Sam Jones on the Daily Kickoff fom MLS, the o is in the shape of a whistle being blown, clearly blows it with his comparison of the recent goal by Tyler Adams to that of not only Paul Calaguri all those years ago. Yes, it really is his fault even though he was not born as yet. Odd how he states "It's not quite CONCACAF, but still seemed pretty important." Psst, Sam, the first "C" only is in caps now.
Somehow he also felt the need to disparge Tyler, stating this monumental goal was scored "During study aboad program". This is how a great young player is considered to be making his mark and money, during a study program. Despite having his admitted "East Coast Bias his entire life", Sam makes such a claim of an East Coast player?
His claim of "Yesterday we saw the single most important goal scored by an American male in the history of the sport", rings hollow to me. Then, he goes on to reference a goal in 1930, I would guess the first of the brace by Patenaude, later, 76 years later re-scored as a hat trick, the first in World Cup history, which put the US through to the semis of the first World Cup. Given the one struck by Paul sent the US through to the World Cup, a far bigger series of games than Champions League and is it no longer Country over Club? I feel he did get the proverbial 2 birds with 1 stone. Going on to further dig this hole for himself, going on to inform. It "feels bigger. Because, ya know, people could actually see it on a television". I and many others were actually watching ESPN back in 1989, seems he fully overlooked this goal of monumental importance. Feel free to let me know on the Facebook page of Soccer Long Island Magazine should I be wrong, over reacting or spot on. It does bother me to go hard on so young of a writer, but this did not sit well with me whatsoeve.