islanders management want (Colin) Clarke to
explain his polemic decision.
The Islanders management may summon Clarke to explain why he sat down seven regulars in the game
against Trinidad (W. Connection)
Translation of excerpt of (Spanish) article by Luis Santiago Arce
(larce@elnuevodia.
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Don Garber's hopes that USL would be shut out of the 2009/10 version of the CONCACAF Champions
League have not been realized. Last night in Trinidad, the Islanders recorded a 2-0 semifinal win
in the CFU Final Four over Haitian Champions Tempete. Kendall Jagdeosingh scored the winning goal
on a cross from Scott Jones early in extra time and Peter Villegas scored another later to provide
the margin for victory.
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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!
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The march on DC by supporters will be covered extensively on this week's podcast. We're doing
the review a day early this week because I will be traveling on Monday morning.
- Kansas City-DC was a difficult game to watch, but both teams fought hard to split the
points.
- Referee Michael Kennedy made two very questionable penalty decisions in the dying minutes in
front of a ruckus midweek crowd at Rio Tinto.
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Last night the Colorado Rapids played, well, a rather poor game against the Los Angeles Cosmos
Galaxy. The Rapids took the lead in the 60th minute though a goal by Colin Clark. Colin had drifted
over the right side of the field, got a nice pass from Omar Cummings, and found himself with some
time and space in the box to slot the ball past the Galaxy's keeper Rohan Ricketts.
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This is how my viewing went (via MLSnet's $20 internet viewing package while I was stuck in
suburban Chicagoland hotel hell during a 4 day staff meeting).
Wow. Josh Saunders and Omar Gonzalez look horrible!
Wow. Landon Donovan connecting with Gonzalez!
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QPR Report 29 September @ 06:07 PM EST
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On this day one year ago, September 30, 1997...West Bromwich Albion crushed QPR 5-1; QPR were alone
at the bottom with 3 points from 7 games; and John Gregory was set to depart..QPR (4-4-2): Camp;
Rehman (Curtis HT), Cullip, Stewart, Barker (Bignot 60); Ainsworth, Bolder, Sahar (Ephraim 60),
Rowlands; Moore, Blackstock.
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3rd Degree 18 September @ 08:49 AM EST
3rd Degree 06 September @ 01:58 PM EST
Shockingly, the USL has just as many teams in the group stages of the CONCACAF Champions League as
Major League Soccer. Montreal did their business with a 0-0 draw away after winning 1-0 in the home
leg. Puerto Rico definitely took the hard road, but made it work. After last week's thrilling match
in Costa Rica, they gave up an early goal at home.
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