Sideline Views

After all the excitement over the prodigal son return of Vela, Mexico suffered a loss to Belarus.  It wasn't all bad. Raul Jimenez...

I have a soft spot for this blog , but Twitter is where it's at with all the cool social media kids these days. Communication in short ...

Or, in Spanish, Mexico, lindo y querido!  A small measure of revenge was earned by El Tri against Holland .  But more importantly,...

I have actually met David Moyes before. Well, not in terms of having exchanged names, but we have sideline-watched the same practices a few...

NYCFC is coming along as the second team in New York, and with all the blue , it's looking very Chelseaish to go along with NY Red Bulls...

Last night,  People wondered why LD is retiring.  Others understood.  Baxty wrote on LA's 5-0 win.  Incidentally, five...

It's not the playoffs yet in Liga MX, but one of the almost-final games of regular season action featured Club America versus Toluca, wh...

It's a scoreless draw coming in from the first leg, so it's all to play for here in LA.  And they kick off! 3 - So far, just ...

LA is getting a new soccer team - LAFC . But this won't be the first time Nomar and Mia have been in charge of a soccer squad.  ...

Last batch of those recent LD quotes:  One match for the national team that you consider a signature match? Signature match? I’d proba...

Club America, Club America. . .  Follow their exploits here , by the way.  What's a bit tricky for the squad is that they've g...

More leftover LD quotes  If there was a chance, that maybe they’d schedule a game against Mexico in January, would you consider return...

Landon Donovan  (leftover quotes from when I spoke to him before his final international game) Assuming you don’t score ag...

We had joy  Guess which player is still in MLS? we had fun The ChivaGirls! We had se...

Here's a partial transcript of the media questions for LD on Tuesday about his farewell international match. I didn't post them earl...

Andres Iniesta has always seemed to be one of the athletes who simply doesn't look much like an athlete. He could pass for a professor, ...

In a week in which Mexico had to confront racism in the homefront after local Queretaro politician Carlos Trevino called new signing Ronal...

Here is the translation of what LD said in Spanish today.  Are you mad? I’m not mad, I’m sad. Because I worked very hard to hav...

Other names on list that were surprising? There’s a lot of arguments that you can make for everybody. Decisions are tough. It’s a good th...

Reporter questions here are shortened down, Landon Donovan's responses as close to exact as I could get transcribing.  How do y...