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ASN Morning Read: At Home in the Kitchen
A D.C. United rising talent begins to make a name for himself on the national team level; we talk, once again, about the 2022 World Cup; and also the origin of the Seattle Sounders. Reboot.
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
September 11, 2014
8:15 AM
Landon Donovan got himself suspended for Saturday's match against San Jose after picking up a yellow card on Wednesday evening:
If you're a Seattle Sounders fan and you don't know the club's inception story and long history, you haven't been paying attention but luckily there's a solid summary running in the Seattle Times: The ambitions of F.C. Seattle exceeded its reach from its birth in the mid-1970s. The humble men’s city league team was named both to distinguish itself from the all-ethnic squads of the era, the Greeks and the Danes, and to drum up interest for matches against bigger clubs up and down the West Coast. “We were just a bunch of old farts,” said McCrath, who helped found the team.
Perry Kitchen is an emerging star who went out and played a soccer game last night:
Here you will find a way to purchase tickets to the Women's World Cup.
Summer or winter, that is the question: On Monday, the task force met and agreed that there were three realistic options for when to hold the tournament: November-December 2021, January-February 2022 or June-July 2022. They will spend the next few months speaking to stakeholders (as they like to call them), weighing up the pros and cons of each solution and then coming up with a proposal. While they were meeting and having their discussions, FIFA supremo Sepp Blatter, speaking on tape at the Soccerex conference in Manchester, was making it appear as if the task force had about as much influence over the timing of 2022 as the Model United Nations has over Kofi Annan. "We have already said we cannot play in summer in this heat in Qatar," Blatter insisted. "We have to play in winter." Really? Then why did you assemble those folks and put them in a room in Switzerland? Did you think they needed a September pick-me-up in the form of an all-expenses paid trip to Zurich? Were you trialing a form of FIFA speed-dating? Were you surreptitiously conducting a climate study to assess the effects of hot air in a sealed Zurich conference room?
Brek Shea to Birmingham.
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