Columnist Nick Green has written 100 Percent Soccer
since 2005. A
native of England, he began writing about soccer in
the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat
in the stands for one in
the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home
Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas
USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer.
Married to a long-suffering soccer widow, he has a cat
named Pele.Sexy Soccer Thursday
As noted in the previous post, it appears Ruud Gullit, who coined the phrase "sexy football," is indeed the Galaxy's choice for its next coach with Jurgen Klinsmann the fall back candidate.
The Daily Telegraph agrees.
And the rumors of David Beckham training with an English team in the MLS off-season persist. The Daily Mail mentions Watford, a team near London, while the Daily Telegraph goes with Ipswich Town or Tottenham Hotspur.
Meanwhile, the Galaxy and Beckham played to an uninspired scoreless draw Wednesday in Vancouver.
Hope the folks in Canada thought that was worth the wait; here in LA we've been dealing with that sort of anti-climax for months.