Best Western City Park Hotel Melbourne

After a grueling 15 hour flight out of LAX we arrived safely into Melbourne at 8 am. Unfortunately, to combat jetlag we had to stay awake and try to go to bed at a "normal time." It is now 830 pm and I am struggling terribly to keep my eyes open, so bare with me on this first blog entry! Not wasting any time in getting into the appropriate footy mood--immidiately after arriving and checking in to our hotel we got to head over to the Telstra Dome to take in a professional match between the Ade...

I am back, and I have finally gotten over the jet lag. The last couple days, and especially today, have been fantastic. We have had two-a-day footy sessions mixing tactical work with skills work. It's an interesting dilemma trying to get used to players you only see a handful of times a year. That's actually one advantage some of the smaller countries (including tomorrow's opponent Denmark) have on the larger countries. The small countries send their representatives from fewer clubs, so there...

Well mission one has been completed with a victory for the US Revolution. There is a full write up here: http://www.worldfootynews.com/article.p hp/20080827221008771 Overall I was very pleased with our team as things seemed to gel very nicely. It was a pleasure to play in the forward line. I got to work with two veteran players who both had very good games. My teammates Brandon and Donnie from the San Diego Lions both had good games in defense only allowing one goal for the entire game which ...

Today was used as both a recovery day from yesterday's victory and a preparation day before our match tomorrow against China. China lost their first match to S. Africa 146-0. I'm not sure this is an indication of S. Africa being that good or China being that bad. This is China's first International Cup, but we have made sure not to look past them to the big battle with South Africa that's looming on Monday. I have been given the day off which I will probably be thankful for in the week to com...

Sorry I have not written much lately. Half of it had to do with limited internet access. The other half had to do with our disappointing results that I didn't really want to talk too much about. After tough losses to South Africa and Nauru we bounced back and finished strong with a big win over Japan. Personally my match versus Japan was a microcosm of my entire tournament. I started strong kicking 2 goals in the first quarter, but also took a kick to the thigh that gave me a Charlie horse (c...