Major League Soccer

I blame the big O

Also Jozy shoved a dude down and should have been called for a foul before the second TFC goal

lodeiro btw

the return leg was something special too

Mike Magee retires, a true MLS great

This is fantastic: http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2017/02/08/mls-roster-rules-acquisitions-flowchart-how-to-sign-players

jesus

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Dwight Yorke confirms he's been denied entry to the US because of Iranian stamp in his passport. (Played in Tehran charity match in 2015.)

new teams!
this is decent a badge
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/93ccbd5b989cc25da63dc3a9307d24ff9c834caf/36_0_695_417/master/695.png?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=4b47666870fc0beda9e65a553f1e5793

and the loons is a great nickname but wearing all grey at home is aggressively boring, giant wings or no.

this goes into the lazy hall of fame
http://atlantaintownpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/atl-black.png

i like that "victory red" doesn't represent victory
http://diegoguevara.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TheeBlog_AtlantaUnitedFC3.png

had somehow escaped me that tata martino was going to be atlanta's coach

http://deadspin.com/this-horrendous-atlanta-united-fan-chant-is-the-nadir-o-1792853723

Gonna be going to Fire @ Atlanta in a couple weeks. Will have to watch my back in case those proper mental lads are about.

And yeah Minnesota's badge rules.

the red eye is a great detail

Early impressions: Houston looked dangerous last night. Chicago looked like Chicago. Toronto still in MLS finals form. Minnesota has a beautiful crest and a god awful uniform.

On my way to OCSC opener. New stadium. Hopefully retooled backline lets in no goals

have fun! stadium looks beautiful.

Atlolnta

lmao of course

lol jfc off to a great start in minne

orange balol alert

That's too bad. Was hoping at least that a couple Atlanta players would get injured ahead of next weekend.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/soccer/ct-fire-atlanta-united-mls-spt-0317-20170315-story.html

excellent article about what's wrong in Chicago vs what is right in Atlanta

lol/sob

At Schweinsteiger's introductory press conference a reporter asked him if he thinks he can help the Fire win the World Cup.

amazing.

that is legit amazing

idk Chicago might become its own nation soon

https://twitter.com/ChicagoFire/status/847214741676273666

A touch of class, Schweinsteiger with the reporter who asked him about Chicago's world cup chances, after yesterday's home game

https://twitter.com/derekhenkle/status/848354230066872320

Almost game time in O town

http://i68.tinypic.com/2rm33gi.jpg

Holy wow the City - Galaxy match

https://www.balls.ie/football/watch-david-villa-goal-50-yard-volley-philadelphia-union-363175

lol at shitty Montreal deflection goal beating Villa's actual amazing goal

http://www.dirtysouthsoccer.com/2017/4/20/15376022/mls-goal-of-the-week-award-is-broken

welp the goal was to fill the bowl at the Pride match today, and despite Marta arriving and actually playing in the second half, didn't come anywhere close. 14,452, nowhere near the 23,403 record we set last year. even despite running a ticket promotion where you bought one ticket and got two 50% off.

disappointing af. entertaining match though. I got to do the rally tunnel.

lotsa Orlando-ites smugly wagging their fingers at me today saying "It's Earth Day Birth Day" (a "legendary" Orlando concert series with terrible bands), only to forget that the opener where the record was set was opposite EDBD too last year (and it went opposite the headliners!).

Yankee Stadium reduces soccer to pinball.

Larin just got his 5th goal. Christ he will be gone soon.

And there's 6

Rivas and Kaka!

idk how much of our fortress at home is us being great vs seemingly every game being in 95 degree weather at 4 pm (in the old stadium we had a lot more night matches) but I'll take it.

I thought this article was fairly spot-on across the league: http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/the91stminute/2017/05/how-each-mls-club-strives-and-struggles-to-find-authentic-identity/

The Fire seem to be lurching forward like some oddly constructed soccering Frankenstein, but against the odds their shadow Buying Club approach appears to be working in 2017. Snapping up Dax McCarty and Juninho and then paying top 5 MLS money for Bastian Schweinsteiger is just the sort of thing an LA Galaxy or an NYCFC would do, which means we maybe reconsider the Fire as a *gulp* Buying Club if this becomes a trend. Their roster doesn’t appear to have any unifying approach to it, and it certainly doesn’t value any one thing over the other, but the Fire don’t seem particularly concerned with longevity at the moment. They’re built for about a two or three-year title window before starting over.

This is so awesome; DC United's opponent in the 4th round of the Open Cup tonight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos_FC

Christos FC is an American soccer team based in Baltimore, Maryland that competes in the Maryland Major Soccer League, an affiliated league of United States Adult Soccer Association. Founded in 1997, the team is composed of ex-professionals and local college players in the Greater Baltimore area. The team colors are green, gold and black. The team takes its name from Christos Discount Liquors, a liquor store owned by businessman Nick Christopoulos who serves as the club's main financial backer.

Christos scores, the crowd goes wild. This is great.

Uhhhh the beer league guys just scored. Mayhem pic.twitter.com/lweUW2egqP

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) June 14, 2017

thats legendary

lol tweet I didn't see during the game

Announcers shocked that Christos FC is cramping up in the second half like they haven't already admitted they drink heavily & don't exercise

— Zack Goldman (@ThatDamnYank) June 14, 2017

(Christos lost 4-1)

Kaka just scored a cracker from distance while he knew Guzan wasn't expecting it and kinda looked at Guzan like "lol this is why you suck" afterwards.

so abrupt that Fox fucking missed it in real time.

http://www.dispatch.com/sports/20171017/crew-sc-owner-without-downtown-stadium-team-is-moving

oh wow it is extremely surprising that this dickhead owner is playing the "give me a free stadium or we're leaving" card

just weird the target city is Austin

Austin Villa please https://t.co/biqshxf6aL

— inflation, sorry (@EuroBigMacs) October 17, 2017

why do you think Austin is a weird choice? don't know much about it, but it's a big city with no pro sports team, and i can see an owner thinking that Austin could develop a supporter culture like Portland. Plus, lots of Latinos.

Just that it's a smaller market than Columbus and they've already folded one lower-division team there.

have to think that austin will overtake columbus soon (though i don't know how the size of market is determined). it already has a larger metro area population and while growth has slowed down since 2000, it's still the fastest growing city in the country.