MLS Cup Articles For The Crew (Tuesday Edition)

Image from Goal.com article, link below.

Schmid leads Columbus to MLS Cup Game.

Interesting quote: "I grew up in Southern California and the Galaxy were the first professional team I coached," said Schmid, a native of Germany. "(I thought) that I would have a tenure with the Galaxy like (Sir Alex) Ferguson's had at Man United or (Arsene) Wenger has had at Arsenal. You would have hoped it would have gone on like that. Along the way that didn't happen."

How about we try that in Columbus instead? And, HSG is idiotic if they don't sign Sigi to another tenure. It will be the difference between trophies and more mediocrity. But, mediocrity is probably cool with them if they can save a buck.

Rested and Ready for MLS Cup

Interesting quote: "Obviously, the more rest you can get is better for you,” Crew defender Frankie Hejduk, 34, said during Monday’s conference call. “Of course, all the travel does affect you. But there can be a positive — you get to bond with the guys on your team. The negative is that some guys get tired. I guess we’ll find out next year."

Article talks about how the Crew and the Red Bulls will now be thrust into the Champions League and Superliga hooplah next year.

Chemistry Key to Crew

Interesting quotes: “I think a big reason we have had the type of season we have had this year is because there’s been a team atmosphere around here all year,” said Hejduk in an MLS teleconference. “There are no superstars or egos on this team.”

"We just had an all-around attitude where at different points in the season, someone has stepped up and been a leader, and it’s been the whole team at one point or another,” the 34-year-old USA international said. “We’ve been an incredibly balanced team both offensively and defensively and Sigi [Schmid] has instilled that in us all year long. He truly believed that we could be here.”

Schmid and Frankie MLS Cup Interview Transcript

Interesting quote: "Q. Wanted to ask, Coach, if you think it's an unfair label to say that you guys are the offensive team in this game and they are the defensive team?

COACH SCHMID: I don't know if you can say that. I know that Juan Carlos takes a lot more notes during a game than I do. I think you can say that."


I'm working on a plan, busy bee!

Q. How important was it to have the Chicago game at home?

A. From Frankie: "I'll comment on that, too. I think for us it's incredibly important to be at home during the playoffs. And that's the reason why you play the whole year for it and try to win that Supporter Shield is to get that home field advantage, because I think more so in the conference final than anything else, it helps out because you have that one game and that one game's at home, a little bit less so in the first round, because it's a game away and a game at home and anything can happen.

But when you have that one game just at your home and you've been playing the way we've been playing at home all year with the support we've had from our fans, I think it makes a huge difference. Like Sigi said that north deck section has just been absolutely incredible for us as a team, because they're there before the game a couple hours. They're there during the game. They're pumping us up emotionally before the game, during the game and after the game. We've really created this bond with them.

And they've had to deal with a lot of come backs this year. So they've believed in us. They never stop singing for us throughout the whole game. And it's a reason why I think we've had a lot of come from behind victories we've never had that never say die attitude or never give up attitude because they were believing in us and we were believing in them and we didn't want to let them down so I think it was a huge advantage especially in that game because any time you go down in a game that big, some people start to get nervous or you start to doubt yourself.

At no point in that game did we doubt ourselves that we weren't going to come back. And that's just speaking honestly. Because we came into the locker room. Normally you come into the locker room going down at halftime at home. Guys are screaming what are we doing here, what are we doing there?

That game we came in like Sigi was calm, all the guys were calm. We all knew that in the back of our minds that we were going to come back. Because we've done it so many times. We've done it away from home, at home and obviously at home we knew we were going to have the support of our crowd there. And we came out and scored two goals in five minutes and it just it was just something that we had connected with us and the fans and everyone in that stadium that we just knew we were going to come back."

TFC FANS GET HOPE OUT OF A NEW YORK-COLUMBUS FINAL.

UFC: SIGI vs. BUSCH, Post match Busch comments.