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ASN Morning Read: We Are Going to the White House
Win a trophy, get to meet the commander-in-chief. That's how this stuff is supposed to work, right? Meanwhile, Kansas City's magical week gets a little worse and Thierry Henry is not long for the league.
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
October 02, 2014
8:08 AM
Why hello there, Mr. President: “There was quite a bit [of small talk]. I was a little surprised,” head coach Peter Vermes told the Washington Post. “He was talking to me about the team and about winning [MLS Cup] as both a coach and a player and how I got into coaching. And then I asked him about his daughters because they both had played [soccer]. He said how he thought [soccer] was such a good foundational sport for any sport. It was a lot more personable than I expected. I can’t say I thought this would ever happen. In sports, when you win, it is very difficult to enjoy it because you’ve got to get on to the next challenge, especially for the staff. The players have a little more time. So from that point of view, this was a nice reward for everyone involved.”
While Kansas City celebrates the rise of Sporting Kansas City and the Royals victory, Erik Palmer-Brown learns that he'll miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his foot. Luckily, he's only 17 and has plenty of time to recover.
The knives are out for MLS's handling of Chivas USA: "Had Chivas USA learned from the mistakes of 2005 and gone on to play the way they did in 2006-09, things would have been very different today. But Garber and MLS paid little to no attention to the red flags that went up at the end of the club’s era of stability. There were no Mexican superstars or Mexican prospects making their way from Guadalajara to Carson. Club executives began a mass exodus somewhere around that time, with respected officials like Dennis te Kloese and Shawn Hunter walking away from the club. Attendance was sagging. Garber and MLS preached patience and stood by the club and Vergara. Even when the ship really began to sink, in 2012, the commissioner and the league stood by Vergara."
Thierry Henry isn't coming back and the New York Red Bulls are in chaos. Just another day in Harrison, New Jersey. From Grant Wahl's report: "While Marc de Grandpre, the club’s head of commercial operations, says the team is not for sale, one source says that if a buyer approached Red Bull and offered $300 million for the Red Bulls and their stadium, the deal would get done within 48 hours. In fact, team and stadium sale talks were indeed held by Red Bull a couple years ago with a New Jersey-based investor group and then again with Manchester City before the club acquired its MLS expansion franchise along with the New York Yankees, but neither set of talks led anywhere."
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MLS to Las Vegas gets new life as a stadium plan is "deferred but not dead." The real vote will take place in December. Local politics!
