I've been trying to write this for a while, but there's nothing. It's one of those days.
The only football I sort of followed today was Hull's hard fought 2-1 win against Manchester United in the League Cup semifinal second leg. Hull haven't had much joy this season. And when they do get a win it means nothing. United win on aggregate and go on to the final at Wembley. Such is the joy of aggregate scores over two legs. That would have sounded like a completely foreign sentence to many North Americans a few years ago. Aggregate? Two legs? But thanks to MLS play-offs adopting the same two match system, that football-speak has hit these shores.
Speaking of MLS and TFC (wasn't I?) fans here are worried about superstar player Seba Giovinco jumping on the enough-money-for-my-granchildrens'-lifetime plane to China. His agent says he is happy here, he loves the TFC family but that the league needs to start thinking about spending some serious money if they want to compete for more Giovinco's and less 38 year old Frank Lampards.
Andrea D'Amico: "At the same time, I have my idea of MLS. Now, MLS is just like the Olympic Games with no professional athletes. They need to go forwards in the direction of increasing the market, increasing the number of big players...."
"I think no one in the world has the facilities, the lifestyle, the organization, the marketing that MLS has. It’s a fantastic place to live. So, if North America doesn’t want to commit more... we need that. In my opinion, we have to accelerate this project. I saw more than 150,000 people at the stadiums in the three games against Montreal and Seattle."
Agents, eh? The man is in the business of making more money for himself. Why not? That's his thing and his measure of success. And if he and others weren't around, would the Giovinco's come here? But if Giovinco does go to China, Mr. D'Amico won't be too unhappy with his payday. I think he's still holding out that he could make his big money in the MLS market. He's not ready for China, yet.
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