Monthly Archives: May 2008

MLS among the best in the world

This is from an article about Real Salt Lake attendance and American fans adopting MLS.
L.A.’s Landon Donovan, Chicago’s Cuauhtemoc Blanco and defensive shot-blocker Jon Busch are among the best soccer players in the world.
I guess if I were standing in a room with some of the best soccer players in the world, you could say [...]

Chicago to burn down RFK tonight

DC United will be playing in their fancy new VW jerseys tonight for the first time on ESPN2. Sounds good but things aren’t right in DC, and they are playing the Fire, the same team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year. Chicago is hot right now. The Fire are [...]

Seattle Sounders FC loan out their only player

Seattle Sounders FC have signed their first ever player, a French forward named Sebastien Le Toux. Then they loaned him out right away to the USL Seattle Sounders, which was also Le Toux’s old team. So Le Toux has been playing for the USL Seattle Sounders, but just signed with MLS Sounders FC [...]

Darren Huckerby to replace Ben Olsen?

Ben Olsen may be done for the season, done for good. Olsen has a bad ankle situation right now. I think he must have broke it when he was chasing his kid outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods the day his son put on that Beckham jersey. See below:

Well anyway, rumors are going [...]

How Happy Is Gullit With The Galaxy?

We’ve all probably heard about the huge differences in Major League Soccer salaries from the top to the bottom.  The league minimum salary is a tiny $33,000/year - and there are plenty of players that make this salary.  For the amount of money that David Beckham is making you could fill a full league of [...]

Galaxy going to North Dakota for post-season friendly

The Los Angeles Galaxy are going to North Dakota to play a high school team in a post season friendly. They hope to attract at least 1200 people and probably sell 20 Beckham jerseys at the game. They will play the school that took 3rd place at this past year’s state soccer tournament. [...]

Real Salt Lake one step closer to US Open Cup

Real Salt Lake had another impressive victory at home last night in their US Open Cup play-in game vs expansion San Jose EarthQuakes. Kyle Beckerman notched the first two goals of the game. After that Yura Movsisyan and Andy Williams each got a goal of their own to complete a 4-0 demolition [...]