Big Hairy Bastard News
du Nord, September 5, 2007
Embarrassingly only 28,000 tickets have been sold for Sunday's USA v Brazil match in Chicago.~and~Carlos Bocanegra, Landon Donovan & Tim Howard were named finalists for the 2007 United States Player Of The Year. The award will be handed out on Oct 5.~and~There is no player conflict between the Spanish national team and the Catalonia team that was supposed to play the USA on Oct 14. The reason that the Spanish Football Federation has put the kibosh on this match is that they are afraid that even with little known players for Catalonia the game will overshadow Spain's Euro qualifying matches on dates near that date (they are not scheduled for the same date.) This has to be one of the lames excuses I have ever heard of for exerting pressure on a region of a country. It all politics folks, and Spain does not like places like Basque, Catalan, or Andalusia showing them up.US Open CupSeattle 1-2 Dallas - in extra time after regular time ended 0-0. Sea goal by Leighton O'Brien. Dal goals by Carlos Ruiz & Abe Thompso