Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Random info

The Galaxy's Pete Vagenas is colorblind.

Reading and US national team regular Bobby Convey is partially blind in one eye.

The Galaxy's Alan Gordon's nickname, "Gordo" means "fat" in Spanish.

Chivas USA's Brad Guzan's nickname, "El Gusano" means "the worm" in Spanish.

Neither player really speaks Spanish, though Guzan is pretty decent at ordering his defenders around in the language.

He admitted to getting a little confused a few times when called into the national team camp last year, yelling, "Fuera!" (out) to his defenders before realizing they all spoke English.

The two players named Ante in the league share Croatian heritage, play in the same city, but claim different nationalities. The Galaxy's Ante Jazic is Canadian, while Chivas USA's Ante Razov is American.

Peter Nowak, Razov's former teammate with the Chicago Fire, called Razov, "Antonovitch" when Razov dropped by to visit the U.S. training camp.

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