Major League Soccer

This all-star game is embarrassing.

lol yeah

tho I'm weirdly happy the Fire gave Utd their toughest test against MLS opposition even if it was partly due to weather

http://i.imgur.com/b1h1G.gif

Ha.

Panayotis Alexander ("Alexi") Lalas (born June 1, 1970) is a retired . Best friends with Sean Stowe from Virginia NOT CHICAGO! American soccer player who played mostly as a defender for the United States national team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/355993412a.jpg

freddy adu to sign for philadelphia

NBC gets the rights. Maybe people will care.

Robbie Keane to LA Galaxy

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/942960/tottenham-striker-keane-heading-to-galaxy---report?cc=5739

salary cap? what salary cap?

lol Keane

an acquaintance of mine did a bit for Run of Play on the Fire v. Man Utd game

ooft

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

scores on a blast!

(that's American for "cunted")

p nice

I liked that piece, Dan.

First Freddie, now Eddie (Johnson) -- errbody's comin' home

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Sporting-KC-keeper-hit-in-the-face-with-Omar-Bra?urn=sow-wp4227

and afterwards:

@PumaNielsen1
Jimmy Nielsen
Thanks for all the support, it means the world to me. Gonna work the dog now, and hope Mrs. N is wearing the nurse costume when I come back.

yeah it's a pretty weird situation

also a situation: Fire setting the new record for most draws in a season last night. 15 draws and we still have 10 games to go. Playoffs?

very excited for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZf6Crc78Zo&feature=player_embedded

carles from hipster runoff on robbie keane

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6891838/robbie-keane-joins-galaxy

His ensuing celebration involved an old-man cartwheel

lol burn

sign David Beckham to a contract that went beyond a team's salary cap

wtf is this Communism doing in the Land of the Free?

every sport in the usa is way more communist than in the rest of the world

Carles must not rly follow MLS or else he'd know the trend is now buying up younger South American rising stars, using DP status to pay their transfer fees, and reaping the benefits of winning/selling down the road.

c'mon, Carles clearly never heard of Robbie Keane before Monday.

otm

biggest match in two years for us tonight, and they're doing it up in Seattle too

http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/story/2011-08-29/fire-coach-klopas-hopes-cup-greeted-with-open-arms

that's actually a pretty good article on the cup itself too

ok chi see u soon

rly didn't want to have to travel for this

MLS offers higher standard than SPL

hmmmmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmgPzBfFYw

one of the funniest MLS things I have ever seen

worst hooligans ever (apart from that wee hobbit guy)

nothing will ever beat that boy from toronto.

Why do people even

updated salary list is out

http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/September%201,%202011%20Salary%20Information%20-%20By%20Club.pdf

can't believe how much we're paying players to either be injured or play reserve games, also can't comprehend the accounting tricks that must be going on around the league

ahahaha marquez you dick

Speaking through an interpreter after New York's dismal 3-1 loss to Real Salt Lake on Wednesday, Marquez criticized his teammates, saying they were not on his level.

"I'm focusing on really performance at my highest level. That doesn't mean that the whole backline can perform at that same level, so that’s a problem," Marquez told the NYDailyNews.com. "I think this is a team game and unfortunately there isn't an equal level between my teammates and I."

surely he realizes that nyrb implodes every year, it's not solely his teammates fault

I caught the end of that game. Thierry Henry looks thoroughly bored with football.

I skipped that game--it was on a weeknight and also I'm running low on masochism.

imho this kind of thing shows just how much careful team-building matters in the league over outright spending. Salt Lake have been v solid top-to-bottom for a few years now and RBNY is a bit of hodge-podge with a couple of very shiny expensive parts.

Well, we'll see. At the NY v Portland game. Row 2!

nice article about mls supporters http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/6992816/major-league-soccer-move-soccer-moms-league-hard-core-fan-groups-here-stay

I have to say I hate most teams and fans from philadephia but the Sons of Ben seem pretty cool.

The SoB started showing up at other MLS teams' games, singing to New York Red Bulls fans that even without a team they had just as many trophies as they did.

Oh kay. I realize that article is "about" the SoB but every other team with an active/promoted supporter's group at least got named...except literally not one mention of the ESC? Which is the oldest supporter's group in the league. It's fine, my club experience does not depend on articles like that, but it's weird unless it was purposeful.

The Chicago Fire lead the league with 14 recognized bands of hard-core groups.

:D

attn seattle I will be in yr area for the final on 10/4 w/ some friends

oh shit

http://espn.go.com/chicago/story/_/id/7027800/chicago-sting-honor-30-year-anniversary-nasl-title