This whole Manti Te’o story has been sadly owning my life today.

In case you missed it earlier today, Sacha Kljestan and Anderlecht advanced to the semifinals of the Belgian Cup.  and Michael Bradley had a “hockey” assist in Roma’s win in Coppa Italia action.  Such great weight on that pass by Bradley.

Speaking of Kljestan, even the local press are joining in on the mustache fun.

The Shin Guardian breaks out their 23 tickets/boarding passes for the USMNT and the 2014 World Cup.

Mathew Wagner caught up with Michael Parkhurst to talk about his new club Augsburg.

Steve Cherundolo will miss this weekend’s game for Hannover 96 with some knee pain.

FA Cup highlights are hard to come by, but here is short post-game interview with Sturart Holden from yesterday.

He did not get into today’s FA Cup loss to Manchester United, but Sebastian Lletget did make the bench for West Ham United.  Getting closer to that first team debut.

Zach Pfeffer has continued his hot streak with Hoffenheim’s U-19 team, scoring four goals today.  And fellow American Russell Canouse had one goals and three assists.

Marc Pelosi and Liverpool’s U-21 team played Cody Cropper and Southampton recently.  Here is 10 minutes worth of highlights.

Bobby Wood came off the bench for 30 minutes in 1860 Munich’s 1-0 win over Dinamo Zagreb in a friendly.

Free agent Diego Chavarri decided to stay in Peru and signed with Union Comercio.

According to this report, Clarence Goodson is hesitate about signing with Turkish side Ordurspor.

Speaking of Turkey, Maurice Edu is being linked to a move to Bursaspor.  Some more on this.  Yay silly season!

While we see players like Edu stuck in no man’s land or the Robbie’s (Findley and Rogers) leaving their clubs, Steve Davis decides to point out the not as cool part of Americans fleeing to Europe to play.

Former NY Red Bull Sacir Hot has signed with Hessen Kassel of the German Regionalliga.

Justin Moose has re-signed with Finnish side SJK.  Moose appeared in 23 games last season, scoring one goal.

Here is video of Bryan Meredith being officially introduced at IK Brage.

And finally, I hope this is not true, but it looks like News Corp. might change Fox Soccer in the future to FX2 (or some entertainment-based network) since the station has lost so many league rights over the last couple years.  Once next year hits and they lose the Premier League, it won’t have much content on the weekends.

For the three other people still awake right now, here are some links (or you are reading this in the morning).

All signs are pointing towards a Michael Bradley move to Roma according to Greg Seltzer.  I guess Monaco made a late move for him, but Mr. Bradley wants to stay in Italy.

No word on what is up with Carlos Bocanegra or Maurice Edu, but Alejandro Bedoya has at least returned to training at Rangers.  He could still transfer out in the future, but who knows as that whole club is a mess right now.

Aston Villa winger Marc Albrighton had some nice things to say about teammate Eric Lichaj this week.

Frank Simek is expected to sign a new deal with Carlisle United this week.

Danny Williams is back on the field playing as Joe Gyau and Williams both played in a recent friendly for Hoffenheim.  It also looks like Williams played at center back.

And finally, Diego Chavarri is now playing with CD Cobresol in Peru this season and he scored a nice goal this past weekend (0:45 mark).  A hat tip to Brian Sciaretta for the goal footage.

A couple links before Easter weekend.

Grant Wahl talked to Tim Ream earlier this week about his crazy first four months of 2012.  I always thought Ream had a good chance of playing time, but never expected him to jump right in there and routinely plug away 90 minutes.

Brian Straus recently caught up with the world’s hottest goal scorer:  Herculez Gomez.

The US will be playing Mexico at the Home Depot Center on April 15.  But this US team will feature USMNT legends such as Cobi Jones, Eric Wynalda and Alexi Lalas, while Mexico will feature Jorge Campos, Jared Borgetti and Luis Hernandez.  I might have to check this out.  Hopefully the scoreline will be 2-0.

Left back/winger Diego Chavarri has a found a new home in Peru with CD Cobresol of the Primera Division.

According to Greg Seltzer, Sacha Kljestan had some admirers in the stands of today’s 0-0 draw to Standard Liège.

And it looks like Andrew Wooten will be dressing with Kaiserslautern’s senior team this weekend against Hoffenheim.

I am going to be gone most of the weekend and away from the computer, so there won’t be a lot of highlights posted and I probably won’t be able to get to The OT Report until very late on Sunday night or until Monday. Enjoy the weekend.

Got to give it up for Clint Dempsey and his two goals for Fulham today (highlights here).  BBC Sport has a game report up that also contains some post-game audio from Deuce.

There is a report out of Birmingham, England this morning that Aston Villa are still interested in making Michael Bradley’s loan deal a permanent move despite the lack of playing time.  I find that interesting since if they really liked him, why isn’t he making the gameday roster/bench?

David Smith caught up with Timothy Chandler to talk about his time with the USMNT in March.  Who was one player that Chandler was impressed with?  Clint Dempsey.

Greg Seltzer talked to Oguchi Onyewu this week about the chance to win some trophies with FC Twente.  They also talked about the upcoming Gold Cup and deciding on his future.

I know Zak Whitbread was pulled out of Norwich City’s game this past weekend due to injury, but didn’t know what he injured exactly.  It looks to be a hip injury, but I can’t find anything on the seriousness of the injury.

CONCACAF finally re-submitted its new (technically old) World Cup qualification process to FIFA to get approved.  Under this process, CONCACAF would return back to the Hexagonal in the final round (welcome back Columbus/Azteca vs. Mexico), plus the US wouldn’t enter the qualification process until the semifinal round (goodbye home-and-home series against some island countries that we crush 7-1).

I posted last week that Devann Yao signed a deal with a team in Belgian second division and it looks like his contract will go through the 2013 season.  So congrats to him for finally finding a home and landing a deal that lasts longer than one season.

Brian Sciaretta’s twitter has been chatting about Diego Chavarri a lot recently.  The 22-year-old winger/left back (Candidate #818279 in “First Great American Leftback!”?) was born New York and currently plays with Sporting Cristal in Peru.  Rumors on the interwebs over the last couple of days have him linked to Vitesse in Holland.