Quakes season wrap-up
Posted By Suzanne Yada On November 12, 2008 @ 5:45 pm In San Jose Earthquakes, Sports | Comments Disabled
The soccer season has been over for a few weeks now, and I’ve been meaning to hammer out a long post for even longer. But there’s a couple of headlines that have popped up recently in the off-season news roundups at the Merc [1], at the Quakes’ official site [2], and also over with our friends at Center Line Soccer [3]. So I’ll give the Readers’ Digest version:
- Our fabulous new friend Darren Huckerby [4] has been named Major League Soccer’s Newcomer of the Year [5]. That’s because he is awesome.
- The Tottenham Hotspurs, an English Premiership League team, recently announced a partnership [6] with the Quakes in which the Spurs get to help develop the untapped and massive youth soccer talent pool here in NorCal, and the Quakes get to stare slack-jawed at the mighty EPL [7] team and learn via osmosis. There’s a bit of confusion, however, because many of the Hotspurs top-tier dealmakers have been sacked. No real word on exactly how that affects the agreement.
- MLS Cup playoffs [8] kick off tomorrow night as the Chicago Fire faces the Columbus Crew, and Real Salt Lake squares off against the New York Red Bulls. It all starts 7:30 pm Eastern on ESPN2. I anticipate my payola from ESPN2 any day now.
- Ian over at The Offsides recapped the top 5 Quakes games [9] this season. I missed one of those games, but thank God I didn’t miss the game listed as No. 1. It was truly spectacular.
- I attended a charity dinner the night before our 2-0 trouncing of Toronto FC in our season finale. I got to meet several players. I have pictures. I am waiting for some lazy bums to send me theirs. Then I will post like a mad fangirl.
Article printed from San Jose Metblogs: http://sanjose.metblogs.com
URL to article: http://sanjose.metblogs.com/2008/11/12/quakes-season-wrap-up/
URLs in this post:
[1] the Merc: http://www.mercurynews.com/sportsheadlines/ci_10847274
[2] official site: http://web.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081112&content_id=203360&vkey=news_sje&fext=.jsp&team=t110
[3] Center Line Soccer: http://www.centerlinesoccer.com/http:/www.centerlinesoccer.com/mustard-and-mayo/
[4] Darren Huckerby: http://sanjose.metblogs.com/2008/08/09/norwich-uk-san-joses-new-unofficial-sister-city/
[5] Newcomer of the Year: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10956746
[6] announced a partnership: http://www.centerlinesoccer.com/http:/www.centerlinesoccer.com/partnership-between-quakes-spurs-aims-to-benefit-clubs-both-on-and-off-the-field/
[7] EPL: http://www.premierleague.com/
[8] MLS Cup playoffs: http://web.mlsnet.com/mls/events/mls_cup/2008/index.jsp
[9] top 5 Quakes games: http://sanjose.theoffside.com/season-recap/top-5-best-games-of-the-season.html
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