FCD Leaves for Trinidad and Hislop Tribute Cup
November 28th, 2007 . 1:08 pm . By: Buzz CarrickFC Dallas loaded up the bus, headed for the airport, and then Port of Spain today to play two exhibition games in the Shaka Hislop Tribute Cup, which honors the recently retired FCD and Trinidad and Tobago national team goalkeeper. FCD helped fill out the tournament buy getting Brazilian-partner Clube Atletico Paranaense to join in the small tournament. Both CAP and FCD will play a team of all-Trinidad players and a second team consisting of up foreign players from the TT Pro League. According to FCD, along with the matches, FC Dallas and Atletico Paranaense will each conduct separate clinics for kids on Thursday afternoon. On Saturday, representatives from FCD, CAP, the TT Pro League, and each of the 10 TT Pro League clubs will hold a meeting to share business practices and player development ideas and philosophies. In addition to the travel squad of players and staff FCD is sending, 3rd Degree is also proud to announce that we will be hitting the road on Thursday to cover FC Dallas while down in Trinidad. This will be the 5th time 3rd Degree has traveled to cover the team in a foreign country and to the best of our knowledge we remain the only media outlet to ever do so. Since we didn’t make the brazil trip this spring we decided to jump onto this post season tournament as a minor replacement. Plans are also underway to try and accompany FCD to what we assume to be their likely destination of Brazil in late February or early March. As always we are more than happy to accept donations to help facilitate our travel since this website operates at a loss. FC DALLAS TRAVELING ROSTER:Goalkeepers: Ray Burse, Dan Kennedy (Guest Player). Information on Guest PlayersJamie Watson is a former Generation adidas player and US U18 who has recently been let go by Real Salt Lake. Jamie is from the Dallas area and is a forward/wide midfielder. Dan Kennedy is a keeper from UC Santa Barbara with good size and skills. He has played for both the MetroStars and then the Puerto Rico Islanders where he was named 2005 USL rookie of the year. Martin Pautasso is Argentine right-back most recently with AEK Athens and currently a free agent. Pautasso started his career with CA Banfield and has played with Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata and CA Independiente before joining AEK. MATCHES:Friday, Nov. 30 FC Dallas vs. TT Pro League Foreign All-Stars (6 p.m. Local Time, 4 p.m. CT) Sunday, Dec. 2 Atletico Paranaense vs. TT Pro League Foreign All-Stars (2 p.m. Local Time, 12 p.m. CT) 8 Comments Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI Leave a comment |
Thanks Buzz. Glad to hear you’ll be on the road again. I’m in on donation help as always, and encourage the regular readers here to help out as well.
Pls post (or email privately) your mailing address for us low-techies that still write checks.
Have fun in T & T, I have always enjoyed the away coverage very insightful. Missed last years since you couldn’t go. Any word on how close Saragosa & Ruiz are to their green cards yet?
Thanks Cai. email sent.
David, no word yet but I haven’t asked in a while. I’ll try to remember to do so.
Buzz, I appreciate your covering to team but this seems like a waste of your resources unless it’s just a vacation. Nothing will happen that will effect next season, many players are missing and most on the trip will not be back with fcd next year. Enjoy the sun and surf though.
On the contrary, FCD will only be missing Serioux and Ricchetti… maybe Sala. Ruiz and Gbandi are both odds on to not be around next year. Alvarez… A couple of the kids like Mccarty and Wallace. But this gives me a chance to evaluate the left over pieces. Saragosa, Cooper, & Mina and their progress… A trialist or two, scout some of the players of CAP and the T&T league just as Morrow is doing. See how the attempt at 3 at the back goes. It’s going to be a fascinating weekend.
Buzz – I too would like your mailing address.
I’ll just post it then.
Buzz Carrick
4701 Preston Park Blvd. #1918
Plano, Texas 75093
Awesome……we now know where you live!!!!!
JK
Anyway, enjoy the trip and I look forward to your thoughts and observations. (as always)
I’ll send ya some money too in a couple of weeks.
Dan