Happy Birthday to Nap!

The lady we call "Nap" is celebrating her birthday today.  Happy birthday captain!  We hope you enjoy your day.

Should we sign this player?

We've been in this business for 13 years now.  You don't get that far without planning for the future.  I think we need to sign this prospect to our squad.  Sure, it will be years before he can make the first team, but we should make the investment now.  Who is with me?



Read more about him here.

Play pick up!

Bless Nate, he's doing everything he can to motivate people to get in soccer shape before the season starts.  We need it folks.  We have a history of starting slow.  What would you give to change that?

The key is touching the ball often and keeping yourself fit by playing and cross-training.  You should be doing that now.

Nate has looped everyone in on weekly pickup games on Sunday mornings, 10:00 a.m., in the new Long Bridge Park near Crystal City.  Last week, I believe Nate, George, Carlos, and Chris N. were there.  I may join in this week. 

Until last night, I had been dormant for weeks.  I played in a really competitive pick up game.  I had some off moments, but I did launch a left-footed bending long ball that resulted in a score.  My best pass in years.  Let's see if I can do it again on opening day.

About Facebook

Interesting fact: Facebook is looking to tap the private capital markets to grow its gargantuan business, targeting an initial public offering of $75-100 billion.  As noted in the Economist, that market capitalization would exceed Boeing's.

But I'm not a financial analyst, nor do we, as soccer players, care about that.

I just wanted to explain what I did on Facebook yesterday.  Facebook is archiving all old-style groups, such as our Goleros Soccer Club group.  Before that occurred, I wanted go ahead and delete it.  We never used it and I decided, for now, that the privacy implications weren't worth it.  Even though we are one of the few teams out there with a website, we still take reasonable steps to keep a low profile.  Our blog isn't readily searchable (as configured) and we try to keep personally identifiable information to a minimum.  The one issue we had was with Facebook.  The existence of the Facebook group did show up in Google search results, for example.

Anyway, that should change pretty quickly.  Our group is deleted and, even before I did that, I toggled the privacy settings to remove it from search.

Facebook is a powerful tool but I don't think we need it for our purposes. 

I am always listening if you have thoughts on how to organize the Goleros in the virtual world!