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Welcome to The Daily. It's Tuesday, July 19th.
With Simon Borg. I'm Jason Saghini.
Some more action from the World Football Challenge last night.
Manchester City at Vancouver. Vancouver actually had a 1-0 lead into halftime.
They looked pretty good. Until Manchester City put it on in the second
half. And a phenominal goal from Shaun Wright-Phillips.
Won it for them late in the game. But in fairness.
At halftime is when the subs started rolling in.
So for Whitecaps fans. They'll be content having that 1-0 lead.
And winning the first half, if you will. On a good goal by Camilo, helped by a deflection.
Camilo playing out on the left wing. But a man of the match performance for the
Brazilian. And a great performance by Eric Hassli, as
well, up top. And Vancouver fans got to see the debut of
Mustapha Jarju. Their new designated player.
And speaking of designated players, Simon. There's some rumors now.
I guess they're not rumors anymore. Because Vancouver came out and said it.
Owen Hargreaves is on their radar. Ever since Hargreaves officially left Manchester
United. The rumors had been swirling about interest
from Toronto and Vancouver. The two MLS Canadian teams.
For the first time though, Jeff Mallett. Owner of the Whitecaps.
Comes out and says the Whitecaps are indeed interested in the 30 year old.
And it would make an interesting fit for Vancouver. Because I think they could use a guy of Hargreaves'
talent and vision. To really pair up with Gershon Koffie in the
middle of the midfield. A great player who's played for England in
the World Cup. Hargreaves has also dealt with a bunch of
knee problems. So much so that he has YouTube videos now
of his training sessions to show that he is back at full fitness.
We're going to move on, Simon. News yesterday came of the match day roster
that Hans Backe will take. To face Manchester United in the All Star
Game. Some very interesting selections by the Swedish
coach of the New York Red Bulls. But he was very respectful of the fan choices,
as well. In the first eleven, the fan choices and the
fan vote winner Matt Besler. He took him, as well.
Which was a little bit of a surprise. But he picked a lot of speedy players.
He has a plan up his sleeve in how to "hurt" Manchester United.
He's faced them in the Premiere League before. And he has a plan.
He wants to use Bobby Convey, Corey Ashe, Landon Donovan and Omar Cummings of the Colorado
Rapids. The speedy forward which he took over Charlie
Davies. Well Simon, you said he's faced them before.
He's actually 2-0. And he's the first person who will remind
you of that. We're going to move onto a couple of other
stories from yesterday. Austin Da Luz, the young left winger from
the New York Red Bulls. Gets shipped out to DC United.
This is the second half of the trade which sent an international spot to the Red Bulls
over the weekend. Austin Da Luz the "player to be named later".
Many Red Bulls fans disappointed in the move. Because they saw a lot of promise out of Austin
Da Luz. A lot of creativity and flair on that left
wing. But Austin Da Luz now moving to DC United.
And he feels in New York he wasn't getting a chance.
It's difficult for players to break into a team that wants to win now.
Alright, well that's a trade that was completed. A trade that is in the air, so to speak.
Is Kenny Cooper potentially going back to Dallas.
Schellas Hyndman coming out and saying "we have interest in Kenny Cooper".
But what is the price that Portland wants? Jason, interesting to see an MLS manager basically
admitting interest in another team's player. Kenny Cooper is a former FC Dallas player.
There were reports of FC Dallas trying to acquire him this past off season.
He's a native of Dallas. So it makes a lot of sense.
Also because FC Dallas. They've been looking for a center forward
now for a year and a half. There's a void to fill there.
Now the question is what does Portland want from FC Dallas?
There's been a lot of interest in his defenders. In his backline.
But Hyndman says hands off my back line. Alright, well we talked about that trade and
more on ExtraTime Radio yesterday. We had Hans Backe talking about the All Star
Game. We also had Ryan Giggs talking about the big
match up in Seattle for Manchester United on Wednesday night.
Should be a good one. You can get that on iTunes or Buzzsprout.
And we'll be back on The Daily tomorrow.