Friday 1/05

Franklin Munoz
January 05, 2024

🆕🗓️⚽️ Happy Friday crew. The fight for 1.5 billion viewers. This year, we hope you bring the same energy to the table as the MetLife Stadium officials are bringing. It’s been reported that they are making another push in order to host the World Cup Final in 2026 and have plans to remove 1,740 seats in order to meet FIFA requirements. MetLife stadium is going head to head against AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX and both stadiums seem to be highly motivated to host the biggest game in the world.

Giveaway: Wake up and smell the coffee. Just in time for the Holidays, our next giveaway will be a $30 gift card for our favorite coffee brand- Kickoff Coffee. As always, each friend that you refer to subscribe to the newsletter is an entry to our raffle. Best of luck!

International Tournaments
Premier League Teams To Miss Key Players During AFCON and AFC Asian Tournaments

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🚫📅 New year, new International Tournament. This year, we will be blessed by plenty of International play and while this is great news for us fans, teams will have to manage without some of their key players. Mohamed Salah and Heung-min Son are some of the most notable absences just when the league is heating up. Salah will be representing Egypt the the Africa Cup of Nations tournament while Son will be representing South Korea in the AFC Asian Cup.

The tournaments run roughly during the same dates ending on February 11th and Liverpool and Tottenham are not the only teams that will be missing some key players during this time.

Check out the full list of players here

La Liga
Girona Are Here To Fight For The Title

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🏆🤺 Did we just witness La Liga's game of the Season? Girona’s stadium is relatively small when it comes to professional club standards, and a lucky crowd of 15,000 fans witnessed their home team take on Atletico Madrid and battle to win 4-3. Many people (us including) are waiting to see Girona trip up and fall back to earth, but their impressive form continues on. The Catalan club are a joy to watch, they put pressure on their opponents from the first whistle, as evidenced by the 2nd minute goal by Valery Fernandez. Atletico Madrid are no easy match, as their known for being tough defensively but have also improved their form in attack as well.

Alvaro Morata is having a comeback season, scoring a hat-trick against Girona, and totaling 12 goals this season so far, just one goal behind Bellingham. The back and forth play during this match was absolutely thrilling to watch, you could tell that neither team wanted to start the year with a loss, but with the risks both sides were taking, one had to lose.

Check out the highlights here

Quick Bites 🍕

NWSL Portland Thorns Sells for $63 Million

The Bhathal family are on the move again. The family was part of RAJ sports that purchased the Sacramento Kings back in 2013 and have now purchased the Portland Thorns for a league record $63 million.

Check out the full article here

From Manchester City to the Mile High City

Zack Steffen played as a University of Maryland goalkeeper before making his way across the pond to Germany. Since then, he has been back and forth between Europe and Stateside, with the latest move being back home to the Colorado Rapids.

Read the transfer news here

Grading Each Team In The Premier League So Far

CBS Sports has given out their Premier League midseason grades. The league so far has been the most even we have seen it in years, with Aston Villa giving the surprise performance of the season sitting in second place behind Liverpool.

Check out the grades here