Three Cheers for Jon Busch!

I have known Jon since I was 14. We aren’t great friends or anything, but its been a total pleasure watching his career take off. He’s not on RBNY, but he’s everything that is right with the position: highly cerebral, terribly athletic and he’s fantastic at controlling the tempo of the match and defending outside the six-yard box.

Busch, like Guzan or Hartman, is undersized and undervalued, and really has done a great job at both Columbus and Chicago. I just wish we could get him back here to NYC (no offense to Danny Cepero).

“Today is a day when the whole of America wins. Barack Obama is voted into the White House as the first President of African-American heritage to sit in the Oval Office, and of course Busch (not George W. Bush), but Jon Busch of the Chicago Fire, was voted Goalkeeper of the Year for the Major League Soccer season of 2008. America rejoices, and so do us goalkeepers, especially those of the shorter ilk!”

[Keeper Skool]

One day, I should scan in my Machnik evaluation reports from him. He was a great judge of talent. Here’s his highlight video, courtesy of MLS.

You’re just really terrible and that goal wouldn’t have been scored if you had come out and played the cross, you dumbass. Please, take lessons from Gaspar or Machnik or someone other than Des this offseason, cuz you obviously aren’t listening.

Jon Conway = the suck.