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What else can you say about the upcoming weekend in Major League Soccer? It’s damn full. Nine matches, eight of them on Saturday. Tons of interesting matchups across the board that should have everyone’s attention. This could be the start of where we begin to see how teams will go for the rest of the…[continue reading]

The 2012 season is finally here folks. After a few months of offseason and preseason madness, the new season is ready to kickoff. Many clubs have reason to be optimistic going into the new season while expectations are already being placed on the big boys in the league to do well again once more this…[continue reading]

Time for the final positional ranking group today, the forwards. To recap, here are the keeper rankings from last week, Monday’s defender rankings, and yesterday’s midfield rankings. For me the forwards were fairly cut and dry. The top eight or so teams were pretty simple to figure out and really you could argue any way between them and probably…[continue reading]

File this one under “huh?”. [blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/RichardMotzkin/statuses/162933472854417408"] Training with an English club during the offseason is one thing. But doing it when his current club is in preseason mode makes less sense.

By Kevin Kinkead Los Angeles. New York. Columbus. Three remaining games for the Philadelphia Union, against three of the top five squads in MLS. It’s only fitting that the final test for this young expansion side, will come against the league’s best teams. Though the Union are eliminated from the playoffs, it’s about ending the…[continue reading]

The race for MLS’s Rookie of the Year had been an interesting one this season. The talent brought into the league via the SuperDraft and from the league’s increased attention from the homegrown player pool is causing the rookie race to be even tougher than its been before. One week it looks like its Philadelphia’s…[continue reading]

Normally I tackle one of these kinds of posts each year it seems as there are always a group of guys that just look prime to go from MLS to Europe at the next chance. A year or so ago (okay December 08) I wrote that guys like Sacha Kljestan and Michael Parkhurst were on their…[continue reading]

For several clubs this is the midway point of the season. The rest are one or two games away from being halfway home for the year with one exception in Philadelphia who are three games away from that mark. The last month and a half since my last update have seen some shifts in the…[continue reading]

Its been a little over a month since last I dived into any real rookie discussion on here. Over the last month a few rookies have begun stepping out in front of the pack just like we normally see from season to season. This year’s rookie class may not be as strong right now as…[continue reading]

We speculated going into this season that the rookie class would possibly be as good as last year’s version. Three weeks into the season and I think it is safe to say these rookies so far are doing very well for themselves. So far some of the rookies are producing very well and are getting…[continue reading]