Some Soccer News for Sep 19, 2017

It's Day 262 of 2017.


MINNESOTA UNITED

The story on the new Minn United CEO Chris Wright.

• Plus a little info on scouting.

Loons Schedule:
-Sat Sep 23
Minnesota v Dallas

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New England has fired head coach Jay Heaps. Here is a statement from owners Robert & Jonathan Kraft.

• More on the firing of Heaps. By Kyle McCarthy for the Boston Herald.
• This does no good unless they replace the people above him who gave the coach no game changing players to work with. The ownership has to make a genuine commitment and put together a modern staff for modern players.
• Heaps is the 4th coach fired from the du Nord MLS Coaches Hot Seat Power Rankings after Cassar, Onalfo and Mastroeni.
• Tom Soehn has been named the interim head coach for the Revs.

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France is hosting the 2019 Women's World Cup.

• I didn't know this. Very exciting.

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NASL has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against US Soccer for decertifying their league from Division 2 status.

• Despite missing out on almost every criteria for being a 2nd Division league for the previous 7 years these arrogant/ignorant fucks think they are in the right. Believe me, I have no biased toward US Soccer, but the way NASL has been run from the start has been pretty damn poor.

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US Open Cup FINAL

-Wed Sep 20
Sporting Kansas City v Red Bull New York - 8pm CT on ESPN2

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MLS

Not that its helping any right now, but the LA Galaxy now have their own garden at the Stub Hub center and they grow food for feeding their players and academy youth. By Natalie Compton for the Los Angeles Times. -They have bees and chickens too!

• Senior team member Baggio Husidic is on the act and growing his own beets.

Week 29 Schedule:
-Wed Sep 20
Atlanta v LA
Toronto v Montreal

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• Ciaran Kilduff of Jacksonville Armada named NASL Player Of The Week
• Josef Martinez of Atlanta United named MLS Player Of The Week
• Kenney Walker of Cincinnati named USL Player Of The Week

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COPA LIBERTADORES

Quarterfinals Schedule:
Leg Two
-Wed Sep 20
Santos (Bra) v Barcelona (Ecu) (1-1)
Gremio (Bra) v Botafogo(Bra) (0-0)
-Thu Sep 21
River Plate (Arg) v Wilstermann (Bol) (0-3)
Lanus (Arg) v San Lorenzo (Arg) (0-2)

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USMNT

With World Cup qualifying pending in just 2 weeks lets see how of our players abroad as coping. By Brian Sciaretta for American Soccer Now.

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BIG TEAMS + GAMES IN EUROPES TOP LEAGUES:

Mid week Schedule:
-Tue Sep 19
Barcelona 5-1 Eibar
Schalke 0-3 Bayern
Bologna 1-1 Inter
Monchengladbach 2-0 Stuttgart
-Wed Sep 20
Real Madrid v Betis
Juventus v Fiorentina
Bilbao v Atletico Madrid
Benevento v Roma
Lazio v Napoli
Milan v SPAL
Sevilla v Las Palmas



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