Saturday Soccer: Galaxy's Donovan Goes Full 90 in Bayern Debut & More
Today's "this is the off-season?" news:
*Landon Donovan supplied the assist for Bayern Munich's equalizer today in a friendly played in Dubai and was one of only two players to play the entire game for the Germans in a 3-2 win.
The Bayern Web site observed Donovan almost had a goal and described the assist as "an intelligent pass into the inside-right channel," which sounds exactly like a Donovan created goal.
*David Beckham though will start on the bench Sunday in his first Inter (doh!) AC Milan Serie A game. The encountwer with Roma is live at 11:30 a.m. on Fox Soccer Channel.
*Lastly, the InterLiga final four for Friday is set with Club America feeling foolish/appearing over-confident/ or ? (take your pick because sadly I was not at the game Friday in Carson) as they crashed out of the tournament thanks to a second half stoppage time goal against Atlas.
Precious few tickets are left for the two games Sunday that begin at 4 p.m., incidentally. Only $20 general admission tickets on the grass berm or $125 lawn chair seats next to the sideline are available.
Highlights of the Club America-Atlas game are here:
Highlights of the Chivas-Tigres game are here:
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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.
Nick,
I watched both of the InterLiga 2009 games played at HDC on TV. They were both exciting, intense games. Atlas simply wanted to dominate and pursue to win a lot more... plus, it seemed to me that the squad that America fielded may not have played together all that much? Not sure? Chivas G had so many young players that were quick, explosive, and played offense and defense for a full 90 minutes. Hence, the final scoreline of 4-2. Tigres had two or three players that were good; but, Chivas G just ran them ragged.
I think you meant David Beckham is on the bench for his AC Milan debut, right? Not Inter Milan...
Anyways, keep informing and updating us - we appreciate it very much.
Nick replies: And I thank you for the InterLiga report (I do not have the Spanish-language sports tier on my DirecTV either). I'm definitely not missing seeing Sunday's games in person.
And thanks for catching the error of the day - before a Milan fan caught it!