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ASN Morning Read: Mix Diskerud Living the Dream
The United States central midfielder seems like a natural fit in America's biggest city; a Major League Soccer owner opens his mouth about free agency; a beautiful new stadium arrives fully formed finally.
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
February 27, 2015
7:32 AM
The Mix Diskerud invasion of New York begins in earnest. The Post is writing about him, people: "[US coach Jurgen Klinsmann] has talked about getting out of your comfort zone. I’ve never been here. It’s a challenge for me, a way to develop your game."
Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen broke ranks to talk openly about free agency. His reasoning is in line with the rest of the owners, but it's notable that he's speaking out. Here's what he said. "We are confused, too: I think there are some really fair offers that have come from the league. The perennial issue is that 'we want free agency,' but that can't exist where everyone's employed by the same employer. How do you have free agency when you're going to go talk to yourself at the next employer? That's not going to change. That's a 'go-nowhere' conversation. When you look at all the owners, they've all been in pro basketball, baseball, football, and that was the one thing they all vowed they'd never do is go through that again. They've tried it twice, it's been defeated by the courts. It's just a foolish place to waste time. If that's still open, it's just foolish. The rest, there's some great agreement everyone can reach, but every time I read 'we're going to work on free agency,' well, you know, that's one of those real waste-of-time conversations. I think everyone's very intense on it. I know that the league and the owners are seriously looking at that.
Juan Agudelo on coming back to Major League Soccer: “I don’t regret any decision that I’ve made. The most important thing that I learned was that soccer was my happiness and that I needed to get back to it right away. I’ve kept in touch with a lot of the guys and Jay. The chemistry just keeps getting better and better. I’m sure that’s one of the key factors that helped the team get far last year. I’m just hoping I can help the team any way I can to finish it off."
The San Jose Earthquakes have a stadium for the 99 percent, not the one percent.
Alexi Lalas is now a big enough star to end up on TMZ. He covers foosball etiquette and advice for Hope Solo.
FIFA gave Fox the 2026 World Cup "to avoid facing a lawsuit from the media giant over shifting the 2022 Cup from the heat of the Qatari summer to the late fall and winter." And because they could.
Here's a conversation with former United States team manager Bob Bradley. It's Friday morning; watch the whole thing.
