Media - what is it good for…

Tottenham bought Giovani Dos Santos for £4.7M.  Villareal bought Jozy Altidore for $10M.  So looking at pure transfer fees (I realize there are sell-on clauses etc) that makes these guys supposedly about worth about as much.  There is something wrong with this picture.  While Jozy holds great promise Giovani is much further along.  Here’s a guy [...]

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There is a great article in the NY Times about Jorge Flores of Chivas USA.  It points to something I talked about before: there is great untapped soccer talent in the US in the form of immigrant kids or kids of immigrants.  The article actually downplays the potential of drawing a lot of kids from [...]

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Why would you implement a new rule that you now will be overturned in the courts?  That’s what FIFA did today with their 6+5 ruling which is trying to limit the number of foreign players on a given club.  The EU has already made it clear that it violates EU labor laws.  So why forge [...]

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A story in the WSJ this morning reports that Seattle Sounders FC has inked a deal with Microsoft to be the main shirt sponsor for the team.  The deal specifies that the team will wear XBOX 360 Live on their shirts.  I think this is a great match and I was hoping Microsoft would step [...]

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In an article (you have to login to read it, really annoying I know) today in the NY Times, George Vecsey compares Drogba to Zidane.  He opens one of the lead-in sentences with:
With one master imitating another,….
Well, I will give him that there were similarities in them both getting red-carded in a major final.  But [...]

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I am pretty excited about Seattle getting an MLS team in 2009 even though I have been unimpressed with the level of play in the MLS. Perhaps I should restate that: it’s not the level of play that is disappointing so much as the brand of soccer being played in the US. It’s [...]

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