Arsene Wenger and Arsenal are well aware that they could lose Theo Walcott for nothing next summer
due to the Bosman ruling. It has happened to the Gunners before and the club is taking steps to
ensue that it never happens again. Ivan Gazidis the chief executive and Dick Law the man in charge
of [...
Adidas backed out of a renewing LIverpool's kit deal as they weren't overly impressed with the
club's performance. No matter. The Reds have reached an agreement with US based Warrior Sports that
is worth £25m a year for 6 years, which more than Man Utd's annual £23.5m deal with Nike.
New Balance, the parent company of Warrior Sports, is also the supplier to the Boston Red Sox
which is owned by John Henry's Fenway Sporting Group, which also owns Liverpool.
Next month the U.S Women's National Team will play Australia at the Dick as part of their gold
medal celebration tour. That's a great friendly for the Rapids to line up. I'm not that interested
in women's soccer so I'm not planning on going but I know a lot of Rapids fans are excited about
the game, and given the season we've had, the Front Office doing something to get fans excited is a
good thing.
Oh sometimes this stuff just writes itself
For every Johan de Kock there has been a Fabian Assman. Where would Florian Dick be without Ralf
Minge? While Major League Soccer may not possess a nom du foot quite as blunt as a Stefan Kuntz,
there can be no doubt who tops the list as "Most Likely to Appear in Porn Credits": Joe Cannon.
Colorado snapped a six-game losing streak on Saturday, beating Real Salt Lake, 1-0 at Dick's
Sporting Goods Park. Now Oscar Pareja's club returns to Frisco for a second time this season to
face an FC Dallas team that comes into Saturday's match with a disappointing 1-1 draw with Portland
its most recent result.
The Colorado Rapids continued their losing ways on Saturday night, and even a home game at
Dick's Sporting Goods Park could stop the bleeding.
The Seattle Sounders pushed Colorado's losing skid to six matches after Osvaldo Alonso scored a
second-half winner to lead the Sounders to a 2-1 victory.
An unlucky mistake by a veteran player proved costly for the Colorado Rapids.
Drew Moor committed a blunder towards the end of the first half, and that allowed for Vancouver
Whitecaps rookie Darren Mattocks to fire home the winner in their 1-0 victory over the Rapids at
Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Wednesday.
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host and DC Correspondent on DC United's season Patrick Quinn Colorado Rapids fan discussing the
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The Colorado Rapids' two-game losing streak is over, while the Portland Timbers' winless ways on
the road continue.
Jaime Castrillon, Conor Casey and Jamie Smith all scored as the Rapids ended their two-match
skid with a 3-0 victory over the Timbers at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday night.
Teal Bunbury opened his account with two goals against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday, but even
that was not enough to put a halt to Sporting Kansas City's winless streak.
The Rapids rallied from a pair of early first-half strikes from Bunbury and picked up a point
with a 2-2 draw at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, extending Sporting KC's winless run to four
games.
Summer friendly season in the United States is not only for the giants of European soccer.
The Columbus Crew and Sporting Kansas City announced that they will be hosting Stoke City, and
the San Jose Earthquakes and Colorado Rapids will be playing Swansea City in friendlies in July and
August.
The Los Angeles Galaxy looked like they had a win in the bag in Colorado when they took a 2-0
lead on the Rapids heading into the second half, but an Omar Cummings wonder goal and a 90th minute
penalty call threatened the Galaxy's first road win of the season.
That's before Josh Saunders stepped up and saved a Cummings penalty, canceling out a
highly-questionable penalty call against David Junior Lopes and handing the Galaxy a 2-1 victory at
Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
The Rapids have now gotten FIFA involved in their roadblock of Rivero's International Transfer
Certificate. FIFA has given the Argentinian FA (and Rivero's old team Rosario Central) a deadline
to deliver the ITC to US Soccer. If they don't comply FIFA will provisionally clear Rivero to play
for Colorado without it.
The Colorado Rapids faced the Colorado School Of Mines yesterday at the Dick in one last preseason
friendly before Saturday's season opener. Not surprisingly the side in burgundy didn't find much of
a challenge against a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference school, winning 4-0. Here's the starting
XI:
Cascio - Cummings - RiveroLarentowicz - Castrillon - MastroeniZapata - Marshall - Wynne -
KimuraPickens
Subs:
Amarikwa for Cummings at half
Mullan for Rivero at 58
Thompson for Cascio at 63
Akpan for Castrillon at 68
Palguta for Wynne at 70
Yamada for Larentowicz at 75
The only regular not to play was Moor, who I'm guessing got the day off to rest his tweaked
hamstring.
On Tuesday, Major League Soccer released the dates for the 2012 home openers. The opponents have
yet to be named, with the full schedule expected to be released in January. Houston doesn't debut
their new stadium until week 10, and Montreal has yet to settle on a date for the opening of the
reconstructed Saputo Stadium.
Pizzas! Donuts! Chicken 'n biscuits! It's our Top 10 worst stadium naming
deals
With the news that Newcastle United's St. James' Park will henceforth be called the Sports
Direct Arena, we've searched the world for the worst sporting arena naming deals. As you can
imagine, our cousins from across the pond are leading the way when it comes to ridiculous stadium
names.
The first spot in the MLS Conference Finals will be locked up tonight when Sporting Kansas City
takes on the Colorado Rapids at Livestrong Sporting Park tonight (8pm, Fox Soccer Channel).
Sporting KC opened the Eastern Conference semifinal series with a 2-0 victory against the Rapids
at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, and will now return home where they will be favored to hold off an
injury-hit Rapids squad that will play tonight's match without injured starting defenders Drew Moor
and Kosuke Kimura.
Since Euro 2012 ended, the blogosphere and sports journalism world have been rife with
speculation about Dick Adovcaat's successor to lead the Russian national side. Candidates have been
rumored, touted, and played down, but three days ago the Russian Football Union released a list of
thirteen candidates that are under [read more]
Il Ct della Russia, Dick Advocaat, ha convocato la lista dei 26 pre-convocati per Euro 2012 che si
raduneranno a Mosca, nella capitale, dal 20 maggio prossimo, e dai quali l'allenatore olandese,
classe 1947, estrapolerà (entro il 29 maggio, termine improrogabile, ndr) i 23 definitivi, i quali
saranno in campo (e in panchina) in PoloniaContinua a leggere .
Einst war Ronaldo der Fussballgott schlechthin. Topfitt umkurvte er die Gegner wie Slalomstangen und dribbelte den Ball immer schön ins Netz. Aber die Zeiten von damals sind vorbei und heute ist nicht mehr viel übrig geblieben von dem einstigen Kultstatus. Heute wird Ronaldo, wohlgemerkt das brasilianische Original, eher mitleidig belächelt und das liegt aber nach [.
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to have the same format.
With the win last Friday the Portland Timbers finally climbed out of the cellar and now they
need to get a result on the road to stay out of it. Colorado has not been a place Portland has
looked forward to traveling to with each game they have played at the Dick ending in 3-0
losses.
Just a quick reminder that the USWNT is starting their Victory Tour tomorrow in Rochester, New
York. The game sold out the 11,000 tickets so quickly that the stadium added another 2,000 seats,
which also sold out within 30 minutes. Abby Wambach will be playing in front of her home town to
start the tour off right.
Blas Perez most likely won't be in uniform for FC Dallas' Saturday match at Dick's Sporting Goods
Park against Colorado, but the veteran forward will be on the mind of his teammates when they face
Oscar Pareja's Rapids this weekend. That's because on Thursday afternoon, Perez's father, who had
recently been ailing, passed away in Panama.
I was dreaming this morning that I was writing a novel and I bashed out 6 or 7 pages which were
really good, including two analogies that were so brilliant I was sure to win the Nobel prize for
literature. Naturally, having just sat down at the laptop this morning I can't remember them.
Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de 2014, foi realizado no dia 03/06/2012, na
cidade de Honiara-NCA, onde jogaram as seleções de Tahiti (179º no ranking da FIFA) e a
seleção da Nova Caledônia (155º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
2010Apia 25/08/2007 TAH0:1 (0:1)NCL First stage2006Honiara 12/05/2004 TAH0:0NCL First stage
Kone 07/09/2011 NCL3:1 a.
The reason we ask most of our guests to come on is because we think they'll be good.
Occasionally, they exceed our high expectations. And then others just kinda blow us away. Brad
Evans falls into that last category.
Maybe it won't come off as good to you as it did to us, but we absolutely had a great time
hanging out with Brad (is it cool if we call him that?
According to the Dutch press, FC Groningen's General Director has confirmed Newcastle's interest in
Virgil van Dijk. Following on from the recent gossip linking Newcastle with AZ Alkmaar midfielder
Adam Maher, they are also apparently after a Dutch centre back by the name of Virgil van Dijk. Van
Dijk no relation to Dick [.
In which Austria striker Marc Janko opens the scoring against Finland last night with a deft lob
of the 'keeper using nothing other than 'Little Marc' and a whole load of eye-watering ricocheted
energy...
NME Album of the Year:Â Elephant by The White StripesCrufts Best in Show: Yakee a Dangerous
LiaisonPalme d'Or Joint Winners at Cannes: ElephantVice President of the United States: Dick
CheneyGiven the uncanny coincidence that artworks with the same title scooped the NME Album of the
Year and Palme d'Or Awards in 2003, it's appropriate that one of the blogosphere's finest
polymath's should contribute the fourth in our fledgling series of hopeless teams.
