I meant to bring this up earlier in the day but nearly forgot. For those of you lucky bastards in the New York City area, there is an event that you need to be at tomorrow in Chinatown. What is it? The second annual Showdown in Chinatown featuring NBA stars and international soccer stars such as Steve Nash and Thierry Henry.

You may recall last year’s event in New York with Nash and company. It was a smashing success and this year’s lineup looks just as good:

Steve Nash, Claudio Reyna, Thierry Henry, Tony Parker, Javier Zanetti, Raja Bell, Adrian Mutu, Chris Bosh, Ivan Cordoba, Grant Hill, and Giovanni van Brockhurst

Also maybe..just maybe Yao Ming.

The second annual Showdown is set for Wednesday (Tomorrow) at 6pm at Sarah D. Roosevelt Park in lower Manhattan. This event is free to the public. Getting a seat for this thing will be extremely tough. So you will want to get there early…as in maybe today early.

The event is being held to help raise money for the Steve Nash Foundation and Claudio Reyna Foundation. You can go here for more information on the event and its charitable efforts.

And if you happen to make it to this event and are able to snap some photos or videos, feel free to pass them along to me (drew.epperley@gmail.com). I will be more than willing to post them for you here.

Claudio Reyna and Steve Nash had a little event. Okay little doesn’t even start to describe it.

First off, the event was packed as packed can get. Hell even Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber and U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati were sitting on the turf to watch the game because every other inch of space inside the park was taken. Outside of the park, fans climbed trees and fences, others stood on a roof of an adjacent apartment building to catch a glimpse.

The scene was crazy, the game was crazy but in all it looked like one hell of a time. The collection of soccer and basketball stars was impressive.

Nash, the two-time NBA MVP, and Phoenix Suns guard Leandro Barbosa, were former Liverpool greats Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman and Rob Jones.

Playing with Reyna, Jozy Altidore and Gregg Berhalter were Jason Kidd and Baron Davis and Chelsea’s Salomon Kalou.

Oh yeah, some guy named Thierry Henry was there as well.

Uh yeah, that’s just a nasty combination of stars folks.

I won’t go into any other details because I think these two write ups will sum it up the best. SF from The Offside Rules and the wonder Ives from SBI. They were there, so they had a better experience than I did from my home reading about it.

Ives brought up another good point though about this with Reyna. Should he have played? Hmm…interesting. Sounds like something fishy is going on with him these days. I wouldn’t be too thrilled if I were a Red Bull fan.

I will provide this video to you all that I found in SF’s post.


Thierry Henry and Steve Nashled from peter cortez on Vimeo.