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WEST HAM LOSE TO MLS TEAM SEATTLE SOUNDERS

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English Premier League team West Ham lost to Major League Football outfit Seattle Sounders in a game part of the pre season tour of the club at the United Sates .


Both teams played on Tuesday evening and the game ended 3-0 in victory of the MLS team.

Jordan Morris grabbed a brace despite being a substitute who joined in the second half. Herculez Gomez completed the 3-0 rout of West Ham, who were missing key players with star player Dimitri Payet still in France for the Euro 2016 games. Clint Dempsey was also missing in the Seattle set up, as he was earlier on international duty for the United States’ team in the Copa America. West Ham didn’t seem bothered at all as they saw it as a friendly encounter. They made 10 substitutions in the course of the game while Sounders made one less than theirs. Continue reading “WEST HAM LOSE TO MLS TEAM SEATTLE SOUNDERS”

MLS FRANCHISE ATLANTA UNITED START YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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Major League Soccer Franchise Atlanta United Football Club invites 13 local soccer players for try outs in their youth development program.


Atlanta United FC will begin play in the MLS in March 2017 and look at developing young home grown talents. Hundreds of really talented young players were considered before making a shortlist of the players who will start training next month.

Atlanta United Football club begin setting up several feeder programs before they would eventually take up the pitch next year. The college director of soccer Kerem Daser was the one who urged the officials of the club to come to Dalton to access some of the local talents. Daser said he played with most of the scouts back in Atlanta Silverbacks so he was able to convince them to come have a look at the players.

The Atlanta United Academy manger Tony Annan was impressed with the array of talents and eventually beckoned on the Academy director Richard Money who later came to see for himself. Only two kids were eventually chosen from Dalton High, Yahir Paez and Jeremiah Zuniga. The scouts claimed Zuniga was one of the best center midfield they had seen when scouting around, and Paez being one good left winger who is only 12 years.
Daser encouraged others that were not selected saying:
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Red Bulls Finally getting back to Form

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New York Red Bulls finally showed the kind of dominance that has been missing from the team for quite a while.


They way in which they thoroughly dismantled FC Dallas, who are top of the table in the Western Conference, in a 4-0 demolition has led to manager Jesse Marsch claiming that the team is starting to take a foothold. He is finally seeing real performances from New York Red Bulls. The team has now won back-to-back games in order to put behind their poor start to the season. It was only recently that the four back-to-back defeats saw them struggling in the table.

Prior to the last two victories, New York Red Bulls had managed just one win throughout the campaign. Now they seem to have enough confidence to go on and move closer to the top. Defender Sal Zizzo claimed that the club had the quality to be able to beat any team on their day. Now, it was about making those performances consistent in order to start challenging for the league title. Marsch admitted that there were very little opportunities for the team to rally earlier in the campaign. Now, he is hoping that they use the back-to-back victories to put them on a winning run. Continue reading “Red Bulls Finally getting back to Form”

Chelsea interested in bringing Didier Drogba back?

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Didier Drogba is a legend for Chelsea fans of all over the world, the Ivorian forward holds a special place in the heart of everyone who supports the Premier League club and Drogba rightfully deserves to have this love and appreciation from Chelsea and their fan boys. The veteran player has helped Chelsea in winning 4 Premier League titles, 3 Football League Cups, 4 FA Cups, 1 Champions League and 2 FA Community Shields.

 

The contributions that Drogba has made to the Premier League club have been so significant that he was named as Chelsea’s greatest player ever in a poll which was made back in 2012.

Drogba is currently 37 years old but despite his elevated age, he is rumored on being wanted by Chelsea. The Ivorian attacker is performing for the MLS side Montreal Impact but the American team has already confirmed that they have indeed been holding talks with Chelsea as the Premier League club has been attempting to bring back Drogba to Stamford Bridge.

“We are currently in contact with Didier Drogba and Chelsea FC. We are doing everything we can to have him back with the Impact in 2016. We understand his Drogba attachment to his former club and his desire to help them. We are willing to accommodate him.” Montreal Impact said on their twitter page.

It still remains uncertain as to what role will Drogba have if he does make yet another return to Stamford Bridge, the experienced footballer has already served as a coach and an actual player for the Premier League side. Continue reading “Chelsea interested in bringing Didier Drogba back?”

Sporting Kansas City were aware of the acute need for a victory

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Sporting Kansas City were aware of the acute need for a victory in one of the last MLS games for the regular campaign, but they were soundly beaten 2-0 by Colorado Rapids in front of their own supporters.

Defender Kevin Ellis admitted that the team came up short despite being aware of the need for three points. Kansas City still need three points in order to be sure of a place in the MLS cup play-offs. It does not get any easier since they will be against defending champions LA Galaxy in the final match. Even though LA Galaxy have not been in the best form themselves, Sporting Kansas City are clearly short on confidence.

The team has managed just three victories since the start of September and one of those victories was on penalties. There is a danger of San Jose Earthquakes overtaking them for the final play-off spot. San Jose are only one point behind Sporting Kansas and they are in a far better run of form as well. This dangerous situation has been created because of the recent 1-0 defeat against San Jose. It was clear that Sporting Kansas City were in deep trouble when they allowed Powers to score in the 78th minute. Marcelo Sarvas doubled the advantage a few minutes later despite a red card to Cronin. Continue reading “Sporting Kansas City were aware of the acute need for a victory”