Hello folks! Wasn't that long before my first real post eh? Here's the lowdown:
Interesting article from NBCSports. LeBron James apparently bought a part of Liverpool recently. Hopefully he won't be moving them to a city he thinks can win quicker (ha! bad joke I know). That said, I do hope his ownership goes better than that of other American owners (Malcom Glazer and Man U come to mind). Granted he is only a minority ownership but when he does retire, you never know if he goes for majority ownership. Interestingly, he didn't wait for retirement to buy into a team like a lot of professional athletes do a la Michael Jordan.
Speaking of professional athletes and soccer. I've always found it interesting how many superstars in other sports are fans or players even of the sport. Kobe Bryant is a great example. Chad Ochocinco (or is it Johnson again?) is even playing with the Sporting Kansas reserve team. If only those guys had kept playing instead of moving on to other sports (on the other hand, they may have flamed out like Freddy Adu or not even made it that far).
While we're on the subject of American soccer, Andy Najar has chosen to play for Honduras instead of the United States. Apparently he was somewhat of a phenom and had some American fans' hopes up that he would play for us. But, turns out that's not the case. Another Giuseppe Rossi type miss, although I think the article by Jeff Carlisle on Najar hit it on the head basically saying he wasn't a sure bet to start with since he wasn't a U.S. Citizen as Rossi is. Still a miss is a miss and I hope we don't see him scoring a goal again us that knocks us out of qualifying for the World Cup in the future...
Hopefully Mike will do an article on up and comers in the U.S. program one of these days...
Oh and one more thing! My favorite EPL team, Newcastle United is coming to the States in July to play the Columbus Crew and I am so there! (And apparently Rossi was on loan to Newcastle back in the day. If only they coulda kept him...)
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