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ASN Morning Read: Time for a Move for Altidore?
Could Jozy Altidore be on his way out of Sunderland during the January transfer window? The player himself seems to think that's a possibility. Elsewhere, an elder stateswoman earns a long profile.
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
October 09, 2014
7:43 AM
"If it doesn't turn around, in January then I'll be looking to start elsewhere, and make sure I'm in his plans going forward," Jozy Altidore told the collected media at United States practice on Wednesday. That's about as honest as you'll hear a soccer player or any professional athlete get. Where should Altidore go?
You really should take 6:58 to sit back and watch highlights of Landon Donovan's career:
"The following players were selected to the U.S. Youth Soccer Girls Olympic Development Program National Pool... 1981 Boys ODP National Team Pool... Tighe Dombrowski (West Allis, Wisc.), Landon Donovan (Redlands, Calif.), Chris Green (Strongsville, Ohio).
In the strangest story of the day:
How much do you know about Abby Wambach? There's much more in this profile from ESPN's Kate Fagan: Wambach sits inside Stumptown Coffee, on Southwest 3rd Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon, chattering away, as she is prone to do. Julie Foudy once gave Wambach a shirt that said, "Help! I'm Talking And I Can't Shut Up!" That was more than a decade ago, when Wambach was the youngster on the national team. Legends such as Foudy, Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain were accustomed to wide-eyed apprentices nodding dutifully in the presence of women whose images were once plastered on their bedroom walls. (As a kid growing up in Rochester, New York, Wambach herself had a signed poster of Hamm.) But the first time Foudy had a chance to talk with Wambach one-on-one, at the airport before a flight, the newcomer was a nonstop stream of words and excitement, a 5-foot-11 windup toy unleashed. Foudy, herself known to teammates as Loudy Foudy, remembers sitting there thinking, So much for the shy rookie! "The beauty of Abby," she says, "has always been her incredible passion."
The Columbus Crew get a rebrand. Thoughts?
