Major League Soccer

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.

https://p.twimg.com/AvpBUMACMAMtpDw.jpg

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.

upon further inspection, tickets are 15$, doing this shit
the ones that were $25 were for a doubleheader which features an exhibition match bw monterrey and San Luis

red cards for both sides here.

No means no Montero.

I'd totally go for 15 dollars, tbh 25 sounded steep for NASL.

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

wau

espn ads making this out to be like celtic/rangers were a bit much

transfer window incoming:

Marco di Vaio- Montreal Impact (Bologna - Serie A)
Alex - Chicago Fire (FC Wohlen - Challenge League)
Barry Robson - Vancouver Whitecaps FC (Middlesbrough - The Championship)
Jairo Arrieta- Columbus Crew (Deportivo Saprissa – Primera División de Costa Rica)
Oscar Boniek Garcia- Houston Dynamo (C.D. Olimpia - Liga Nacional de Honduras)

not heard a lot of outgoing rumors besides geoff cameron -> stoke and marco pappa as mentioned above. the fire may also lose sebastian grazzini due to contract weirdness which would be a shame imo.

shevchenko rumors continue including 1.9m for 1 year with the fire. he scored some goals in ukraine last year but still I don't know if a 35yo forward is what we need exactly.

sounders-sj ustream is so fucked i'm watching some guy broadcasting from his phone. he and his buddy are commentating and singing along

haha just read a tweet from someone saying they were one of 450 people on some guy's iphone stream from the stands

if there was ever an indication of the relative nerdliness of american soccer fans, there you go

hha yeah lxy just now on the porch: "this guy broadcasting is such a soccer nerd, and this is the highlight of his fandom."

hoping Portland do well this year. their fans are something else.

DC United are fun to watch this year.

This SJ v LA game is nutso.

mls coming to queens?

Just watched a replay of the San Jose/Galaxy game. That was bonkers.

Nesta signing with Montreal hmm

http://i50.tinypic.com/snctxu.jpg

cynic in me is p sure that shirt swap was orchestrated by the league

stand up if you hate afternoon games

looks like DCU have some investors, finally. minority owners of philly 76ers?

my SA scorpions FC are nearly drawing as many fans per game as NE revolution
going to a game next Saturday, I'm stoked

Nice! Make sure and report back in.

seen internet rumblings about a summit between MLS and the lower leagues about setting something up for MLS reserve squads based on the Bundesliga model

no idea how true that is but it could be very awesome

what I mean by that is that reserve squads could take part in lower leagues and play every week instead of like 10 times a year

article on playing in MLS by former Fire midfielder Peter Lowry, pretty informative from an inside perspective

http://soccerwithoutlimits.com/mls-not-as-easy-as-it-looks

Thanks Dan. I've never thought much about the travel because all of our big sports have it. And the athleticism is a real good call.