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Felix the cat made his debut for Barcelona in place of Pique.
...and compensate for the rebuilding of the fan baseOriginally Posted by Initial B
Former Red Andy Welsh just found a new club
http://m.fcunited.org/story.php?story_id=5703
That's good
Plata has scored his 12th of the season for RSL tonight in Seattle. Score in the 86th is 2-2.
http://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/mat...salt-lake/feed
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oh boy... thx for the reminder DAVID
Anytime Reg.
If it makes you feel any better, Rose scored for Seattle in the 94th for the victory.
.... and to make you feel worse, Frei got the win making his record 18-7-3 on the season.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/articl...-santos-laguna
Eric Avila to Santos Laguna. That's third time Avila got an interest from a Liga MX team. What do they see in Avila that we don't?
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
I always rated Avila. I think we should have kept him.
Agreed - thought he had talent.
but apparently his attitude wasn't up to snuff.
Mexican descent, pretty much.
Decent player but no more than a bench player in Liga MX.
Chad Barrett and Stefan Frei win the U.S. Open Cup with Seattle. Barrett with a goal and Frei with a number of big saves.
yea ..both playing same as when with us - yet they are on a different team - good for them tho - esp Frei!
Plata scored another goal last night. From Ned Grabavoy:
“He's our best player,” Grabavoy said of Plata. “I think everybody probably has a different view of that, but he's our best soccer player.”
You know, Plata was a Winter signing. I'm sure Mariner/Cochrane allowed him that pick because they thought you don't find good players that low in the draft. Notice he left right after Winter did. The more time passes from the Mariner/Cochrane era, the angrier I get that those two... buffoons put their consolidation of power ahead of what was best for the club.
I bet you they are not launching longs balls towards the smallest guy on the pitch, because that's what Winter's team essentially did with him.
Its amazing what a first class organization like RSL can do to some players, he started off on the bench then moved into a pivotal role for them, great stuff.
Plata can play his game with that club. To be fair, Winter probably would have played that game too if he'd had the right personnel ..... which is of course, to a degree, his fault although some actual help from Earl and Marriner (instead of being undermined) would have been helpful.
This is not what happened. Winter didn't "discover" him.
You know, Plata was a Winter signing. I'm sure Mariner/Cochrane allowed him that pick because they thought you don't find good players that low in the draft. Notice he left right after Winter did. The more time passes from the Mariner/Cochrane era, the angrier I get that those two... buffoons put their consolidation of power ahead of what was best for the club.
Plata was the star of the combine that year and would have been a very high pick but for the fact that a $500K transfer was required to acquire him. All the pre draft discussion, league wide, was about whether it was worth it to pay that for him.
Winter deserves credit for actually doing the deal, but it wasn't about draft talent identification
Your anger is not misplaced. When we (Mariner and Cochrane) gave Plata to RSL, we never recouped anything for the transfer.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Sure we did - we got a RSL's Second Round Draft pick in this year's Superdraft.
and a bottle of scotch whisky for old boozy MarinerSure we did - we got a RSL's Second Round Draft pick in this year's Superdraft.
Preki coaches his team to win the USL PRO title.
Justin Braun, too.
Sacramento Republic FC Complete Fairytale Season With 2-0 Victory To Win USL PRO Championship
http://www.vavel.com/en-us/soccer/39...mpionship.html
Preki named USL Pro coach of the year
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/26/673...ch-of-the.html
Preki seems to be doing great at the D3 level. They are getting 12,000 attendance at the D3 level to watch Prekiball? If Sacramento doesn't get an MLS franchise, it will be a huge loss.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
An hour long interview with Darren O'Dea
https://soundcloud.com/an-irishman-a...dea-episode-53
Only 20 min in so far but interesting stuff. Talking about his background and getting into football and also some of the craziness he had to deal with in Ukraine.
Yep, you always think it will be better in greener pastures, but sometimes that's completely not the case. He could have stayed with the Reds but chose not to.
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
That's not the way it happened at all, they wanted to cut his wages in half to fit him under the cap without allocation money.
Preki talks TFC and former MLSE management in his interview with Extratime Radio Podcast:
http://www.mlssoccer.com/extratime
Joao Plata story. Doesn't go much into his stint in Toronto other than the fact that he was unsettle and had tough time adjusting to life in Toronto.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Truly one of my favourite TFC players of all-time, just loved watching him do his thing out on the pitch. Great to see him getting better and truly making a name for himself. Will be fun to see him play in Hartford next week against the US.
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
What I really picked up from this was how all Plata needed to shine was a front office that took an interest in making him comfortable and helping him adjust. That he didn't get that from Toronto just shows how totally incompetent the previous regimes had been since the start. I hate to say it, but it all comes back to Anselmi. He was the one common denominator over the 8 years. He was in way over his head and should never have been given TFC in the first place.
God knows I didn't rate Anselmi, but this one is on Winter.
Seriously, if you run an MLS team and sign a 19 year old Ecuadorian, and you don't have a serious and well thought through game plan for managing him off field, you are brain dead.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
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