Sunday Soccer: And the Galaxy's MLS Cup Opponent is...
Former Galaxy player and goal hero Ned Grabavoy, left, and Real Salt Lake, which beat the Chicago Fire on penalty kicks to become Eastern Conference champions (let's get rid of these silly conferences based on irrelevant geography, MLS) will face the Galaxy Sunday in Seattle.
Grabavoy scored the winning goal just before the picture was taken above, although former Galaxy striker Robbie Findley almost scored in the dying moments of regulation time only to be denied by Palos Verdes Peninsula product John Thorrington.
Wonder how relevant the two games these clubs have played this season already will be next Sunday?
A Landon Donovan-less Galaxy were abysmal in a 2-0 home loss to Real Salt Lake in June, while a 2-2 draw to RSL the previous month in Sandy, Utah wasn't much better.
Convinced next Sunday's game will have a better outcome?
Then you might want to click here.
In other Saturday soccer news:
* The UCLA men tied San Diego State 1-1 in their regular season finale with Palos Verdes Estates' Kyle Nakazawa getting the equalizer.
*And we have three newcomers to the party in South Africa next year.
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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.
Wow. What a relevant piece of news. You found a way to be negative about the Galaxy once again.
Here is a concept for you Nick. Why don't you try writing about how things have changed for both teams since their regular season meetings.
Finally, the Houston Chronicle description of the Galaxy-Dynamo game (via the link in your previous post) was a well written piece with actual game description and analysis and not just a bunch of locker room quotes about unrelated trivia. To bad you can't get him to write about soccer in Southern California.