The LA Times Is Starting to Understand that Soccer is Growing
By: David | May 2nd, 2007I was going to post this a few weeks ago, but I have finally gotten around to it. The Los Angeles Times, I guess started to hear our complaints of not having enough soccer coverage. Well it would seem that Grahame Jones was given the chance to write a weekly soccer column, called Corner Kicks.
Each week he writes about the five most pressing issues in International Soccer (this is what he believes to be important) and it usually has one point the MLS. The column also includes the stats of the week, a table from one league and a quote. So its a bit small and on the back of the sports section, but this is now the fourth straight week I have seen this column.
There was an interesting point today about the Red Bull owners:
Austrian energy drink billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz bought SV Salzburg Austria in 2005 and renamed it Red Bull Salzburg. The next year, he bought Major League Soccer’s MetroStars and recast them as the New York Red Bulls.
Today, Mateschitz has one league champion and one unbeaten team.
Red Bull Salzburg, coached by Italy’s Giovanni Trapattoni with the assistance of former MetroStar Lothar Matthaeus, has won the Austrian league title, making Trapattoni only the second coach in European soccer history after Ernst Happel to win league championships in four countries.
He also won titles in Italy with Juventus and Inter Milan, in Germany with Bayern Munich and in Portugal with Benfica.
The Red Bulls, who are 3-0-1 in MLS play, will be in Los Angeles on Tuesday night for a U.S. Open Cup qualifying game against the Galaxy..
Why I posted this you ask? Here is an international owner who has purchased numerous teams around the world and infused enough money into each to team so that they are successful. Maybe Vergara should look at Mateschitz as an example of what to do right.
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Great post!
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Thanks. I am just glad to see at least one print media organization taking note about Soccer……..
And as for the other issue, I think everyone in the MLS should be looking at the red bulls as a perfect example of how to do things right….or at least, a way that will produce results.
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