I have been voting for the Honda Award for a long time now. Maybe from the start, which was 1991. The Honda Award is the biggest award in U.S. soccer that has nothing to do with the federation. It is run by Football de Primera, based in San Francisco, and sponsored by Honda, the auto […]

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Landon Donovan has been the point man for U.S. soccer, in the eyes of fans, certainly, for most of a decade now. Arguably since the 2002 World Cup. Unlike the country’s several prominent goalkeepers (Kasey Keller, Brad Friedel, Tim Howard, for starters) … Donovan has excelled as a field player. And distinguished himself over a […]

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David Beckham is the blogger’s gift that keeps on giving. This is a guy with one goal and one assist in six matches so far this season in Major League Soccer, which he couldn’t be troubled to join until the season was more than halfway over.  He remains the No. 1 draw for the Los […]

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David Beckham still hasn’t apologized for his behavior at halftime of the Los Angeles Galaxy game with AC Milan, last Saturday, and continues to insist he did nothing wrong. Major League Soccer begs to differ. And bravo to MLS. MLS on Friday announced it is fining Beckham $1,000 for his part in the exchange between […]

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My oh my, talk about getting “a little verklempt.” I could feel a lump in my throat and a little moisture in the corners of my eyes. Excuse me. Talk amongst yourselves for a moment. Discuss “carpetbaggers we have known and loathed.” OK, I’m better now. There they were, the Riot Squad, the most loyal […]

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Today was the day David Beckham deigned to speak with the media after a Los Angeles Galaxy training center at Home Depot Center, and he said the spat between him and Galaxy captain Landon Donovan … is over. Here is a link to a story on espn.com in which Becks says the barbs between the […]

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David Beckham back in town, and on Day 1 he vents on Landon Donovan … who vented on him something like nine months ago … and how is this all supposed to work for the Los Angeles Galaxy, exactly? Becks will be around, at least physically, for the final three months of the MLS season. […]

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