Thursday News Roundup
By: Martha | January 25th, 2007
•You may not have heard, but old man Reyna is now a Red Bull. He’s taking one of the team’s designated players slots and is tickled to bits to be playing near his childhood home, and reunited with Bruce Arena, who was his college coach. Because, when you come right down it, all anyone wants to do is pretend to be 18 again, especially when our joints feel older than God and it hurts when we walk. Or maybe I’m projecting.
•Abbe Ibrahim, who essentially vanished in 2005 after some small work permit issues, no longer has to get cleared to work in the US because his right have been traded to Toronto. That’s the end of that, then.
•Former Red Bull Gabriel Ferrari was on the bench for Sampdoria again yesterday to watch his team be thrashed by Inter Milan. He’s not yet appeared in a senior game, but for a kid signed expressly to join Samp’s youth set-up, even getting on the team sheet is an accomplishment. And surely he’ll see the field sometime this week as his team is sacrificed yet again on the altar of Inter’s absurdly good season.
•Twice-capped defender Todd Dunivant is the lone Red Bull called into undefeated USMNT coach Bob Bradley’s training camp for the February 7 death match friendly against Mexico.
•Not Red Bulls-specific, but it’s New York and it’s soccer, so close enough: I found out while listening to the Knicks’ game last night that Earl Monroe was a soccer player well before he ever picked up a basketball. Who the hell knew? I bet he was one of the celebs who flocked to the Cosmos locker rooms back in the day. That’s something I’d love to have seen — Kissinger, Mick Jagger, and the Pearl, all kissing Giorgio Chinaglia’s ass.
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