wolf stansson

http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2008/08/bradley-names-1.html#more * GOALKEEPERS : Brad Guzan (Aston Villa: 2/2 SO), Tim Howard (Everton FC: 4/3 SO) * DEFENDERS: Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes: 14/2), Danny Califf (FC Midtjylland: 2/0), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96: 16/0), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew: 12/1), Oguchi Onyewu (Standard de Liege: 9/0), Michael Orozco (San Luis: 0/0), Heath Pearce (Hansa Rostock: 3/0), Marvell Wynne (Toronto FC: 0/0) * MIDFIELDERS: DaMarcus Beasley (Glasgow Rangers: 17/4), Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen: 3/1), Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo: 1/0), Maurice Edu (Glasgow Rangers: 2/0), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA: 1/0), Eddie Lewis (Los Angeles Galaxy: 20/3) * FORWARDS: Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo: 8/4), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy: 22/8), Clint Dempsey (Fulham FC: 9/2), Eddie Johnson (Cardiff City: 8/8) God dammit, Bob. It's [expletive] CUBA. Really? Cuba? You're so afraid of Cuba you can't call up Jozy Altidore, Freddy Adu or Kenny Cooper? Let me make this really easy for you. Howard Wynne Gooch Boca Pearce Bradley Landon Dempsey Adu Beasley Altidore Dumbass. Check out this quote from Ives: I have no idea what that is about, but I don't like it. Btw, there is no word filter for c u next tuesday, fyi.

Never mind, I'm changing my pick to Ted Ginn Jr.

What the hell is going on. Keep picking so IMB can load the team. How about this, I pick Drew Bennett.

Very favorable draw for Chelsea and Roma.

Booyah, Bayern drew #2 in Lyon's group. We should win that group. edit - Fiorentina is the 4 seed. They are tough.

Jozy is going to be up at Old Trafford. Liverpool gets a favorable 2 seed. Chelsea draws Roma as a #2.

Champions League draw is happening now. You can follow it on soccernet here: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=566834&sec=uefachampionsleague&cc=5901

I can't believe Liverpool pulled it out today. Damn.

Baptism by fire.

Booyah.

Nevan Subotic is the best center half in the entire US player pool. It's not even close either. This is the first time I've seen him play and he is blowing me away. Only 19 and he has more composure and technique than any of our defenders. It's only into the 37th minute against Bayern, but he is handling Toni and Klose like it's nothing. Great, smart tackles, good balls breaking out of the back, good aerial defending and his composure at 19 is like a seasoned international. If Bob Bradley does not get this man into camp, it will be just as disappointing if not more than Giuseppi Rossi. To me anyway. This is a player who could start for Germany in the future, let alone the US, Serbia or Bosnia. He is a future captain. He should be starting with Gooch in 2010.

Mo Edu secured his work permit and the transfer to Rangers is official.

http://www.asm-fc.com/magazine.aspx Freddy's blog. It'll be updated 3x's weekly. Monaco is serious about making him the man.

Guus. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES Bring in the mercenary. Seriously, he turned Arshavin to a star. There's no way Andrei Arshavin is any better than Landon Donovan (other than his maahbles). They're the same player.

Guus. Now that I've chilled a little, I'm going to do my favorite thing. Make a starting XI for the MNT! Yay. --------------------------------------------------Howard----------------------------------------------------- ------------Wynne---------------Onyewu-------------------Bocanegra*----------------Pearce------------ ---------------------Donovan^---------------------Bradley*------------------------Kljestan----------------- ----------------------------------------Dempsey^-------------------Adu------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------Altidore+--------------------------------------------------- * Or Edu + Or Cooper ^Interchangeable

Yeah, he's a really gifted athlete. His dad probably would have been better suited to soccer too because he sure did suck at baseball.

Oh and by the way, remember a year ago when I was the lone Michael Bradley defender? Yeah, I'm backing off that for a while. Heerenveen was the Arsenal of the Eredivisie last year. They had great possession and distribution along with some scary talent that allowed him to get forward. Until I see him doing that, I still like him but I'd rather see Edu or Feilhaber in there. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I can't put faith in Eredivisie match reports that I didn't see anymore. What I have seen out of him for the Nats is solid, but not worthy of an auto start. I need to see the club play translate to the national level or at least get him to a league televised here so I can see if it's legit or just luck.

I'm so unbelievably pissed right now. How can we go from the Olympics, where we looked as talented as ANY team in that tournament, to tonight with the full side where we look like absolute garbage. I'm happy with one performance so far tonight and that is Tim Howard. That's it. Everyone else sucked. It's probably not their fault, it's probably the formation and game plan; all I know is if this double mother fuaauieing destroyer is in place in the Confed's Cup and the World Cup, I'm going gray early. Screw Lewis, screw Bocanegra, screw Beasley, screw Hejduk, screw Ching, screw Mastroeni and most of all screw Bob Bradley. A lot of guys in that screw list are some of the all-time best America has produced. Some of them are still in good form. I. Don't. Care. Marvell Wynne, Sacha Kljestan, Jozy Altidore, Freddy Adu, Jonathan Bornstein, Maurice Edu, Benny Feilhaber and Stuart Holden need to factor before those guys. Our Olympic team would have won 3-0 at the very least. If we had a legitimate tactically savvy coach instead of some dour douche weaned on the lean years of American soccer where 0-0 was a great result and 1-0 was joga bonita, I could confidently say that I wouldn't be shocked to see them make a World Cup Final if everything bounced their way. That's the kind of talent we have, but no...we either don't field the talent (Bradley) or we don't instill the discipline and preparation necessary to close out games (Nowak). That first symptom is inexcusable; that second will be solved by these talented players playing in better and better leagues and bigger and bigger games. Give Howard the arm band, let the talent fragging play and start believing in the talent that is there. Also, I think Landon Donovan is an excellent player and right now, the best we've ever produced, but he's gotten to the point where I don't know where he fits in this team. Same with Dempsey and Beasley. Beasley can't finish and Dempsey and Donovan just disappear too easily. I suspect getting a better system with the real players playing would open things up for Deuce and Donovan, but as of now, with the coach we have, they just aren't being used correctly. I'm tired of this American system, whatever that may be. Time to start playing with the balls we should have.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2776190774_da02ea1c15.jpg?v=0 Nice bling, Fred. GREAT autobiographical story by Matt Taylor, an American who has gone from cut in MLS, rejected in the A League to debuting last weekend in the Bundesliga and scoring a great goal.

This is a weird statement to make about the third winningest manager of all time. His consistency with every team he's been with is amazing. You and others may not like some of his tactics, but it's really hard to argue with the results. 'Third winningest manager of all time' smacks of using pitcher's W-L to me. You can win a lot of games with Canseco, McGwire and Pujols in your lineups. 3 players in 30 years alone is enough to make you the 3rd winningest manager of all time? Isn't juggling egos of star players, deciding who to build your lineup around and player acquisition not part of what makes a manager good? Say what you want about your personal distaste for him, but it's impossible to say he isn't an excellent manager.

Baptista and Totti would abuse him.

I'd like to see Gooch go to Italy.

What a boring game that was.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/ DaMarcus Beasley is the last addition to the Q squad.

Neil Rackers