CZECHO SOCCER CORNER
The United States National team player, Freddy Edu is going to Ligue 1 Club Monaco on a 1 year loan. Edu chose that move after Benfica’s coach Quique Flores said Edu doesn’t have spot guarantee on the first team roster. Edu made sporadic appearances for the club last season, scoring five goals.
2007 Uzbek league runners-up FC Kuruvchi made a serious offer to sign Barcelona’s star Samuel Eto’o. The signing will be short, for three or six months to help this club from Tashkent to win the domestic league and the Asian Champions League. A spokesman for the club said that they should know by Wednesday if Eto’o accepts their offer.
A halftime brawl at a Columbus Crew match with West Ham United on Sunday gave U.S. fans a little taste of the European soccer environment. Fans of both clubs scuffled and threw punches during what was billed as a warm-up match for Thursday’s MLS All star game. West Ham United beat Columbus Crew 3-1.
U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach had her first physical therapy Monday, after surgery last Thursday to have a titanium rod inserted in her lower left leg. Wambach broke her leg during a match against Brazil last Wednesday and is going to miss the Olympics, but hopes to return for the debut of the new Women’s Professional Soccer league in the spring.
Bayern Munich coach Jurgen Klinsmann said that striker Lukas Podolski is not for sale. The 23-year-old has been linked with a move back to his former club Cologne. But Podolski decided to stay with Bayern and had this to say “I am concentrating now fully on the season. I am looking forward to it.”
The Russian national team sensation at the Euro 2008, Andrei Arshavin may be heading to the English Premier League to join Tottenham. Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane wish to leave the club and Arshavin would fill the void. His club, Zenit St Petersburg, has been contacted but Totenham said that Zenit’s asking price of 42.8 million dollars is too high a price for the English club.
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