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Really Good Perspective of Major League Soccer

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Found this story from the Soccer Tickets Online blog. While the title comes off a tad spam-y, it’s got some very well-written posts, including this one.

It’s a well thought out perspective on the struggles that US-based Major League Soccer are facing. Not only is stadium attendance down, but the TV viewing audience is taking a hit as well. It begins its analysis at David Beckham’s arrival to the Galaxy and ends at last year’s UEFA Champions League final.

And this sentence hits it all home:

…Americans will watch soccer, but they want to watch competetive[sic], entertaining soccer.

Like the EPL/La Liga/Bundesliga brand of soccer. Sadly, I agree.

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Barcelona Close To Setting Up an Expansion Team in the MLS. Real Madrid Already Has One.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008


Maybe this is old news but I’m just hearing about it. SI.com is reporting that FC Barcelona is in talks with MLS officials in setting up a sister team in the Miami area, provided that they get some sort of tax break. And apparently, Real Madrid has already set one up with Real Salt Lake.

If the deal goes through, then the new club will setup two soccer academies. I have a couple of nephews that are really REALLY good at footie and are based in Atlanta…which is a little less than 700 miles from Miami. So my nephews have a chance to hit that camp if all this works out…a little greedy on my part perhaps but I’m cool with that.

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Random News 8/5/08 (Rafael van der Vaart, Jose Mourinho, Best 11 African Players, LA Galaxy)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Hot with the bloggers yesterday was the news that Rafael van der Vaart left Hamburg for Real Madrid. This makes three Dutch Internationals to sign with the Spanish powerhouse (he joins Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wesley Sneijder). I expect a smooth transition into the team for Rafeal and am really to see how the team performs once Wesley recovers from his injury.

Past that, lots of cool stuff that I read on the blogs this morning:

As I stated yesterday, Inter Milan brought in Jose Mourinho to win the Champions League cup. Soccer Lens poses the question as to whether or not it’s possible. (Courtesy Soccer Lens)

Khalid Shakran over at Bleacher Report picked his Best 11 based on African players currently playing in Europe. I agree with it for the most part although I would reconsider switching the striker setup and put Dider Droba on the bench and Emmauel Adebayor start. Yes, I am a Chelsea fan and truthfully, it was Drogba that made me a Chelsea supporter after his performance in the ‘07 FA Cup, but the truth is that Adebayor had the better 07/08 season in the EPL.

Soccer by Ives pointed me to a GREAT story on SI.com covering the current drama happening with the LA Galaxy. Between losing their last six consecutive games, Landon Donavan wanting to play in England (See you at Fulham, buddy) and going all-in on David Beckham and not winning as much as expected, things are pretty rotten in the state of California.

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