Le Toux doesn’t make the MVP final list but is up for Fair Play Award; Mwanga makes the final Rookie of the Year List; more on the Cosmos as everyone wants to join MLS; CONCACAF qualifiers for Women’s World Cup start today; Russia calls England “primitive”; Paul is dead, long live the new Paul; local college roundup and more morning news.
Month: October 2010
Expansion draft preview: Philadelphia Union
Who should the Union protect? Who will they lose? And what the hell are the real rules to this thing? (Some of what you’ve read elsewhere is wrong.) PSP breaks it down with an entirely too detailed preview.
Seger for World Player of the Year & more news
Independence player Caroline Seger nominated for FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year; Union expansion draft predictions; local college roundup; Newcastle wants Donovan; TFC supporters’ posteriors kissed further; Cosmos want to be 20th; more FIFA zaniness; Germany 1954 World Cup winning team on meth; Paul the Octopus conspiracy; Chilean miners lose match, must go back down mine and more morning news.
Raves: Amobi Okugo
Take note : Amobi Okugo is good, real good, and in the Union’s second season he’s going to prove it.
Noone, Moreno, great footy managers: Round-up goes global
JT Noone’s season, Jaime Moreno’s career, and the managers who shaped football – all will make an appearance in the round-up!
Paul the Octopus, dead at 2 1/2
The world mourns the death of Paul the Octopus, found dead in his tank on Tuesday morning.