Some News for Fri Oct 9, 2009
du Nord, October 9, 2009
STARTERSThe last time the USA was in Honduras was late March of 2001. And while many things in American soccer have changed in just 8 years, others have stayed remarkably the same. The game that night was only shown in America via Pay Per View. (Sound familiar?) So, via the glory of Big Soccer, 8 of us lost souls met up in a basement in St Paul. None of us knew each other, but 1 person turned out to be none other than Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated (who wrote about that evening). For me the greatness of that night is today I am still in contact with all but 1 of those people, and 3 of them are regular travel partners of mine all around the world. In retrospect it was the best soccer night of my life. Let's hope that this weekends game on Closed Circuit from Honduras will create even more of those same type of great friendships!TEAM USADamn I wish Clint Dempsey was healthy. I don't know what it is about that guy. My feelings for him are so love/hate its incredible. He can look miserable for 87 minutes and t