Same here but it would have been nice for him! He will probably end up in Europe anyways. He craves attention, no need to give it to him.
11/08/2006 12:11AM Special ball to be used at MLS Cup By Jonathan Nierman / MLSnet.com Staff The new adidas ball that will be used at MLS Cup was unveiled on Sunday. (Tony Quinn/MLS/WireImage.com) NICE! Remember they had each game's date and time on each ball at the WORLD CUP? That was so EFFIn' sweet. I wonder how much AFTER the game.
Our Dynamo have garnered a ranking on Fox Sports' list of the top 35 world clubs: http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3412562 Code: Fox Soccer Channel Club Rankings Nov. 9, 2006 RANK CLUB PTS LAST 1 Manchester United (ENG) 243 1 2 Olympique Lyon (FRA) 224 2= 3 Chelsea FC (ENG) 217 2= 4 Internazionale (ITA) 216 6 5 FC Barcelona (ESP) 199 4 6 Werder Bremen (GER) 172 8 7 Arsenal FC (ENG) 135 7 8 Bayern Munich (GER) 134 9 9 Real Madrid (ESP) 132 10 10 PSV Eindhoven (HOL) 122 16 11 CF Valencia (ESP) 110 5 12 Celtic Glasgow (SCO) 108 12 13 FC Sevilla (ESP) 105 15 14= FC Porto (POR) 90 14 14= CSKA Moscow (RUS) 90 20 16 Ajax Amsterdam (HOL) 84 17= 17 US Palermo (ITA) 83 11 18 AC Milan (ITA) 81 18 19 Boca Juniors (ARG) 80 13 20 Sao Paulo (BRA) 59 21 21 River Plate (ARG) 56 23 22 AS Roma (ITA) 52 19 23 FC Liverpool (ENG) 44 NR 24 VfB Stuttgart (GER) 34 NR 25 Sporting Lisbon (POR) 33 22 The next ten clubs were: New England (USA) AS Nancy (FRA) Toluca (MEX) Internacional (BRA) FC Schalke 04 (GER) Bolton Wanderers (ENG) OSC Lille (FRA) Olympique Marseille (FRA) Houston Dynamo (USA) Atletico Madrid (ESP)
The ball does look sweet! That's what I love about the beautiful game, all the little details that are implemented. If you watch the Euro Cup, most nations have the date & oponent's name under the crest of the shirt. It's nice.
Tomorrow, there is supposed to be an announcement on the format and the participants in the new MLS vs. Mexican League competition. The competition itself will be held from July-November next year and will involve 4 MLS teams vs. 4 teams from the Mexican League in a competition. I know we have a lot of fans of teams such as Club America, Toluca, Chivas Guadalajara, etc. so I thought I'd give you guys a heads up. If it works this season, look for the tourney to expand in its second season with perhaps a Copa Libertadores spot on the line. Also, this hasn't been mentioned too much, but on the line for the Dynamo this Sunday (besides the Cup) is a spot in the CONCACAF Champions Cup, a Cup competition between the champions of various CONCACAF participants. This means the Dynamo could be involved in as many as 3 competitions in the next year and will give our team some international exposure. I'll post an update in here when the details of the various competitions are announced.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4327173.html Nov. 11, 2006, 12:36AM Dallas area has a goal model Dynamo aim is landing soccer-only venue for Houston area By DAVID BARRON Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle FRISCO — As the Dynamo prepare to play the New England Revolution on Sunday for the championship of Major League Soccer, the apple of every Dynamo fan's eye and the object of his or her fondest flight of imagination is sleek, colorful Pizza Hut Park, the 2-year-old, 20,500-seat stadium that will host Sunday's game. But as Dynamo president Oliver Luck strolls the grounds this afternoon, he will give equal attention to the 16 soccer fields that surround the stadium on the 118-acre campus. And he will, no doubt, consider whether Pizza Hut Park's combination of professional and developmental soccer venues is, as MLS officials suggest, the ideal blueprint for Houston's future. The Dynamo have enjoyed instant on-field success in their first year in Houston, where the franchise moved from San Jose, Calif., while playing home games at the University of Houston's Robertson Stadium. The team will continue playing at UH at least through 2008 under the terms of a three-year lease signed this year. But league and team officials have their eyes fixed on a new, soccer-specific stadium complex for Houston. And officials with Hunt Sports Group, which owns the FC Dallas team in MLS and manages Pizza Hut Park, don't think Houston will find a better example than the venue where Dallas-Fort Worth, at least for the moment, has outshone Houston in terms of stadium and arena planning and development. "This is the most unique partnership of its kind and the blueprint for how things are going to be done," said Shawn McGee, senior director of soccer business development for FC Dallas. "This is the perfect venue. Granted, there are things that can be changed, but this is the wave of the future." Located 23 miles north of downtown Dallas, Pizza Hut Park and its surrounding fields were built for $81.5 million, including $55 million from the city of Frisco, Frisco Independent School District, Collin County and other entities. Hunt Sports Group paid for the rest and has a 20-year agreement for $100,000 per year to lease and manage the complex. Pizza Hut will pay $25 million over 20 years for naming rights. Whirlwind of activity The stadium is the centerpiece, hosting more than 70 events this year, including concerts, FC Dallas home games and Frisco ISD soccer and football games. But the unique element of Pizza Hut Park, and the draw for most of the 1.3 million people who have visited the facility this year, is the 16 soccer fields that surround it. Each field, McGee said, can host up to eight games a day on weekends. The complex is booked solid during weekends by the 4,000-member Frisco Soccer Association, by FC Dallas' 65-team youth league and by two 260-team boys and girls elite leagues, plus events such as a 41-team national tournament under way this weekend. "We call this our 'cradle to grave' concept," McGee said. "We want kids out there at 4 years old playing in the shadow of the stadium. We want them to join the FC Dallas youth club. We want them to wear our jersey. We want them to have that attachment to our team and our players." Hunt Sports Group is considering partnerships with other area cities to develop and manage smaller soccer complexes; McGee believes the mega-complex combination of a stadium for the professional team and surrounding fields for developmental leagues is the way to go, providing an opportunity to host major national events. In soccer circles, it certainly is the complex du jour. As MLS commissioner Don Garber delivered his state of the league address Friday, off to the side was a scale model of the Colorado Rapids' new stadium, which will be part of the 23-field Prairie Gateway complex in suburban Denver. Also Friday, the Columbus Crew announced plans for an indoor practice center surrounded by 16 fields, modeled after Pizza Hut Park. "We think we did it right," McGee said. "It is vital that more complexes like this get built. It's where the growth of soccer is going." The complex is in Frisco because, frankly, that's where the money was. Hunt Sports Group also explored building a stadium in McKinney, another northern Dallas suburb, and turned to Frisco, which was looking for a second stadium to service its rapidly growing student population, when those plans fell through. "People ask why we didn't build a stadium in downtown Dallas, and I tell them that I didn't see (Dallas Mayor) Laura Miller step up and offer $45 million to help build the thing," McGee said. Funding and location, of course, are quandaries the Dynamo face as well. Luck also is intrigued by the idea of building soccer fields around the stadium, as is Ed Loucks, president of the South Texas Youth Soccer Association. "If we got 100 fields next week, I could fill them up," Loucks said. Food for thought Loucks has no preference as to location, but said, "It needs to be well-served by freeways and mass transit. I wouldn't necessarily want it in the far suburbs, but anywhere off Beltway 8 would be just fine." Luck is willing to consider central and suburban locations. "I would think (the Pizza Hut model) would be a priority for communities that have the land," he said. "If we're talking about a more urban setting, a complex like this probably wouldn't be doable. So the stadium and the fields is an option, but it's not the only way to go. I think both models can work." Luck said he has talked with several public entities about a partnership with the Dynamo but declined to give specifics. Billy Burge, chairman of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, said the authority has consulted with the cities of Sugar Land and Webster about serving as a "facilitator" for such a partnership but would not fund the effort. david.barron@chron.com http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4327173.html
Sitting first row at a soccer match isn't the best seats in the stadium, but I wish I was there anyways
I'm getting so EFFIN' pumped about this... someone please record with their digital capture card... I can't record 2 tuners and I am recording the TEXANS already... R2k? Anyone? Also, official word from TVGUIDE, it will be on High Definition, TinMan... http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?id=1166824&sourcetype=s
OLE OLE OLE OLEEEEEEE OLEEEEEE OLEEEEEE Let's go ORANGE! Texans won. Now Dynamo need to Win. Then Rockets.
The fowards are terrible for Houston right now. They can't hold the ball and they aren't creating anything. The mids are working their collective asses off and are getting no help. Ching and Daglish need to wake the f*** up. GO DYNAMO!
