Bla Bla Bla u are too skewed for people with less scholarships like Diallo
spill some more flesh!! Actors dont get paid much in Kachikali!!!

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>Subject: Mamado Diallo is Big Mamma in the MLS - Attn Odrammeh
>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:32:46 EDT
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>Omar:
>I tried to send this to your private email address which I assume is
>[log in to unmask]  I might be wrong though.
>
>Anyway, I culled this from the Boston Globe magazine:
>
>Big-scoring 'Big Mama' gives MLS a marketing spark
>
>
>By Frank Dell'Apa, Globe Staff, 7/31/2000
>
>
>
>  6-foot-4-inch, orange-haired striker nicknamed ''Big Mama'' made the MLS
>marketing department's job a lot easier. Mamadou Diallo stole the show in
>an otherwise superfluous event called the All-Star game Saturday in
>Columbus, Ohio.
>
>
>Most of the talk during the week foused on determining expansion cities
>(Long Island and Philadelphia in 2002) and building new stadia (Los
>Angeles, New Jersey). But the lifeblood of professional sports - star
>players - cannot be manufactured.
>
>
>And Diallo proved he is that special kind of performer. Actually, Diallo
>has been proving that all season. He scored 16 goals in the first 16 games
>for the Tampa Bay Mutiny and leads Major League Soccer with 18 goals.
>
>
>In the All-Star game, Diallo - coming in after halftime - displayed agility
>and speed, an excellent touch, and lethal finishing instincts. Considering
>that Diallo was also the biggest player on the field (along with Chicago
>goalkeeper Zach Thornton), it seems safe to say the MLS has a
>larger-than-life attraction.
>
>
>The only doubt the MLS has had about featuring Diallo was specious -
>English is his third language, after Wolof and French. But should Diallo
>never utter another bon mot,the publicity campaign should suffice with
>images of him touching the ball past Kansas City's Peter Vermes,
>accelerating around Colorado's Marcelo Balboa, teasing Thornton by dancing
>past on a step-over move near the end line.
>
>
>The best players' personalities are exhibited through their style of play
>and Diallo has plenty of personality.
>
>
>Diallo showed a good understanding of the frivilousness and seriousness of
>the All-Star game, accepting the most valuable player trophy and, in a
>booming baritone voice, telling the Crew Stadium crowd:
>
>
>''I am Big Mama. And Big Mama controls the field and scores goals. That is
>what I do.''
>
>
>That combination of serenity, simplicity, and sincerity outstripped all the
>nicely polished speeches of the week.
>
>
>Indeed, Diallo, 28, has the single-minded mentality of a goal-scorer.
>Before this season, Diallo had 78 goals in 120 matches for MSV Duisburg
>(Germany), Lillestrom and Valarenga (Norway), St. Gallen (Switzerland), and
>Zeytenburu (Turkey), plus 21 goals in 46 games for Senegal's national team.
>
>
>Asked why he chose to conclude a particularly intricate individual move by
>tapping into an open net instead of passing to Columbus Crew forward Dante
>Washington, Diallo replied:
>
>
>''My job is to score goals. And I earned that goal.''
>
>
>''Mamadou wanted to prove that he should have been a first-team player in
>this game,'' said Patrick McCabe, Diallo's agent. ''But we had breakfast
>[yesterday] morning and the All-Star game is in the past for him. He is
>laser-focused on being the top scorer in the league. He has been a
>professional for 10 years, so a game like that was not that big of a deal
>for him. He is not affected by the hype. This is his chance to shine and he
>said he is going to take it and no one is going to stop him.''
>
>
>Diallo departed after a minor lower back strain midway through the second
>half of the East's 9-4 win over the West.
>
>
>Diallo's success should increase interest in African players, which is the
>specialty of McCabe, a former Medfield resident who heads the soccer
>division of Bob Woolf Associates.
>
>
>''The other African strikers - Junior Agogo [Ghana/Colorado Rapids] and
>Abdul Thompson Conteh [Sierra Leone/San Jose Earthquakes] - have some of
>the same qualities as Mamadou,'' McCabe said. ''Physical strikers with that
>kind of skill are effective in the MLS because American defenders haven't
>been trained to stop them. I think they will change the game in the US
>because the defense is going to have to adjust. They are going to have to
>find quicker defenders.''
>
>
>McCabe discovered Diallo while placing South African Olympic team
>goalkeeper Emile Baron in Norway. And McCabe has a list of African
>prospects, from strikers such as South African Pollen Ndlanya (''well-built
>but lighter than Diallo and just as skilled and with much the same
>personality'') to defenders such as Emmanuel Kuffour of Ghana.
>
>
>''Some African players have not been successful in the MLS, but a lot of
>Latin players have not made it, either,'' McCabe said. ''Some of the
>marketing to Latinos is losing its luster and coaches are saying, `Get me
>guys who can help us win.'''
>
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