Some Soccer News for Jul 13, 2017
du Nord, July 13, 2017
It's Day 194 of 2017. RIP to Neal Patterson, one of the very special group who invested in and turned Kansas City soccer into something amazing with Sporting KC. Thank you Neal. Our thoughts go out to his family, friends, team. dN Chuck Blazer has died. Say goodbye to the Cocaine Santa Claus of FIFA and CONCACAF. The man who started the avalanche of the US Justice Department arrests of FIFA and soccer execs world wide in 2013. His obituary. From the New York Times. In the first sentence he is called a "bon vivant." And then there was this: "He was said to have kept two apartments at Trump Tower in Manhattan, one for himself and the other mostly for his cats. Sometimes he carried a macaw on his shoulder." In real life some might he say he was a genuine Prince of Darkness. Blazer's blog was a source of endless entertainment for me. For years I harbored a secret dream to work for Chuck for even just 1 month to see the madness first hand. dN Important topic: After 10 years has the US Soccer Development Academy b
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