Greeting Soccer Fanhouse. I don't know you, and you don't know me. If you can hear me past the echo, my name's Mike and I'm a Sagittarius. No wait, I'm your new soccer blogger for this here slice of the Inter-nets. For the last couple years
I've been blogging about soccer -- the Premier League, the U.S. national team, MLS and Champions League mainly -- and now I'll bring that to FanHouse.
The timing is probably right, with the main European Leagues kicking off this past weekend.
Fittingly on a day where I kind of materialize out of the ether, young U.S. international
Maurice Edu -- last year's MLS rookie of the year at Toronto FC -- gets inked to a
surprising transfer to Scotland's Glasgow Rangers for £2.6 (roughly $5 million). This move seemed to come out of nowhere and could still be held up by U.K. work permits. Edu -- the
'FIFA 09' coverboy -- joins current U.S. international
DaMarcus Beasley at the storied club, which will not play in the Champions League -- or any European competition this season.
This comes on the heels of
Jozy Altidore's move from RBNY to Villareal a few months ago. If I were to guess FC Dallas' Kenny Cooper -- the current MLS goal scoring leader -- would be next. At least MLS recently added ex-U.S. defender Corey Gibbs and ex-Bolton youngster Johann Smith.
This should be the first of many noteworthy transfers this week before the European window closes at the end of the month. I'll stay on top of these, and whatever else seems pertinent to the soccer world as time goes by.
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A rough couple of months for American midfielder Maurice Edu might have hit a new low on Tuesday night. While going to his car after Rangers' stunning 4-1 home loss to Romanian minnows Unirea Urziceni in Champions League group play, Edu said via his Twitter page that he was racially abused by his own home fans. 
