Don Garber apparently released a comment from his meeting with the board that Sacramento, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and San Antonio all have pretty strong bids for MLS expansion. Will be assessed soon, announcement sometime in the first half of 2015.
You know they should just expand their projection of teams and just say they'll go to 28 by 2020, and then just find another market in the east (Ottawa, Detroit, NC).
Adelaide are right there in it. Lovely rapidfire away comeback win by The Phoenix (no, I will not use "The Nix") too, especially with Nato (yes, I will use "Nato") Burns remaining top scorer in the league.
Also lovely - Winston Reid's Irons charging into 4th place. I mean, technically they're in 3rd right now, but we all know that's only until United nudge their way past the spunky Saints tomorrow.
Don Garber apparently released a comment from his meeting with the board that Sacramento, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and San Antonio all have pretty strong bids for MLS expansion. Will be assessed soon, announcement sometime in the first half of 2015.
You know they should just expand their projection of teams and just say they'll go to 28 by 2020, and then just find another market in the east (Ottawa, Detroit, NC).
I'd be okay with this, only problem is that there's only so much dilution of talent you can do. Max of adding 2 teams per year, and I'd say 2 teams every two years.
A statement of "we won't be stopping at 24, even if it doesn't mean by 2020" would be nice, though.
Adelaide are right there in it. Lovely rapidfire away comeback win by The Phoenix (no, I will not use "The Nix") too, especially with Nato (yes, I will use "Nato") Burns remaining top scorer in the league.
Also lovely - Winston Reid's Irons charging into 4th place. I mean, technically they're in 3rd right now, but we all know that's only until United nudge their way past the spunky Saints tomorrow.
So so happy to see Burns having a good season. Great guy and it was really sad to see his move from Adelaide to Greece stall his career somewhat.
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edited December 2014
So let's say you're Steuea Bucuresti. And let's further say that you lost a suit filed by the Romanian ministry of defense and you all of a sudden lose your legal right to your club's intellectual property- name, logo, colors, the whole ball of wax.
What do.
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I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
So let's say you're Steuea Bucuresti. And let's further say that you lost a suit filed by the Romanian ministry of defense and you all of a sudden lose your legal right to your club's intellectual property- name, logo, colors, the whole ball of wax.
What do.
... are the army trying to get rights payments out of them?
Other than that, I can't understand the motive.
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BASEL!!!
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hahahaha
also, I missed Arsenal's group apparently. What the fuck happened to Galatasary? 1 point and losing at home to an English club isn't like them at all, or am I just totally out of the loop?
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So let's say you're Steuea Bucuresti. And let's further say that you lost a suit filed by the Romanian ministry of defense and you all of a sudden lose your legal right to your club's intellectual property- name, logo, colors, the whole ball of wax.
What do.
... are the army trying to get rights payments out of them?
Other than that, I can't understand the motive.
I recently started up a soccer blog and as such looked into it. (It's part of trying to get that podcast going that I'd mentioned some time back. Blogger won't embed audio files, Wordpress will, and so I moved personal operations over there and decided, welp, better make it a dedicated soccer site while i'm at it.)
Steuea privatized in 1998, but the military retained the rights to the imagery. Though they decided they'd just go ahead and let the team go on as normal using them, because why not. The club was set up to be run by a nonprofit organization run by Viorel Paunescu, who A, was a terribad owner who ran the finances into the ground, and B, was running a nonprofit that you could buy shares in. Eventually the shares had to get sold off to creditors, and Gigi Becali- who doesn't appear to have been one of the creditors- somehow (seriously, 'somehow', people still aren't sure how exactly) got 51%, took over the club and took it public. The military was not cool with this. Then Becali, who by taking control also assumed the club's debt, decided he wasn't going to pay that debt, and after the Romanian equivalent of the IRS came after him, he unloaded the shares onto friends and family that he could essentially use as figureheads. Then came the bribery and the forgery and the unlawful detention of people who owed him money and such good times as that. He's in jail now.
In 2011, the military decided to start taking Steaua to court to assert their rights to the imagery, and last week they won that fight. They're allowing Steaua a reprieve to use the imagery for the Europa League game against Dynamo Kiev later today, but that's basically it. Maybe they start charging for the rights, maybe Steaua has to go get a new name and logo, who knows.
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
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edited December 2014
The draw for the Champions and Europa knockouts:
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Paris Saint-Germain vs Chelsea
Manchester City vs FC Barcelona
Bayer Leverkusen vs Atletico Madrid
Juventus vs Borussia Dortmund
Schalke 04 vs Real Madrid
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Bayern Munich
Arsenal vs AS Monaco
FC Basel vs FC Porto
EUROPA LEAGUE
BSC Young Boys vs Everton
Torino vs Athletic Bilbao
Sevilla vs Borussia Monchengladbach
VfL Wolfsburg vs Sporting Lisbon
Ajax vs Legia Warsaw
Aalborg BK vs Club Brugge
RSC Anderlecht vs Dynamo Moscow
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk vs Olympiakos
Trabzonspor vs Napoli
Guingamp vs Dynamo Kiev
Villarreal vs Red Bull Salzburg
Roma vs Feyenoord
PSV Eindhoven vs Zenit St. Petersburg
Liverpool vs Besiktas
Tottenham Hotspur vs Fiorentina
Celtic vs Inter Milan
Gosling on
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Doesn't get much luckier for arsenal. Or Basel, for that matter
Woohoo
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First year of the FFA Cup. The first real national cup competition run in Australia. Teams from every level of football have the opportunity to enter and play for it.
WE FUCKING WON AFTER PLAYING A-LEAGUE CLUBS EVERY SINGLE ROUND
IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE FOR ANY TEAM TO EVER WIN FROM A WORSE DRAW
HARDEST WAY POSSIBLE BUT WE'VE MADE FUCKING HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First year of the FFA Cup. The first real national cup competition run in Australia. Teams from every level of football have the opportunity to enter and play for it.
WE FUCKING WON AFTER PLAYING A-LEAGUE CLUBS EVERY SINGLE ROUND
IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE FOR ANY TEAM TO EVER WIN FROM A WORSE DRAW
HARDEST WAY POSSIBLE BUT WE'VE MADE FUCKING HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, the HARDEST way possible would be to do the same thing from outside the A-League, playing the extra qualifying rounds beforehand. Or to play more than one away game along the way. But yeah, that's still a rough way to win a trophy.
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edited December 2014
Meanwhile, Cruz Azul vs. Real Madrid is going on in the Club World Cup and it's 2-0 Real shortly before the half. Sergio Ramos just gave up a penalty to Cruz Azul and got yellowed for it, but Casillas saved it. The penalty-taker had gone to the same spot in two penalties against Western Sydney Wanderers, went there again against Casillas and paid the price.
Gosling on
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
That World Cup match ended entertainingly. Always a fan of hilarious penalty misses.
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edited December 2014
Is it me or is San Lorenzo actively trying to screw this up? They are leaving a barn door-sized opening for Auckland City if they're able to convert.
EDIT: Aaagh that is a rough way for Auckland to enter the locker room. San Lorenzo scored seconds before the half. They can't just go 'ah, well, we had a good run'. There is still time to fight back. They're showing they can do this.
EDIT 2: Auckland has tied it up in a goal straight out of the Cal-Stanford playbook. Auckland guy marked by San Lorenzo in the box, stumbles, ball somehow laterals to another Auckland guy running at speed, second Auckland guy shoots it from a ridiculous angle, manages to slot it in.
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San Lorenzo going to the old Argentina/Uruguay chestnut of 'maybe if we send everyone on the other team to the hospital, they won't be able to score on us anymore'. Auckland feasting on counterattacks but so far only the one conversion as we head to extra time.
Even if Auckland comes up short in this game, they have fought like warriors. If they win, Real Madrid should think twice before sending out the B team.
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
This is insane. A bunch of builders and students 1-1 going into ET against the best team in the Americas. This is like if Gibraltar made the later rounds of the Euro Champs.
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edited December 2014
And the best team in the Americas has to more or less beat the shit out of them just to eke out a lead. I think they expected to go 'Hey, we're fucking San Lorenzo over here, you go back to the kiddie pool and let the adults play now' and forgot that this is Auckland's sixth appearance in the competition. They may lose a ton when they get here, but they are absolutely not strangers to this stage. Eventually Chaminade Syndrome was going to take hold. You get enough time in front of the champions of all the other continents, sooner or later you're going to learn how to play against the champions of all the other continents.
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Damn, that was so much closer than it had any right to be.
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You know they should just expand their projection of teams and just say they'll go to 28 by 2020, and then just find another market in the east (Ottawa, Detroit, NC).
Adelaide has been ridiculous this season.
Also lovely - Winston Reid's Irons charging into 4th place. I mean, technically they're in 3rd right now, but we all know that's only until United nudge their way past the spunky Saints tomorrow.
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Starting to hate the Galaxy moreover than the timbers.
I'd be okay with this, only problem is that there's only so much dilution of talent you can do. Max of adding 2 teams per year, and I'd say 2 teams every two years.
A statement of "we won't be stopping at 24, even if it doesn't mean by 2020" would be nice, though.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
So so happy to see Burns having a good season. Great guy and it was really sad to see his move from Adelaide to Greece stall his career somewhat.
What do.
... are the army trying to get rights payments out of them?
Other than that, I can't understand the motive.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
also, I missed Arsenal's group apparently. What the fuck happened to Galatasary? 1 point and losing at home to an English club isn't like them at all, or am I just totally out of the loop?
I recently started up a soccer blog and as such looked into it. (It's part of trying to get that podcast going that I'd mentioned some time back. Blogger won't embed audio files, Wordpress will, and so I moved personal operations over there and decided, welp, better make it a dedicated soccer site while i'm at it.)
Steuea privatized in 1998, but the military retained the rights to the imagery. Though they decided they'd just go ahead and let the team go on as normal using them, because why not. The club was set up to be run by a nonprofit organization run by Viorel Paunescu, who A, was a terribad owner who ran the finances into the ground, and B, was running a nonprofit that you could buy shares in. Eventually the shares had to get sold off to creditors, and Gigi Becali- who doesn't appear to have been one of the creditors- somehow (seriously, 'somehow', people still aren't sure how exactly) got 51%, took over the club and took it public. The military was not cool with this. Then Becali, who by taking control also assumed the club's debt, decided he wasn't going to pay that debt, and after the Romanian equivalent of the IRS came after him, he unloaded the shares onto friends and family that he could essentially use as figureheads. Then came the bribery and the forgery and the unlawful detention of people who owed him money and such good times as that. He's in jail now.
In 2011, the military decided to start taking Steaua to court to assert their rights to the imagery, and last week they won that fight. They're allowing Steaua a reprieve to use the imagery for the Europa League game against Dynamo Kiev later today, but that's basically it. Maybe they start charging for the rights, maybe Steaua has to go get a new name and logo, who knows.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Paris Saint-Germain vs Chelsea
Manchester City vs FC Barcelona
Bayer Leverkusen vs Atletico Madrid
Juventus vs Borussia Dortmund
Schalke 04 vs Real Madrid
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Bayern Munich
Arsenal vs AS Monaco
FC Basel vs FC Porto
EUROPA LEAGUE
BSC Young Boys vs Everton
Torino vs Athletic Bilbao
Sevilla vs Borussia Monchengladbach
VfL Wolfsburg vs Sporting Lisbon
Ajax vs Legia Warsaw
Aalborg BK vs Club Brugge
RSC Anderlecht vs Dynamo Moscow
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk vs Olympiakos
Trabzonspor vs Napoli
Guingamp vs Dynamo Kiev
Villarreal vs Red Bull Salzburg
Roma vs Feyenoord
PSV Eindhoven vs Zenit St. Petersburg
Liverpool vs Besiktas
Tottenham Hotspur vs Fiorentina
Celtic vs Inter Milan
Woohoo
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
WE FUCKING WON AFTER PLAYING A-LEAGUE CLUBS EVERY SINGLE ROUND
IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE FOR ANY TEAM TO EVER WIN FROM A WORSE DRAW
HARDEST WAY POSSIBLE BUT WE'VE MADE FUCKING HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After looking at the pure weird but wonderful Bayern Munich's Xmas bash, Only one man can now get us all in the Christmas Spirit...
Well, the HARDEST way possible would be to do the same thing from outside the A-League, playing the extra qualifying rounds beforehand. Or to play more than one away game along the way. But yeah, that's still a rough way to win a trophy.
Interesting development in the comical world of FIFA ethics.
EDIT: Aaagh that is a rough way for Auckland to enter the locker room. San Lorenzo scored seconds before the half. They can't just go 'ah, well, we had a good run'. There is still time to fight back. They're showing they can do this.
EDIT 2: Auckland has tied it up in a goal straight out of the Cal-Stanford playbook. Auckland guy marked by San Lorenzo in the box, stumbles, ball somehow laterals to another Auckland guy running at speed, second Auckland guy shoots it from a ridiculous angle, manages to slot it in.
Even if Auckland comes up short in this game, they have fought like warriors. If they win, Real Madrid should think twice before sending out the B team.
FFFFFUUUUUUUUCK YEAH
It has to be Gonzalez. I mean come on.
I dunno, Adryan is pretty good too. But yeah, I'm with you.
Obviously the checks have cleared.