matthew Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 From the Canadian Press http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=267424&lid=headline&lpos=secStory_soccer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Rollins1555362254 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 quote:Originally posted by CanadianSoccerFan Training pics from today. NO FOOTBALL LINES!!! Do you know who took these photos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Rollins1555362254 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 quote:Originally posted by leafdolfan 9 days away and the buzz died? No one's posting on this forum regularly in the last week, and ticket sales seem to be slowing down. I suspect they stopped pushing group sales... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSoccerFan Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 quote:Originally posted by MediaGuy Do you know who took these photos? Impact website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trident Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 quote:Originally posted by MediaGuy Do you know who took these photos? PePe!!! [8D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveBeau Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 quote:Originally posted by MediaGuy I suspect they stopped pushing group sales... Couldn't resist chiming in with a negative comment could you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Rollins1555362254 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 quote:Originally posted by SteveBeau Couldn't resist chiming in with a negative comment could you... What's negative about that comment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Apparently the surface is pretty hard. The stranger the surface, the better for the Impact. Santos are usually a terrible road team and an exceptinal home team. As in any aggregate series, the Impact's looking for a win and is hoping for a two-goal win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Santos just snapped their goalless streak at 358 minutes. They beat Chivas 2-1 Friday, giving Guadalajara their first loss of the season. I hope it's an aberration, but their manager was feeling they are rounding into form. In any event, the Impact need to use every advantage they have at their disposal. cheers, matthew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 I watched the game against Chivas and they played very well. They are a very fast and creative team so Montreal will have to be disciplined and defensively solid against them. They are only arriving in Montreal on Monday and probably not practicing until Tuesday so hopefully the pitch gives them some problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trillium Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Has anyone made sure Santos Laguna is taken to see the Canadiens play on the 24th ? Tue Feb 24, 2009 Canucks Canadiens 7:30 PM RDS (HD) SNET-P I think someone should make sure they get to the game, and sit close to the ice, comp them some beer...are the ushers still charming ? Perhaps the younger guys on the Habs can take them out after for dinner ? Just thinking Montreal as a city will want to be very hospitable before the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keano Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Trillium Has anyone made sure Santos Laguna is taken to see the Canadiens play on the 24th ? Tue Feb 24, 2009 Canucks Canadiens 7:30 PM RDS (HD) SNET-P I think someone should make sure they get to the game, and sit close to the ice, comp them some beer...are the ushers still charming ? Perhaps the younger guys on the Habs can take them out after for dinner ? Just thinking Montreal as a city will want to be very hospitable before the game. If by "younger guys" you mean the Kostytsin brothers then it's looking like a better and better plan..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Meant to post this earlier, but forgot. I caught the last couple of minutes of Santos 1-0 road loss to Tecos on Wednesday night. Obviously can't figure much out in 3 mins. but perhaps shows that they're still not rolling in MFL play...if i'm not mistaken didn't Santos make it to the Liguilla final in December? Maybe they just haven't had enough rest in the off-season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Impact Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 It will be interesting to see what type of a line up Santos will field to face the Impact, considering that they will be playing on a few days rest. Here is the line up they used vs Guadalajara. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=259344&cc=5901 Of note this line up featured Mexican Internatiionals Oswaldo Sanchez and Forward Matias Vuoso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Vuoso is a fake Mexican international, ie. he is an Argentine who only came to Mexico to play soccer and took Mexican citizenship so he could play for their national team. He is not the only non-Mexican on their team, another is Guillermo Franco. Vuoso scored the goal that tied the game against us in Edmonton. Unfortunately if FIFA is going to allow this we have to do the same and start recruiting the foreign players on our teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Grizzly Vuoso is a fake Mexican international, ie. he is an Argentine who only came to Mexico to play soccer and took Mexican citizenship so he could play for their national team. He is not the only non-Mexican on their team, another is Guillermo Franco. Vuoso scored the goal that tied the game against us in Edmonton. Unfortunately if FIFA is going to allow this we have to do the same and start recruiting the foreign players on our teams. I think you are exagerrating a bit. Any player who has not been capped and can get residency or citizenship is free to play for a nation other than the one he was born in. Both of these guys at least have a Mexican connection, Franco went to Mexico in the early part of this decade, and neither had been called up by Argentina. Are you really arguing that a player who is not good enough for one of the best teams in the world and has legal status in another country should never be allowed to play international football? Why insist on your constant moralizing by calling legitimate nationalized players "fakes"? Or is it because you are opposed to free labour markets and immigration? Do you really want us to make a long list of players who chose Canada as adults when in fact they were born elsewhere? Or an even longer list of players for other nations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSoccerFan Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Fernando Arce is another regular for Mexico and striker Christian Benitez was the MVP of the 2008 Clausura. He's a goal machine up front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Impact Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Grizzly Vuoso is a fake Mexican international, ie. he is an Argentine who only came to Mexico to play soccer and took Mexican citizenship so he could play for their national team. He is not the only non-Mexican on their team, another is Guillermo Franco. Vuoso scored the goal that tied the game against us in Edmonton. Unfortunately if FIFA is going to allow this we have to do the same and start recruiting the foreign players on our teams. What's your point? he's the norm rather then the exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Benitez is hurt. That's one of the reason's they've struggled. Ludueña their left mid was the MVP of the 07 Apertura, but had knee surgery since then. They lost some players in the off-season and the new group hasn't really come together as well. Mexican-American LB Edgar Castillo (who has some Mexican caps after growing up in the US) left as did veteran Argentine CB Fernando Ortiz who went to America. A guy I know in Mexcio felt they missed both of those guys plus a healthy Benitez. He said Colombian forward Darwin Quintero and 21-yo Osmar Mares were doing a decent job of filling in, but the team just isn't the same as it once was. Still Arce, Vuoso, Luduena, Oswaldo Sanchez, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, Walter Jimenez . . . there's a lot of quality in this team. cheers, matthew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucklefan Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Today, two days before the game against Montreal, Santos were playing against Monterrey for the Mexican league. I hope that accumulated tiredness will have a positive effect for Montreal Impact. Looking at the games played by each player, it looked like Santos played with their regular starters with the exception of one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTLcanada514 Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Whoever is going have fun at the game, i envy u ok well only a little bit but im still sad to be missing such a huge game, ill be cheering the Impact and Ultras on from some sports bar in cancun! LETS GO IMPACT!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Not only did Santos win 2-0 over Monterrey, but Benitez made his return. He got 30 minutes coming off the bench. I hope they're tired too, but those a win and the return of one of their best players wasn't what I was hoping for in advance of Wednesday. cheers, matthew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Impact Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Santos arrive in Montreal here is an article in Spanish http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/416445.guerreros-tienen-fria-bienvenida-en-canada.html Seems like they don't know much about the Impact and their style of play. Here it is in Babblefish As they are typical the transfers of the Warriors in the League of Champions of the Concacaf, to the albiverdes took more than 12 hours to arrive to one of the cities more to the north of America. Montreal received them with a temperature of -9 degrees centigrade, although with the registered air of more than 30 kilometers, the sensation was of -14. Since Sunday fell an intense snowfall of various centimeters in thickness, that has stools and streets of the center of the city, covers by a dense white layer of snow and ice. The delegation santista had a delay in its connection in Mexico City, due to that the of the capital airport, was closed by a fog that impeded the landing and exit of flights. Its I arrive to the International Airport Pierre Elliott Trudeau of this Canadian city, was planned for the 19:50 local time (18:50 of Tower), but was not but you passed the ten at night when arrived. Hardly they sheltered and being covered nose and mouth, the laguneros descended of the bus that carried them to its hotel of concentration, located in the Boulevard René-Lévesque. Observing impressed, the flurries carried out by the air that blows with force in the country of the leaf of Maple. The first one in descending and to suffer almost a slip, was the kingpin albiverde, Alejandro Irarragorri Gutiérrez, who he notified to the remainder of the contingent one, of the danger of the flat he filled of ice and water, after the snowstorm that whipped the South of Canada and the North U.S. He continued the technical one Daniel Guzmán, so that then touched shift to his technical body, although its assistant Mauricio González, gave the order to enter quickly to the hotel and to avoid to breathe the icy air, that could cause him some respiratory problem. Christian Benítez descended smiling of the unit, listening the song "The Appointment" of the Boys of Neighborhood, while its compatriot Pedro Quiñónez, descended admiring the pretty postcard, above all of the Cathedral Marie-Reign-du-Monde. Matías Vuoso descended in fisherman and commented quickly: "Does not it do so much cold as they say", although more well the "Bull" was protected and did not walk for a cruiser, where they penetrate with intensity the gusts of wind. The albiverdes will coach slightly today exactly of the 13:00 hours (12:00 of Tower) in the Olympic Stadium, that suffered a mishap in its dome, due to the great quantity of snow accumulated. Since early it initiates the crossing The Warriors initiated their long trip to Montreal to the 7:30 hours of yesterday. One morning a little cold, but not so icy as would be the night in Montreal. Each one of the players albiverdes were arriving at the International Airport Francisco Sarabia, some they left them some relative, other they shared the "ride" and some more, like Daniel Ludueña, they arrived in taxi. Yesterday was a rare farewell, since the sports teams of children and girls of the German School coincided in the air head office. Various they sought the players to ask them the aútografo, the hug and even the kiss. Children, young, adult and even a newborn they were taken a photo with the players. Daniel Guzmán considered that their team arrived motivated to the play before the Impact and for nothing is trusted of its rival one. "As we do not know anything of the rival one, we have to be well alerts". Oswaldo Sánchez commented that not one must trust of the Canadian team. "To be trusted of what, is a rival one that do not know, that surely plays well to arrive at this instance. We go arriving at the level that the technician expects and we expect good result". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrus Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 So if some were admiring the postcard view of the Marie-Reign-du-Monde Cathedral, that means they're staying at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth. So if anyone can afford to send over some girls or booze, please do so. We want these guys to feel at home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Impact Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Cyrus So if some were admiring the postcard view of the Marie-Reign-du-Monde Cathedral, that means they're staying at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth. So if anyone can afford to send over some girls or booze, please do so. We want these guys to feel at home! Anybody have the number for the Kostitsyn brothers? ...oops their contact just got busted:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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