- 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.
Showing posts with label World Soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Soccer. Show all posts
Friday, January 1, 2010
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:
Happy New Year
I just wanted to wish everyone here a Happy New Year. Let's hope 2010 will bring some positive news...better yet...a whole lot of positive news coming in the world of soccer in this country. Especially from the MLS-Players' Union CBA, the never ending soap opera that is the NASL/TOA/USL saga and the U.S. Men National Team's preparations for the World Cup. Hence the reason why I took a break from blogging (along with personal issues) so all of this stressful drama can calm down for awhile. So hopefully I will be able start up my blog next week.
Take care everyone and be safe.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
My Quote of the Day
"Soccer: A simple game ruined by complex people who run it."
And who are these complex people that I'm speaking of?
A) Heads of U.S. Soccer?
B) Heads of Major League Soccer?
C) Heads of United Soccer Leagues?
D) Heads of Soccer United Marketing?
E) Heads of CONCACAF?
F) Heads of FIFA?
G) All of Above
Answer: Nothing but a G thing.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Dear Sepp Blatter..........
Dear Sepp Blatter,
Why?
Why must you always have something to pick on Major League Soccer's calendar season?
Why are we the target just because we don't follow the European soccer calender season?
Why?
Does it have something to do with Europeans playing here that have to travel back and forth to Europe during the International break?
"You are not in the good international season, specifically in Europe and some other countries. What is the result? The result is that you do not attract star players to play for six-seven months with the exceptional case of [David] Beckham]. On the other hand, your best players are in Europe."
Funny. Because the South American, African, Asian & North American players playing in Europe have to travel back and forth to their countries as well and you don't see them complaining. Yet the European players always have it all when traveling because they have little problems with their travel mileage.
"There is one big problem, as long as you don't have [their] own stadiums in MLS, then you have to use stadia from other sports, which is American football. Therefore, you play the season from March to October."
And since when do you have a interest of what's going on in the state of North American soccer? Do you have any sense of knowledge of what's going on in MLS? Sure you may heard about the league trying to get MLS clubs into their own stadiums instead of sharing with NFL teams. But try telling Toronto, New England, New York & Chicago fans to go to a soccer match in freezing & cold weather during the December-January calendar. You would expect a lot of postponements and cancellations of games let along road closures and fans having difficulties traveling to the game.
"This is not the right solution for MLS. They have to play and to adapt themselves to the international calendar. If they do that, they can have success."
Success? There's a thing called "getting any sports media attention on MLS" away from NFL, NBA, college football & NHL as well as the EPL that makes it even more difficult to get fans into MLS games. Try getting any success into that crowded market during that time period.
And while you're at it, why don't you say the same to Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ireland and other European countries that don't follow your European Calender?
Now mind you that he says during the press conference before the Brazil-USA match (good timing to make your opinion count Blatter) "International" Calender instead of European Calender. Personally I don't buy into his "imperialistic" attitude toward MLS and others that don't follow his idea of how other countries should run their leagues. Don't you have something to pick on the English Premier League? Oh that's right, it's Michel Platini's job. So why are you trying to turn FIFA into UEFA?
Why don't you pick on the way Argentine, Brazilian and Mexican soccer as well as others around the world is running their soccer season schedule? Unless you address the other leagues around the world into their schedule, please don't go on criticizing AGAIN on how MLS should run their schedule. It may not be perfect for all accounts (such as not playing MLS matches during the international games), but we should not be catering towards on how European thinks that we should run the league.
What are your thoughts on Blatter's comments? Is he right about MLS? Am I out of bounds on this subject matter? Please post your comments about this.
Why?
Why must you always have something to pick on Major League Soccer's calendar season?
Why are we the target just because we don't follow the European soccer calender season?
Why?
Does it have something to do with Europeans playing here that have to travel back and forth to Europe during the International break?
"You are not in the good international season, specifically in Europe and some other countries. What is the result? The result is that you do not attract star players to play for six-seven months with the exceptional case of [David] Beckham]. On the other hand, your best players are in Europe."
Funny. Because the South American, African, Asian & North American players playing in Europe have to travel back and forth to their countries as well and you don't see them complaining. Yet the European players always have it all when traveling because they have little problems with their travel mileage.
"There is one big problem, as long as you don't have [their] own stadiums in MLS, then you have to use stadia from other sports, which is American football. Therefore, you play the season from March to October."
And since when do you have a interest of what's going on in the state of North American soccer? Do you have any sense of knowledge of what's going on in MLS? Sure you may heard about the league trying to get MLS clubs into their own stadiums instead of sharing with NFL teams. But try telling Toronto, New England, New York & Chicago fans to go to a soccer match in freezing & cold weather during the December-January calendar. You would expect a lot of postponements and cancellations of games let along road closures and fans having difficulties traveling to the game.
"This is not the right solution for MLS. They have to play and to adapt themselves to the international calendar. If they do that, they can have success."
Success? There's a thing called "getting any sports media attention on MLS" away from NFL, NBA, college football & NHL as well as the EPL that makes it even more difficult to get fans into MLS games. Try getting any success into that crowded market during that time period.
And while you're at it, why don't you say the same to Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ireland and other European countries that don't follow your European Calender?
Now mind you that he says during the press conference before the Brazil-USA match (good timing to make your opinion count Blatter) "International" Calender instead of European Calender. Personally I don't buy into his "imperialistic" attitude toward MLS and others that don't follow his idea of how other countries should run their leagues. Don't you have something to pick on the English Premier League? Oh that's right, it's Michel Platini's job. So why are you trying to turn FIFA into UEFA?
Why don't you pick on the way Argentine, Brazilian and Mexican soccer as well as others around the world is running their soccer season schedule? Unless you address the other leagues around the world into their schedule, please don't go on criticizing AGAIN on how MLS should run their schedule. It may not be perfect for all accounts (such as not playing MLS matches during the international games), but we should not be catering towards on how European thinks that we should run the league.
What are your thoughts on Blatter's comments? Is he right about MLS? Am I out of bounds on this subject matter? Please post your comments about this.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Rotten Cherry
You know sometimes people who know their own sport do not appreciate the good things in life about it and put their own narrow politics in front of it. Here's one of those examples.
Minus xenophobia and racism, Cherry has point about Ovechkin
Now all of a sudden Don Cherry wants the NHL to act like the NFL (No Fun League) and doesn't want Canadians to act and celebrate like soccer-like "non-Canadians". Let me remind him that if it wasn't for American teams in the NHL (NATIONAL, not Canadian, Hockey League) and the Americans, Russian, Czech and other hockey players of different nationalities, race & ethnicity around the world, the league would be struggling financially and be in a terrible condition compared to their current one.
A black eye in NHL = good momentum for MLS and soccer in the USA and Canada.
Minus xenophobia and racism, Cherry has point about Ovechkin
Now all of a sudden Don Cherry wants the NHL to act like the NFL (No Fun League) and doesn't want Canadians to act and celebrate like soccer-like "non-Canadians". Let me remind him that if it wasn't for American teams in the NHL (NATIONAL, not Canadian, Hockey League) and the Americans, Russian, Czech and other hockey players of different nationalities, race & ethnicity around the world, the league would be struggling financially and be in a terrible condition compared to their current one.
A black eye in NHL = good momentum for MLS and soccer in the USA and Canada.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
World Football Phone In Dedication Song
I was listening to BBC 5 Live World Football Phone In on my podcast on my way to work this morning and this remix at the beginning of the show made me laugh.
Sean Wheelock never sounded so fast. Plus you got to love Tim Vickery's ending of the song. LOL!
Sean Wheelock never sounded so fast. Plus you got to love Tim Vickery's ending of the song. LOL!
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