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我真的覺得Gettyimages欠我們家沙夏進球的照片，這張還是isiphotos那邊的照片！！是說，我真的很愛這張！XD恰好遮住他那鬍子﹝默﹞。趁機吃沙夏豆腐的人超多﹝喂﹞，Benny Feilhaber是第一個在場邊跑去抱沙夏的﹝←嘖，我就知道...﹞，只是我到現在都還不太清楚說誰跟沙夏同寢室﹝可能是Benny或Robbie﹞，只知道Dax跟Patrick是同一間。
講到奧運開幕進場@@我看了他們拍的一些花絮照後發現北京真的很熱耶= =他們又穿長襯衫+西裝外套，我看到Mo在坐車時就索性將襯衫給脫了，Parky 則是背後一大塊全都溼透。好像是等到到了會場內後才好一點...
這幾天沙夏的新聞還真是不少﹝？﹞，我在Orange County Register Communications 這新聞網站中看到這一篇介紹沙夏的父親與他之間的事，然後就看到有人藉題發揮說假如沙夏的父親是墨西哥裔，那他現在還會在美國嗎？﹝畢竟文中提到他父親是從加美邊境偷渡進來的。﹞就開始說這當中有雙重標準在blahblah....
講雙重標準的人除了照片外，我不太喜歡去看他的文章，但某篇真的將墨西哥裔的球員捧得太誇張，反正選人這事本來就有偏見。﹝干我屁事，只要沙夏能進、Parkhurst能進、白癡沒進，剩下的看造化。﹞之前才被Ives Galarce的白癡文章弄得很火﹝說什麼Chivas USA要把Ante Razov交易出去換某人，一整個就是天方夜壇﹞，Luis Bueno就不要再讓我看了一肚子火，虧你還是幫我們家球隊Chivas USA寫新聞的。這人挺Landon Donovan也挺得很信徒，EJ跟Adu在他口中就是救世主﹝好笑。﹞
好啦不管XD下面是文章XD因為覺得這文章會留不久才....我一定要看奧運的開幕式U///U
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Against all odds
Sacha Kljestan will play soccer for the U.S. at the Olympics, the son of a father determined to come to the U.S. to build a new life.
BY SCOTT M. REID / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
CARSON There are moments — with U.S. Olympic team and Chivas USA midfielder Sacha Kljestan — there are always moments, moments where with a turn, a pass, a dribble, flashes of unexpected genius, the Huntington Beach native will leave opponents and fans doing a collective double take.
Where did that come from?
In the crowd his father, Slavko, will smile and nod knowingly. Where? From nothing.
Sacha Kljestan was raised to defy the impossible by a man who has spent a lifetime thumbing his nose at the notion.
"Soccer sometimes is just like life," Slavko said recently. "When you get in trouble on the soccer field you have to do something with nothing. Just like in life sometimes you have to create something out of nothing. That's my life. I made something from nothing."
It is a life that appears almost out of thin air. In November 1980, Slavko Kljestan, an immigrant from Yugoslavia, sneaked across the U.S.-Canada border, hidden in the trunk of a car, hitchhiked his way down the West Coast, a trucker dropping him off near the San Pedro docks. He spoke almost no English and carried with him a few pieces of clothing tucked inside a small athletic bag. He had maybe $150 in his pocket.
"Basically nothing," he said.
From nothing Kljestan built a successful construction business in Orange County, married a nice American girl and raised a family.
"My dad," Sacha said, "is the American dream."
Today not far from the corner where he was dropped off nearly 28 years ago, the dreamer's youngest son's image stands larger than life next to David Beckham's on the side of a shining state of the art stadium raised from dust and weeds. Sacha and Beckham are part of an adidas' advertising campaign whose slogan is "Impossible Is Nothing," which is just some ad guy's way of saying do something with nothing.
Sacha Kljestan, 22, has had his own obstacles to overcome. He was rejected by a top local youth team, all but ignored by college recruiters, dismissed as too small, too slow. He finally got a chance at Seton Hall, earning All-America honors before moving onto Chivas where in 2007 he finished second in Major League Soccer in assists in just his second season. Next week he will play for the MLS All-Stars against the Premier League's West Ham United.
Kljestan, captain of Team USA during Olympic qualifying, is also a lock to be named Thursday to the U.S. squad for the 2008 Olympic Games, the first major international tournament in a young career that promises to be full of them. In Kljestan, many in American soccer see the playmaker Team USA has missed since Claudio Reyna's retirement from the international game. Kljestan is one of the top passers in MLS but his real gifts are his vision and imagination, what U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley calls his "Soccer IQ."
"Some people play music and some, a few people, compose it," said former U.S. national team coach Manfred Schellscheidt, who coached Kljestan at Seton Hall. "Sacha's is one who writes it and composes it. He has this imagination to make something happen."
"Ever since I was a kid I could see plays ahead of time," Kljestan said, "seeing things before they happened."
When Sacha Kljestan was ready to walk, his father placed a soccer ball in front his right foot and another in front of his left. "His first step was made with a soccer ball," Slavko said. Before long he was dribbling around the back yard, the park, his mother's living room, Slavko always encouraging him.
"Show me, Sacha, show me. Do something with nothing."
Slavko was born of Serbian descent on a farm in rural Yugoslavia. "Where he's from," Sacha said of his father, "it's like a 100 years (removed) from where we're at."
His father forbid him to play soccer then beat him when Slavko continued playing. When he was 14 Slavko ran away from home, fleeing the beatings, fleeing nothing, running first to Sarajevo, working in a furniture factory and making a name for himself as a semi-pro soccer star, then to Canada on a tourist visa to visit a sister in Vancouver.
"I ran away to survive," he said. "I ran away from that country and I didn't look back."
But Canada rejected his request for permanent residency. So did the U.S. On a cold day in November 1980, his visa days from expiring, he tried to cross the border at Blaine, Wash., with three friends. A border guard told the other three, all Canadians, they could enter the U.S., but Kljestan could not. The car turned back toward Vancouver. Ten minutes up Highway 99, the car turned around again.
"I realized this was my last chance," he said.
A half-hour later, he climbed out of the trunk on the side of Interstate 5 near Bellingham and stuck out his thumb. He stopped the next morning in San Francisco for breakfast. When two men offered to pay for his breakfast in return for sexual favors, the rural Serbian farm boy panicked.
"I freaking ran out of there as fast as I could," Kljestan said. "The waiter was running after me. I didn't stop running until I got to the freeway."
A semi picked him up, letting him out that afternoon in San Pedro. "It was the most beautiful day," he recalled. Kljestan found a nearby pay telephone booth and began going through the phone book looking for last names that sounded Serbian or Croatian, asking those who answered for a job.
"My name is Slavko Kljestan and I'm looking for work. I just need a start," he said.
On the 15th call, Radko Miric, a Downey contractor, picked up.
"This isn't the Slavko Kljestan who played for Celik, is it?" Miric asked. Ninety minutes later Kljestan was sitting in Miric's living room, Miric's sons showing their guest newspaper accounts of his exploits in the scrapbooks they kept on Yugoslavian soccer. Miric gave Kljestan a job and a place to stay. Eventually Kljestan started his own company. In 1983, he married Kim, his new bride not realizing until she was five months pregnant with their first son Gordon that her husband was here illegally.
"She said 'Did you really marry me for a green card?'" Slavko said, laughing.
The couple celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary this past Valentine's Day. "I said 'See, Honey, didn't I tell you, I didn't marry you for a green card?'"
Gordon, who joined his brother at Seton Hall, plays professional soccer indoors. Vanessa, 17, is a senior-to-be at Huntington Beach High.
"If there is a competition out there for the best family I would like to enter it," Slavko said. "I don't know if I would win but I would kick some (rear) along the way.
"I came here with nothing, nothing but my dreams and my dreams came true."
And now next month he is headed to China to see his youngest son take on the world at the Olympics.
"I consider myself a lucky man to have a son to play for this wonderful country," he said.
Dressed in red, white and blue, he will watch in China just as he does at The Home Depot Center, not far from a San Pedro phone booth and a faded book filled with hope, beer in his calloused hand, always expecting the unexpected.
"Show me, Sacha, show me. Do something with nothing," he said.
我覺得ADIDAS的攝影師很妙，去年沙夏也拍過這一系列的照片，當時就覺得：沙夏你是走少女風是吧！！！表情有種說不出口的微妙感覺﹝我應該有截圖，只是不知道被我放到電腦哪個角落去了。﹞，沒想到！！！！！今年 0rz這個這個這個......不得不說這張照片讓我有種想叫他：「公主大人」的衝動...
公主大人理當走少女風是吧，笑容真是嫵媚到很不知道該怎麼說﹝現在一點也不少女啦TwT沙夏跑去留鬍子。﹞！真不虧是馬麻帶出來的啊！！
沙夏的臺詞只有兩句、五秒鐘﹝點我看廣告﹞：
「I'm Sacha Kljestan of Chivas USA. Know your Rights.」
是說我現在也開始緊張了，北京奧運的名單星期四下午公布﹝臺灣時間星期五凌晨﹞，可現在變成若是沙夏進大名單中，MLS那邊的明星賽就不能參加QAQ！雖然奧運比明星賽重要太多太多.....據說Michael Parkhurst也會在名單中，所以我好緊張啊！！！=皿=！
沙夏真的很可愛XD雖然這場他很白癡地吃了一張非常不必要的黃牌，笨蛋笨蛋笨蛋！看到時有氣到....不過在這場比賽之外，沙夏也在進入MLS的第三年時被選進了2008年MLS明星賽中先發十一人中一員，他在球迷之間的票數沒拿到很多，但有很多球員跟教練都把票投給他:D
"It tells me that I have gained some respect from the opponents and opposing coaches," said Kljestan, who will represent the MLS stars when they take on West Ham of the English Premier League in Toronto on July 24.
"It makes me feel pretty good that I have gained some respect from a lot of players in this league and they've kind of rewarded me.It's not always easy to pencil in your opponents as players you think are good. It makes me proud that I've gained the respect of them."
唉呀U////U
沙夏在之前那場對上紐約紅牛的賽後有跟誰交換球衣啦，是誰我不知道﹝唔，真的很想知道那件是誰的球衣，畢竟他很少很少在場上跟球員交換球衣的耶o_O！﹞，可穿這樣子也還滿好看的U////U
是說他哥哥現在就在紐約紅牛XD以後應該不愁有紅牛球衣可穿XD
這次沙夏從國家隊集訓陣容中趕回至職業隊賽場上，但對上Real Salt Lake時以零比一吞敗，他顯得有點難過，且在MLS新聞訪問稿中的一句話讓我看了很心疼：
"I've trained with them all season long but it's not like a big shock, like I'm coming into some new team but it's tough. I didn't get a feel of what Preki told the guys during the week. I didn't get to prepare with the rest of the guys all week as to how we were going to press Salt Lake and how we were going to play them and how they are going to play," Kljestan said.
大意上就是說他已經在Chivas USA這麼久了，但這次他到國家隊集訓一個星期，臨時回到職業賽場上，但卻覺得他不太知道Preki要他的隊友們怎麼踢這場比賽，覺得很生疏....
"Other than that it's the same old thing. We just didn't finish our goals tonight."
雖然說我一直覺得這賽後記者會有點像是Preki對記者說：誰下次敢在場上扒掉沙夏衣服誰就找死﹝←被拖走﹞還有另一篇新聞是這樣說的，Marsch是Chivas USA的隊長─
International rollercoaster
Midfielder Sacha Kljestan got bounced between the U.S. national team and Chivas last week. He practiced with the national team Friday and expected to be part of the squad for Sunday's World Cup qualifier with Barbados.
Instead, he found out Saturday he was not included and quickly played for Chivas that night against Real Salt Lake.
"The last time for Sacha was difficult for him," Marsch said. "He didn't know whether to suit up for us until 4:30 p.m. that day."
Kljestan tried to put the best face on the situation.
"It's tough but you have to be professional," he said.
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厚這小子，很瘦耶我說，之前還想說以沙夏這身高跟體重已經是全MLS最輕的耶，且我看他的體重真的跟花式滑冰選手有得拚...拿Evan Lysacek來說，天吶我們的長腿王子還比沙夏重耶，且沙夏還比伊范高！
實在是好瘦lol
看花滑已經看到一堆人瘦得跟紙片人有得拚，且他們又是運動員，但花式滑冰本來就是這樣：但是...= =沙夏是足球球員，這個...這位先生你覺得你留鬍子會讓自己變得更不會在場上被撞倒嗎？﹝失色尖叫﹞
大美人要有大美人的樣啦orz
去年年底U-23去中國時多清秀啊...一整個在2008年開始大轉型，很怕他又回到在Seton Hall時那種鬼髮型。前幾天看Chivas USA對上Rapids的舊比賽，反正就前幾輪的一直積著沒看﹝←一直積著沒看的比賽可多著呢﹞，結果....我看到某一幕畫面：
沙夏跟Marsch協議開自由球，但沙夏開得自由球打中人牆，球反彈時沙夏就在附近再次用胸部停球後傳中，好死不死正中Rapids的Erpen，Erpen傳給誰還是他自己帶球前進我就忘了，但我看到沙夏迅速跑去跟Erpen搶，一腳將球鏟到界外。當沙夏起身要回防時，Marsch就從後方跑過拍沙夏後腦勺，一副就是：厚你這笨蛋。當時沙夏還很難為情地邊摸摸自己的臉跟頭...髮...一邊回防，好、可、愛！那害羞的模樣就跟Verner在NHK Trophy長曲結束後被拍的害羞樣XD
嗚嗚嗚，這小孩有時候...還滿想扁他的XD
之前看他在對上Colorado Rapids的比賽，上半場結束後沙夏在走往休息室途中邊回頭指著自己的左眼，一邊用右手作出被肘擊的動作，嘴中喊得是「lens、lens」，我在想他應該有戴隱形眼鏡，不過度數應該不深。
誰去一下洛杉磯把這小孩拖去理髮店好嗎？
笨沙夏TwT美色度大減、大叔度大增，真正要像大叔得像Duilio Davino那樣好嗎？大笨蛋...這是對上Columbus Crew時拍得，下一場不知道沙夏會變成怎樣呢！？﹝大哭﹞
可幕後花絮還是很帥沒錯啦T_T你以為你這樣可以擺脫
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why do you like sascha klejstan.your all the way in asia and you find this guy to like?