John Harkes is out as ESPN lead analyst. OH HAPPY DAY.
What the hell, who in Seattle thought it would be a good idea to leave Fucito unprotected?!
Seattle's got a ton of quality depth. You can make a good argument for protecting Fucito, but it does entail leaving a player of the quality of Brad Evans or Erik Friberg exposed.
Expansion draft at 3 eastern today! Out of respect, I hope they don't take the GA players Chivas left exposed. The GA rules are pretty confusing and the Impact already seem to have a deal in place with Portland.
Nyassi, can't believe they exposed him.
Official: NBC Sports has hired Arlo White as lead play-by-play guy for MLS/US broadcasts starting in 2012.
Does that mean he won't work with Seattle anymore?
The first part of your post is awesome, while the second part is terrifying.
Arlo's Twitter said:#sounders fans, thank u so much for yr best wishes. An exceptional 2 yrs in my life/career. I have an amazing opp'nity,but I'll never forget
The stable of young attacking talent at the Philadelphia Union just added another stud.
The club on Wednesday announced the signing of one of the young, rising stars in Costa Rican soccer as 21-year-old forward Josué Martínez was acquired from Deportivo Saprissa on a transfer.
Martínez joins a forward corps that features 20-year-old Danny Mwanga, 19-year-old Jack McInerney with 27-year-old Sébastien Le Toux proving the elder statesman.
A product of the Saprissa youth system, Martínez has already collected 11 caps with the Costa Rican national team and scored two goals.
One of those tallies came against Bolivia in the 2011 Copa América, where he started two of his countrys three group matches and came off the bench for the other. He also made one appearance at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup earlier that same summer.
Martínez got on the map with two tallies in Costa Ricas magical run to fourth place in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt.
Shortly after that tournament, he scored on his professional debut for Saprissa and has become a fixture for his club, contributing key goals in domestic and international competitions.
Martínez has faced MLS opposition on multiple occasions in the CONCACAF Champions League, most recently falling to Real Salt Lake in the 2010-11 semifinals in April.
So, the Sounders got their new keeper:
http://www.sounderatheart.com/2011/12/7/2618498/michael-gspurning-signs-sounders-keeper-transfer
Michael Gspurning, an all star from the Greek league, also played in Austria. I'm not really familiar with him, to be honest.
Next week or so should see the last of the opposition to the Earthquakes stadium. Then it will start happenin'. Congratulations Quakes fans.
The more I read about DC United's stadium situation it seems to get dimmer. It's really sad.
That's the brand new third jersey right? And I feel ya brah about the fit of the shirt, my Whitecaps away jersey does the same to me.
hows everyones teams offseason is go
the Union are on a signing spree it seems
Firt they picked up 23yr old MF Nazir Khalfan in the waiver draft from Vancouver. I'm not to knowledgeable about the guy but here hes speedy.
We gave Mapp up to Montreal which really wasnt a loss. he wasnt terrible but only had a left foot.
Then Nowak went crazy signing players from Central America..
Costa Rican forward Josue Martinez and LB Porfirio Lopez, Panamanian MF/DM Gabriel Gomez.
Only problm is we are at 11 internationals when the limit is 8.