Blues News Archive! 
MEN'S WORLD CUP FINALS!
Hey people as you are all aware the men's world cup was being played over the past month and Italy became the world champions on July 9th in Berlin. We can only hope someone was able to tape or Tivo it for future reference? Blues News was there in person from the beginning to end as you already know so major Blues News updates have been rare...sorry about missing the decorations for the 4th of July but we do have our soccer priorities to think of. Well as luck would have it, by way of a miracle and our world wide Blues News influence we were able to obtain an elusive ticket to the final match (below right) even though in traveling to Germany we went there with a dream and without a ticket to the final. To find out how this miracle came about or better yet how it was pulled off you will have to navigate and wade through the propaganda on LD's Germany 2006 World Cup Journal and Photo Album where you can live vicariously through Blues News if you were not in Germany yourself.
We hope that all our players and parents were able to follow the tournament and caught the final. After all this was for the true championship of the world which only takes place once every four years. If you missed any of the cup you can still get updates on the cup along with a bunch of other cool, interesting, and fun stuff at the Official FIFA World Cup website. All of the games were televised in English on ESPN, ESPN II, and ABC. Who knows if you payed attention you might even have seen Blues News at the finals. Way to go Italy and PUMA.
Speaking of PUMA and their sponsorship of the Blues and Italy, did you know that our official supplier PUMA was also the supplier
for 11 other teams in the world cup? Angola, Czech Republic, Ghana,
Iran, Ivory Coast, Paraguay, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Swiss, Togo,
and Tunisia are the teams. In celebration of this PUMA kicked off a cool add campaign featuring Pele, perhaps you saw it. PUMA is selling some of the top soccer shoes in the world which
you no doubt saw this Summer on the feet of some of the world's brightest soccer
stars.
WORLD
CUP 2006 NEWS
Hey
did you guys know that we have a celebrity in our club...no not me. Emily
Goldstein auditioned last year and was selected as one of the kids to
work the Jetix Cup as a broadcaster. Last year Emily was part of a team
that actually won the Jetix World Championship and she was part of their
World Cup Broadcasting Crew conducting on the field interviews at the
Cup in Germany. Here is a photo of her conducting interviews with FC
Dallas players...rumor has it she thought the guy on the right was cute.
Click Photo To Enlarge.
TEN LUCKY BLUES MEET HEATHER MITTS
A long time Blues fan/friend in the media industry who would prefer to remain anonymous (you will have to guess who it is) recently selected ten lucky Blues to participate in a television shoot with Heather Mitts and perhaps kick off a possible career as a TV Star?
The Lucky 10 (L to R Below) Kelsey Wilson, Leigh Edwards, Jordan Marada, Carly Rivera, Taylor Canatsey, Heather (ha ha), Kari Shane, Markie Gleason, Lauren Matheson, Kylie Wright (UCLA), Morgan Skeen (University of Utah) were asked and agreed to be a part of the TV shoot at the Home Depot Center in Carson for Heather Mitts' Soccer Tips on the show "FC Fox" on Fox Soccer Channel. ("FC Fox" airs every Friday at 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. PT on Fox Soccer Channel along with re-airs throughout the week...check your local listings).
Heather has 50 caps for the U.S. Women's National Team and is a 2004 Olympic gold medallist. Heather will be shooting 10-12 short segments where she does "soccer tips" for the show and the Lucky were asked to demonstrate. Heather's bio can be found on her website at www.heathermitts.com and here is a link to her latest commercial www.underarmour.tv/goodbyegirl. Keep dreaming boys...she already has a boyfriend!
CLIMBING MOUNTAINS
We want to remind our members to consider our mission
as a club and keep it in perspective during the coming new year and
especially into this season's state cup. Our club wins many games and
championships and we are indeed proud of this. We also have times where
results on the field are hard to come by and we suffer painful losses.
While winning on the field is always a desire we don't want to be known
as a club that measures it's success purely on winning soccer games
and will leave this approach to those who do choose to do so.
While youth soccer fans can scoff at this altruistic approach, Blues News asked one of our graduating seniors to give a brief account of her "Blues Experience" in her own words and her submission was extraordinary in that it epitomizes the spirit of what we aspire to as a club.
Jacqueline Gantes is a lifetime Blues player who will graduate in the summer of 2006 to go onto Yale University along with Tournament of Roses Princess Eliza Walper; we hope you will find time to read and enjoy her piece. You know some of our nation's finest leaders have attended and graduated from Yale so you never know? Jacqueline, thank you for writing this...we love you too! Click below for story.