MLS Final Kick Week 28

MJ: This Is It

Tickets are available now at http://www.thisisit-movie.com/. Pick them up before they're all gone. I just copped myself some for Halloween day. Maybey I should go as MJ then, except I'm a little thick to pull that off (but don't be surprised to see a little moonwalk outside of the cinema). Get your tickets to the theatrical event of the year. I don't even remember that last movie I saw at the theater, so this one must be special.

Freestyle Fridays

Here is Fatlip featuing our boy Pigeon John.

FC Dallas Lands A Jersey Sponsor (Kind Of)

The Official FC Dallas Blog just posted the above pic of Jeff Cunningham wearing a jersey with a new sponsor. The weird thing is, it will only be on there for 2 games. I have two questions. 1) Will anyone even see these jerseys with the awesome fan support they get? 2) When will FCD finally get a permanent jersey sponsor? I was thinking about this very question the other night. What companies would look good on the MLS team jerseys that don't have a sponsor like, FCD, the Rapids and the Revs? Let me know if you have any good thoughts.

Crossbar Challenge

Sounders FC have been posting a couple of videos showing the lighter side of practice.

Episode one.


Episode 2
Check out Montero's strike. I'd love to see him use that against Blanco and the Fire.

Maradona Would Be Proud

Check out this goal from a second division game in Brasil.

The Smartest Goalkeeper Ever?

Check out Kim Christensen of Sweden's IFK Gothenberg moving the goal posts in a little. It gets him a couple of inches on each side. A brilliant move if you don't get caught, but now the Swedish Federation has to investigate as the match was a national broadcast. I know what I'm doing when I'm on the post during corner kicks from now on.

Inspired By Edu

I figured that if Maurice Edu will pose shirtless for a magazine to raise awareness for a cause that means something to him, then I should do something too. So here is a public service announcement from WAG Rachel Stevens to support the cause. This goes out to all you S Club 7 fans. You know who you are!

CONCACAF Champions League Highlights

DC United hosts Marathon in a must win game for United.


UNAM Pumas takes on Real Espana.

More FIFA Tutorials

More FIFA 10 tutorials dropped on YouTube today. Plus I needed to get another post up so that a half naked Maurice Edu wasn't the first thing you see.

This Is For The Ladies

Maurice Edu just dropped this on his Facebook page. No. 1 Magazine did a photo shoot with him, Allan McGregor and Neil Alexander to promote Testicular Cancer Awareness. Ex-Rangers star John Hartson has been diagnosed with the disease.

Sounders FC To Host Philly Union For MLS First Kick 2010

MLS announced the home openers for the 2010 season. The First Kick will be on March 25th with Sounders FC hosting the expansion side Philadelphia Union. In a related note, the Union will have to play their home opener at Lincoln Financial Field due to construction delays (you've got to love unions).

Financial Football

Landon Donovan and Brian McBride helped ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday as Visa kicked off a new financial educational game using soccer. Financial Soccer in the US and Financial Footballl in the UK is geared around Visa's commitment to worldwide financial intelligence. I tried the game out and crushed the UK (yes, it's the UK in the game) by answering all the hard questions (disclaimer: I work in finance). I have to admit, if you ever wanted to take your financial literacy into your own hands, then this is a place to start.

Here's video of the opening bell from yesterday.


And here's the game in action.

CONCACAF Champions League Highlights

Columbus faces off against former FC Dallas player, Ramon Nunez and Cruz Azul.


Toluca then squared off against San Juan Jabloteh.


You can watch the Comunicaciones vs W Connection highlights here.

Opara's New Haircut

Ike Opara gets a Brek Shea inspired haircut. Personally, I liked his hair before they cut it, it just needed to be cleaned up on the sides. Now Ike is counting on you to decide whether or not he keeps it for the Germany game on Saturday. Don't forget to vote.

CONCACAF Champions League Highlights

This goes out to those of you that don't have ESPN Deportes (like me).

CONCACAF Champions League Highlights

Houston lays the smack down. It's about time an MLS team represents in this competition.

Hey Look! It's Craig Waibel, I used to play with that guy.

CONCACAF Champions League Highlights

A heartbreaker for the Puerto Rico Islanders as they give up the equalizer in stoppage time.

FIFA 10 Live Season Trailer

My only complaint is that MLS isn't available as Live Season. Come one EA, Major League is in our name!

MLS Goal Of The Week Nominees - Week 27

You've seen the highlights, now check out the Goal of the Week nominees.

My vote goes to Sainey Nyassi for the step overs and then the absolute rocket to the far corner. I was also impressed with the team work on the Edson Buddle Goal.

MLS Final Kick Week 27

In my opinion, this is the best MLS recap spot out there.

More On FIFA 10

I spent a couple hours last night playing the demo's for both FIFA 10 and PES 10. I will admit that I've always played FIFA so I know that I can't be unbiased. I've always heard that Pro Evolution Soccer was the real simulation footy game and that EA made FIFA more like an arcade experience. But in recent years I've heard that EA is going after the real footy gamers and trying to become more life like. After only a couple hours I felt that FIFA 10 was more fluid and realistic while PES 10 was the more arcade of the two games. Disclaimer: It did take some getting used to the controls for PES since they are different from FIFA. I Think that both games will provide a quality gaming experience, but FIFA definitely has the cooler commercial. Check it out:

Keep in mind that the North American release date is October 20th, 2009.

Also, it looks like the Dutch National Team will be back!

Halo 3 ODST Drops Today

The next installment of the Halo series drops today (or last night at midnight if you're hardcore). This game follows a side story of the Marines that are the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers. I guess the designers wanted to have a throwback appeal for this one so the pistol with scope from Halo is back! Did you hear that G-Rant? You're pistol is back, you can play Halo again. So if your IT department is running on a skeleton crew, now you know why. They all called in Sick;)
Oh, and don't forget to save!

Here's the Live action Trailer that I previously posted.


And the Trailer from E3 showing game footage.

CONCACAF Champions League

After what's been a very busy week of footy, today is a chance to breathe and digest all the action... or maybe just look forward to tomorrow's CONCACAF Champions league games.

FIFA U-20 World Cup

The FIFA U-20 World Cup kicks off in Egypt this week. Ives has the list of all the games and how you can see them here in the U.S. I would like to show how the different teams prepare.
Here's Trinidad & Tobago training:


And here's the United States team chillin in the pool. I guess we'll see which training regimen will yield better results.