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Post by stokecity4eva on Jun 29, 2008 22:55:35 GMT
The Aztex have 3 games this weekend 1 friday night 1 saturday and 1 tonight (tonights is a friendly against a top mexican club hope tp has some scouts watching it)
Anyways aztex lost the 1st league game on friday 2-1 but got back to winning ways last night by winning 2-1 they are currently top of the league by 4 points with 2 games in hand of their nearest rival. With 5 games left it looks like they are going to win their divison and head into conference championships where they will hope to progress to the PDl semi finals all this during their first season in business.
Which brings me to my next point ive asked this question before and il ask it again is the american league just that easy or has phil rawlins set up a fantastic club that has attracted some really good talent, as i havent heard tony say anything about it since he got back
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Post by n01stokie on Jun 29, 2008 23:00:13 GMT
i would imagine the standard is pretty shite
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Post by mumf14 on Jun 29, 2008 23:09:59 GMT
American Football is that bad that it pays Beckham £ 50 million a year to show how good it is..
And fails.....!
Others worthy of note being..Pele,George Best,etc ...likewise.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2008 23:14:28 GMT
Even if the standard is shite, well they have to work their way up from the bottom, which they seem to be doing.
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Post by Northy on Jun 30, 2008 6:17:34 GMT
I hope a lot of good comes from it, for us. About the standard, it's a lot better than their first try in the 70's and 80's, they had Gordon Banks playing with only one eye back then  |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 30, 2008 6:28:08 GMT
I don't think the current Aztex side or the league it plays in tells us much about USL standards. The current side is an under 23 side playing in a "development" league which I think is amateur. Next season the Aztex will field a full senior professional side - as well as, presumably, continuing with the U23 side?
Having said that you can only beat the opposition in front of you and you have to say that Inchy and the U23 coach (whose name escapes me) have given the club an excellent start and Phil R will be delighted and optimistic I should think. You'd assume that players considering joining the Aztex senior set up will look at how the U23 side are doing and be impressed.
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Post by lordb on Jun 30, 2008 7:39:45 GMT
MLS is a respectable standard,no better or worse than most European Leagues outside of the biggies (England,Italy,Spain,Germany,France) - what it doesnt have,& may never do given the franchise system,is a flagship club who are clearly bigger than the others.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 30, 2008 7:45:24 GMT
For information, the Aztex senior side (which starts next season) will be playing in the USL not the MLS. A significant difference is that in the MSL the players are contracted to the league but in the USL they are contracted to the clubs. This may help the league to develop on lines more common in Europe as clubs will be able to develop and sell players at a profit. This is presumably one reason why a tie up with the Aztex is more attractive to Stoke than a tie up with an MLS club would be and why the Aztex could also see more benefits from the arrangement than an MLS club would.
I am grateful to Oatie poster "brief" for this insight!
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Post by kkkkken on Jun 30, 2008 9:25:14 GMT
. I attend the home games of USL side Charleston Battery .
The players for this standard are very fit but the quality of football can be woeful .
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Post by stokecity4eva on Jun 30, 2008 22:31:48 GMT
just an update on last nights friendly Aztex sadly lost 2-1 against a team what finsihed 13th in the mexican premier league last season, were watched by a record crowd of 4743 and seem to of played really well anyways heres a match report from last nights game
Aztex lose exhibition against UANL Tigres 2-1
Austin sets record with crowd of 4,743.
By Bill Oram
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, June 30, 2008
ROUND ROCK — For 48 minutes, one might have thought the Austin Aztex had a chance to score one for the little guys.
Then Blas Perez scored one for the big guys.
Perez — a forward for the UANL Tigres, a professional team from Monterrey, Nuevo León, — found an open net in the 49th minute to break a 0-0 tie, leading the Tigres in a 2-1 win over the Aztex in an exhibition Sunday night at Dragon Stadium. The crowd of 4,743 was a record for the first-year Aztex.
Francisco Acuna netted the second goal for the Tigres, with a diving header that got past Austin's Miguel Gallardo.
Austin had seven shots in the game but was stymied by Tigres starting goalkeeper Oscar Perez and backup Alfredo Talavera. Robin Martinez scored Austin's only goal in the 90th minute.
"It's very hard to score against a team like that," Aztex coach Wolfgang Suhnholz said. The Tigres roster included several players who have competed in World Cup play.
Suhnholz said he was happy the Aztex avoided the shutout. "Before the game I would have been very happy with 2-0," he said, "but 2-1 makes it that much sweeter."
The Aztex took a break from their regular season to take on the Tigres. It was an atypical game from the start, with fans in the Tigres section littering the field in the first minute with toilet paper, streamers, confetti and smoke bombs. With the Tigres leading 2-0 in the 83nd minute, a small fire broke out in the stands.
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