Newcastle Club’s Dallas Ties Get Stronger, Younger

A soccer-minded, friend-of-mine FrontBurnervian just passed along this item about Emerson Hyndman, an 11-year-old Dallas soccer phenom who’s headed to Newcastle’s academy. Not bad. (The kid’s got good soccer genes; his grandfather is SMU’s legendary head coach Schellas Hyndman.) Also Dallas-y on the Newcastle front, and vice versa, is the news of Kenny Cooper Sr.’s job as chief scout for North America. Cooper’s kid, as you know, plays for FC Dallas.