I like numbers and so does Greg Seltzer so he unloads some numbers at us about some Americans in Europe.  I wish he would give us a full list of the all-time single-season goals list for AZ Alkmaar now that Jozy Altidore is at 30 across all competitions in 2012-13.  I might also be working on something about Herculez Gomez which could be up later today or tomorrow.

As Howie posted on Monday, Carlisle United has released Frank Simek.

Mike Grella and Scunthorpe United were officially relegated to League Two this past weekend.  Grella is one of six players under contract with the club for the 2013-14 season.

While one player was relegated, DaMarcus Beasley, Michael Orozco Fiscal and Puebla are officially clear of relegation in Mexico.

Rapid Vienna’s fans are not happy about being in third place and let the team and management know about it.

Harris King has some kind words about Steve Cherundolo.

Michael Parkhurst has fallen down the depth chart at Augsburg due to missing time with soreness in his knee and having the flu.

I finally found highlights of a Bahia match from down in Brazil from the weekend, but Freddy Adu remained on the bench the whole game.  But Adu has made the gameday roster for Wednesday.  Hopefully he sees the field and I can find highlights again.

Brad Friedel thinks Gareth Bale is good at soccer and answers some other questions.

Bruce Arena thinks Mike Magee should at least be considered for the USMNT.  Possibly a Gold Cup spot if he continues to lead MLS in goals?

Brian Sciaretta introduces us to Desevio Payne.  Payne is a 17-year-old right back currently playing with FC Groningen’s youth team in Holland.

Remember how fun and crazy the end of the Premier League was last year?  The end of the League One was also pretty crazy this year.  Doncaster (second place) played Brentford (third place) over the weekend and Brentford had a stoppage time PK to win the game and give them automatic promotion to the Championship. . . .then this happened.

Tottenham were knocked out of Europa League in penalty kicks (4-1) after being tied up 2-2 today.  Clint Dempsey scored both goals for Tottenham (giving him seven in his career in Europa League play), while Brad Friedel was the goalkeeper for the Spurs.  Here are Dempsey’s goals.

Brad Friedel got the start while Clint Dempsey came off the bench in Tottenham’s 2-2 draw to Basel.  Tottenham fell behind 2-0, but scored two goals to earn a 2-2 draw in this first leg.  Here are the goals.

Clint Dempsey did not dress, but Brad Friedel got the start in Tottenham’s 4-1 loss to Inter Milan, although Tottenham advance to the next round of Euorpa League.  Here are the goals.

Brad Friedel got the start as Tottenham won the first leg of this Europa League Round of 16 match 3-0.  Here are the highlights.

Brad Friedel got the start while Clint Dempsey came off the bench in Tottenham’s 1-1 draw to Lyon.  The Spurs needed a last minute goal from Moussa Dembele to advance in Europa League, 3-2 on aggregate.

***UPDATE***

Here are all of Dempsey’s touches.

Both Clint Dempsey and Brad Friedel got the start as they watched Gareth Bale score two goals in this 2-1 win over Lyon in Europa League.  Here are the highlights.

Lets start off with some Europa League-oriented links as the Round of 32 begins today.

Brad Friedel is getting the start for Tottenham as they take on Lyon in Europa League.  Friedel has started only three matches (1 Europa League and 2 FA Cup) since the beginning of December.

Left off the US U-20 roster, Marc Pelosi did not make Liverpool’s Europa League travel squad for today’s game against Zenit St. Petersburg.

While US fans were holding out hope for Pelosi to get the 20th spot on the US U-20 team, Tab Ramos announced yesterday that Colorado Rapids’ Dillon Serna will get that spot.  The US U-20 team kicks off the CONCACAF U-20 Championship on Monday against Haiti at 5:30 PM Central on Fox Soccer.

Steven Goff does his yearly look over US Soccer’s tax records.  This time for the time period between April 2011 through March 2012.  The US had a shortfall of $3.1 million over that time frame.

Brian Sciaretta caught up with Matt Besler to talk about his first callup with the USMNT.

Greg Seltzer clears his notebook with various stats and notes.

Sean Cunningham is currently training with Norwegian Adeccoligaen side Hødd.

A couple guys were saw the field yesterday.  Preston Zimmerman got the start and played 48 minutes in Darmstadt 98′s 0-0 draw to Babelsberg 03 in German 3. Liga action.  Justin Moose scored a goal in SJK’s 4-2 win in some tournament called IV KOMIA.  And Kenneth Di Vita Jensen scored a goal for Hønefoss and Steve Clark played the first half in a 3-2 win over HJK Helsinki in a friendly.  Here are highlights from the match with his goal coming around the 4:50 mark.

Clint Dempsey heard Jozy Altidore scored this weekend so he had to match him.  Dempsey with a goal on Sunday, but Tottenham are knocked out of the FA Cup with a 2-1 loss to Leeds.  Here are the highlights.

Looks like a few things came out today after I posted the Jonathan Borrajo signs with Mjøndalen post.

Looks like we can call off the dogs on the Brek Shea to Stoke City stuff.  While some people think it is because MLS denied the transfer, BBC is saying because of his injury.

Brian Sciaretta got some quotes about Ben Spencer’s trial at Molde FK.

Leander Schaerlaeckens has an interesting story on Brad Friedel.  Friedel stayed at Tottenham to help facilitate his UEFA coaching license.

According to some papers in Scotland, Celtic hope to hear whether Chivas USA like their offer for Juan Agudelo or not in the near future.

Remember when I posted about the rumor USMNT centennial jerseys?  Sounds like they are coming in March.

Greg Seltzer decided to clear his notebook on various Yanks abroad and even gave us a little shout out for our Inside the Numbers story on Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore.

Who wants to see a photo of Marc Pelosi and Villyan Bijev having fun in the snow?  Here you go.

Kenneth Di Vita Jensen ended last season on loan to Ullensaker / Kisa and it looks like Hønefoss are trying to send him out on loan again.