Work, and The Magazine, are requiring plenty of my time these days folks so I apologize for the lack of diversity on the site the past week or so. I love the High School game but there’s more to be aware of and enjoy out there. I’ll be back to normal programming next week, including a number of College Player updates. I’ve got a backlog of reports to share with you but it takes time to put them together properly so they’ll have to wait. In the meantime, here are some items I found interesting.
Hopefully, the economic challenges the US is facing won’t affect you any more personally than this reminder – Manchester United confident AIG sponsorship deal will survive Wall Street uncertainty At least we know Zack the Chelsea fan will be unaffected.
On a more positive note, I didn’t get pictures or a game report on the KC Wizards win over David Beckham, Landon Donovan and the LA Galaxy last Saturday. Heck it was Monday before I even heard what the score was, which was a bit strange. I did see that Jack Jewsbury played in his 150th game for the KC Wizards that day, tying him for 10th all-time for the Wizards. It’s also great to see that Jack’s back in the middle. He expressed an interest in that position in my interview with him in the first Magazine, teaming with his best friend Davy Arnaud has to ensure great communication as well. Congrats Jack!
OK, now for the goalkeepers and coaches out there. Was chatting with a couple of high school coaches recently and goalkeeper training came up. Well, here’s one of two video examples I found recently that will probably offer some good ideas that are easily implemented for your team. Click on the video itself to be taken to a second example as well as others that YouTube will highlight for you.
And yes, that’s Chris “Tommy” Tombridge (Kickapoo/Springfield SC/Northwestern) doing plenty of hard work with Lance Parker (Chivas/MSU Bears) under the guidance of former MSU Coach Jesse Miech.
Have you been watching the US Men’s team qualifying games? Any thoughts on who deserves to play in South Africa in 2010? These guys have been!
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Goal keeping training in the area has been so much better in the last couple years since Jesse Miech came. Locally we were fortunate that he trained many GKs, and althought we were thrilled for him to get an opportunity at Clemson, we miss him very much. But we have David Stockton that will be supporting the local GKs keepers now. So we continue to be fortunate to have local coaches that specialize in GK skills.
In response to your last little tidbit there Ole:
I would love to see Cooper come up for a couple of games for the MNT. Our strikers are bad, really bad. Talented? Yes. But none of them can seem to put anything away. EJ, if he can ever get it straight, would be one heck of a striker. But give Cooper a chance. And its laughable to see them even mention McBride. What did he do in China at the Olympics? Basically nothing. Why would he then be able to go against 25-35 years again?