ClassLessCoyote
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- Jun 10, 2009
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Looks like it's going to be an all Canada Eastern Conference Final as Canada will be now 1 step closer to saying "Soccer is Canada's game" should Toronto or Montreal win the MLS Cup.
I severely doubt one season's playoff success will result in any significant portion of their population proclaiming ownership of soccer.Looks like it's going to be an all Canada Eastern Conference Final as Canada will be now 1 step closer to saying "Soccer is Canada's game" should Toronto or Montreal win the MLS Cup.
I threw up my soccer hands last week when Seattle beat Dallas 3-0 in the first leg. Winning the US Open Cup and the Supporters Shield is, by any objective measure, a great season. But damnit ... I severely doubt one season's playoff success will result in any significant portion of their population proclaiming ownership of soccer.
Especially the MLS, which sucks.
... said the uninformed. Average attendance in 2015 beat Argentina, France, Holland, Brazil, Belgium and Russia, and it beat Germany and England's 2nd divisions. MLS has too many rules enforcing parity for the top clubs to beat the Americas and Monterreys and Cruz Azuls from Mexico, but MLS is probably the most competitive league in soccer and it's a much higher standard than people think. I have a handful of German friends who follow MLS alongside the German Bundesliga and none of them "look down" on it at all.Especially the MLS, which sucks.
... said the uninformed. Average attendance in 2015 beat Argentina, France, Holland, Brazil, Belgium and Russia, and it beat Germany and England's 2nd divisions. MLS has too many rules enforcing parity for the top clubs to beat the Americas and Monterreys and Cruz Azuls from Mexico, but MLS is probably the most competitive league in soccer and it's a much higher standard than people think. I have a handful of German friends who follow MLS alongside the German Bundesliga and none of them "look down" on it at all.
MLS will never be relevant with the way US Soccer is run and the ownership structure.
Phoenix Rising? Really? I hope that's for a youth team or something, because that name belongs in the NWSL. Really awful.The local USL side appears to be undergoing the promised re-brand. There's allegedly going to be an "announcement" tomorrow and it looks like it might be this:
http://www.empireofsoccer.com/usls-arizona-united-file-trademark-for-phoenix-rising-fc-55901/
I'd much prefer Porter or Dom Kennear over Arena, but rather have Arena than Hiddink. Five years ago, instead of Klinsman? Absolutely. But Hiddink has been on a working holiday since he left the Russia job in 2010. And he's 70. I'd be curious to see the alternate universe where they hire him in 2006 instead of Bob Bradley and hand him the keys and give him 10 years to shape the thing, but chances are pretty good Guus Hiddink will be dead in 10 years. He's not the man to make the organizational changes needed to make US soccer the world power that it should be.US Soccer has fired Jurgen. I don't think the Bruce Arena band-aid will change much. They should have secured someone else for the interim and they likely could have landed a bigger fish. I'd have preferred they made an attempt to lure Hiddink out of retirement or just gone with a fresh face like Caleb Porter, Dominick Kinnear or Claudio Reyna.
A chartered plane with a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed near Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. Five people survived.
The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency at 10 p.m. Monday (0300 GMT) because of an electrical failure, aviation authorities said.
Are you watching? 105 minutes no goals ... sometimes that's exciting and tense, sometimes that's a complete waste of time. How's it been?MLS Cup in extra time.
Arizona could see a Major League Soccer team sooner than expected.
Thursday, Phoenix Rising FC announced that Phoenix had been invited by MLS to bid for an expansion team after a meeting between the league and the team's ownership group last week in New York City.
Applications are due next Tuesday, Jan. 31, and at least 10 other cities are competing for two MLS expansion franchises.