Monday's Aztex's News & Notes - October 4, 2010

USSF D2: Official Match Information - Montreal Impact 2:0 Austin Aztex

Austin Aztex: Aztex Falter in Season Finale; Lock Up Third Seed

Montreal Impact: Austin 0 Impact 2

Austin American Statesman: Regular season wraps as Aztex get set for playoffs

Montreal Gazette: Good omen for playoffs

The Aztexan: Aztex Fall to Montreal: 0-2

NASL Fanatic: Montreal Defeats Austin 2-0; Rochester Claims Top Playoff Seed

USSF D2: USSF D-2 Pro League Postseason Set to Get Underway on Oct. 6 as Playoffs Seeding Determined

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Date Match Time (CST) Venue


Oct. 6 Montreal Impact vs. Austin Aztex 6:30 p.m. Stade Saputo; Montreal, Quebec


Oct. 6 NSC Minnesota Stars vs. Carolina RailHawks 6:30 p.m. National Sports Center; Blaine, Minn.


Oct. 7 Puerto Rico Islanders vs. Rochester Rhinos 7:05 p.m. Estadio Juan Ramon Loubriel; Bayamon, Puerto Rico


Oct. 7 Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Portland Timbers 9:30 p.m. Swangard, Stadium; Burnaby, British Columbia

************************ First Round, Leg 2 ************************


Date Match Time (CST) Venue


Oct. 9 Rochester Rhinos vs. Puerto Rico Islanders 6 p.m. Marina Auto Stadium; Rochester, N.Y.


Oct. 9 Carolina RailHawks vs. NSC Minnesota Stars 6 p.m. WakeMed Soccer Park; Cary, N.C.


Oct. 9 Austin Aztex vs. Montreal Impact 7:30 p.m. House Park; Austin, Texas


Oct. 10 Portland Timbers vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC 8 p.m. Merlo Field (Univ. of Portland); Portland, Ore.


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Notes:

Mark your calenders down for this week:

October 6

Wednesday's watching event: Austin Aztex at Montreal Impact at Mister Tramps Sports Pub & Cafe at 6:30 p.m

October 9

Saturday's pre-match gathering: at The Tavern at 5:30 p.m

Saturday's Montezuma's March at 7:00 pm to House Park for the Montreal Impact at Austin Aztex match (game starts at 7:30 p.m)

Saturday's post-match gathering: at Cuatros.

October 9

And for those who can't make it to the Aztex game:

Saturday's watching event: USA vs Poland match at Mister Tramps Sports Pub & Cafe at 7:00 p.m

Landon Donovan ESPN Sportscenter commercial

My New Year's Soccer Resolution

Normally I don't do any New Year's resolutions because to me they are a waste of time and energy. Stuff like this always happens every year:

• Hangover from New Year's Day Party (I never attend them).
• Bombardment of "Getting Healthy As A Resolution"commercials & news reports from fitness & gym companies just to get you (and your money) to come into their gym.
• Eating black eye peas, cabbage, etc.. on New Year's Day just for good luck. (Yeah right!)
• Firecrackers shooting out from drunk people. Much like last night.
  
• Watching the usual {Insert Some Crappy Corporate Name} college bowl throwball game on TV.
  

So I decided to give out my realistic soccer resolutions for 2010. This is in no particular order:

My Thoughts On The Mariah Carey's Glitter Isn't Gold Cup

Yep. Much like how lame the movie is itself, this is how the tournament is as well. This "All That Mariah Carey's Glitter Isn't Gold" Cup competition HAS ABSOLUTELY NO MEANING WHATSOEVER !!!!! This to me, as good as the usual USA-Mexico Final is set up to be, is just a B-C team rated tournament all in thanks to CONCACRAP for running this lame ass tournament with their lame ass referees (again), lame ass rules changes (why the USA's roster increase and not the other teams), lame ass venues (Mexico playing in Phoenix, Houston & Dallas? Shocking!!!) and lame ass schedules (Playing during the MLS, USL-1 **, the underrated & ignored U.S. Open Cup, & SUM's Euro Clubs Circus). To me the tournament should be held every four years instead of two AND have the tournament hosted by either Mexico Canada or the United States (rotating the hosts every 4 years) instead of always having the U.S. hosting it. But much like the other Heads of CONCACRAP, lead by Jack "My votes goes to England hosting the World Cup over U.S.A. but would love some of U.S.A.'s money" Warner, they would go out get all of the money from the fans and put it into their own corrupt pockets and make the Gold Cup competition looked foolishly incompetent in comparison to the other confederations' cup competitions like the Euro Cup, Copa America and even the Asian Cup. And I won't feel that the CONCACRAP officials won't get things right functionally in the future.

** Side Note: I even watched the Minnesota Thunder-Austin Aztex USL-1 match over the USA's match last week. That to me is sad from a die hard soccer fan. But other die hard soccer fans should not have to deal with either choosing club or country to watch or attend to when both are playing at the same time. It really diverges any growth of soccer in this country and continues to divides any progress made from it.

Jozy's Revenge?

As a frustrated Yank supporter like myself, I hate to see the likes of Jozy Altidore not get any playing time at Xerez where he's on loan. The coach says that it's lack of fitness and work ethic is the reason why he wasn't picked on the game day squad.

Yeah right.

Perhaps the clubs is working on other "fitness & work ethic" issues at well:

From Ives: Xerez president arrested in brothel shooting

And now there are reports that he resigns after the brothel shooting.

Can you say Karma? Now I can only hope that Jozy can get a deal to join Levante for the rest of the season and leave Xerez ASAP. It's obvious that the coach or the team didn't need him in the first place.

Oh BTW Jozy was called into USA camp. ;-)


UPDATE: Jozy's interview from the New York Times: In Spain, Altidore Seems Stuck in Limbo