Manchester’s New Jersey Connection

The Man­ches­ter Derby could mean more this year for Amer­i­can fans

The start of the new EPL Cam­paign is just weeks away and today we saw first­hand that Clau­dio Reyna still has it as he scored the only goal in a 1–0 Man City win ver­sus Brad­ford in a friendly. Across town how­ever, it was another New Jer­sey native mak­ing news. Sir Alex Fer­gu­son who has been tak­ing bul­lets from departed striker Ruud Van Nis­tel­rooy announced that Man Yoo is ready and will­ing to exper­i­ment with 18 year old New Jer­sey native Giuseppe Rossi up front. The prob­lem for fans of the Amer­i­can game is that Rossi wants to play his inter­na­tional foot­ball for Italy and wants no part of the USA National Team. Con­sid­er­ing Rossi is a pos­si­ble Man Yoo starter at such a young age, chances are Italy will call him up soon for a full national cap and thus end our Amer­i­can dream.

I’m out­right biased because I am a Man City fan ( I even got my new home kit with the white sleeves in the mail this week!) but it will be nice for those of us that love Amer­i­can soc­cer if Cap­tain Amer­ica and his squad can upset Man Yoo and Guiseppe ( US Soc­cer is not good enough for me) Rossi this year in the derby matches.