Month: March 2019

It's hard for me to even write these words, but Club America and Paraguayan strker extraordinaire, Salvador Cabañas was assaulted in the restroom of a Mexico City nightclub and shot in the head early this morning. He apparently arrived at the hospital conscious and was able to answer the questions he was given. Surgeons are…

Click:cnc machining milling Humberto Suazo hopes to lead Monterrey past America​ It is liguilla time in Mexico again. First a quick word on who didn’t make it. Chivas is a mess. 3 coaches, and one general manager later, and they still missed out on the post season. Pumas found magma in the hole they dug…

The morning after a team gets knocked out of the playoffs there's always a good deal of finger pointing, blame seeking and what-iffing. As dutiful, diligent, longtime fans of the Beautiful Game, we all know perfectly well that blaming a loss on any one play or one call is simply unfair. What about this or…

Since the ratings suggest that I'm not the only one who long ago gave up trying to find entertainment on Saturday Night Live, we're indebted to Houston Dynamo fan (and Most Interesting Man in the World) flippin269 for THIS LINK TO A CLIP FROM LAST NIGHT which includes a reference to Major League Soccer. Fortunately,…

No one has started the season hotter than Javier Hernandez​ If you’re a striker whose national team has historically had trouble finding the net, and you are on an absolute white-hot tear, life is pretty good for you. The fact that it is happening right before a world cup is monumental. Javier Hernández, you could…

In the wake of the crisis in Haiti, CONCACAF President Jack Warner sent the CFU's "Captain" Burrell of Jamaica to Port-au-Prince, where he was met by a heavily bandaged HFF chief Yves Jean Bar. Bar reports that the HFF was meeting at the time of the first earthquake and that thirty Haitian soccer officials, coaches…

Well, it's time to consider nominations for CONCACAF Player of the Year again. I was reminded of this courtesy of Nick Green's coverage of the FIFA Women's Player of the Year finalists. In a nutshell, FIFA blew it. Three of FIFA's nominees would technically be eligible for my award – Marta, Kelly Smith, and Cristiane….

J.R. Eskilson can see the future. How can he possibly know this? We're talking about a draft so deep, so rich in talent, that Bruce Arena thought Clint Mathis is a better choice than at least fifty of them. MLS teams don't build around the draft anymore, if they ever did. It was five years…

Not too long ago I had a hearty chuckle at Major League Soccer Players Union boss Bob Foose, whose dire warnings about how FIFA would throw the US out of the World Cup if MLS didn't cave in to the players was met with derision far and wide. As I said at the time, I'm…

De Nigris has 3 of Monterrey's 5 liguilla goals​ If you ask any Monterrey fan who they would like to beat to win the Mexican Primera, the answer is not surprising: Tigres, their cross-town rivals. But a close second would be any team from the hated chilangolandia. And if Monterrey lifts the trophy this Sunday…