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World Soccer XXIV: The Road to Rio

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Barn Burner on Fox2 (FIOS 198) Shalke down to 10 men just scored in the 65' to lead 2-1

Shalke wins 3-2 with a goal in the 90'
 
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KEEPER HELPS SAVE MAN’S LIFE MOMENTS AFTER GETTING SENT OFF

Typically after you got sent off, you head straight to the dressing rooms, either downtrodden or in a fit of rage. For Stocksbridge keeper Ben Scott this weekend, that was never an option. He had a more important job to do: Save someone’s life.

After Scott was red-carded for a dangerous high tackle just minutes before the end of Stocksbridge’s match at King’s Lynn Town FC, a young girl ran up to him, maybe thinking that a goalkeeper can save just about anything, and notified him that a man in his 70s had collapsed in the crowd.

Scott’s day job is as a staff nurse at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, and he quickly made his way over to the man.

Scott told the BBC:

“I started walking off the field, getting a nice bit of abuse as you do, when I noticed a young girl running past me.

“She said, ‘a gentleman’s died’, so I followed her into the crowd and came across the gentleman on the floor. His heart was in an irregular rhythm.”
Working together with members of the on-site ambulance crew, Scott said they were able to use a defibrillator to give the collapsed fan a shock, helping his heart return to a normal rhythm.
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There should be little argument that Scott made his biggest save of his career.
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Champions' League groups announced:

The first group games will take place on Sept. 17 and 18.

Group A: Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Sociedad

Group B: Real Madrid, Juventus, Galatasaray, FC Copenhagen

Group C: Benfica, Paris St Germain, Olympiakos Piraeus, Anderlecht

Group D: Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow, Manchester City, Viktoria Plzen

Group E: Chelsea, Schalke 04, Basel, Steaua Bucharest

Group F: Arsenal, Olympique Marseille, Borussia Dortmund, Napoli

Group G: Porto, Atletico Madrid, Zenit St Petersburg, Austria Vienna

Group H: Barcelona, AC Milan, Ajax Amsterdam, Celtic
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Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/so...ue-group-stage-draw-2013-14.ap/#ixzz2dNgof56K
 
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Predictions: Winner/Runner-up

A: United/Bayer
B: Real/Juve
C: PSG/Benfica
D: Bayern/CSKA
E: Chelsea/Schalke
F: Dortmund/Arsenal (My pick for Group of Death)
G: Atletico/Zenit
H: Barca/Milan
 
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Group H: Barcelona, AC Milan, Ajax Amsterdam, Celtic

Crap.
 
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I'd trade City's group for Arsenal's in a heart beat. I was happy when Marseille popped up from the second pot, but getting Dortmund from the third pot and Napoli from the fourth pot was brutally bad luck. Those were the teams I'd least like to see Arsenal paired up with from those two pots. Only benefit is that there's no crazy trips to the Ukraine or Moscow in January or such.
 
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Didn't see this posted, but Sports Illustrated's "Sign of the Apocalypse" next week is that the Shakter manager sacrificed a live goat before their 2-0 win over Celtic last week.
 
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US Roster for Costa Rica and Mexico games:
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)

Defenders: DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City) John Brooks (Hertha Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Edgar Castillo (Club Tijuana), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Michael Orozco (Puebla)

Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (FC Nantes), Michael Bradley (Roma), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim), Jermaine Jones (Schalke), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)

Forwards: Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Eddie Johnson (Seattle Sounders FC), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar)


Anybody else following the flap going with the American Outlaws, Columbus, and Seattle?
 
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US Roster for Costa Rica and Mexico games:
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)

Defenders: DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City) John Brooks (Hertha Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Edgar Castillo (Club Tijuana), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Michael Orozco (Puebla)

Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (FC Nantes), Michael Bradley (Roma), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim), Jermaine Jones (Schalke), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)

Forwards: Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Eddie Johnson (Seattle Sounders FC), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar)


Anybody else following the flap going with the American Outlaws, Columbus, and Seattle?
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From what I have read, Columbus sold more "supporters" tickets than any match before... Something like 9000 tickets or something... What happened? Seemed like it was going to be a good time for everyone involved...
 
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Anybody else following the flap going with the American Outlaws, Columbus, and Seattle?
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Vaguely following, but it makes so little sense I haven't bothered digging into it.
 
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Can I get a Cliff Notes version of it because this is the first I've heard of it.
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From what I understand (and I could be way off)

American Outlaws and US Soccer are bringing in "capos" from Seattle to organize and lead the cheers in Columbus (and other cities). AO and US Soccer say that isn't accurate. Regardless, the fans in Columbus are offended. AO says this has been common but others say this started after the game in Salt Lake City that was very poorly organized. I haven't cared enough to dig into it.
 
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From what I have read, Columbus sold more "supporters" tickets than any match before... Something like 9000 tickets or something... What happened? Seemed like it was going to be a good time for everyone involved...
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Basically it started from this and this which lead to this. Basically there was a conference call, standard procedure apparently, with the USSF, American Outlaws, AO Columbus, and for some reason AO Seattle. Apparently the American Outlaws, with something like 20 sections of supporters group, wanted help organizing and asked for volunteers to help capo. One of the people who volunteered to capo was from Seattle.

Now full disclosure: I am a Sounders fan so the following opinions may come with some bias. In US soccer culture when Seattle gets mentioned, people not from Seattle lose their *. In the Sounders first years of MLS there was a lot of idiots on the internet talking about how Seattle started all of this and that in the US. Now, most sensible Seattle fans like myself couldn't stand this crap but the image stuck and it's a full blown meme now. Plus, the media is always fawning over what goes on in Seattle (and to be said Portland as well) and that tends to inspire some jealousy among other fan groups ($10 says one of you says this is just Seattle arrogance). Put all that together and you get said *storm.

tl:dr: Seattle was somehow involved and everybody lost their *.
 
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Basically it started from this and this which lead to this. Basically there was a conference call, standard procedure apparently, with the USSF, American Outlaws, AO Columbus, and for some reason AO Seattle. Apparently the American Outlaws, with something like 20 sections of supporters group, wanted help organizing and asked for volunteers to help capo. One of the people who volunteered to capo was from Seattle.

Now full disclosure: I am a Sounders fan so the following opinions may come with some bias. In US soccer culture when Seattle gets mentioned, people not from Seattle lose their *. In the Sounders first years of MLS there was a lot of idiots on the internet talking about how Seattle started all of this and that in the US. Now, most sensible Seattle fans like myself couldn't stand this crap but the image stuck and it's a full blown meme now. Plus, the media is always fawning over what goes on in Seattle (and to be said Portland as well) and that tends to inspire some jealousy among other fan groups ($10 says one of you says this is just Seattle arrogance). Put all that together and you get said *storm.

tl:dr: Seattle was somehow involved and everybody lost their *.
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Wow, what a bunch of Seattle arrogance :p
 
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