Donovan wins Honda player of the year award; Onyewu has surgery on Wednesday
In one of those things that comes as no surprise, Landon Donovan won the Honda Player of the Year as the top player with the U.S. national team. It’s the sixth time Donovan has won. He also won in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008. Not surprisingly, he’s also been given the Honda Player of the Decade award. Tim Howard was second and Jozy Altidore was third. Donovan gets another car for winning. This guy is never going to have to buy a car.
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Defender Oguchi Onyewu will have surgery on Wednesday to repair the ruptured patellar tendon in his left knee. The timetable for his recovery will be determined after the surgery. If Onyewu can’t play in the World Cup, it’s a big loss for the United States, because his size in the middle is not something easily replaced.
Meanwhile, AC Milan is asking the USSF for compensation for Onyewu for having one of their players get hurt while playing for them. I don’t know that this is going to work — does the road ever go the other way? — and, just guessing here, I think AC Milan has a lot more cash than the USSF.
Well considering that they have yet to play Gooch in a league match and he came off the bench once in Champions League, I think all of the readers of this blog can spot 5 dollars each to give Milan a little compensation
Sorry to threadjack here, but Tom, have you been able to talk to Jeff Cooper about the reports that the TOA teams have indeed left USL and applied for USSF sanction for a new league?
Alot of people in the soccer community are not only down on Cooper but down on Timmermann. It’s because he writes what Cooper tells him to. Tom has not once defended himself and that tells me that he has his hands in Cooper’s back pocket.
Tom defend your softball posts and lovefest with the Athletica when we know it’s a league thats done.
In this corner, Jeff Cooper spending his time and money, and giving up his lucrative law firm, to try to bring pro soccer to St. Louis.
In the other corner, we have “In the Know” and the rest of his “people in the soccer community” who haven’t done ANYTHING EVER to bring pro soccer here, and have nothing to offer other than tantrums and grudges because coach X at club Y didn’t give their kid enough playing time.
I know which corner I’m cheering for…
So what has Cooper done? exactly! Nothing but create a lot of po’d people at him in the soccer community. What else do you have? thought so !