MLS Commish to Speak at USC & College Awards Season Opens
MLS Commissioner Don Garber will dispense his wisdom on "the state of Major League Soccer by highlighting key accomplishments and challenges to date, as well provide insight as to where he sees the league headed in the years to come" at the USC Marshall School of Business Thursday Nov. 20 in the run-up to MLS Cup in Carson.
Cost is $50. Details here.
But Garber is an NFL guy; the jury is out on whether he truly understands the other football at the global level and is capable of getting American soccer in tune with the rest of the world. That's essentially my column Tuesday (not-so-coincidentally) after last weekend's World Cup qualifying debacle.
The college season has begun; so have the awards;
*Cal State Dominguez Hills senior midfielder Kyle Holland of Anchorage, Alaska was named the California Collegiate Athletic Association Player of the Week Monday after three goals and an assist in three games.
*LMU junior goalkeeper Patrick Sampson has been named the West Coast Conference
Player of the Week after shutting out 24th-ranked Cal Poly in a 1-0 Lions victory.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. 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 and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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