The Footie Fool

Here is the video conference where Freddie Ljungberg was unveiled as the Designated Player for the MLS expansion Sounders FC.
Online video chat by Ustream

Great. Just when I spew on Dale Mitchell, up Canada pops with a 2-2 draw with Mexico and, from all accounts I have read so far, a pretty decent outing (between my night job and my day job, I have yet to watch the tilt.) A decent outing without Atiba Hutchinson, Dwayne DeRosario, Julian De [...]

I have always said that Dale Mitchell should be given the full qualification cycle. I think that if we want to attract top people, we have to at least give them some assurance that they will have some time to prove or fail themselves.
Dale Mitchell belongs in the fail category.
Qualification has been an abject failure. [...]

There will be lots of justifiable finger pointing over the next few days as we all digest our crash and burn out of the 2010 World Cup. A Wall Street banker couldn’t crash and burn worse than we did.
Another campaign, and we couldn’t even make the Hex - again - let alone qualify for the [...]

Earlier today, Dale Mitchell responded to Jim Brennan and, well, it looks like we’ve got us a good ol’ fashioned tit for tat going on in Canadian soccer.
When asked if he would ever call Brennan again, Mitchell responded with an emphatic “no”.
Mitchell said Brennan had turned down the call-ups in the last 18 months [...]

Looks like there is fire underneath the Jim Brennan smoke I posted about a few days ago. The Toronto FC defender has publicly spoken out against both Dale Mitchell and the CSA. He hasn’t retired from the MNT, but emphatically states that he won’t be suiting up as long as Dale Mitchell is at the [...]

Well, as if this WCQ campaign could stink anymore, it has now completely gone from crap to shite.  Reports from the Deportivo website (via squizz) say Julian De Guzman is injured and out for 2 weeks. No DeRo, no Serioux, no De Guzman.

The CSA released the roster for the next 2 Canadian WCQ games against Honduras (Saturday, October 11 in Honduras) and Mexico (in Edmonton Wednesday, October 15) and there are changes aplenty with 7 new names on the roster, and a few familiar ones missing.
First, the lose of 2 starters, Dwayne DeRosario and Adrian Serioux (arguably [...]