America, America, America

America, America, America, when are you going to learn? Club America from Mexico, A.K.A my favorite team, just signed a new coach, the fifth one in the last two years. America is the 2nd team with most championships in Mexican soccer history with 10, just behind arch rivals Chivas with 11. Believe or not America is in that place even though they have only won two championships in the last twenty years. The whole team has been a disaster since 2005, which was the year the last championship was won. They keep bringing foreign players that cost millions of dollars who don't really help at all. As a fan I would prefer for the team to give a chance to young players who really love the team rather than keep giving this has beens all these millions of dollars. The problem is not the coaches, It's the owner. The billionaire owner, Emilio Azcarraga, who also owns Mexican TV giant Televisa does not care about the team because he only cares about the money. Money does not buy championships, good players and better owners do.

Guest speaker on Thursday's class

On Thursday we had a special guest speaker in our class, Dylan Smith editor of tucsonsentinel.com was in our class. He created this site because he wanted a local online paper. Dylan alongside a bunch of his co workers were laid off from the Tucson Citizen and decided to create this independent non profit news site. The site is up thanks to donations. According to Dylan 99 percent of the people that work for the site do not get paid, they have a second job or live from their savings. The site welcomes any new writers that would like to volunteer. For more information on how the site works and how you can get to write for them, please visit http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/

Chicharito scores twice in his return to the starting lineup

This past Saturday the Mexican forward Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez made his return to Manchester United's starting 11 in the game against Bolton Wanderers. Chicharito scored twice after he was out for a month. Hernandez suffered a concussion during a training session while his club was in the United States playing some preseason games. These are Chicharito's first two goals of his second season at United. He comes a dream-like first season with the club after scoring 20 goals. Manchester United's next game is home on Sunday against Championship contenders Chelsea. This will be an important test to see where the team really is in the beginning of the sesaon.

Fall Movie Preview

Another thing I like to do besides playing soccer in my spare time is going to the movies, who doesn't right? But something I definitely do not like is leaving the theater feeling like i just wasted 10 bucks. I believe that before going to the movies one should read a couple of reviews of the movie you plan on watching or you can leave the theater feeling like you have been robbed. On the bottom of the post I have provided you with a link for a fall movie preview from Peter Travers, movie critic for Rolling Stone magazine. In the preview he gives hope to Twilight fans everywhere, even though he is not a fan of the books or previous movies, like myself. I hope you enjoy and pick your next movie wisely.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/photos/peter-travers-fall-movie-preview-20110906

Mexican national team plays in Europe

The Mexican national soccer team played a couple of games in Europe to prepare for world cup qualifying games coming up in early next year. The first game was Friday in Poland against the host country. The game ended up in a 1-1 draw. 48 hours later Mexico played again, this time in Barcelona, Spain against Chile. The game was did not have a lot of intensity considering both teams had used their starters two days earlier, Mexico against Poland and Chile against Spain. The game ended up in 1-0 victory for Mexico.
              These games were important because for many years people have wanted for Mexico to play in Europe against competitive teams. The Mexican national team always plays in the US because they feel like they are playing home and also because they get a lot of money doing it. Critics have waited a long time for games like these because they want Mexico to feel the pressure of playing against a difficult team in their home turf. Not losing these two games is a step in the right direction for the Mexican national team who will play against one of the best teams in the world, Brazil, later this year. Below are the links to watch the highlights of both games.

Mexico 1-1 Poland


Mexico 1-0 Chile

Welcome classmates

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