On an upside, we figure that the only reason he twittered the picture was that no one else would see it save for him, his wife and whatever lady of the night he's playing with on the side (and possibly that woman's friend)...
Yaya Toure with the lone goal in the 75th, and Balotelli tells an interviewer that Man City had a sh*t season. Not bad, but I'm beginning to think that money does buy trophies (if that wasn't figured out before with Chelsea)...
The first legs of the Mexico Torneo Clausura semifinals were played earlier today, and the first one was a weird one. #8 Guadalajara Chivas, fresh off their convincing upset of #1 UNL Tigres by a 4-2 aggregate score, hosted #2 UNAM Pumas, who tied Torneo Apertura champions #7 Monterrey by a 3-3 aggregate score but advanced on the away goals rule, losing 3-1 in Monterrey and then winning 2-0 at home.
I got my hands on the USSF's Coaching Curriculum for youth soccer today... and I found some interesting stuff in it:
1) Apparently, we overplay the 4-4-2 formation 2) We dribble too much 3) We don't attack out of the backfield enough 4) Our passing sucks
Well, no real surprises there, but what they are suggesting is that we should run the 4-3-3 (or 4-2-3-1) exclusively until the U15 bracket at which point, we can "introduce" the 4-4-2 diamond formation. Now, surprisingly, this is how I grew up playing... at least until the U12 bracket at which point we started toying with the 3-5-2 and somehow that was overtaken by the man crush that developed across the country with the 4-4-2.