DCU Rumblings
By: jon | December 6th, 2007Hey people. Sorry I’ve been AWOL for a bit, but with the lack of real news to report, I’ve been directly my attention towards baseball, and my Washington Nationals blog. Anyway, here’s a rundown of what’s happened since we were summarily booted out of the postseason.
Houston won the MLS Cup: I was there. It was a great time, but could have been better in United had a bye until the Finals…or just beat Chicago and NE. Oh well.
We cut some players:
M Kiki Willis (waived)
F Brad North (waived)
GK Shawn Crowe (waived)
F Mira Mupier (waived)
Yeah, I forgot we had most of them too. Happy trails, boys.
The Expansion Draft happened: We lost Brian Carroll in that. It’s a shame, but he ended up in a better place (at least temperately). Briefly.
One million rumors about Veron: I could link you to these, but I suggest google, or Dcenters (who are hands down, the best United blog on the internets).
That last rumor has dramatic implications for our club. Again, instead of attempting to do myself, I’ll let D do the heavy lifting on this topic, as he clearly understands it better, and has more time to dissect these issues.
Some random unreleated soccer news: Brian Namoff got married. Some of the guys are entertaining the troops. Burch and Olsen are recovering nicely from surgeries, thanks to Nurse Bobby.
I wish I had more news to share with you, but MLS offseason is about as boring as it gets. I didn’t know a lot about Veron before his name started coming up in talks, so I youtube’d him. Sort of impressive, sort of eh. I asked around and people had a generally negative opinion of him, as pertaining to his work rate, and how much left is in the tank. I suppose we’ll see soon enough.
Feel free to use this post as a place to post any United related news, or rumors, that you hear. Nothing is too unsubstantiated to print! Well, almost anything.
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Tags: Ben Olsen, Blogroll, Bobby Boswell, Brian Carroll, DC United Team News, Juan Sebastian Veron, Marc Burch, OffseasonSubscribe
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Sorry, you didn’t know who Veron was? How are you qualified to be writing about soccer?
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I’m not seeing the didn’t know who Veron was leap you made from Jon’s post.
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“I didn’t know a lot about Veron before his name started coming up in talks.”
I’m not saying his name (or abilities) rank up there with the Ronaldinho crowd, but the man has played for Parma, Lazio, Inter, Man U, Chelsea, and has represented the Argentine national side… To not “know a lot about Veron” before his name came up in MLS(?!?!?) talks, of all places, says something about this writer’s knowledge of the game. And, the fact that he based his opinion of Veron on a YouTube clip affirms that lack of knowledge…. Veron is a midfielder of the no-nonsense variety, hence I can’t see how looking at a YouTube clip of him would be enlightening as he’s not in any way a flashy player. Again, the writer should have known that.
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Nobody knows everything, or every player. Unlike a lot of writers, he admitted that this was one guy he didn’t have a lot of experience with, instead of reading a few articles and copying the gist of them as so many bloggers do. The only time not knowing any particular thing is a problem is when you pretend that you do.
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Hello there.
Nice to meet you.
Now that we’ve met, I suppose I can address your criticism.
I’ll make no bones about the fact that I’m relatively new to soccer. About 2 years of following it closely. Do I know a lot about Serie A? Nope. How about La Liga? Nope. But luckily for myself, and you, I write the DC United blog. As Veron has kind of fallen from the level of super-stardom that he was at one point (at least to my novice-level of knowledge), he kind of slipped my radar as I was learning as much as I could about the current stars of the game.
Anyway, thanks for the snark.
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I don’t know a lot about Veron either actually and had no idea his Serie A career extended beyond Inter. It’s only natural that you know best what you blog about it, and why should a blogger know a lot about a player that’s irrelevant to his team? Outside my own team and a handful of players I enjoy following, I don’t know details about other players unless something prompts me to learn about them (usually when they come up against my team). And unless you are a fan of the teams Veron played for, where else are you going to watch him except for youtube?
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And to emphasise what I think is Jon’s point when he wrote about Vernon above (Jon, please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong): in MLS and even back in NASL, so many *stars* come here to quietly end their careers. I think for many MLS fans, we want to bring in the big names and we really want them here when they still have their mojo. However far off it is for that to happen, I don’t know. Personally, if we can somehow keep our local top talent within the League and competitive, then I’m satisfied.
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Funny, I got almost exactly the same criticism for admitting I didn’t know all that much about Abel Xavier when the Galaxy bought him in May.
It would be so much easier to lie.
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you’re right, I should have said, “As we all know, Veron’s storied career at Man U, Inter, Chelsea etc, etc, will be continued here at DCU. I will now recite his goal totals for every year he has ever played, including youth soccer, from memory…..23,23……”
Melissa,
While I didn’t mean that, I would still agree with that sentiment. Actually, after looking at the salary numbers on DC, I don’t want any DP. We can’t afford it.Thanks for the support fellow offsiders.
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I guess I didn’t realize that some of the bloggers on The Offside were relatively new to the sport and quite frankly I was surprised that the writer here was unfamiliar with Veron. So perhaps my criticism was a little bit harsh.
With that being said, your intuition is correct Jon, DC would definitely not benefit from signing Veron as a DP. At best, he would fare as well as Claudio Reyna did at the Red Bulls (when he wasn’t injured). DC would be much better off looking for another Gomez-like player somewhere in South America. (note I didn’t say Emilio- or Fred-like player, as they are both completely overhyped…their goal tally says nothing about their abilities for anyone who has watched them play [like crap] on a consistent basis, with Emilio netting a bunch of lucky, ugly goals).
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Now that I think my criticism/your response can be put to rest, I’d like to point out that I’m a closet DC fan (even though I live in NYC) as they play hands-down the most beautiful brand of football stateside. Unfortunately we get the visual crap that is Houston-New England in the MLS Cup two years in a row…Cheers.
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Joe,
Your criticisms of Emilio are warranted. Many of his goals were poached, and many more were the product of good play of those around him (namely the passing of Gomez and the playmaking ability of Moreno). Thanks for commenting.Posted from
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