May 12, 2009
Brent Sancho and Tiger Fitzpatrick were named to the USL 1st Division Team of the Week for their work in the Rhinos 2-1 win in Montreal on Saturday afternoon.
Chad Severs was once again named to the 2nd Division TOTW. He is currently tied for the league lead with 4 goals so far this season for Harrisburg.
News & Notes:
- If you want an in depth breakdown of the Philadelphia Union logo and what it means, check this out.
- The fans in Philadelphia looked happy yesterday.
- Tim Howard has set the Everton club record for shutouts in a season.
- Mac Kandji was named the MLS Player of the Week this week.
- MLS is looking to promote core fan marketing practices. Basically, they want to get best practices from the more successful clubs and share them with the less fortunate.
- Puerto Rico is one win away from again qualifying for the CONCACAF Champions League.
- It looks like MLS is loosening some of the academy rules and the Red Bulls seem to like the changes.
- Speaking of T&T, Chris Birchall is close to joining LA and Cornell Glenn is training with San Jose.
- Apparently Joey Saputo is talking big about Montreal moving to MLS. It will all come down to whether they show MLS the money or not.
- I wonder if the financial health of the league will become more public real soon?
- Ambo is a go-to player for the Rhinos? To me, it says a lot about the depth of this team offensively when an outsider thinks that Mike is a go-to guy.
- Ridge Mahoney says that the Galaxy are set for a revival at SI.com. I'm betting that the Beckham circus derails that course.
- Apparently the Japanese Women's National Team is afraid to come to the US due to the Swine Flu Epidemic.
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