Blue Green Black Jack Mary News
du Nord, May 30, 2006
I am glad to be back after the nice long 3 day holiday weekend. We flew past 60,000 visitors to du Nord while I was relaxing in the sun! So thanks so much to all of you for reading the ranting!~ ~ ~ ~Let's start with something classic from Ken The Keeper: Soccer players in Chile play an exhibition game with a magnolia tree planted in the middle of the stadium as part of an art project.~ ~ ~ ~Cimmy Jonrad has another great self-praising-deprecating article at ESPN's Soccernet. (I have to admit it's not his best effort though.)~ ~ ~ ~Two nice wins for Team USA this past weekend. 2-0 over Venezuela and 1-0 over Latvia. I thought all three games last week were real tough challenges. Ahead of time many people questioned the quality of the competition, but I think it turned out to be just fine. I don't have much to add as far as over all analysis, but I will find you some links. The team now has yesterday, today and tomorrow (Wednesday) to themselves before reconvening Thursday to travel as a group to Hamburg and
People mentioned
- Amado Guevara
- Andy Johnson
- Bixente Lizarazu
- Brian Ching
- Brian McBride
- Claudio Reyna
- Clint Dempsey
- Dan Popik
- Darío Sala
- Edson Buddle
- Freddy Adu
- Gianluca Zambrotta
- Giorgio Chinaglia
- Gregg Berhalter
- Jaime Moreno
- Jay DeMerit
- Landon Donovan
- Michael Bradley
- Minnesota Thunder
- Noah Palmer
- Peter Prendergast
- Roy Makaay
- Salomon Kalou
- San Jose
- Tony Sanneh