Landycakes and Maradona

Footage from a training session of Bayern Munich, focused on Landon Donovan:

http://www.eyep.tv/1.-bundesliga/fc-bayern-munchen/fc-bayern-munchen-landon-donovan-im-fokus.html

You may as well skip the first 10 minutes, as it is all stretching drills. After that they have a good game of 5v5. Landon looks good! I think his move to Europe is becoming more and more of a possibility, whether he winds up with Munich or if he goes to the Premiership or La Liga. The only stumbling block I see is that the Galaxy seem pretty intent on keeping him ("Landon will be with us next season"), and it would be just such a typical MLS/Galaxy thing to do should they prevent Landon from moving (probably they would spout some crap about how he doesn't need to go overseas to improve... Yeah, ok.)


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Anyways, moving on to one of the greatest players of all time. In light of his recent appointment as Argentina's manager, here is an excellent video of the skills and goals of Diego Maradona: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBpu-M6kXCk

Some of those are breathtaking. You just don't really see stuff like that in modern football (outside of the brilliance of Messi and [maybe 2 years ago] Ronaldinho). Maradona made goals out of nothing, he took on entire teams all by himself with some pretty unbelievable runs, and he jump-kicked like 3 different guys in that one fight midway through the video.


I know there is a whole lot more to write about at the present, but I'm real busy and can't really do it yet. Maybe Thanksgiving break will allow me the time to catch up.