Like Rich said yesterday, Stuart Holden was one of the bright spots for the U.S. out on the right flank showing the creativity the men's national team have lacked without Clint Dempsey and Charlie Davies and whipping in a few solid crosses.
Holden had also impressed his manager Owen Coyle at Bolton starting his English Premier League side's last two matches and was starting to make a name for himself after having his last stay in England cut short by an injury due to a bar fight.
However, if you watched the U.S. match yesterday with the Netherlands then you saw the horror clash he suffered with Dutch defender Nigel de Jong that forced Holden out of the game immediately.
After the match he was x-rayed and what was thought to be a deep bone bruise turned out to be a fractured fibula, which will keep him out of action for at least six weeks.
"It's disappointing for Stuart because he has come into the team and done ever so well," Coyle said in an ESPNsoccernet story . "What we do know is he will come back bigger and stronger, but it is sad for him to miss out at this moment in time.
"He's come in with a real hunger and desire to do well for our club, and in the two games he's played, we've seen his quality.
The one positive, Coyle has been so pleased with Holden's stay thus far that he has extended his contract and for the foreseeable future he will be over in England. Can someone please tell the Everton management to do the same with Landon Donovan
Other news and notes:
12 parties have informed Portsmouth they are interested in buying the club despite their recent turn for the worse going into administration this past week, which essentially forfeits all the team's games from earlier in the season and will force them to be relegated into the Championship next season - England's second-tier level of professional soccer.
Despite continued protests by the Manchester United fans, who hate their team's American owners and are trying to force them to sell the club, the Glazier family rejected an offer £1 billion-plus cash offer to sell the club to the Red Knights' movement City of London financiers.
After a pitiful display in the African Nations Cup and another poor performance yesterday that saw the Ivory Coast be upset 2-0 by South Korea, the African team's management are trying to pry away "Lucky" Gus Hiddink for the World Cup.
Hiddink, who currently is under contract with Russia and will leave that side for Turkey later in the summer, could be available because neither team qualified for the World Cup. The Dutchman is highly regarded around the world having helped 2002 host South Korea earned third place and doing the same for his home country the Netherlands in the 1998 World Cup in France.
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