Recent Tragic World Soccer Developments/Caen’s “Rain Date”

By: Chris | August 29th, 2007

First off, and more importantly than any match I could ever talk about, two soccer players died this week. By now, everyone has heard the tragic story of Antonio Puerta of Sevilla and has probably seen the painful video. Another soccer player, Zambian International Chaswe Nsofwa died during practice with his team Hapoel Beersheva, an Israeli Second Division team. It is not known why he collapsed, as we know Puerta died of a heart ailment, but it was about 100 degrees on the pitch.

It really makes you think of the fragility of life and how short we really have on this earth. Regardless of your beliefs, we don’t have much time and you have to be thankful for every day that you wake up. These players are in some of the best physical shape in the world, and still they are human, like you or I. Absolutely tragic. Rest in peace my brothers. You are in God’s arms now.

I apologize for starting on such a somber note, but it absolutely had to be addressed, as many of the other bloggers have done.

Caen did not play their previously scheduled match against RC Lens today because of Lens’ tie on Thursday with BSC Young Boys of Switzerland. They will play again on September 1 against Sochaux. Sochaux is one of the few teams that are playing worse than Caen at the moment, having taken only two points from six games. Caen has three points from four games, also having a game postponed against Toulouse earlier in the season because of their Champions’ League tie against Liverpool.

Caen can really get back into the swing of things with a victory against Les Lionceaux. Les Malherbistes absolutely have to take advantage of their opportunities against more sub-par clubs like they have for the next few weeks. Caen absolutely have to take points from most of these games.

Month of September
Sochaux
St. Etienne
Metz

Month of October
Lorient
Lille
Monaco

The only game I see as being extremely hard/impossible for Caen is Monaco. all of those other teams Caen can at least draw. These next 2 months will be very telling for the squad in how they will be in the long term. Caen may have gotten off to a slow start, but our boys aren’t going down without one hell of a fight.

Allez!