Landon Donovan continues to make news on the Old World side of the Atlantic. And David Beckham’s decision to stay with the Galaxy led to some financial fallout in Paris.
It’s rather fun to read about this stuff in English and French papers, respectively, and we have some links for you.
The news peg here: Landon’s Everton […]

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This probably was a global trend, but it was certainly got a boost from the Barcelona club and the Spain national team.
To wit: Soccer is increasingly the province of tiny men with high technical skills who can run forever. Big is out. Muscles? Not really necessary, aside from those needed to move your almost frighteningly […]

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Everton got a result against Aston Villa on Saturday, a 1-1- tie, their first point in the Premier League since Landon Donovan rejoined the Liverpool-based team on loan from the Galaxy, and when it was over David Moyes, the Everton coach, was calmly direct about identifying his most influential player.
It was Donovan, the Galaxy captain, […]

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This was a first: A Briton asking me to write a story about Landon Donovan.
The news peg is that Landon is back in England, for two months, on loan with the Premier League side Everton, and he seems likely to play his first match (in his second Everton go-round) Wednesday night.
Here is that piece, which […]

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This surprised me a bit. Landon Donovan going back to Everton, the English Premier League side in Liverpool, on a two-month loan spanning January and February, during the Major League Soccer offseason.
Why should this have puzzled me? For at least two reasons.

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My recollection is this: I called Landon Donovan the day before the 2001 MLS Cup final and talked to him for 10 or 15 minutes. Yes. The day before. Called him on his cell, and he picked up, and I wrote a story based on what we talked about on the eve of the game.
Those […]

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Each fall, an organization known as Futbol de Primera polls journalists to determine the best U.S. national team player of that calendar year. (For years, they gave away a Honda automobile to the winner; that no longer appears to be the case.)
The Futbol de Primera (formerly Honda) award is better than the U.S. Soccer Federation […]

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By signing Robbie Keane, captain of Ireland’s national team, the Galaxy have made the biggest news in Major League Soccer since Thierry Henry went to New York to play for Red Bull.
Granted, Robbie Keane may be close to washed up, but when a guy spends most of a decade in the Premier League, and scores […]

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No, this is not about the soccer club.
When reviewing, a few weeks back, the interesting assumptions Isaac Asimov made in his “Foundation” series — set 30,000 years-plus in the future — I neglected to mention a fairly major assumption that he made.
To wit: Humans are the only form of intelligent life in Asimov’s galaxy.
I was […]

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I’m not sure the importance of the Concacaf Champions League has been fully grasped by soccer fans in the United States. This is a big deal, and the fact that Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer has a good chance of winning the competition tonight is something they ought to be paying attention to.
RSL […]

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