Waiting for the Weekend
As I sit here watching the first game of the "weekend' - U.S.-Korea at the U-20 World Cup on ESPN2, BTW and reshown on Galavision at 4 p.m. - I was struck by the paucity of quality games on the tube this weekend (Liverpool-Chelsea at 8 a.m. Sunday on Fox Soccer Channel excepted).
Fox Soccer Channel is showing San Jose-New York on Saturday, for instance, on a weekend fraught with playoff implications. (What masochist is going to watch that?) And I think I'll skip Hull City facing Wigan Athletic, Jozy Altidore and all.
That said, here are the other games I'll be playing attention to this weekend (click over on the right for the full slate of games).
9:30 a.m. Saturday Fox Soccer Channel Manchester United-Sunderland
4:30 p.m. Saturday Prime D.C. United-Chivas USA
5 p.m. Saturday KFTR Pachuca-Club America
Noon Sunday Telefutura Houston-Kansas City
4 p.m. Sunday FSC Portland-Vancouver (USL semifinal)
Chivas USA has a viewing party beginning at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, BTW, at the Shamrock Seafood Restaurant in Wilmington, 120 W. G St. Info: 310-630-4586
Click over to the appropriate link to find out what your local college team is doing this weekend. Long Beach State lost their home opener last night 1-0 to Pacific. Game story here.
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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