US Soccer qualifies for World Cup 2010 !
TheHun
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The US Men's National Team qualified for the 6th consecutive World Cup Final (1990-1994-1998-2002-2006-2010) by winning in Honduras 3:2 last night.
Time to chase the hereos - Colorado Rapids Conner Casey scored 2 goals and Landon Donovan bent it like Beckham for the winner !
Conner Casey rookie cards will be hot. (looking for any of Casey's German League cards)
Landon Donovan is now the all-time top scorer for the USA. (looking for any autograph cards - Upper Deck or Donruss fans of the game)
Tim Howard (Upper Deck Manchester United autograph and Topps jersey card)
Paying top dollar for NY MetroStars Tim Howard card !
Time to chase the hereos - Colorado Rapids Conner Casey scored 2 goals and Landon Donovan bent it like Beckham for the winner !
Conner Casey rookie cards will be hot. (looking for any of Casey's German League cards)
Landon Donovan is now the all-time top scorer for the USA. (looking for any autograph cards - Upper Deck or Donruss fans of the game)
Tim Howard (Upper Deck Manchester United autograph and Topps jersey card)
Paying top dollar for NY MetroStars Tim Howard card !
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Since you are chasing contemporary American players, Hun, I hope you don't mind if I hijack your thread with an appeal for any vintage cards of Scottish players, especially Denis Law.
Oh Flower of Scotland
When will we see your like again
Who fought and died for
Your wee bit of hill and glen
And stood against him
Proud Edward's army
And sent him homeward
To think again
Could carry on, but nobody here probably cares (plus my eyes are starting to fill with tears).
Eyebone
<< <i>Hope so, as American success can only help the game up here in Canada. >>
I wish they would hurry, I'm getting to old to become a hooligan. But the desire is still there.
I have two Denis Law cards both with Manchester United:
1992 ProSet England
1969 A&BC (topps)
I have several Scotland players - topps, Upper Deck and Panini
PM for details
cheers
The proset card is too new and not really of any interest me, but the a & bc card I think I need. Do you happen to have any older cards of Kenny Dalglish or Jim Baxter?
By the way, had to edit my original post as your reply reminded me that Law spells his first name with only one "n".
Eyebone
<< <i>
Oh Flower of Scotland
When will we see your like again
Who fought and died for
Your wee bit of hill and glen
And stood against him
Proud Edward's army
And sent him homeward
To think again
Could carry on, but nobody here probably cares (plus my eyes are starting to fill with tears).
>>
I can hear Andy Stewart singing that as I read the words.
Hun...do you have cards of any of the Aberdeen Dons of the early eighties?
Charles
And Eyebone, I can remember being a little kid sitting in Scotland at sporting events such as Rugby Union matches, Premiership soccer matches and even the Scottish Claymores of the NFL-Europe, yelling those lyrics at the top of my lungs! Good memories
If you are collecting Dons cards from early '80s then you must have fond memories of the days when it was Alex ferguson's men--and not the Old Firm--that dominated the Scottish game. Memory is fading, and I cannot be bothered looking it up, but names like Strachan, Leighton, Hewitt, Black, Miller, McLeish come to mind. Was it FC Gothenburg they beat to win the CWC back then?
Goot. What took a kid from South Florida to Scotland?
Verse 2:
The hills are bare now
And autumn leaves lie thick and still
O'er land that is lost now
But oh so dearly held
And stood against him
Proud Edward's army
And sent him homeward
To think again
Eyebone
Well, my dad's work required him to live in Scotland for nearly a year. Not wanting to be away from his family for this long, my family moved to Livingston, Scotland for 7 months when I was about 9 years old. We kept our house in Florida during this time while my grandparents watched over it and we rented a place in Scotland.
It was really an amazing time. I was able to experience a LOT of things most kids or most people in general will never experience. We saw castles, Loch Ness, went to numerous Scottish Premier league matches, saw Manchester United play a friendly against the Livingston FC in Livingston, the 2000 Challenge Cup Rugby match at Murrayfield, Cricket matches, the list goes on and on. We even snuck a week long trip to Finland to visit my dad's friend Matti and his family in Helsinki. Amazing experience all around.
Mike
<< <i>Piman asked me the same question haha.
Well, my dad's work required him to live in Scotland for nearly a year. Not wanting to be away from his family for this long, my family moved to Livingston, Scotland for 7 months when I was about 9 years old. We kept our house in Florida during this time while my grandparents watched over it and we rented a place in Scotland.
It was really an amazing time. I was able to experience a LOT of things most kids or most people in general will never experience. We saw castles, Loch Ness, went to numerous Scottish Premier league matches, saw Manchester United play a friendly against the Livingston FC in Livingston, the 2000 Challenge Cup Rugby match at Murrayfield, Cricket matches, the list goes on and on. We even snuck a week long trip to Finland to visit my dad's friend Matti and his family in Helsinki. Amazing experience all around. >>
<< <i>Piman....are you a Scot?
If you are collecting Dons cards from early '80s then you must have fond memories of the days when it was Alex ferguson's men--and not the Old Firm--that dominated the Scottish game. Memory is fading, and I cannot be bothered looking it up, but names like Strachan, Leighton, Hewitt, Black, Miller, McLeish come to mind. Was it FC Gothenburg they beat to win the CWC back then? >>
Eyebone... not a native Scot, but several Scots in my family tree. I taught in Aberdeen from 1982 to 1985 so I was indeed a frequent visitor to Pittodrie to watch the Dons do battle with the Old Firm. They beat Real Madrid in Gothenburg to win the CWC and I regret not traveling to that match, but I did see them beat Rangers in the Scottish Cup final that year. I meet Ferguson and Starchan back then with cherished autos from both. I even have some records similar to the Bear's Super Bowl Shuffle sung by those Dons and by Everton's squad. Other Dons from that time that come to mind are Doug Rougvie, Neil Simpson Mark McGhee, Stuart Kennedy, Neale Cooper, and Peter Weir.
As an lifelong Indians fan the Dons were my first association with a winning organiztion until the Tribe turned it around for a time in the 90's.
Charles
Interesting. I hope your enjoyed your experience in Scotland. I spent my youth in Kilmarnock, emigrated to Canada with my parents in the late '60s and then returned again to live in Scotland two decades later (though my stay only lasted about a year).
I recollect all of those names, especially Neale Cooper. As I recall he was the proverbial 'hard man' was he not? I am also fairly sure it was his vicious lunging tackle that virtually ended the career of a great young 'Gers midfielder named Ian Durant. Remember him? He was Scotland's best young player in the late '80s until his career was curtailed; was never the same after that tackle.
I was only at Pittodrie once, but oh what a day it was. The final day of the 1986-87 season when the Blues beats Aberdeen to win the league. Graeme Souness' first season as 'Gers manager. That day--before, during and after the match--was one of the greatest sporting days of my life.
Tend to focus most of my attention on the Scottish national team these days, as well as Toronto FC, the MLS sqaud we have up here. But I have many fond days of freezing my ass off on the terracing with my pals at Ibrox and numerous other dumps in the late '80s.
Eyebone