Last show of the year, people. There's news and discussion of Donovan, Holden, and Beasley, plus an interview with an English footballer looking to play in the US and a rundown of the top five American soccer moments of 2009.
Very shortly, we'll know in which direction American wunderkind Stuart Holden will take his nascent professional soccer career. Will he head to Europe now, ready to make his bones under the brighter lights of British or Continental football?
Landon Donovan is the proud owner of a new four year contract with the LA Galaxy, a deal that will keep him at the club through 2013. The announcement came today during a press conference at the ESPN Zone in Los Angeles, though it was not accompanied by the expected confirmation that Donovan will head to Everton on loan starting in January.
MLS Daily has a post up on comments made by Kasey Keller on his personal blog regarding the MLS CBA negotiations. Keller's tone isn't to cheery, and he described the sides as far apart on an agreement.
Everyone knew it was coming, and today it was finally done; Landon Donovan will join Everton on a two and a half month loan starting in January. It's up to Donovan now, with his MLS future secured by a new Galaxy contract, to make this his first successful stint abroad.
Jose Romero drops what I consider to be a bomb in regards to the MLS CBA negotiations; citing an unnamed source, he says the league wants a five-year agreement.
Among those nations bidding for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, England is by far the highest profile; because the country is the place where the game of soccer was born, because the names involved are well known and the domestic league is richest in the world, and because politics are predictably omnipresent, the English have a large lead in World Cup bid intrigue heading into 2010.
