Major League Soccer

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How good is Hunter Jumper? Great name, but I feel bad for the dude and his poxy salary.

Haven't seen much of him yet beyond the reserve squad. He seems like one of those classic American "hell of an athlete, questionable soccer player" types. Guess that's why we have Friedrich, Pardo, and Gibbs to teach the n00bs. Salaries are terrible all-round, I wonder why they keep some of the guys who are on like 100k+ and ride the bench.

The Fire player I'm most surprised by is the GK Tornaghi. Inter youth product, came up with Baloltelli and some other notables, spent time in the lower Serie leagues and then came here. He could start for a lot of teams in this league, and the only reason he isn't starting here at the moment is that Sean Johnson is a US nat'l team darling. He's worth a lot more than what he's getting.

Hunter Jumper could be a good name for a primitive yet hypermasculine society, where athletic prowess is valued more than harvesting vegetables.

Yeah, that place is called Texas, where he comes from.

Branko Boskovic, D.C. United: $409,000 ($545,000)

please don't re-up please don't re-up

from sounder at heart:

The league is paying $15.07 in salary for every person who attends a game (total salary over total attendance). That number has fluctuated between $12.89 (2007) and $17.71 (2010) over the previous 5 years. The mean cost per team per game is $139,145.41, up over $30k since ’07, but a little less than 2010, which was an expensive year for the league, with total salary expenditure jumping over $19 million. Since 2010, total salary costs have risen an additional $19 million, to just shy of $90 million. Of course, 3 teams have joined the league in that time, so the average team salary has only risen by 6.8%.

official usoc lol list: LA, Chi, revs, cbus, hou

dallas

rsl

~~~dear soccer gods in heaven above let portland be next~~~

nothing like traveling to a suburb of detroit to watch your team lose in a turf-floored pole barn

srsly the seattle sounders themselves could not have bought and paid for a better home field advantage

Oh right I understand now. Is the US Open Cup a big thing in your culture? Because that looks like a pretty epic night of shocks.

it's big in some scenes, not so much in others. since they gave a champions league spot to the winners it's been on the upswing though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/30/us-open-lamar-hunt-cup-round-3

Ah great, thanks - I lap that stuff up. The comments are worth reading too:

Long Island away in 1997. An unlit field in Stony Brook, with Rhett Hartley heading in the extra time winner at dusk, off a Donadoni free kick.

slightly crepey of me to know this but I believe that commenter is a former ilxor

that might have been my first jaymc moment

thank u soccer gods

lol kris boyd misses a penalty that leads to portland getting knocked out by amateurs.

Current Roster
From news report[8]

Danny Barrera
Diego Barrera
Artur Aghasyan - scored goal in 95th minute of match vs. Portland Timbers, ensuring Cal FC's 1-0 victory[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Pedro Ferreira-Mendes
Paulo Ferreira-Mendes
Eder Arreola
Mike Randolph
Richard Menjivar
Derby Carillo (mentioned during match vs. Portland Timbers - 5/30/2012)
Cesar Rivera (mentioned during match vs. Portland Timbers - 5/30/2012)
Jesus Gonzalez (mentioned during match vs. Portland Timbers - 5/30/2012)

This shows the magnitude of it nicely I think.

kind of <3 that Cal are wearing 2010 Fire shirts

Grant Wahl ‏@GrantWahl

General response is an MLS team would be better off setting $2 million cash on fire than buying Ronaldinho. Could be entertaining, though.

The KLF already did it. It wasn't.

haha

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/03/amateur-team-bringing-american-soccer-its-knees/

<3 wynalda

That was v cool. Totally didn't realize that teams who pay the most get to play at home!

lol

harrisburg city islanders (3rd div) 3 - 1 new york red bulls

Nowak out

Philoldelphia

Looks like a great atmosphere in Montreal. That revamped stadium looks solid, and it has real turf!

rumours of Shevchenko coming to MLS

yup, he's been coming over off and on for like 4 years now

guardian's giving the fire/nyrb match the mbm treatment today

It's live on t'ESPN over here! With Arlo White!

Sean Johnson's got a 1.44 GAA! (Goals against average?)

pretty stoked the whitecaps are far from whipping boys.

and this shit brown 3rd kit is actually doing it for me:

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/New-Whitecaps-Shirt-2012.jpg

Huh, Arlo White does games for NBC here, including today's as far as I know.

Good game, shame about the blown call but it made the fans really loud & angry, and the players responded.

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btw suck it, conde

fun times w/ this big dish towel

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

lol of the night was a Polish fan saying something like "This is Russia? Nah, this is Chicago."

hearing rumors of newcastle and villareal interest in the fire's marco pappa, he'd be much much better off in spain imho

Portland 2-0 Seattle at the half, could have been 3-0 but for the cross bar. Pretty lively game thus far.

its on ESPN here but i think im all footballed out right now.

I admit it, I turned off Italy/Englande PKs to watch this ¯\(°_o)/¯

I know my city is trying to get into the MLS. right now we have a new NASL team that plays about 10 minutes from me. is it worth the $25 per ticket?

What city is it? I have friends that follow a couple of different NASL clubs. I would say go and check it out if nothing else. Depending on the club you may be surprised.

m bison - give it a go! Maybe down the line we can do an MLS home and away series. Still looking for that perfect excuse to make the drive down your way.

San Antonio scorpions FC
new stadium opening next year, starts at 6000 capacity with various phases to expand to 18000 capacity

I figure now is as good as any time to go since I've got the summer off, just used to buying cheap seats wherever I go

check out their twitter and facebook pages - I know FC Dallas often has ticket deals that only show up there.