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Post by Brinyi on Sept 13, 2006 18:56:49 GMT -5
I was pleased to see FRED lead Lyon to victory over the Galacticos in Champions League today.
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Post by DBBN on Sept 17, 2006 17:01:15 GMT -5
I watched Man U vs. Celtic for a while, but I get very confused without national affiliations.
I do go to every University of Maryland soccer game, though. We are defending national champions. And I say we even though I have been out of school for at least 85 years.
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Post by Brinyi on Sept 17, 2006 19:04:42 GMT -5
Do they recruit furriners to play in the uni league?
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Post by DBBN on Sept 18, 2006 0:31:15 GMT -5
Absolutely! We played Mount St. Mary's on Wednesday and they had at least two Englishmen and a Trinidadian (or possibly Tobagoite).
I just don't know for whom to barrack in the Champions League because I don't know who is on what team. I would assume it's like someone from Latin America jumping into the LCS but not knowing where everyone is and why they got there. So I chalk it all up to me being a dilettante, no question ;D
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Post by Brinyi on Sept 18, 2006 11:43:40 GMT -5
Fred plays for Lyon. What else do you really need to know?
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Post by DBBN on Sept 18, 2006 14:26:25 GMT -5
Where Barney plays.
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Post by DBBN on Sept 29, 2006 22:01:40 GMT -5
MARYLAND 1 Duke 0
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Post by Brinyi on Oct 6, 2006 21:32:30 GMT -5
I saw some of the match vs UNC. I was pleasantly surprised by the level of play, but you were lucky to escape with a draw. I think I could have taken a better penalty than that UNC dude.
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Post by DBBN on Oct 6, 2006 22:43:37 GMT -5
ACK! We don't get that station so I did not get to see it! And I just got home and didn't check the score! And WHEW! UNC is #6, good program, I'll take a draw. I'm not expecting them to defend the title; Jason Garey, who won the Hermann Trophy as the USA's Outstanding Collegiate Player last year, graduated and now plays MLS, while our best prospect, Robbie Rodgers, left before his sophomore year started to go pro in Holland. But a bunch of kids stepped up, especially Graham Zusi, a ZZ look-alike/worshipper who has been our MVP and is brilliant at setting up goals off of corner kicks. And is gorgeous (but 4 years old). The meat of our schedule is coming up. I'll be happy if we stay in the Top 4 (we're #2 now) so we can stay at home in the NCAA tournament up to the College Cup (Final Four) which is in St. Louis this year. They don't lose when I am there.
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Post by DBBN on Oct 6, 2006 22:45:10 GMT -5
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Post by Brinyi on Oct 31, 2006 20:30:46 GMT -5
Barcelona 2 Chelsea 2 Didier Drogba saved Jose Mourinho from a humiliating defeat on a bad-tempered night at the Nou Camp. His brilliantly-taken goal in the second minute of injury time earned Chelsea a point that seemed unlikely after Eidur Gudjohnsen, labelled a diver by Mourinho, put Barcelona ahead in the 59th minute. Frank Lampard had earlier cancelled out Deco's third-minute strike with a fabulous equaliser from a seemingly impossible angle close to the bye line. Another ugly encounter between these bitter rivals saw 10 bookings and numerous flare-ups. Chelsea's coaching staff were involved in a touchline scuffle with Barcelona's backroom team after Didier Drogba had been shoved in the chest by Rafael Marquez and the match threatened to boil over when Ashley Cole appeared to have been booked for a second time. It seemed Farina had already shown Cole a yellow card for dissent and when he cautioned the Chelsea left back for a foul on Xavi Hernandez, Barcelona players demanded his dismissal until it emerged that the first yellow card had been shown to Lampard. Drogba was left with a nose bleed following one clash with Carles Puyol, while Michael Essien had to go off for treatment after Marquez stamped on his privates. The needle was not all one way, though, and Chelsea skipper John Terry became the ninth booking for kicking the ball at Deco as the Portugal midfielder lay on the ground. Deco was also the victim of a vicious late challenge from Ricardo Carvalho. Mourinho was pelted with water bottles after Drogba's equaliser.
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Post by Brinyi on Oct 31, 2006 20:32:16 GMT -5
Fred faces two months on sidelines POSTED: 1918 GMT (0318 HKT), October 24, 2006 LYON, France -- Lyon striker Fred will be sidelined for up to two months after tearing a thigh muscle in Sunday's 4-1 win over Marseille. Fred "has had a MRI scan which revealed a tear of seven centimeters (2.75 inches) on the right thigh," the club said on its Web site.
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Post by janie on Nov 8, 2006 14:41:46 GMT -5
Zizou delights Bangladeshi villagersSIDDHARTH SAXENA [India] TIMES NEWS NETWORK DHAKA, Nov 6: Zidane fever gripped Bangladesh on Tuesday as 20,000 people came to watch the 'headbutt hero' in action at the Bangabandhu Stadium. But it was the 5,000 women and men who turned up in all their festive finery in the rural environs of Bhashan hamlet, 42 km south of the capital, that took the entire bakery. Tomorrow is another day and the Bangladeshis are simply refusing to have their fill of the bald Frenchman. Jostled all the way from Zia Airport when he arrived on Monday night to the Bangabandhu, befittingly in a six-horse carriage , it was the stopovers at Bhasan and Bangladesh Football Federation that made it seem very special. While his edgy security team scurried here and there when their ring was breached time and again, the man played his role to near perfection. All day. Not a flinch, not a glare or a dissenting murmur, Zinedine Zidane, a uniquely endearing mix of the shy and sly, turned on his quiet charm - hitherto thought missing or hidden behind his famed reserve. He was completely untroubled by the growing, wave-like attention that greeted him whenever his six-SUV convoy and the police sirens stopped. Maybe, years of staving off over-interested defenders came good today, for it must take quite an extraordinary person to not be unruffled by the noisy throng and still effortlessly rise over the rest. Literally. The lithe frame might have added to the personality, but the famous bald head was never out of sight in a sea of people. In the multitude you could look away, but would instantly spy it when you turned back even when it was bending to tickle the diminutive 55-year-old Babul's frizzy beard or laughing shyly at the ice-breaker - the mention of the World Cup final headbutt that Shamsun Naha provided. While the waiting world dithered, the matronly Shamsun told him in Bangla dialect - and Zidane nodded as if he followed every word of it - that she would always recognise Zidane as the "matha diya hit" football player and not by his name. When her 24-year-old-son told her Zidane was coming to her village, she couldn't place him. Then he reminded her of the "forehead shot" and she understood. "I really cheered you at that moment," she told him. When it was all relayed to Zidane in French, there was a blush. Or was it the heat? It was hot, but Zidane, a profuse sweater himself, was undeterred. He heard speech after speech and welcome song after welcome song , as he strove to hear a village woman's success with a dry fish enterprise, aided by the Grameen Bank and Groupe Danone association. Zidane is here as a brand ambassador for the French food giant and his journey continues well into Wednesday. At the Bangabandhu, the great man's sublime skills were to be pitted against the country's top clubs' junior sides. A climbdown for the maestro? Banish the thought! Even if he confessed at a joust of a press conference at the Bangla football headquarters at not knowing anything about Indian football, no one was complained when the man took his task of football with under-16s with all good-natured seriousness. He stopped, though, for a moment to introduce his brand of humour when he was asked to don a pair of football shorts over his grey cargos, since the seam had come off at the seat. Comical at first, it soon appeared quite a leveller - torn trousers happen to the best of men, too.
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Post by DBBN on Nov 14, 2006 17:50:24 GMT -5
Tomorrow Maryland plays its first NCAA Championship game at home against St. John's of Hurley Island. We are the #5 seed. Davay.
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 14, 2006 20:09:36 GMT -5
Good luck!
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Post by DBBN on Nov 14, 2006 23:33:23 GMT -5
I'm doing my stretches already! Barracking is grueling work!
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Post by DBBN on Nov 16, 2006 13:57:29 GMT -5
Winz. Next: round of 16 vs. Notre Dame I'll be at Ludwig Field on Saturday to cheer them to victory!
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Post by leelee on Nov 16, 2006 16:08:52 GMT -5
Kill Notre Dame.
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Post by DBBN on Nov 19, 2006 2:33:20 GMT -5
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Post by Brinyi on Dec 4, 2006 12:30:49 GMT -5
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Post by DBBN on Dec 19, 2006 20:26:09 GMT -5
Maurice Edu has left our team and will go pro
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Post by DBBN on Jan 12, 2007 16:36:54 GMT -5
Maurice Edu has left our team and will go pro Edu was just picked #1 in the MLS draft. He will head to Chole City, Brinyiland to play for whatever team is in Toronto Our amazing 6'4" goalie, Chris Seitz, was drafted #4 and will play in Salt Lake.
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Post by The Chloe on Jan 12, 2007 17:46:15 GMT -5
There is a team in Toronto?
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Post by Brinyi on Jan 12, 2007 19:55:18 GMT -5
There is a team in Toronto? Yes.
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Post by The Chloe on Jan 12, 2007 23:13:36 GMT -5
Apparently they just sold an extra 100 ticket packages because of Beckham signing in LA. 100! They must be really popular.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 13, 2007 2:11:36 GMT -5
Wow, they must have doubled their clientele.
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Post by janie on Jan 13, 2007 13:36:11 GMT -5
Seriously, most Americans don't know from Beckham. But apparently Tom Cruise is pushing the Beckhams to join Scientology and become big box office stars; screw the soccer. Now THAT'S American!
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Post by janie on Jan 14, 2007 10:42:23 GMT -5
On the Metropolitan Opera *live* radio broadcast yesterday afternoon, during an intermission interview, retired USian soprano Beverly Sills mentioned excitedly to star tenor Placido Domingo (a Spaniard) that "Beckham is coming to the US to play hockey!" Mr. Domingo gently corrected her.
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Post by The Chloe on Jan 14, 2007 19:41:16 GMT -5
Hockey could use a boost, but I doubt Beckham would be able to take a hit from Phaneuf. Not that I wouldn't pay to see that. It baffles me that apparently "most Americans" don't know who Beckham is. Soccer isn't huge in Canada either, but I know. Do "most Americans" truly live in a bubble, whereby they have no exposure to the outside world? "Most Americans" that I've met don't seem to have this issue.
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Post by janie on Jan 14, 2007 21:13:06 GMT -5
Sports-oriented Americans of course know who Beckham is; even if they're not soccer fans, sports fans can't help seeing his name again and again over the years.
But non-sports-oriented types here are not aware of him the way they're aware of, say, Tiger Woods. I mean Beckham has never been big tabloid-type fodder here the way he has always been in the UK.
Most US non-sports fans would have trouble naming more than one hockey player OR soccer player. I look at sports web sites all the time, and even I can only think of about 6 hockey players' names off the top of my head, and about 4 soccer players, only one of whom is USian. That is, if Freddy Adu is USian.
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