Former Beavers get MLS and Team USA Action
Former OSU men's team players have been all over the television lately. Bryan Jordan of the LA Galaxy was called up to the U23 national team for the Toulon International Tournament in France. Jordan played 70 minutes on national TV this month in a 1-0 loss to the Ivory Coast.

Ryan Johnson (San Jose Earthquakes) and Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake) played against each other on TV tonight. Findley came on at half-time and scored an awesome goal burning his defender to cut in from the right wing and beating the keeper near post from about 30 yards out. He added a neat one touch assist a bit later to complete his heroics for the day. Johnson who you can recognize from a mile away by his lanky strides started the game as a forward for San Jose. Salt Lake won 3-1. Here are Findley's highlights.



Euro 2008 in Corvallis
Chris, the Corvallis Sports Park pub manager has confirmed that they will be open for every televised game of the Euro 2008 competition which begins Saturday, June 7. On most days the first match is at 9:00 AM Pacific and is followed by a second 11:45 AM Pacific game. Full food and drink service will be available for the second match only. The multiple TVs will be nice when more than one game is played at the same time. Chris is hoping to have some give-aways for the tournament.

Join the "Corvallis Loves Soccer!" group on ESPN Euro 2008 Pick'em and fill out your bracket for bragging rights in Corvallis. Go to http://games.espn.go.com/euro/group?groupID=1811.

A complete schedule including TV coverage is at http://soccernet.espn.go.com/euro2008/fixtures?league=uefa.euro&date=20080601&type=month&cc=5901.

First Place for the Finale

The CFA Finale, a U16 boys team from Corvallis won the Rogue Valley Soccer Tournament held in Medford over Memorial Day weekend. They won the U16 championship by defeating Rapids 1-0. The CFA Red Hots took fourth place in the U13 girls division. CFA is a Corvallis based youth soccer club. Both teams are coached by Andrew Donaldson who is also the Crescent Valley girl's head coach.

New Assistant Coach for the Beavers
Head coach Linus Rhode has named Dane Christian as the newest addition to the Oregon State University women's coaching staff as a volunteer coach. He is married to Morgan Crabtree, who is also a new assistant coach with the women. The unique husband-wife coaching duo made me wonder at first. I can't point out any specific reasons against it. It just seems weird to me I guess. I was surprised to see that he does not have goal keeper coaching experience. That area is still a void at the moment.