Archive for the ‘Los Angeles Galaxy’ Category

Here’s what matters in MLS

The 4-1 demolition of MLS’s best team by a second division club is inexcusable. MLS must take CONCACAF Champions League more seriously. Here’s why.

July 28, 2010 Featured, International, Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS 3 Comments

Free Landon Donovan!

We knew in December that MLS had to let Landon Donovan go abroad, and it’s only clearer now. It’s best for him, MLS and American soccer as a whole. Here’s why.

July 20, 2010 England, International, Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS 1 Comment

Donovan re-signs with Galaxy

Landon Donovan has agreed to a four-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Galaxy, the club announced today.
Donovan will, however, move to Everton in the English Premier League on a loan beginning in January, the Los Angeles Times reports. The agreement allows Donovan freedom on off-season loans, but it could effectively close the door on [...]

December 16, 2009 English Premier League, Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS 0 Comments

Donovan to Europe — best thing for MLS

A successful Landon Donovan move to Europe would be good for Major League Soccer.
Yes, I said it. No, I haven’t spent the day doing bong hits.
Picture it: Donovan moves to a mid-table team in Spain, France or England. He gets regular playing time and produces. He doesn’t need to be Christiano Ronaldo. Simply matching what Clint [...]

December 6, 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS, U.S. National Teams 0 Comments

Rimando wins title for RSL

Nick Rimando did it again.
The Real Salt Lake goalkeeper stopped two penalty kicks and benefited from a stunning Landon Donovan PK miss to claim the Major League Soccer title for his squad. I said Monday it might play out like this on PKs, and sure enough, it did. How much of it was Rimando, and how [...]

November 22, 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS, Real Salt Lake 0 Comments

Rimando's guesses and the expansion draft

Nick Rimando’s most amazing feat wasn’t that he stopped three penalty kicks to send Real Salt Lake to the MLS Cup.
It was that the RSL goalkeeper “guessed” right on six of seven shots.
Rimando reads penalty kicks so well that it’s clearly not guesswork for him. He went the right way on all but one Saturday [...]

November 16, 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS, Real Salt Lake, Union 0 Comments