December 1, 2010
The soccer world didn't take Thanksgiving week off, like I did.
- The USWNT clinched their trip to Germany 2011 thanks to A-Rod's goal. And they got a bit lucky at the draw with North Korea, Colombia, and Sweden in their group.
- Devo has coverage of the Western NY Flash announcement. And while everyone would love Abby Wambach to come here, I just can't see the Freedom giving up their marquee player when they are holding on by a string.
- Tomorrow we find out if the US will host the 2022 World Cup. And I'm all for the big sell, but really Don?
- I'm loving the Portland Timbers billboards.
- Ben Olsen got the full time gig with DC United.
- I loved that Portland and Vancouver traded away a boatload of their expansion draft picks after so many people did mock expansion drafts.
- And I really like Dax McCarty ending up in DC.
- Seattle keeps Montero as their 3rd DP and Real Salt Lake keeps Saborio as their 1st DP.
- Vancouver also signed three of their own players.
- Traffic is helping prop up the Atlanta Silverbacks and apparently the NASL as a whole is helping prop up NSC Minnesota to get the NASL to 8 teams.
- It looks like AC St Louis is dead . Although, the team has denied it.
- The USL PRO League is heading to Fullerton, California . How is that going to work?
- Landon Donovan was named Baller of the Year.
- Landon also isn't sure if he has the energy to go back to Everton or if he needs to rest up for 2011.
- Clint Dempsey and Jonathon Spector scored some goals for their club teams.
- And finally, Barca was thankful to play Real Madrid.
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