| TFC Warns Families About Fraudulent Scouts |
| Toronto Sun: Toronto FC officials are warning young soccer players and their parents to be aware of Internet scammers seeking to profit from the team's growing popularity. Also: TFC's most promising young player --17-year old Abdus (Ibee) Ibrahim -- has been named to the U.S. under-20 national team. |
| Huckerby's Heart Remains With The Canaries |
| Eastern Daily Press (Norfolk, England): The funny thing about talking to Darren Huckerby is that what he says hasn't changed at all: he still says "we" when he talks about Norwich City. There's no trace of an affected California accent, no hint of a new-found friendship with David and Victoria, nothing to suggest that surf's up and everyone's off to the beach. Huckerby, you will be pleased to know, appears to be the same Huckerby who left us in the summer, bound for San Jose and a new challenge in Major League Soccer. |
| Fired Lalas Finally Speaks Out On Galaxy |
| Los Angeles Times: Alexi Lalas, surfacing in public for the first time since being fired in August as the Galaxy's president and general manager, took a few shots of his own on Thursday night. |
| David Beckham's Style Fits Badly With Milan Chic |
| London Times: To the exhaustive CV of Fabio Capello, the England manager, can be added another main skill: that of master salesman. For if David Beckham truly was taken on by AC Milan after recommendations from Capello, this is a man who will never be short of career opportunities in the high street if it does not work out for him at the World Cup finals in 2010. |
| Soccer Talk |
| St. Louis Post Dispatch: Jeff Cooper, who is trying to bring an MLS team to the St. Louis area, joins readers at 11 a.m. Wednesday in a live chat and answers questions about his project. |
| If Toronto FC Wants To Improve Its Product On The Field MLSel Will Have To Open The Vault And Sign A Designated Player |
| Toronto Sun: To designate, or not to designate, that is the question? Sounds poetic but, according to reports, that question already has been put to the board of directors at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd., and will be voted on next Monday -- whether or not Toronto FC needs and will be allowed to pursue a designated player for next season. Also: MLSEL's interest in acquiring GolTV. |
| Chat With Jeff Cooper |
| ESPN: Welcome to The Show! On Thursday, prospective MLS owner Jeff Cooper will stop by to chat about his potential team in St. Louis. |
| Beckham To Join AC Milan On Loan In January |
| Yahoo: David Beckham will join AC Milan on loan from Los Angeles Galaxy in January after the deal was sealed with his lawyers, the Serie A club said on Thursday. |
| Sounders Land Their Star, Freddie Ljungberg |
| Seattle Times: The rave green Sounders FC jersey presented Tuesday to the club's high-profile new player, Freddie Ljungberg, seemed appropriate. |
| Literally A Hollywood Story |
| Yanks Abroad: One third of the way through his initial season in Germany's second division, former UCLA player and Hermann Trophy finalist Matt Taylor has successfully made the jump overseas and is enjoying a resurgence with his new club TuS Koblenz. |
| Soccer Saboteurs At ESPN? |
| Soccer America: So the Beckham saga — if that's what it is — staggers on, Failure after failure, mistake piled upon mistake, a farcical sequence of laughable bumblings and ineptitudes that have long since blotted out the basic fact that Beckham came here to play soccer and — his words — to help "make the sport as popular here as it is in the rest of the world." |
| M.L.S. Says Beckham Can Go, On One Condition |
| New York Times: If David Beckham goes on a short-term loan to A.C. Milan (and that is still a big if), he will return next year in time to begin training with the Los Angeles Galaxy, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber said. Also: Red Bulls make the playoffs over DC United. |
