Everybody Ignores Day 1 of the World Series of Football

By: Laurie | July 17th, 2007

If a Galaxy game were played without Beckham, would anybody notice?

Apparently not, because I am finding NOTHING about day 1 of the World Series of Football. Which is, y’know, today. Galaxy Homepage? All Beckham. LA Soccer News? Ditto. I guess it’s up to us lowly soccer bloggers to fill you in. (NOTE: Tonight’s game is Another Freakin’ Telefutura Game, which means my cable company won’t offer it, unless I want to pay extra to get all of the Spanish language channels. I don’t speak Spanish, and my husband would probably tell you I already flush away enough money trying to track down soccer games on multiple continents. So somebody else will have to tell us how it goes.)

Andy at Chelsea Offside has a writeup on the Suwon Samsung Bluewings, the one team we’re not playing. If you’re interested, be sure to check out his post.

And Saturday we’re playing Chelsea in the big (possible) Beckham debut, so there will be a lot more coverage of that team and game as the week plays out.

Which leave us with our opponent for tonight, Tigres UANL of Mexico. What can I tell you about he Tigres?

Well, for starters, let’s go to that wonderful modern invention, Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia. Have I mentioned that before? If you’re passionate about only one thing in your life, you can go to Wikipedia and knock yourself out. (And no, I haven’t written anything about French football. Recently.) And plus? None of what you write has to be factual. As a matter of fact, pretty much everything on this team in Wikipedia conflicts with other sources. Or at least it did when I went in to write my first draft. By the time that draft was finished, all of the Wikipedia facts had changed and nothing I had written was true anymore. I am not making this up.

So, in conclusion, I have no clue about anything about Tigres UANL, and pretty much everything on the web is in Spanish. Have I mentioned I don’t speak Spanish? If you do, feel free to do the research for me. I will thank you when you’re done.

Oh, one last thing? They beat FC Dallas 2-0 recently. Apply the transitive property and this means we’re dead.

UPDATE: At last, MLSnet and the Galaxy homepage deliver the goods. Here’s their article on the game. Money quote from Landon Donovan: “We understand it doesn’t technically mean anything…”

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Armando Diaz

Dear Laurie

I´m a Mexican Citizen living in Monterrey , Mexico. Its a glad to know that you are interested in The Tigres team soccer, because it is one of two Local teams in our city. We have long history of this team.... Today arrive "The Crazy Abreau to the Tigres Team, after he played in Paraguay Team and win over Mexico" . Tigres its an International Team with history like England and Spanish Teams Soccers
Andy

Cheers Laurie for that.

I am going to do the same for Galaxy prior to our meeting.
KTBFFH
Laurie

So it's the sixteenth minute. I just tuned into MatchTracker. We're down 1-0 and Vagenas has committed four fouls. I'm just glad I didn't pay money for this one.
Ian

Possibly people wouldn't ignore it if it wasn't so absolutely ridiculously named. The World Series of Football? Chelsea, fine, they might make a world series of football. But LA is near the bottom of the MLS. Bluewings are an 11-year-old team from South Korea, which I have to believe is weakened by players being away at the Asian Cup, but at least they're a winning team from South Korea. Club America is the third-best team in Mexico.

Frankly, if they wanted to put together a showpiece tournament for Beckham's arrival, I'm kind of surprised they couldn't do better than this. I like the idea of one team from Asia, one from, um ... south of the US ..., one from Europe and Galaxy, but I'd like to see a South American side in place of Club America and someone a little more accomplished in place of Bluewings.

Plus, if they wanted to turn on American fans, they had a golden opportunity to bring in an Aussie team (call them the representatives of Oceania) and let them get slaughtered. Us 'Mericans like to watch us some scorin'.