Quickly Getting Caught Up

Well its been far too long since my last post and I apologize for that. School, work, family, and soccer have become more of a life than it seems I can handle at times (see my report card for last semester) but I still am invested fully into this team (RSL) and to the beautiful sport itself. This coming year is going to be a great one for soccer fans, especially those that call Utah their home or that have a connection to Real Salt Lake.

First off, we have the defending MLS cup champs in our very own city. Quite an amazing feat they accomplished, and I still believe KC is waiting on that fruit basket. There will be much more on this in the future, but the main point here is that we all should be excited (as if I had to tell you). This team has shown its potential (knocking off arguably the 3 best teams in the league last year all in a row on the road... sorta) and looks as though it might have fixed some of its "problems" from previous seasons. We can only hope that the road woes are behind us and that this team will at least contend on the road, and continue to play dominate soccer at home. I see us making the post season this year, I really do. From there... who knows. Last season I thought we had a chance to win it, but that was before the season began. Then we went through possibly the worst season in terms of health for its fans and ended up hoisting that lovely trophy in Seattle (great city, great venue, put on a wonderful show. Thank you Seattle). RSL will be a force and they will have a big target on their backs. It should be interesting to see how JK and co. handle it.

Next is the greatest sporting event in the world hands down. The super bowl is great... in the US. The Olympics can be wonderful too... but they don't have the same effect as... The world cup. It is great... EVERYWHERE. The US drew a pretty "easy" group in terms of what they could have gotten (by no means am I saying it will be easy for them, there aren't really any "bad" teams at the world cup, qualifiers do their best to make sure of that). I believe the Nats have a chance honestly (don't get ahead of yourselves, I will explain this). It will be great to open up against our "rivals" England and see if we can shock them by getting a draw or even somehow taking all 3 points. I believe the US will advance out of the group stages then depending on who we draw next (Germany's group) we could advance from there. If somehow we can avoid the Germans, we could go another round or two I think. If we do draw the Germans... revenge for that bull shit in 2002 is SO OVERDUE.

So grab your seats soccer lovers, its going to be a great year for soccer all around.

Cheers,
15 to 32

p.s. hopefully the CBA negotiations get figured out so that we can watch RSL this year... or ever again for that matter (yes I fear it could be that bad with a strike)