Henry headed to Miami? Nope.

Monday, 06 October 08, 08:57 PM · Comments (1)

Henry to Miami? ...no.

I love watching Thierry Henry play as much as the next fan. Hell, I still have an old Arsenal jersey with his number on the back (even though I think Arsenal are pants). But the rumor that Henry is headed to the US – now to Miami??? – is off-the-charts bullshit.

So what if he looks good next to Don Johnson? The Rumor: Someone at Bleacher Report is convinced that the French striker is "on his way out" and is headed to some imaginary Miami-based MLS team (that doesn't exists yet) because someone at Barcelona is in preliminary talks with Major League Soccer over an expansion franchise that at the earliest would begin in 2011.

The article then backs this up with an ambiguous quote from Henry that ran in the New York Times in 2007.

First, the idea that Miami will get one of the two remaining MLS expansion franchises is highly unlikely. Miami isn't on the short-list of cities the MLS is interested in expanding to, which include Atlanta, Las Vegas, Montreal, a second team for New York, Ottawa, Portland and Vancouver, British Columbia. This is also compounded by the fact that the city already failed with an MLS franchise, the Miami Fusion, who folded in 2002 due to dwindling attendance.

Because I would totally want to work on the other side of the world if this was my wife

So hypothetically, if this "Miami Barcelona Deportivo" team actual became an MLS franchise in 2011 – and here's the tricky part – to get Henry from Barcelona they would need to build a time-machine to go back to 2008 and transfer Henry, who by the article's own admission, is on his way out of Barcelona.

The Truth: Yes, he's probably leaving Barca in January, and someday Henry may come play in the US, but it's a small chance that will happen anytime soon and practically a zero percent chance it will happen in Miami. Henry is rumored to be headed to a handful of teams, the most likely of which are New Castle, Manchester City or somewhere in London. If he leaves Barca he's probably headed to the Premiership because his wife (pictured right) and daughter live in England.

Then again I could be wrong. Maybe Thierry Henry wants to move an entire ocean away from his hot, English, model wife and play for an imaginary team in hurricane-prone Florida.

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