Lahoud Helping Homeland
Michael Lahoud was born in Sierra Leone, a country of more than six millions residents in western Africa. He left for the U.S. when he was six, departing just ahead of a civil war that would last 11 years.
Lahoud puts a high priority on education. He wants to build a school back home in Sierra Leone. He received a degree in mathematics from Wake Forest in three and a half years. He was an outstanding soccer player for the Demon Deacons. He’s now a professional soccer player for the MLS Philadelphia Union.
He is working with a charity called Schools for Salone. The goal to begin the project to build schools is to raise $50,000. That sum goes much further in Sierra Leone than in the United States. He says “the country sits in the bottom two or three in literacy in the continent.” He wants to make a difference.
Information about the project came be found online at www.schoolsforsalone.org
Where Are The Scorers
While Casey Townsend and Joseph Ngwenya are scoring goals in Richmond. D.C. United is having a hard time finding the back of the net in Major League Soccer Player. In Richmond’s 4-1 win the open he USL PRO season, four of the five goals were scored by current or former United players. Townsend, on loan to the Kickers scored two.
Before scoring twice in a 3-2 loss to Philly, D.C. United had only one goal in four games. One was a scoreless draw with New York, and the other three were losses. Dwayne De Rosario is injured, and Chris Pointius has yet to score his first goal this season.
Counting Heads
The NASL averaged better than 5,000 across the league in its first two weeks, but the average fell below 4,000 in week #3. The largest crowd was 4,135 in the huge 64,152-seat Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for the Minnesota United FC’s game against FC Edmonton. Smallest league crowd was in St. Petersburg, FL, for the Tampa Bay Rowdies home game with the Atlanta Silverbacks.
Orlando City vs. Los Angeles drew 9,140 in Orlando to lead the USL Pro weekend figures. Smallest reported crowd was a meager 332 in Charlotte where the Eagles hosted the Rhinos.