Better late then never, right? Enjoy some TV...
Let's begin an overstuffed edition with Harkesy and JPD breaking down the MLS awards races. As usual, I skip all such clips and articles for several weeks ahead of the voting. Right or wrong, I'm gonna go with my brain's output on that ballot.
Sticking with ESPN, Revs coach and Liverpool man Steve Nicol offers no quarter in laying the current "crisis" fully on coach Rafa Benitez.
And one more from the Worldwide Leader in Sports: Tommy Smyth's latest World Top 25.
Buddy... if you think PSV is the best team in the Eredivisie this season, I have a bridge to sell ya. I say they could finish as low as fifth - or lower if Afellay and Salcido leave in the winter. The latter's agent told me yesterday that the Mexico star defender has interest from back home and all over Europe.
Did anyone else see Sir Alex storm out of the Champions League press conference the other day? If not, you can now. Neither Homey nor Vidic play that.
Full disclosure: Had I been at this particular press conference, I'd have told the slow-to-catch-on UK scribe to clam it.
One of my all-times favorites alert: UEFA Magazine takes a look at Unirea Urziceni coach Dan Petrescu. Folks, the Romanian league has been steadily rising the last 5-6 years. I wonder when the national team gets it back together - hopefully, while Chivu (another of my all-time favorites) is still at his best.
World Sport drops a couple of reports on us about the current woes for World Cup hosts South Africa (the team, not the country) and a visit with Real Madrid supremo-for-a-second-time Florentino Perez.
And finally, well, I haven't found any Chad-85 soccer clips yet. But I did find some guy trying to nutmeg Randy Moss. Dude... c'mon.
- Greg Seltzer
Friday, October 23, 2009
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US non-soccer writers and the average sports fan seem to think having the best athletes (in the Big Three sports) playing soccer is going to make the US a world power. There's also that thing call technical ability, in skill and vision, that only playing from a young age can provide. Not something one can pick up and succeed within a short time period.
You are so very correct, peteo. Unfortunately, I have seen several U.S. soccer writers take up this line, which is as you've itemized, thoroughly ridiculous.
that guy's probably Wes Welker, who grew up playing Soccer and football in Oklahoma. He's been training Moss using soccer to help him with foot speed.
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