Bring It On Red Devils

I really want to see how Manchester United is going to host Arsenal this season. I am a huge EPL fan, and although currently I don’t have cable to watch the EPL games, but I follow them online. This Sunday, Arsenal will be hosted by Manchester United, a game which is hard to predict. Arsenal is doing great this year. They haven’t lost a single game and have had only a couple of ties. Last week, they tied Liverpool at Liverpool’s stadium, but they gave Liverpool a hell of game. They had over 60% of possession with more shots on target and a couple of missed chances. Arsenal remains on top of EPL table right now, even having played one less game.

Manchester United on the other hand has a good record of beating Arsenal. They ended Arsenals winning streaks back in 2004 by and they won the EPL season last year. They have phenomenal players such as C. Ronaldo, Rooney, and others. Also they have home advantage with very fanatic die hard fans.

Even though this game is going to be hard to predict, but I will predict a tie. Arsenal’s coach is fully aware of Manchester United and their strength and their weaknesses. I believe he will come in the game trying to contain the game with goal of grabbing a point therefore a tie but soccer ball is round and can do at any direction so don’t be surprised if this game results turns out completely different than expected.

Also if you haven't noticed already, I prefer Arsenal over Manchester United. So I be cheering for Arsenal wearing my Arsenal jersey this weekend. And don’t forget you can get your your favorite soccer jersey from our online soccer store, Soccer Nation.

Brasil 2014: Going to Brazil

According to Associated Press Soccer World cup 2014 was awarded to Brazil, or should I say Brasil. I have never attended a single world cup game. Not even in 1994 world cup when the tournament was here in LA. I was too young and tickets were too expensive and no family member was willing to take me to the games.

I missed out big time on that world cup and I regret it day by day. In 1998 world cup that was hosted by France, there was also no chance of me being able to make that one either because it was right in middle of my college years where I was on limited budget and my entire focus was to transfer from the community college I was attending to a real four year school. So I let that one go, and in 2002 world cup which was hosted jointly by Japan and South Korea, there was no way in the hell a college graduate like me would have any chance of making it. I was too busy looking for job.

In the most recent world cup, the Germany 2006 world cup the opportunity was there for me to go to those games. All my favorite players were there, most of them one last time to play in this world great sporting event. My brother, my cousin, and their friends were able to make it to that world cup but I ended up doing something even cooler. My fiance and I opened Soccer Nation, our very own soccer store in San Diego county in city of Vista.

We were watching the soccer games lives while selling the jerseys and we did have a blast. It was a great feeling and it felt like we were part of that world cup. We were among a very few stores that still had many world cup team soccer jerseys in stock and that helped us with our popularity.

2010 World will probably be out of reach for my us. I am not sure if South Africa is a country my fiance and I want to visit. Also we will probably be super busy during that time too. But 2014 world cup, which will be hosted in Brazil will be a goal for us. We both love Brazil, specially my fiance. She knows some Portuguese and loves Brazilian music and culture. I like the country too specially their culture and love for soccer for them is "a national passion".

Nike Buys Umbro!

There was much talks going on Umbro future considering their financial ups and downs and, as I predicted Umbro got bought out by Nike. $582.2 million was the amount of take over for 61% of the share.
It seems Nike are Adidas are competing even in buying out other brands. A couple years ago, Reebok was purchased by Adidas and now Umbro was purchased by Nike.

The future of Umbro is still unclear, but I predict that Umbro will stick around to reach out to more old school customers that Nike could not. Also I see England National teams and few others changing their brands to Nike!

San Diego is Burning - Day 5

Radio stations have returned to their normal programming and the city mayor is taking credit for incredible job has been done but fire is nowhere to be 100% contained. According to news sources, fire is only 30% contained. The fact that many residents in San Diego county are still away from their homes, and some areas, they still being ordered to evacuate, shows how serious the fire threat still exists.

Sure the air quality was much better and many in San Diego were sleeping better last night but fire is still there and threatens lives and homes of many, so let's focus on it until it is absolutely 100% out! We need to pray for God's help for better and more humid weather conditions because it seems that we humans, despite all of our technological advances, are still despaired when dealing with the most primitives of natural, Fire!

San Diego is Burning - Day 4

We are in day 4 of San Diego fires and it is still burning the San Diego county. A good portion of Rancho Santa Fe, where Bill Gates and a bunch of other rich people have a house there, has been burned. But those people are least of my concern right now. Many of them don't live there anyway. That is their San Diego vacation home. They probably have crazy insurances too that probably make money off this fire.

My concern is for ordinary people who work hard daily to maintain their only homes. It's true that FEMA , State and Federal government have stepped in with financial help, and the governor's spoke person assured that they will make insurance companies pay up to what they have promised, but I still foresee a lot of unforeseen problems.

Also more sad news, more people have died from the fire. Today they found two more dead body.

By the way Bush is town "inspecting" the damages...no comment on that...not yet at least !

San Diego is Burning

San Diego county, my home, is in major fire crisis. More than half million people have been evacuated from their homes and many other cities have been ordered mandatory or volunteer evacuation. This includes three cities around where I live.


I could not make it to work yesterday, 78 and 5 freeway were jammed, and there was a volunteer evacuation in easter city of Vista where I live at the moment. This morning before leaving to work, there was a layer of ashes on my truck and windshield which I cleaned. Big dark cloud overshadowed the entire county and air pollution was pretty bad making it hard to breath. Elders, families with infants, and people with asthma and breathing problems were suggested to leave San Diego County to Orange County Shelters particularly the ones in San Clemente.

Hundreds of homes have been burned to ashes, and so far has been more than 5 deaths. Fire is not really slowing down because of extreme Santa Ana winds and dry and hot conditions which appears is going to last a few more days.

The fire has broken out in more than 10 places in the entire county, making the firefighters exhausted to the point that their main goal is to saves lives and few buildings and homes here and there but they have no hope in putting out the fire without help of mother nature, or as I believe it God!

It's interesting that how despaired we humans are in response to natural disasters, despite all of technological advances! Are we simply incapable to come up with better technology to cope with such natural disasters or our leaders and politicians are simply too busy with their agendas? Don't get me wrong, they have responded well to these fires but isn't prevention a better solution?