Major League Soccer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2pnDVRzG8s

Great shot!

yeah great let's play the old & crickety goalkeeper and keep the 21 year old potential national team standout on the bench, fuck conway, both of philly's goals were on him

I love "crickety" as a dismissive adjective in this context.

Is this Galaxy-Chivas game going to be worth watching?

I have it on in the background, not really paying attention. Nice setup by Angel for Chad fucking Barrett for the only goal.

btw old & crickety is a reference to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSiG5kNKjps

this about fucking killed me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzc_oZfDtVs

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2011/05/23/vergara-confirms-chivas-usas-plans-be-all-socal

good luck with that

I'm getting ready to listen to internet-only audio of the Fire v SJ USOC game, no TV or streams.

"our already crappy team would like to further limit its playing pool" lols

anibaba wonderstrike pt2 plzz

Fire win 5-4 in pens zomg

i stood in the piss down rain today and watched the sounders lose. this is a wounded and slow team. somebody threw a beer on brek shea after he scored, can't really see it on replay.

Brek Shea is a freak but throwing beers on your home field is lame.

memorial day manager massacre

http://thecup.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ENTRANTS2011-MAP2.png

"Pancyprian Freedoms"?

they're an old club iirc, been around since the 20s or 30s

as far as these club names go it doesn't get much better than "Dub Defenders"

ex-winners as I recall xp, maybe even as recently as the 80s

What's the deal with Dub Defenders though? El Paso Chivas Patriots is just horrible.

I tried googling around on them a little, didn't come up with anything. Doesn't help that their association is a loosely-affiliated group of a bunch of different leagues.

I'm just hoping for an all Chicago Fire final :)

Dub Defenders are in fact DV8 Defenders. Ugh.

damn it, stupid font

6:50 airwalka182: zigi has to wear a bra just like his team

kc's new stadium is nice but man the people there are stupid

i don't know where to put this so http://thecup.us/2011-lamar-hunt-us-open-cup-bracket/ it's nice looking, esp now w/some results

rip DV8 Defenders, heaven needed Defenders that let in 5 goals

considering making the trip to Madison for CFP v. 56ers

fire just sold my newest favorite player to atlas ;_;

flares at a u-16 academy game today, kind of lol mostly awesome
http://i53.tinypic.com/ndu6n9.jpg
(Sounders u-16s play a better brand of soccer than their u-18s. i wonder why. all the kids have been in the academy for the same amount of time basically. u-16s more coachable? less set in their ways maybe? the 18s rely more on individual skill imo. both teams won and both go to the academy playoffs)

lol ultras

http://www.mls-rumors.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Picture-84.png

So wtf was Henry sent off for the other day?

needed an excuse not to play in Chicago, Becks does it all the time

http://www.thebentmusket.com/2011/6/20/2234298/fracas-in-the-fort-revolution-supporters-banned-and-arrested-for

amazing, but in this country, not unbelievable

liking these opta chalkboards

http://www.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2011-06-22-chicago-fire-vs-real-salt-lake/chalkboard

put a bird on it http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/sports/soccer/in-portland-a-boisterous-army-of-fans-embraces-its-soccer-team.html

An hour before kickoff, with scalpers buzzing outside the park and valets busy parking bicycle

you've come a long way, baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zYDyS3X7k&feature=player_embedded

http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2011/6/22/2237653/mls-all-star-jerseys-ugliest-yet

why

http://i55.tinypic.com/f03ehv.jpg

lol is that a diving commentary?

de rosario to dcu for dax mccarty shocker

I mean really

chicago sparta, 1938 us open cup champs

http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq283/albion83/chicagosparta-opencupwinners-1938.jpg

Spent some time talking w/ friends about what could improve FC Dallas attendance after the game Saturday night - aside from not being in BFE (really not quite that bad, but it's nearly an hour from my house in the center of DFW and I know the back ways to avoid traffic completely), they shoulda built a dome. I know that's less than traditional, but it's hard to draw big crowds to the fifth-most popular sport in the country when it's 97F at game time.
My buddy's seats are on the shadowed side, but you couldn't pay me to sit on the opposite stands staring into the sun or in the all-metal bleacher supporter's section.

Solution: no teams in Texas.

I like that Sparta picture, especially the fixers to each side. Very Chicago.

milo I was being flippant above but you hit on a big problem for the league, along with the distances teams have to travel. The Fifa folks have been crowing about bringing the schedule in alignment with the 'rest of the world' for a while now. Texas summers won't help attract a crowd, but neither will Chicago winters. I could see some of the second-gen MLS stadia, when they are eventually built/renovated, having roofs a la the Bundesliga. It'd be costly as hell but it'd also mean the league had risen to a higher level of standing in the sports world in USA/Canada.

Nice display name btw.

ok this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4SpjMinlQ&feature=youtu.be

Less than 40 seconds in and I just...can't...

I have to watch that in 10 second bites because otherwise my head explodes.