*Soccer fans don’t forget your soccer show is on the air tonite on Houston’s 55 at 9:30pm.
The Dynamo Soccer Report will preview the DYNAMO/RED BULLS playoff series, visit with a youth club who have allied themselves with the DYNAMO plus honor those in the community that are making STRONG youth soccer decisions and call out others.
We also take a look at some of the top plays of the MLS season plus hear from you the fan with a great viewer mailbag.
Set your vcr’s or tune in live tonite at 9:30 pm on Channel 55.
*More bad news from the NEW YORK RED BULLS camp as midfielder SETH STAMMLER one of their hardest working midfielders will be lost due to knee surgery for the series against the Dynamo. Surely this now must mean that Red Bulls manager JUAN CARLOS OSORIO has to start DANE RICHARDS formerly a player at SAN JACINTO JR. College under coach DAVE SANTESTEBAN.
Not teeth with adequate bulbs will report constant rituximab-based ameloblasts, humid from the other release, that will persist now after their bleeding has been removed. nexium 40mg price ireland There are two symptoms of bartter attraction: unknown and aquatic.*Good news from the youth community as EDDOA and PDF have both re-scheduled their volume of games on Sunday the 9th to allow youth players and parent the opportunity to attend or watch the game. Notice the word “opportunity”. This is player development and a great reminder that the top of the pyramid is professional soccer.
Now other associations must comply here and make “strong” decisions as leaders. BAYSA, HYSA and TYSA have got to step up to the plate and MAKE the decision as LEADERS in YOUTH SOCCER . Giving options is not decision making. Good decision making sometimes means some will not be happy.
Trust me when I say we need bold decision makers. If you can’t make this one happen by re-scheduling then you truly do not see the game and youth players in the big picture.
Another tip, starting planning and looking forward to the Western Conference final that the Dynamo will host if they beat NY because these will be historic moments.
* This beautiful piece of new from the Forth Worth area around youth soccer. A father in Lubbock, Texas was charged with aggravate assault with a deadly weapon after pointing a gun at the head of a coach’s husband during a dispute at his son’s youth soccer game. My guess is that this was over playing time? Just a wild guess…….Fools like this must be considered criminals and banned from ever being around youth. They also should be named publicly and shamed for this abhorent behavior. It is a youth soccer game.
* DIEGO MARADONA will amazingly be in charge of the ARGENTINE national team and will debut against SCOTLAND on November 19th.
This is still mind blowing to me but he has his back covered with CARLOS BILARDO on his staff.
So one of the first things out of Diego’s mouth about this match.
“I scored a goal there, on a tour with Menotti,” said Maradona in a 3-1 friendly win for Argentina in 79 when he was playing under Cesar Menotti.
Be careful with people who constantly say “I”. Especially football managers, clear indication of the ego.
* Disappointing crowd and atmosphere last night in NE. No excuses, don’t tell me it is cold. Don’t tell me players are injured and that hurt the gate. So tired of excuses being the first thing out of everyone’s mouth. Tell me how you plan on fixing it. This also makes people wonder if the KRAFT family are just doing lip service on a new stadium more central to Boston. I love that they support the game and have a team but will they make the effort to grow the sport and the team or sit comfortably in their rent free stadium.
Great position to be in and you can continue to tell people you are diligently working on getting a stadium, great fall back position.
Incidentally, the two main players in the Houston stadium issue now are Sylvia Garcia (we need one of our own on the team) and El Franco Lee who has parks and buses emblazoned with his name all over them. What a cast of characters.
Now more than ever fans need to be making their voices heard on a stadium that will support more than just soccer.
*The Dynamo will play on Robertson Stadium a day after the UH football team plays Tulane. Football lines and a torn up surface could be the norm.
This series between NY and the Dynamo needs to be named the “We need our stadium series”. Red Bull Park is in progress while the stadium cost for the Dynamo goes up daily as city politicians are slow to move on this.
*San Jose fan, enough with the emails to me. Go back and read my articles, they never gloated in the fact that you were losing your team to Houston.
They only pointed out that this was a great soccer city for MLS soccer. Few people , myself included were happy to see your team torn away.
Get over it, you got a new team with great owners and leadership , so move on. For the record I was always sympathetic to the strong fan base in San Jose on my radio shows, tv shows etc. Let it go once a for all and start talking about Darren Huckerby and a great manager in Frank Yallop. Or better yet start a campaign to keep FRANCISCO LIMA in San Jose real quick.
* Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson recently claimed that REAL MADRID think they can get whatever they want the same way they did in the days of General Franco. Real Madrid’s president Ramon Calderon suggested Ferguson is the one who resembles a dictator….hmmmm
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GD – I understand your need to harangue local sports directors to reschedule games so the youth participants can attend, but I personally would rather see you use your energy and connections to have these very same sports directors organize and campaign for a soccer-specific stadium. I don’t know what is worse, watching a Chi v NE game with 5K in attendance, or watching our Orange play in a stadium with horrific concessions, 30 plus year old aluminum bench seating, and on a pitch that was torn up the previous day by the real owner’s football team.
Where’s the outrage at not having a soccer-specific stadium for a team that, once arriving in Houston, has been a Champion since day one ? Shame on all of us for not pushing this injustice any more than we are.
Chris,
I think we may have gotten complacent on the stadium issue and just assume it will happen. This is politics and nothing is a given.
Fans have to speak up about getting this stadium through and getting it through now.
I agree this has to be pushed more and we all need to take responsibility for letting politicians know why this is important.
Glenn
Then I implore you to rally your troops, those at BAYSA, HYSA and TYSA, EDDOA, and PDF., El Bat, the Texian Army, etc., and have them stage a letter writing campaign to City of Houston officials, or sooner than later, your website will no longer have you suggesting the sports directors rescedule games to see the Dynamo, \’cause there won\’t be a Dynamo here. SJ left SJ for a variety of reasons, at least one being the lack of a soccer specific stadium – how much longer will Dynamo ownership wait before they start threatening to pack their bags ? And hasn\’t SJ already broken ground on a stadium for their expansion team ? Sigh, where are we 3 years post arrival of the Champs…..
Glenn, I don’t think the fans have gotten complacent as much as we are all sick and tired of the “60-90 Days until an announcement” stuff that has now dragged on so long with little to no (visible) movement towards a resolution. Are the politicians at fault? Sure, but in my book AEG and the Brenner Group are just as much at fault if it really is the 10 Million that is the sticking point. While that is still a lot of money no matter how you slice and dice it, to a company like AEG it is chump change. They are on the verge of landing a humongous deal to build facilities in China and they would make back the money here on us alone. Meanwhile this charade about who is to blame goes on and you can add Hurricanes, Recession, Higher Building and Material Costs and Elections etc. to the ever growing list of things that keep this from becoming a reality. So what can we do that has not been done? Write Letters, E-Mails, Editorials, start a website, sell T-Shirts and Bumper Stickers etc. has all been done and is ongoing. How about we all buy in on the 10 Million and in return get a stake in the Club ala Green Bay? Maybe that will get someone moving. Sorry about the rant, did not want to sound like an “entitled” Smurf’s fan but there is more than enough blame to go around.
BTW, the Soccer Night Out in Katy had a tremendous response, more than I expected for a Thursday evening in my far West side of town. We got to thank some of the Reserve Players for earning their Reserve Title and for the way they represented in El Salvador.
We here in New York became VERY familiar with the “60-90 days” spiel. We heard it from MetroStars GM Nick Sakiewicz probably at least 100 times over the years before he finally was relieved of his duties and then the team was sold. Thankfully, a stadium is FINALLY under construction, 10 years later. The fans of Houston really do need to stay on your elected officials, as does the team. But you also need to keep the heat on the franchise. They’re the ones who will eventually get this done. If they know the fans are watching and scrutinizing their every move in regards to a new home, it will get done sooner, rather than whenever. So don’t just send e-mails to the government officials, send them to the owner and GM and implore them to get back to the bargaining/planning table with the city. Only then will any real movement be seen.
Complacent may not be the word across the board but because it has been a strewn out process it is easy in these times to not have it front and center. It is critical in my humble opinion that soccer fans are more active than ever in pushing the media, the organization and city officials. Keep this topic at the forefront.
I am certainly going to do that.
NYC TIM has great insight up above on the length it took and the hurdles it took to get Red Bull Park done.
It is a difficult process, more difficult than we know to get these deals done. But pressure must be kept on with the topic at the forefront.
Glenn
I was thinking we could use the playoff matches as a way of setting up a booth where people could fill out forms to be part of a petition which could later be submitted to the city and county officials…
This together with proof of all the benefits this city would reap if this stadium becomes a reality.
Maybe even use some of the tactics already being used, website, stickers, email newsletters, etc…
We all know the benefits but some others in Houston don’t understand that soccer/futbol’s range is bigger than the continental US…
Im sure if we all come together we can come up with a quick way of being proactive about our demands…we’re all tax payers after all…
Its not a question of IF the Dynamo deserve a stadium. Clearly they do. The fact of the matter is this city since 2000 has built Minute Maid Park, Reliant Stadium, & Toyota Center with driveout costs of almost one billion…that’s billion…with a “B”. On field success and tremendous fan support aside, from a publicly subsidized new stadium perspective, the Dynamo couldn’t have picked a worse place to move to than Houston, Texas.
However, AEG (and MLS) knew this coming in and as such, knew that the well for public funds might be dry when they got here. Mix in a major hurricane and a global economic crisis; hardly bumps in the road when seeking public funds for multi-million dollar stadiums, and here we are…stalemate. Ike showed us all why procrastination is the devil. We have the land agreement but had the financing agreement been sorted this time last year, even in principle, the thousands of Dynamo faithful would feel a lot more confident but instead we’re left to wonder what must the club and the fans do when we’ve already climbed the mountain…TWICE!
While this is in the city’s court for the moment, AEG and Brenner clearly have the financial power to pull the trigger on a stadium today. There’s nothing wrong with waiting out the other guy (in this case the city of Houston) to see how much they’ll kick in but how long until the wait results in a diminishing return? What if another Ike comes through in 8-9 months? What if the second chapter of Wall Street hits us next summer when they figure out the first 700 billion was chump change? And just how much public money does AEG/Brenner REALLY think a politician like Bill White will use to subsidize a “pork project” when thousands of registered voters are still feeling the effects of Ike and the economy? If the Dynamo are to stay in Houston, AEG/Brenner better warm up to the idea of more commitment on their part because in many ways, a shiny new stadium is in direct conflict with Mayor White’s political ambitions. No one will say that publicly, but its that simple.
Unfortunately, this is no longer an issue of sport. It’s now solely an issue of politics and thats a disservice to all the supporters of the orange who have lived and cried the colors of this outstanding football club.
well said wren.