Soccer Saturday (Yes, Including that Gratuitous Soccer Video of the Moment)
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With just over 24 hours to go until the Galaxy-Chivas USA Western Conference semifinal second leg (4:30 p.m. Sunday ESPN2) and the teams deadlocked at 2-2 halfway through what is essentially a 180 minute game (although, of course, it could go longer) here's press box colleague Luis Bueno on the pressure on Chivas USA.
Ives Galarcep reaches a similar conclusion here.
Oh, and happy birthday to Chivas USA defender Jonathan Bornstein (who turns 25 today).
Friday's women's college games
Washington 1 UCLA 2
Friday's men's college games
UCLA 1 Oregon 1
Cal State Dominguez Hills 2 Cal State San Bernardino 1
And finally, they throw you out of the soccer bloggers club if you don't post this video. If you're one of the three people in the country who have yet to see this check it out:
For perspective, here's the view of Los Angeles feminist soccer blogger Jennifer Doyle.
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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.
I still haven't figured out which is smarter of the species.
Re this video, the provocation by the eventual pull-downee goes un-mentioned, a throw back elbow then a pull on the front of the shorts. Vinnie Jones will be proud of that.
nice football