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du Nord, November 27, 2006
France Football's Ballon d'Or or Golden Ball award was announced today, and the winner, not surprisingly, is defender Fabio Cannavaro of Italy, and for many years Juventus, and now Real Madrid. Big du Nord congrats to him. But I don't think he should have won this award. I think he got the sympathy vote because he should have won the similar award at the World Cup. To my way of thinking, Thierry Henry or Ronaldinho probably should have won this.-Greg Lalas at Sports Illustrated scrutinizes the winner.~ ~ ~ ~UK rumor mongers The Mirror are reporting that the Glazer family are going to buy the Los Angeles Galaxy and tie them to Manchester United! This does not sound good to me at all.~ ~ ~ ~Grahame Jones at the LA Times is convinced that Juergen Klinsmann is going to be named USA coach. And here is how Jonesy thinks things will move when this happens.~ ~ ~ ~Big Apple Soccer has reported that New York Red Bulls star midfielder Amado Guevara is gone. The team shipped him to the west coast and Chivas USA, in exch
People mentioned
- Alexander Hleb
- Amado Guevara
- Avery John
- Bobby Convey
- Brad Friedel
- Brian Carroll
- Brian McBride
- Carlos Bocanegra
- Carlos Tévez
- Charlie Davies
- Claudio Reyna
- Curt Onalfo
- DaMarcus Beasley
- David James
- Dick Howard
- Eddie Lewis
- Eric Denton
- Fabio Cannavaro
- Greg Lalas
- Jay DeMerit
- Jay Needham
- Jonathan Spector
- José Manuel Abundis
- Joseph Lapira
- Kasey Keller
- Luboš Kubík
- Marcus Hahnemann
- Michael Bradley
- Oguchi Onyewu
- Steve Cherundolo
- Thierry Henry
- Tim Howard