New Home!

It brings me great sorrow to announce the end of Out for a Throw.  Don't fret though, there is a new website you can go to.  YanksSoccer.com is the my new site about American Soccer and I hope you will visit it and enjoy it.  Feel free to bookmark it so you don't forget it or join up with one of our RSS feeds. 

USA Demolishes Barbados

As many of you know, USA began their World Cup Qualifying campaign with a 8-0 win over Barbados.  The result puts nothing in doubt when the US go to Barbados next weekend.  If you missed the game, here are the highlights:

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World Cup Qualifying Results

Yesterday was an action packed day of World Cup Qualifying.  Both CONMEBOL and CONCACAF held qualifying matches yesterday.  SBI put up a good report of the action and I'll send you out to him for the details, but there were some major shocks to say the least.  Enjoy the football today and leave your comments below.

Awesome Turkey Come Back from Dead to Advance to the Quarterfinals

Turkey rallied from a two goal deficit in the final fifteen minutes to oust the Czech Republic from Euro 2008.  Turkey looked dead and buried after goals from Jan Koller and Jaroslav Plasil but the Turks refused to lay down and concede the game.  

The young Turkish winger Arda Turan forced a tenuous final fifteen minutes when he finished Hamit Altintop's centering ball to the lower corner.  Peter Cech got finger tips on it but could only deflect it onto the post and the ball rolled in to the net.  

Turkey continued to press and received a fortuitous tally in the 87th minute.  Peter Cech went up to collect an ordinary cross but fumbled the ball into Nihat's run and the Villareal man finished to send the Turkish fans into rapture.  

The first ever group stage penalty shootout seemed imminent but Nihat was not finished.  The Czech Republic gave the ball away to Tuncay who sent the ball into Nihat's run.  Nihat sent a bending ball from eighteen yards to the top corner over an onrushing Peter Cech.  The ball bent down into the crossbar and bounced into the goal.  

Turkish fans went crazy and some of them could not believe their side had come back in such dramatic fashion.  This game will surely go down as one of the most fantastic games in Euro history.

Turkey is set to play Croatia who clinched the top spot in group B in the quarterfinals.  

What did you think of today's exciting match?  Did Turkey deserve the win?  Were the Czech's unfortunate and unlucky?  Leave your thoughts in the comment section. 

Scolari Moved to Chelsea because of the Cash

Luiz Felipe Scolari, esteemed coach of Portugal, and soon to be manager of Chelsea admits that the cash brought him to Stamford Bridge.  Scolari said "money mattered" in his decision to join Chelsea, and if we know Chelsea, we know that Scolari isn't going to leave a poor man.  He also said he hopes to retire in four or five years.  Scolari also revealed that Portugal's football federation wanted to keep him on, but they were not able to match the money that Chelsea was offering.  He also spoke about the concerns that he wouldn't adequately be able to communicate with some of his players.  "I speak English with my players, I speak German, I speak Italian... don't worry, the language of football is only one."  It sounds like Scolari has a firm grasp on his new job, and I cannot wait to see where he can take Chelsea FC.