Articles tagged with "abel-xavier"
Abel Xavier Heads Out the Door
By Laurie | July 18th, 2008Sigh. We all knew this was coming, right? I've been expecting this day with about the same emotions I felt when I was getting ready ...
Some Links for Your Reading Pleasure Before the Game
By Laurie | May 2nd, 2008All kinds of stuff we need to get through before the game tomorrow. (Tomorrow being Saturday, in case you're reading this on the wrong ...
The Thing About Xavier...
By Laurie | May 1st, 2008Here's the thing about Abel Xavier. People write in the comments about how horrible he is, saying things like, "So how does the ball ...
Thinking About the Galaxy Game
By Laurie | April 27th, 2008Are we still on cloud nine? The thing about this game is that it was about so much more than just this game. It was ...
Galaxy 2-2 Houston. Is Franchino the Missing Link?
By Laurie | April 19th, 2008So is Joey Franchino the missing link? (Read that however you want.) You know how I've said that previously I just wasn't convinced by our ...
Galaxy Game Preview
By Laurie | April 19th, 2008Martek over at the blog "Nutmegged" asked me to write up a few quick answer to some questions for his Galaxy-Houston preview. I thought ...
Galaxy-Toronto Preview.
By Laurie | April 13th, 2008Toronto has upgraded this week. If they keep this up, other teams will find, to their shock, that Toronto doesn't suck. And the ...
I Just Watched the San Jose Game!
By Laurie | April 9th, 2008I realized today that the San Jose game is in the ESPN360.com archives, at least for the moment, so I was actually able to watch ...
Of Millionaires and Minimum Wagers: Galaxy 2008 Salaries Revealed
By Laurie | April 7th, 2008One of the things that happened while I was gone was the release of the 2008 salaries, courtesy of the MLS Players Union. Daryl ...
Hear Abel Xavier Talk
By Laurie | March 11th, 2008He does talk! Starting at about the :58 second mark. An accent that combines Mozambique and Portugal. And includes the charming phrase ...
Post-Game Thoughts on the Seoul-Galaxy Game
By Laurie | March 1st, 2008First off. Umm... Penalties?!?! Did anybody else who was watching the game know that we went to penalties after drawing in regulation ...
A few Galaxy Roster Updates
By Laurie | February 15th, 2008Draft picks Sean Franklin, Julian Valentin and Ely Allen have all officially signed with the team. And chances are that at least one of ...
Expansion Draft Thoughts: Which Goalkeeper(s) and Defenders to Protect
By Laurie | November 15th, 2007More on the Expansion Draft. Here are my thoughts on which of our defensive-minded guys to protect from the clutches of the dastardly Frank ...
Pachuca: SuperLiga Champions
By mirna | August 29th, 2007After an emotional and intense game, overtime, penalty kicks and more penalty kicks, Pachuca became the first champion of the SuperLiga. With Abel Xavier ...
Beckham Out For SuperLiga
By Laurie | August 28th, 2007Well, this year just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it? (Note: That was sarcasm.) Looks like Beckham will not be playing tomorrow in ...
Galaxy-Chivas Preview
By Laurie | August 23rd, 2007You know it's going to be a long season when your injury list is pretty much a Who's Who of your team roster. Let's ...
NE 1-0 Galaxy
By Laurie | August 12th, 2007I couldn't see the game (at a wedding, then sitting in a ferry line for 2 1/2 hours trying to get home), but let's see ...
Pravda Tells Us About Beckham and the Blue Jays
By Laurie | August 7th, 2007Show of hands, kids! Who remembers the Cold War? And who remembers Pravda, the official Cold War-era mouthpiece of The Evil Soviet Empire? Oh, ...
TFC 0 Los Angeles 0: Would've, Could've, Should've
By Sam | August 5th, 2007Okay, Jeeves, I got a question for you. How the bloody hell did Toronto not win by forty goals tonight? This, besides the Dallas game, was ...
So What Happened to Our Defense on Tuesday Night?
By Laurie | August 2nd, 2007Tuesday night's game confused me. Did it confuse anybody else? Twenty minutes where nothing we did could go wrong, and seventy minutes of ...
"A jamais les premiers...
By Magnusson | July 31st, 2007Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Massaër, MA to the double S, A.... I believe in Marseille since childhood and ...
10 Things We Learned From Beckham's Galaxy Debut
By Daryl | July 22nd, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQIsfLZ-1PQ[/youtube] 1. Commoners and celebrities alike will fill a stadium just to see Beckham play 12 injured minutes. 2. Beckham will be taking the corners and free ...
Galaxy-Wizards Recap (two days late)
By Laurie | July 9th, 2007Okay, first thing. Am I the only one bugged by those Iso-Vision insets? It feels like every time the ball heads to the ...
Galaxy 2-0 Chicago
By Laurie | July 4th, 2007Y'know, we should probably be embarrassed by this win. 2-0 on two penalties, one of which was questionable and one that was a fairly ...
And Now I Bring You an Abel Xavier Limerick
By Laurie | June 15th, 2007To continue my Abel Xavier theme of the day, I bring you my favorite form of poetry: A limerick. Seriously, I love ...
Totally Abel Friday: An Abel Xavier Interview
By Laurie | June 15th, 2007This article link came to me from Martha, who is currently sunning herself in Portugal and actually saw Abel play, live, in a charity thing ...
Totally Abel Friday: Your Haiku of the Day
By Laurie | June 15th, 2007I've decided to make today Totally Abel Friday, in honor of our newest team member. Although technically he's not the newest, what with this ...
He-e-e-e-e-re's Abel!
By Laurie | June 15th, 2007Abel Xavier (remember, it's Aah-bel zha-vee-air) is in town and practicing with the Galaxy whilst waiting for his work permit. He may even be ...
Chris Albright and Those Transfer Rumors
By Laurie | May 17th, 2007Chris Albright had a chat with Luis Bueno of LA Soccer News about the rumors, reported by Grahame Jones in the LA Times, that he ...
An Abel Xavier Goal
By Laurie | May 16th, 2007This is what he's capable of. Let's hope he brings it with him.
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