Major League Soccer

2-2, then 3-2 but called back

So seattle won. Means that the whitecaps conference semi final is guaranteed to be against cascadian rivals - portland beat kansas and it'll be kansas, kansas beat portland and it'll be seattle. Pretty happy about that.

It'll be portland not kansas obv

wow @ that agudelo goal

haha yeah

goal of the season for sure as far as I have seen

Looks like Toronto is making the most of finally making the playoffs. Ugly first half.

Kreis out at NYCFC, suddenly the top choice at all the shitty teams looking for coaches (including mine).

Good games tonight so far, this is one of the better playoffs I can remember.

This was lol:

https://vine.co/v/elK3r72DpTh

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Not a good playoff year for the league's big-money players. NONE of the league's Top 15 highest-paid players still alive in the playoffs.

good stat
dallas were impressive, deserved it i hate to say. so much younger and quicker

Fire announce Veljko Paunovic, who managed Serbias u20 WC winners, as new head coach.

http://media.giphy.com/media/l41lXzTgkP5xDG58Y/giphy.gif

disturbing

OH MY GOD. Look who I found on Tinder, guys. 😂😂😂 https://twitter.com/MBrault/status/609569643016032256

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@MBrault we need to blow this up and put it on a 2pole with "I swiped left!"

A friend found Lovel Palmer on Tinder earlier this year

is everyone stoked for the cup? im not really but i'll watch and root for Portland i suppose.

Not stoked per we, but I'll watch and hope for Cbus to be totally humiliated

is a bit of a shame that the apogee of the soccer season in north america occurs on a sunday afternoon in december ie competing against football, the most popular sport on the continent

Timbers! Seattle must be pissed, but not as pissed as Cbus.

ah, this was an ok game, eh?

the crew's goalkeeper wasnt "a great advert" for the mls mind you, christ.

fucking portland

Officiating was pretty terrible of course, but I don't think it decided the game any more than the sloppy fuckin' play did. Still entertaining.

And now the fun starts, players could start moving today: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-city-lions/os-mls-free-agency-1207-20151206-story.html

lol MLS superdraft

good god columbus

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almost time.

they've sold 57k tix to Orlando City's opener tomorrow. stoked....i upgraded my seats

part of me is more excited for the Pride season tho.

57k is seriously impressive. Vancouver is def a "soccer city" to an extent and we made the playoffs last year but the opener will be like 22k in a stadium with a potential capacity of over 50k :/

Nwsl is cool would def attend matches if I lived in a city with a team, maybe they'll expand to canada one day - hoping it endures, feel fairly confident it will.

New beginnings for the Fire once again tomorrow. They looked good and organized in preseason but the team is very young and not very deep. It'll be 50 and sunny tomorrow in Chicago which is amazing, but if there's a full house it'll likely be due to people coming out to see nycfc.

I like the new coach but the organization still just screams amateur hour.

how is attendance at Fire matches? I attended one like, two years ago (my first ever MLS match) because I was in Lincolnshire on business, and one of the execs from the front office tried to sell me a ticket package the other day (left me a voicemail). that was a bit...weird!

(the match was fun - it was against the Whitecaps iirc)

"fill the bowl" an unfortunate slogan for Orlando City today

smoke up!
going to my first sounders game in a while. new turf, morris, thunder in the forecast. Should be fun

fun final minutes in OC
do chi fans really holler 'puto' at GKs? did i hear that?

Chicago does but it's not just them. even United States fans have started chanting it at USMNT matches. fuckin infuriates me.

and yeah bizarre final minute. was a pretty garbage match today with some really bad officiating (what else is new).

sounders was one of those: dominated, fair red, fluky loss. the game changed with the weather. <3 ecs singing 'seattle sunshine.'

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/03/22/31D252E900000578-3475547-image-a-1_1457045132344.jpg

how is attendance at Fire matches? I attended one like, two years ago (my first ever MLS match) because I was in Lincolnshire on business, and one of the execs from the front office tried to sell me a ticket package the other day (left me a voicemail). that was a bit...weird!

They're desperate to sell tickets. I have friends who haven't been to games since 08/09 that are still getting calls, despite their repeated efforts to get off the lists, including being aggressively offensive to the people who call. Attendance is all over the place, yesterday was pretty good but probably because of NYCFC stars coming to town. Without that I'd imagine it to be around 14k. There are allegedly 6500 or so season ticket holders, and that number has been dropping.

do chi fans really holler 'puto' at GKs? did i hear that?

#notallfirefans

jk jk, but really, it isn't everyone, or even a majority, but it's a huge problem that the supporters have been trying to solve for a few years. The FO is totally two-faced about it, speaking out about it and threatening sanctions to people who do it, but doing nothing as far as action because they're afraid of putting people off from buying tickets in groups, which they rely upon due to their low numbers I discussed above. And yeah, it's a problem elsewhere too. In my own discussions/arguments/fights about the matter, the single largest retort/excuse I hear about it is it's a "cultural" thing for Mexicans. I love my Mexican-American friends and family, and I hate to hear their culture besmirched that way.

R U READY DAN

Watching on a pirate stream, I still have so many questions

Why this goalie again? Why don't they have a full roster? How can teams not know Accam is fast as hell?

Lol I yelled that at Seb Hines when he gaffed on that. The dick.

https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/podcasts/fading-embers-the-blizzard-podcast-episode-thirty/

Interesting take on the Fire's woes, only misses the mark on a few minor points.

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if you can you should see incident that drew the whitecaps first penalty Saturday night. a guy trips over his own feet in the box, the defender is about a meter away, penalty awarded. mls officiating at its finest!

whitecaps and sounders are both bad this year so far. 1-2 and 0-3 respectively. whitecaps had, I think, the best defence in mls last season, have so far conceded 6 goals in 3 games.

http://www.espnfc.com/major-league-soccer/19/blog/post/2826676/2016-mls-anonymous-player-poll

really interesting survey of mls players on a range of topics related to the league

pro/rel truthers getting all hip on us

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promotion/relegation would really make the league a lot more interesting. never going to happen though.

it'd be a kick in the pants to the fire's ownership for sure but I doubt they (and a lot of other owners) would even be in the game if there was a chance their little investments could *gasp* lose and be devalued!

anybody got an NWSL team near them? we have the Pride too. I think I'm taking my mother to their home opener and she loves Alex Morgan. I'm so glad we have this.

lol we done fucked Portland's shit up