The Thriller in the Villa

They’re calling it the Thriller in the Villa. Or at least I am any way! It was a game so good that if you saw you just had to talk about it. Ten goals and a sending off, it doesn’t get much better than that. I am of course talking about the Carling Cup semi final second leg match between Aston Vila and Blackburn which finished 6-4 last night. It was a stunning game. After 20 minutes [Read more...]

Ten MLS veterans to consider for the Philadelphia Union

One of the essential steps in building a successful MLS expansion team is finding the team’s first leader and captain; an MLS veteran that can immediately step in and be the leading voice in the locker room. A roster full of young, inexperienced players is a recipe for disaster for an expansion team. Picking up an MLS veteran or two will be one of the goals for Peter Nowak in the coming [Read more...]

Quakes drop final home game

It was a must win game for both FC Dallas and the San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday night, the team with a better shot at making it to the playoffs was able to come away with the win. San Jose, playing in front of their fans at Buck Shaw Stadium for the last time of the 2009 season, could not send their supporters home happy on Fan Appreciation Night, losing to FC Dallas 2-1. “I am [Read more...]

WPS shines in Euro 2009

The 2009 European Championships concluded Thursday in Helsinki, Finland with Germany winning its fifth consecutive title dating back to 1995 and demonstrating that they could be the team to beat for World No. 1-ranked United States and World No. 2-ranked Brazil at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup™. Several WPS players stood out over the course of Euro 2009 including Boston Breakers stars [Read more...]

Football Vs Cricket

Cricket and Football (or Soccer as Americans call it), have a lot in common. For one, they are both believed to have originated in England. Cricket is believed to have first been played in the Royal Armies in England. In general, this is a costly game with all its equipment and management, and therefore it is no surprise it was invented by Kings and Royals. Cricket, also called The [Read more...]

Arakawa to Finish the Year Playing in Japan

FC Gold Pride announced today that the team has finalized an agreement to loan striker Eriko Arakawa to Japanese club team NTV Beleza of Japan’s Nadeshiko League. The loan agreement will return the Tokyo native to her long-time club team NTV Beleza, allowing Arakawa to compete in Japan through the end of her WPS contract which ends September 30. Arakawa has been a member of NTV Beleza’s [Read more...]

Manchester City’s Emmanuel Adebayor: All He Needs Is a Bit of Love

At the moment, it seems like Emmanuel Adebayor is well on his way to becoming value for money, having cost Manchester City £25million when he signed from Arsenal this summer. The Togo international has scored three goals in as many league games for his new club, and has looked very promising indeed. This season has been a complete change of fortune for Adebayor, after having been [Read more...]

MLS Power Rankings, Week 22

After a weekend that saw the Columbus Crew dominate an FC Dallas team (2-0 on August 15) — the same FCD that beat the Houston Dynamo a week prior (1-0 on August 6) — coupled with Houston being dominated by, albeit tying, Real Salt Lake (0-0 on August 15), the Crew solidified their spot atop this week’s power rankings. Jumping over the Dynamo in their struggles against RSL was [Read more...]

MLS Power Rankings, Week 21

Last week’s number two in the power rankings, Houston Dynamo, hosted, and defeated, the number one team in the rankings, Chicago Fire, but still didn’t jump to number one. Instead, the Dynamo remained at number two because of their loss to FC Dallas earlier in the week, 1-0, (Chicago dropped to three). Atop this week’s rankings is the Columbus Crew, who traveled to the West [Read more...]

Gold Pride dominates, but ties, season finale

Had you gone to Buck Shaw Stadium on the campus of Santa Clara University on Sunday evening not knowing a thing about Women’s Professional Soccer, you would have thought FC Gold Pride was the league’s second-best team and St. Louis Athletica was sitting in the league’s last spot. As it stands, in the regular season finale for both teams in the inaugural season of WPS, Athletica is [Read more...]

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