Thursday, January 7, 2010

Where to begin


Everything, at least on the Canada front, circles around the likes of Montreal and Vancouver, who will officially (and by officially I mean it literally!) will be playing next ... errr I mean this year. I'm not really qualified to make any bold commentary on this, as I casually followed this drama. By casually I mean I can make some awesome sweeping statements (USL loses big time!) but this is great news for Vancouver and Montreal. Bare minimum they will be in an organized, North American, league this season and everything looks to be in order.

Six teams in USL, Six teams in NASL and they will meet for a super finals!!



Not to mention Marcus Haber won't be playing in said league (NASL) as he has just been sold to West Bromwich Albion. He had an interesting 2009 where after failing to sign on with Leeds United, he then missed out on Hartlepool and linking up with Simeon Jackson at Gillingham. There seems to be many throwing around how if he couldn't get in at Leeds, how is he going to find a place at West Brom? The only thing I can think of is momentum is carrying him through as he was a key player down the stretch for Vancouver and into the USL-1 finals and he clearly improved by leaps and bounds over the last ten months.

I for one am hopeful this pans out and he sees the pitch. Bare minimum, West Brom could gain promotion and even if he isn't in the starting XI, to get a season in for the reserves in the EPL and possibly even some time on the field for the first team (even if it's in the Championship) is a good place to be at 20 years old.

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