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Olympic Discussion / Re: Womens 100m: London 2012 Olympics competition schedule & results
« on: August 04, 2012, 03:03:27 PM »
Good try Kelly!
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The Toronto Star has it in Kingston, Jamaica
We off the hook!
We off the hook? More like you off yuh leash mih boy, the reporter was filin his report from Kingston.
http://www.youtube.com/v/o0YPy2BDs1Y
Charlie Jackson’s footwork was the thing that impressed Manchester United soccer scouts.
Of course, his ball control had likely improved with his legs freshly freed from the diapers.
Jackson was spotted by the powerhouse British side at age three, toying with his opponents in a community “Footytotz” program. But the club held off for two years before officially signing him to their development squad when he was 5 years old.
The tousle-headed tot, already touted as a potential superstar, will play with kids at least a year older than him.
But Jackson, who’s a fan of arch-rival Manchester City, had mixed feelings about the situation.
“He was mortified that he was having to train with United,” his father Andy told the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
“But he seems to be getting over that a bit now.”
The signing hits even closer to the cradle than one made last summer by Real Madrid. In August, the Spanish club inked 7-year-old Argentinian Leonel Angel Coira — who goes by the mono-moniker Leo — to their famed youth academy.
Such big time European clubs have long recruited young players.
FC Barcelona’s youth academy “La Masia,” for example, has dozens of youngsters living and playing together from the age of 11.
The team’s superstar Lionel Messi was signed by the club at 13.
Coaching and caring for kids at 10 or 11 represents a relatively low-cost gamble, with teams hoping to sell their contracts for big money when the players reach 18, 19 or 20.
But the two recent kiddy contracts may reflect the sport’s cut-throat competition, pushing clubs to lock up talent at increasingly younger ages.
Even the Toronto FC will be scooping kids up before they reach the decade mark.
The club’s new Downsview Park training facility, which opens next year, will welcome kids nine and under by the year 2014, says TFC spokesperson Mike Masaro.
Already running under-19 and under-17 training squads, the team will welcome kids under 15 in 2012 and younger than 13 the next year.
“By 2014, we want to have an under-11 and then under-9 team,” Masaro says.
Masaro says FC coaches are convinced that talent can be spotted and nurtured in kids who have not even hit their teens.
“Absolutely . . . a lot of these programs around Ontario have rep teams at different age groups and they’re getting younger and younger,” he says.
“So the talent is definitely there and when they have the ability to come into a facility and train with professionally trained coaches, of course the sky is the limit for the youngsters.”
That eh no murse, that is ah messenger bag... Where else he suppose to put the iPad?
A messenger bag is strapped over the shoulder and is rectangular/square in shape. Is ah bess flick for the city life, you aint hadda deal with an obzukky backpack and you aint hadda deal with holding a briefcase in yuh hand.
Ah murse on the other hand have straps where yuh could hold it in yuh hand or on yuh forearm like a woman. Sometimes it even shape like a handbag with buckles, buttons and the works. To see a grown ass man walking the road with that is a travesty.
PS: Glad we focusing on the crucial issues ahead of the game.
Ah fine yuh well-informed about such items.
CO-FLICKIN-SIGN
dinho has just been spotted at the team hotel in georgetown...
Bermuda is officially out.
What was the final score??
Hopefully Bermuda and Guyana draw...because it looks like Bermuda may get two wins over Barbados
I want ah bermuda win!!!
A Bermuda win will be nice but that will mean that we can't even afford to draw with Guyana, we'll have to win both games (which I hope we do). I'm not trusting Barbados to do us a favor and gain points off of Bermuda.
POS TEAM P W D L F A GD Pts
1 Guyana 3 3 0 0 6 1 5 9
2 T & T 3 2 0 1 4 2 2 6
3 Bermuda 3 1 0 2 3 4 -1 3
4 Barbados 3 0 0 3 0 6 -6 0
Judgin from d table it would be more risky if bermuda draw wid guyana yes..cuz now we would be forced tuh beat guyana in both games but if bermuda cud help we out and give guyana ah defeat both dem (guy) and us go be equal on 9pts from 4 games goin into d 2 home and away showdown...so wid dat scenario we cud afford tuh draw away and beat dem home. However if Guyana get ah point from bermuda tonite den we'll be forced tuh win both games.....so let's go bermuda!!