I went to a hotel in downtown Los Angeles today for a press conference featuring Mexican national team coach Sven Goran Eriksson. He answered questions in English first but I didn't record those with my camera.

But I got a snippet of him, actually several snippets, answering questions in Spanish. Click to continue reading...

Jean Baudrillard: "...the modern is prey to a systematic delirium."

Jean Baudrillard: "The economy exhibits, in the most striking fashion, the domination of the imaginary at all levels."

Jean Baudrillard: "Your rights, your destitution, your freedom, interest us!"

The Silly Season has slipped into September this year. Click to continue reading...

This is a great article from the London Times, that describes how Joe Cole has become England's attacking midfielder / forward without an assigned position. Personally, I think this strategy is long overdue as Cole has always shown so much more of his ability when he was allowed to roam around and wasn't confined to one of the wide midfield positions. Click to continue reading...

Alex Ferguson has slammed Tottenham for dragging their heels over the sale of Dimitar Berbatov and admits: I've no idea if he will sign. Manchester United boss Ferguson has made three bids in a year for Berbatov, the last £25million, but Spurs are holding out for £30m.

A furious Ferguson told the sun: "I'm less optimistic today. Click to continue reading...

This is just dumb, according to this article on ESPN Soccernet, Thierry Henry will be playing a wide left position this upcoming season for Barcelona. I think Pep Guardiola needs to realize that Henry is a center-forward, not a left winger. Maybe next Lionel Messi should play right back so that he can get the ball further back and make deeper runs. Click to continue reading...

In the week leading up to Manchester United saying goodbye to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, as the player, Sir Alex Ferguson commented on the state of our game, in terms of loyalty and contracts. "Anyone serving more than 10 years at a football club these days is exceptional," said Fergie. "Especially with freedom of contract, the Bosman [. Click to continue reading...

West Ham, Aston Villa and Fulham have all been rumored to be watching Eidur Gudjohnsen. Now it looks like the Barcelona striker could return to the Premier League. The 29-year-old has been granted freedom to move this summer by the... Click to continue reading...

In May, we reported on the The Trophy for the Freedom of Peoples, an international exhibition run by the Non-Fifa Board, which saw Padania defeat Tebet. Padania went on to compete in the Viva World Cup last week, and Vanda Wilcox reports on the results. Click to continue reading...

Oh America. The land that we all love, and the land that is starting to love the beautiful game. Today is a great day for freedom everywhere, and I'm glad the MLS is joining in on the fun, with three games taking place on the momentous holiday. As an American living abroad, it's times [...] Click to continue reading...

No Freedom in this week's Roundup. Word around the campfire is that one of the Long Island Lady Rough Riders vehicles was involved in a no-injuries accident on the way down here. What's worse, is that today's Freedom/Majestics sorta-derby at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA kicks off at 4pm. Seriously? Click to continue reading...

Freedom 5 - 0 Richmond Kickers Destiny A 2nd minute strike by Ali Andrzejewski was enough, but Andrzejewski added one more, and the Freedom got single goals from Lori Lindsey and Christie Welsh to stake a 4-0 halftime lead, before getting one more from Anabel Jimenez in the 2nd half before rounding out the scoring on [. Click to continue reading...

Sven Goran Eriksson had a baptism of fire in his first competitive match in charge and he will need to do much better in this live online and radio commentary World Cup 2010 qualifier between Mexico and Belize live or the fans could be baying for his blood after just two or three matches in charge. He has not been able to instill any visible improvements so far yet but it is still early days for this live online streaming match to have to prove himself at this level, despite his past failure with England. Click to continue reading...

Who could even have imagined that in a tournament where the Dutch abandoned Cruyff's 4-3-3 formation in favor of a flexible 4-2-3-1 we would also see the Germans adopt the 4-3-3, as they did in their victory over Portugal? Joachim Low set out his three midfielders - Ballack, Hitzelsperger, and Rolfe - to disrupt Portgal, and especially Deco's, passing lanes and gave his wide men, Schweinsteiger and Podolski, the freedom to attack Portugal's full backs. Click to continue reading...

Freedom 5 - 1 New Jersey Wildcats The Washington Freedom rebounded from their first loss of the season the week before with a resounding win over visiting New Jersey. Lori Lindsey led the way with two goals, one of which came at the penalty spot, and Tiffany McCarty, Christie Welsh, and Emily Janss rounded out the [. Click to continue reading...

Freedom 0 - 1 Boston Renegades A 54th minute goal by Mary McDonnell propelled the visiting Boston Renegades to victory, sending the Freedom to their first loss of the season before 1400 at the Maryland Soccerplex on Saturday. Despite outshooting Boston 20-8, the Freedom were unable to crack Boston goalkeeper Meghann Burke who made eight saves [. Click to continue reading...

There isn't much to speak of this week for the Local Soccer Roundup. Freedom 3 - 0 Fredericksburg A Jennifer Parsons hat trick was more than enough to propel the Freedom to a 3-0 away victory over the Fredericksburg Lady Gunners. Scoring machine Ali Andrzejewski left the match on 33′ for reasons that are unknown to me [. Click to continue reading...

Freedom 2 - 0 Fort Collins Force Freedom 3 - 0 Real Colorado Cougars The Washington Freedom were victorious in two exhibition matches last week. The first was a 2-0 victory over the Fort Collins Force on Thursday, and the second, a 3-0 victory over Real Colorado, came on Friday. The next match that counts for the [. Click to continue reading...

As you might imagine, things around here have rightfully been pretty much all DC United, all the time. That isn't to say that this blog hasn't had its eye on other things... US Women one step from the Olympics After posting group victories over Jamaica (6-0) and host Mexico (3-1), the US WNT won their three-team group [. Click to continue reading...

By the time I turned on the DC United match at New England, it was already 2-0. I widened my tired eyes, blinked, and widened them again, just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. I wasn't, and to be honest, I'm still not sure what happened. Jaime Moreno wasn't on the field, Fred was [...] Click to continue reading...

It looks as though the both W-League semifinal matches on Friday will be shown on uslsoccer.com via USL Live, according to this press release from the Washington Freedom. I haven't been able to find the matches listed yet on USL Live, and I'm pretty sure you have to pay to watch, but it's something to [...] Click to continue reading...

On the strength of a 24th minute Christie Welsh goal, the Washington Freedom defeated the homestanding Ottowa Fury to win the Eastern Conference Championship and book themselves a trip to the W-League championship weekend in Rochester, NY. The Freedom have a semifinal date with the Rochester Raging Rhinos on Friday, August 3rd, and the winner [...] Click to continue reading...

DC United 0 - 1 Bunch of Bull It probably should've finished 2-1 Bunch of Bull, but the beloved center ref spent much of the match staring at his rectum. Burch played well for his first start, but no other United player really distinguished himself. Well, except for Fred, who did so for the wrong reason. [...] Click to continue reading...

As I try to make myself forget about Saturday's meltdown, it's probably a good idea to look at the other soccer that's been going on. US U-20 MNT 1 - 2 Austria [U-20 World Cup Quarterfinals] The kids never did look much like winning that one, especially after halftime. The deserved 2nd yellow to Wallace was pretty [...] Click to continue reading...

On Saturday the Washington Freedom avenged their only loss of the season by beating the Jersey Sky Blue 3-2. Only a week and a half before, the Sky Blue came to the Maryland Soccerplex and walked out with a 3-0 victory on a goal by Tobin Heath on 5′, and two by Casey Nogueira (12′, [...] Click to continue reading...

After a day or so off from posting, it is back to work now that I am in Texas for a little while (normally I am in my usual post in Morgantown, West Virginia if anyone really wanted to know). The 4th of July is upon us and the league has packed us with a [...] Click to continue reading...