Now or N-Everton
Posted by Footy Factor in Featured Articles, MLS, Premiership, Submitted By You on Jan 8th, 2010 | No Comments
With US International star Landon Donovan set to arrive this week at Everton on a 10 week loan from the LA Galaxy, footy fans on both side of the pond are asking: Will Donovan finally prove himself in Europe? To answer that question we thought it would be helpful to take a look at Landycakes‘...
Tiger Gives a Boost to American Soccer
Tiger Woods’ personal freefall – chronicled and exacerbated by the tabloids – is the stuff of nightmares. We pity his poor wife and children, who are destined to be the losers of this episode, no matter what kind of resolution the Woods family reaches. But excuse our flippancy here,...
Beckham Inhales, as LA is Deflated
The LA Galaxy were upset by Real Salt Lake in the MLS Championship last Sunday night, in a match decided on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw. David Beckham helped to set up LA’s first half goal on a nice combination with Landon Donovan that resulted in a close range goal by Mike Magee. Robbie...
Becks Gets Real
Liverpool v Manchester City? Tish tosh! The biggest match of the weekend is actually taking place in Seattle and involves a certain Mr. Posh – as our MLS correspondent Andy Taylor reports:
Sunday night’s MLS Cup Final is set with an unheralded Real Salt Lake squad squaring off against the LA...
Adu Belenenses Bound
On a busy transfer deadline day, one deal that nearly slipped under the radar was the rather unspectacular loan of US hopeful Freddie Adu from Benfica to Lisbon neighbours Belenenses.
A far cry from the 14-year old prodigy who made headlines as the youngest MLS scorer back in 2004, unsuccessful spells...
Bounce It Like Beckham
Posted by Footy Factor in Featured Articles, MLS, Submitted By You, Videos on Sep 1st, 2009 | No Comments
Since his return to the Galaxy from Milan, David Beckham’s MLS highlights include two much publicized altercations with fans, 1 red card and 1 assist in 6 league matches. Not quite the stuff of football legend. But no one knows how to bounce back better than Becks. Golden Balls did it again Saturday...
Beckham Can’t Catch a Break
You can now add 7-foot-tall, 325-pound basketball megastar Shaquille O’Neal to the recent list of people who want to give Becks the beat down. David Beckham has rejected “Shaq’s” offer to appear in his new reality TV show. The series will follow O’Neal as he squares off against...
An L.A. Story
David Beckham’s Los Angeles homecoming had all the makings of a Hollywood script: passion, betrayal, jealousy, and for a moment, violence. Sunday’s exhibition game pitted the LA Galaxy against AC Milan, the very team Beckham so publicly eloped with under the Tuscan sun. Beckham was booed...
An African Nightmare Becomes an American Dream
Posted by Footy Factor in Featured Articles, MLS, Submitted By You, World Cup on Jun 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment
A couple of pieces of fortune converged to give the U.S. national side passage to the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup. First, there was an impressive 3-0 victory over a resurgent Egyptian side to pick up their first points of the tournament. Then came an Italian thrashing at the hands of Brazil,...
Sepp Targets MLS
Sepp Blatter is a man full of unsolicited opinions, and this week he tossed some advice towards Major League Soccer: Bring your March-to-November season in line with the international calendar and you “can have success.” If you don’t adjust to the international calendar, “you...