3-30-11

Man Yoo is coming to town in July, who will be ManU's keeper? lets also hope the Sounders win some games by the time they get here? News and quotes from Tuesday's practice.

Obtaining a US Green card is tough business and usually takes 3-5 years. Whoever the Sounders use as an attorney they know how to make things happen.

Seattle play San Jose this weekend and for one Tacoma boy on San Jose's roster this year looks to be a breakout!

In other MLS news, new boys Portland Timbers sent Chivas USA packing from the US Open Cup.

He is now an honorary member? Just tell the guy he can't play and move on!

The US Soccer "Hall of Fame" is in Oneta, NY and yesterday they added a few more players. Two Sounders missed out.

I think everyone knew they wouldn't stop playing in Spain, so the Judge made it official.

3 time Serie A champions AS Roma look to be a little American soon! Speaking of Roma and of games past.

Lithuania 1 – Spain 3 (Euro 2012 qualifier, March 29, 2011)



The game was a bit of a bore, but some of the new young players for the USA impressed.


USA 0 - Paraguay 1 (International Friendly, March 29, 2011)



It's still early, of course, but the chances are more likely that we'll remember this week's two U.S. national-team friendlies less for the results -- a 1-1 tie against Argentina and Tuesday's 1-0 loss to Paraguay -- than for the initial impacts made by some young American players.


Holland 5 – Hungary 3 (Euro 2012 qualifier, March 29, 2011)



For an organization that claims to care about transparency, however, FIFA refused to specify how much each elected executive committee member is paid. And when asked if the executive committee voted to give its members personal bonuses from the $2.4 billion profits of World Cup 2010, two executive committee members quickly ended their phone conversations with SI.com.


Belgium 4 - Azerbjan 1 (Euro 2012 qualifier March 29, 2011)



'The Atomic Ant', who has arrived on the Azzurri scene later than expected after being suffocated on the bench at Juventus for a couple of seasons, proved that size doesn't always matter when he ran the Euro 2012 co-hosts back line ragged, before holding off a defender who towered over him, then left his opponents for dead with a cheeky backheel for his strike partner to slot home.


Golazo of the Week Nominee.



Something we are seeing more is Americans playing overseas, something we are not used to is seeing an American play in China? There is always more than one route to the top!!


Romania 3 – Luxembourg 1 (Euro 2012 qualifier, March 29, 2011)



Henry Winter: Fabio Capello's '100-words' leaves him short on conversation and England short of success. It is a truth universally acknowledged that an England football manager does not need an expansive grasp of the language of Austen, Dickens and Shakespeare to communicate with Rooney, Terry and Cole. But it does need rather more than the “100 words” that Fabio Capello claimed on Monday.


Sweden 2 – Moldova 1 (Euro 2012 qualifier, March 29, 2011)



The incident reportedly occurred on March 7 at Kuban Krasnodar’s practice facility. There, Kikezic claims, he was greeted by team trainer Nikolai Khlistunov, who invited him to discuss his contract situation in a private office. After Khlistunov’s threats went unheeded, two men “of strong built” entered the room and got violent with the player


Germany 1 – Australia 2 (International friendly, March 29, 2011)



Standing only 5ft 7in Robb is small by western standards but feels he fits in well amongst players of a comparatively diminutive stature. “I was regarded as one of the smallest players in the league back home but here I don’t feel out of place. In the past a manager would say ‘you are not playing today for tactical reasons’ and I’m thinking to myself ‘the reason I’m not playing is that we’re playing Hearts and the whole team is 6ft 2 so I’m no use defending set-pieces’. Here I don’t get discriminated against for my size but that’s just the way it is. In Scotland, they like big players.”


Ukraine 0 – Italy 2 (International Friendly, March 29, 2011)



If you’re like me, you’ve been checking your calendar and trying to figure out which games are do-able to attend. After all, it’s not every day that a Premier League club comes to the United States to play in a friendly. And summer is the perfect time to get away and create a soccer vacation to combine a game and holiday time.


Ireland 2 - Uruguay 3 (International Friendly, March 29. 2011)