Nicholas Paul "Nick" Rimando (born June 17, 1979) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer and the United States national team.
Born in Montclair, California, Rimando attended Montclair High School, and played two years of college soccer at UCLA. As a rookie in 1997, he tended goal as the Bruins won the College Cup; after his sophomore year, he signed a Project-40 contract with MLS.
Rimando was selected 35th in the 2000 MLS SuperDraft by the Miami Fusion, and, to the surprise of many, quickly took the starting position from Jeff Cassar. He started 22 games as a rookie, and 25 as a sophomore, helping the Fusion to win the 2001 MLS Supporters' Shield. When the Fusion were contracted after the 2001 season, Rimando was selected third overall by D.C. United (his coach at Miami, Ray Hudson, was the new United boss) in the subsequent Allocation Draft.
For DC, Rimando played in every game in 2002 and in 25 games in 2003 until he missed the end of the season with an injury. In 2004, with Hudson gone, he lost his starting job to Troy Perkins, but regained it for the stretch run, backstopping DC to the MLS Cup. In 2005 he regained his everyday starter status, but was beaten out by Perkins again in 2006, playing only two games during the whole season.
Kyle Robert Beckerman (born April 23, 1982 in Crofton, Maryland) is an American football player who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer and the United States national team. He is a holding midfielder and also serves as team captain for Real Salt Lake.
Beckerman began his career participating in various youth leagues in the Bowie, Maryland area. He played for the United States in the 1999 Under-17 World Cup in New Zealand. After graduating from Arundel High School, he signed a Nike Project-40 contract with MLS on June 27, 2000. Beckerman however had been involved with the league for the previous few years, having been one of the inaugural students at the United States Soccer Federation's Bradenton Academy, which also featured Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Oguchi Onyewu, and Bobby Convey.
Two days after he signed with the league, the Miami Fusion claimed Beckerman. Beckerman hardly played in his first two years, however, registering only 110 minutes his first year and only 14 his second after breaking his leg playing in the A-League. He went on loan with MLS Project 40 in 2000.
Bright lights, big city, concrete, 5 boroughs.
Everything is real like you see it in the photo,
we be the grand total, world capital future,
home of the paper schemes, ill natured,
building skyscrapers rollers and shakers, hungry money
makers,
make you catch the vapors, everything is modern,
expensive and flashy,
watch out for the devil, cause he roams the streets.
I got a concrete lawn and a concrete yard.
Roots hard as concrete you can't compete
with this born winner who never been a loser,
brother from the boogie
who be biggin up and biggin up the Buddha mindstate,
enter my city and you will find hate,
ignorance and greed and people walking
walking by brothers on the street bleeding.
Still you might find everything you needed.
Chorus
Can't be too timid in a NYC minute NYC minute
everybody wants to live it, blood spilling,
people killing in a NYC minute,
no smiles, just grinning, that's how we living.
Bright lights, big city, concrete, 5 boroughs.
Everything is real like you see it in the photo,
we be the grand total, world capital future,
home of the paper schemes, ill natured,
building skyscrapers rollers and shakers, hungry money
makers,
make you catch the vapors, everything is modern,
expensive and flashy,
watch out for the devil, cause he roams the streets.
Now my momma and my poppa taught me mad realities,
plus the Southern Boulevard hospitalities,
but back alleys is where I dilly dallied, casually,
with things that cause fatalities.
Amazingly I always seemed to keep my faculties.
Others never had such luck got drugged got drunk
got tough got rough and got snuffed out.
Too fucked up or too slow to pull the gun out.
Time it seems to run out quick
for a lot of kids seem to turn
to crime real quick and do a lot of bids.
And every crew is out to make a hit,
New York is the craziest.
Chorus
Can't be too timid in a NYC minute NYC minute
everybody wants to live it, blood spilling,
people killing in a NYC minute,