I’ve been a little busy today so the links will be fairly light tonight. I guess that’s what you can expect when it is the week of your wedding and you have loads of things to do other than write on a blog. But I will have more on that in a couple days. Tonight I want to really get [...]
Not too many goals to pick from this week with all the 1-0 games we saw. So this week all the goals are included in the list. My favorites were Beckham’s and Richards. What did you all like? Order of goals: Dane Richards, Julien Baudet, David Beckham, Pablo Campos, Bryan Namoff, Steve Ralston, Wells Thompson, Ramon Sanchez, Pablo Campos (Chivas [...]
The Colorado Rapids are hoping to reach the playoffs and some defensive help should go a long way in correcting some of their inconsistent issues. Today they have traded with FC Dallas for defender Drew Moor in exchange for Ugo Ihemelu, according to both clubs. The Rapids also pick up a second-round pick and allocation money in the deal. Interesting [...]
It’s just what we expected, a very tight playoff race this year is happening. Out of the 15 clubs in the league, 11 are in playoff contention. Sorry San Jose, Dallas and KC fans…we’re pretty much writing you all off for the playoff race this year along with the Red Bulls who have been out of contention for months now [...]
Last night in the links and thoughts we discussed the MVP race that is heating up, tonight we shall take a look into an even tougher Rookie of the Year race. We all know how deep this year’s rookie class is and right now we could make a serious case for about five or six guys. This time last year [...]
We have another loaded week of soccer ahead of us. Week 24 got off to a bang earlier in the week in Salt Lake as Real Salt Lake got their playoff chances back on track with a resounding 4-0 blowout of expansion mates Chivas USA. One has to wonder if this is more to come for RSL and if Chivas [...]
Editor’s Note: Geoff Reid appears on WVHooligan each week. Today he returns to us with his weekly series on the life of a Liverpool fan in America. Feel free to leave him your thoughts below. Premiership football is back in full swing and it doesn’t feel any better does it? Well that depends on who you ask. Before Monday nights [...]
U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team head coach Thomas Rongen has finalized the 21-player roster that play at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup from Sept. 24-Oct. 16 in Egypt. Several are comprised of MLS players. GOALKEEPERS (3): Sean Johnson (Central Florida; Lilburn, Ga.), Josh Lambo (FC Dallas; Middleton, Wis.), Brian Perk (UCLA; Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) DEFENDERS (6): Gale Agbossoumonde [...]
A pretty big deal to those who want MLS clubs to get better youth academies. Steve Goff is reporting that DC United has signed Abdul “Bill” Hamid, a 18-year-old goalkeeper from their youth academy. A few adjustments were made to the original offer from the league and should be finalized in the coming days, a source close to the negotiations [...]
We’ve had a full day of interesting news with the UEFA Champions League draw, the US Men’s National team roster announcement that took four hours to do, and random news here and there. Time now to close down the day with some links and thoughts on what’s going on. I wanted to get into some MVP race discussion. I mention [...]
He’s been on my shortlist for a little while, looks like others are taking note of Colorado’s Omar Cummings play as of late. Eight goals and 10 assists, yeah, that’s an MVP-type season right there. What do you think? Should Cummings be on the shortlist right now for MVP or will his teammate and the league’s leading scorer Conor Casey [...]
US Men’s National team manager Bob Bradley has announced the squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers vs. El Salvador on Sept. 5th (9pm, ESPN Classic, Telefutura) and Trinidad & Tobago on Sept. 9th (7pm, ESPN Classic, Galavision). Here is the group: GOALKEEPERS- Tim Howard, Brad Guzan. DEFENDERS- Carlos Bocanegra, Oguchi Onyewu, Jay DeMerit, Chad Marshall, Steve Cherundolo, Jonathan Spector, [...]
So if you had Atlanta-based NuRock Soccer Holdings as the buyers of the United Soccer Leagues from Nike, then you are the winners. Congrats. Seriously though, NuRock has bought the USL from Nike today, a press release just came into the WVH inbox with all the details, except for how much this company is spending on the leagues. The company [...]
Right now we have some hot MLS playoff races going on. Not only are there a few teams in the running for the league’s top regular season crown, the Supporter’s Shield, but there are still plenty of teams going for that 8th and final playoff spot. With Real Salt Lake’s win last night it pushed them into the playoff discussion. [...]
While we sit around all day and wait for bits and pieces of the US Men’s National team roster to be released today, this should tide us over until the final roster names are out there at 4pm ET today. Here in an interesting and kind of funny interview with LA Galaxy star Landon Donovan.
