My mind totally blanked on this but there is soccer tonight. Yes, midweek soccer in Major League Soccer, but this game isn’t going to count in the MLS standings because it is a “qualifier” for the 2008 edition of the US Open Cup. Based on last year’s standings and the fact that San Jose is an expansion club is the [...]
Want Major League Soccer in your city? Well, the price for your potential owner(s) just went up a bit. News today out of Portland says that in order for the city (and probably any other city now) to get a MLS franchise they will have to fork over $40 million. The new entry fee: at least $40 million. That’s up [...]
Keeping up with a tradition of last year on the last day of each month I typically try and do a monthly award thing. Usually it’s a decent barometer of what the end of year awards will possibly look like. Some awards change from month-to-month but others stay on board. As always if you have your own, feel free to [...]
Ah, a great video posted over at the FC Dallas team blog today. The guys at FCD took a video camera that took half-second snapshots every ten minutes for four days. Its pretty cool to see the stadium go from soccer to concert to concert and back to soccer. For those who aren’t in Dallas, Pizza Hut Park had a [...]
After the first couple weeks of the new MLS season I thought we’d see a drastic change in the coaching hot seat list and to a degree I think we have. One thing that remains is the man who’s been at the top of this list all along. I really thought after two weeks that the man who’s sat at [...]
One month down here in this 2008 MLS campaign. As we talked about yesterday the eastern conference is clearly outclassing the western conference on and maybe even off the field. The power rankings this week are really no different. The one thing that remains consistent here is that no club is clearly stepping up and consistently the best club in [...]
Okay. Time to dig a little deeper here now that we are a month into the season. One thing we know for certain (as if we didn’t think it coming into the season), the east is damn good as a whole. Six of the seven clubs are above .500% and the one that isn’t is bordering that sea level mark. [...]
My week five awards may resemble my April Awards that will come out last this week. I’m gonna make this snappy since there really isn’t much to build up for the player of the week in Major League Soccer here. Without a doubt it has to be Landon Donovan. Solid hat trick, and the guy now has eight goals on [...]
Stand up if you had the Columbus Crew leading the way in Major League Soccer after five weeks. Do it. Stand up…anybody? No? Yeah thought so. Okay, now if you had the two-time defending MLS Cup champion Houston Dynamo winless through five stand up. Again, nobody? Wow, yeah. That’s just how crazy this season has been thus far. Week five [...]
Wow, I skip a day of reading about the Columbus Crew from Shawn Mitchell and this what he posts. The photo below is proof enough that MLS is reaching out and is actually sticking with folks outside of the country. Seriously, this was taken during the Boca Juniors Copa Libertadores match on Tuesday against Venezuela’s Union Maracaibo in Buenos Aires. [...]
Happy Friday afternoon to ya. Its already Happy Hour in most places across the country. I saw a couple more things out in the soccer media-o-sphere this afternoon that I thought needed mentioning. First over in DC. Steve Goff mentioned something that I’ve been calling for a while here. That’s scouting in Africa for players. We’re already seeing the benefits [...]
I was looking around the MLS/soccer/blogsphere today and came across an interesting article at Goal.com about where is the best place in America to watch a soccer game. And while I found that the list was interesting, I think I have to disagree with most of it. They got it right with RFK being the top place to watch a [...]
Another weekend of play in Major League Soccer. Back to the traditional five-game Saturday and the weekend finale on Sunday. This weekend is already shaping up to be one that could see some road sides get victories after last night’s New England victory in Dallas. The biggest match-up of the weekend is out in LA as the LA derby kicks [...]
Maybe it wasn’t the prettiest Primetime game on ESPN2 but New England and Dallas showed some quality soccer as the Revs hand Dallas their first loss of the season. This may have been the most evenly matched game that I’ve watched all season so far. Neither club really looked like taking over the game but in the end it was [...]
Okay, I lied. I said I wasn’t going to talk much before the New England-Dallas game tonight but I figured an announcement of a player signing was reason enough to post something. I also said I wouldn’t talk about some of the news that was floating around about Toronto FC today but again I lied. Some of that news was [...]
