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How would FC Dallas do in Europe?
By: Robert |
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If there was ever a question to provoke an argument over soccer (football) this is it. People from the “we called it soccer, then we changed our minds and decided to call it football” side of the pond routinely berate anyone who believes MLS’ best could hang with Europe’s worst and while most people on [...]
Category: Game Analysis
Tags: Athletic Bilbao, Bundesliga, Dutch Eredivisie, English Premier League, Excelsior, Game Analysis, La Liga, Ligue 1, Portuguese Liga, Scottish Premier League, Serie A, St. Mirren, Torino, Valenciennes, Vfl Wolfsburg, Vitoria Setubal, WiganIs MLS doing better than the NBA (or the NHL)?
By: Robert | 13 Comments
We hear it all the time in our country “no one cares about soccer,” or “MLS is failing.” Deriding comments are directed at American soccer fans ad nauseam; they play almost like a backdrop to our lives. But too often we believe what they say to be true, that we are waving a losing flag, [...]
Category: Game AnalysisSoccer America does not do research
By: Robert | 2 Comments
This is not even funny anymore; actually this is downright embarrassing considering the source.
“…Denilson, who speaks English fluently and is every bit as effervescent as one would expect from one so breathtakingly brilliant, can dazzle on and off the field, which is what the DP rule is all about.” – Ridge Mahoney, “FC Dallas’ bet [...]
Category: Team NewsEven more media mistakes…
By: Robert | 5 Comments
This is getting ridiculous people…
Category: Team NewsDenilson vs. Denilson
By: Robert | 2 Comments
Because the media is making mistakes telling the two Denìlson’s apart. Here’s a quick reference (although in all honesty, they’re more similar than I thought):
Our Denìlson
Full Name: Denìlson de Oliveira Araujo
Born: August 24th, 1977 in Diadema, Brazil
Height: 5’10”
Position: Midfielder
Senior Club Teams: 1997 – 98 São Paulo FC
1998 – 2000 Real Betis Balompié
2000 Clube de Regetas [...]
Category: Game AnalysisThe media makes more soccer mistakes
By: Robert | 2 Comments
Whats wrong with this picture?
Category: Team NewsDefending Denilson
By: Robert | 1 Comment
He’s over-rated. He’s too arrogant. He’s over-exposed. He’s over-hyped. He’s too selfish He’s not a leader. Only days into Dallas’ Denìlson era and already his addition to the roster (not official until the work visa arrives) has been met with more derision than any other Dallas signing or MLS designated player signing this season. For [...]
Category: Game AnalysisWhat the hell, we got Denilson?!?
By: Robert | 3 Comments
Let me first apologize for the mistakes I made the other day, I wrote a piece a couple days early because I was just sure that the Denìlson deal which was supposedly “dead in the water” really was “dead in the water.” I then made the mistake of posting it a day early and once [...]
Category: Team NewsFC Dallas and the designated player
By: Robert | 4 Comments
(This is part three of a two part series: part one, part two)
Now that signing deadline has finally passed its time to look back at FC Dallas’ designated player decision (or lack thereof if you see it that way.) The Hoops along with most of MLS opted against bringing in a big name player for [...]
Category: Team NewsWhere does the Boogeyman live?
By: Robert | 3 Comments
Ever wonder what a soccer team without a properly constituted midfield might look like? If so, I hope you saw this past Saturday’s FC Dallas/Houston Dreamsicle match, because it played out like a failed experiment in football (not the American kind) procedure. With Dax McCarty and Bobby Rhine ineffectively filling in for an injured Juan [...]
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