Major League Soccer

lol @ Austin

(the squad not the awesome poster)

austin fc failure is my success

not mls, but i bought season tickets to san antonio fc this year, im INVESTED

the 12th man!

defending usl champs babyyyy

Austin were -1500 Vegas favorites coming into this leg. Valotte AC have a rich history but the league they belong to hasn't completed a full season since 2018. and they had to play their 'home' leg of the match in another country (Dominican Republic). and facing one of the higher ranked teams in MLS who had a strong offensive output last year, and come out and win the first leg over them 3-0. what a great story/performance.

but also LOL AT AUSTIN FC

xpost nice. weirdly you all have a few ex-Orlando City players (David Loera and Victor "PC" Giro). so I guess I'll root for yas to win again this year ;)

Concacaf is the gift that keeps on giving

now watch as my team will probably get rolled in 20 mins

Xp I rest my case

Best thing you'll see all day. 🐶

Doggo just trying to score a goal. pic.twitter.com/ycikSNGlTz

— Major League Soccer (@MLS) March 8, 2023

xpost nice. weirdly you all have a few ex-Orlando City players (David Loera and Victor "PC" Giro). so I guess I'll root for yas to win again this year ;)

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, March 7, 2023 8:01 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we had santiago patiño, too! he was our playoff goal machine. he's off to brazil's 2nd flight iirc.

love pc, his name is completely incomprehensible to (theyre not his initials, not rly into gaming computers either afaik)

wow, Tigres player Gignac shoved our guy on the ground, straight red

rescinded. i don't think that was the wrong call.

any chance we could rename this thread to a general "professional american soccer" type beat? talk about mls, nwsl, usl, us national teams, etc?

i wouldn't object

actually going to watch the USMNT tomorrow against El Salvador

oh nice!

i am watching the angel city v gotham game rn and i am so so happy that angel city has been such a hit. west coast has the best soccer culture in the country (4 of the top 5 in nwsl attendance last year were west coast teams).

I really am sad that the Pride never got embraced in Orlando. interest was high for *one year* and then attendance fell to pitiful levels, and then the product on the field went into the toilet so it'll probably never recover.

shame...I love the NWSL. good soccer, and the small size of the league means you get to see some of the World Cup stars. we had Alex Morgan for several years.

speaking of...SD wave had over 30k at their opener this weekend

now THAT'S how you fuckin' do it

anticipating the '23 women's world cup boost for sure. three new teams coming i think by next year: utah, sf, and boston.

usl is supposedly starting a 2nd div women's league ('usl super league'). they had originally announced an aug 2023 start, but delayed it for another year. calendar is gonna line up with the aug-june international calendar. theyve been pretty tight-lipped about any teams though, just saying there'd be 10-12 teams to start and that most of them would be in cities that already have usl presence. would love to eventually see a women's open cup.

also btw how the fuck are stl 5-0-0 right now?? crazy

I was just talking about that with my buddies! I think the fact that they signed a lot of players early so they had a full off-season to practice helped. But to be 5-0-0 with a +11 goal differential is nuts for an expansion team even in this weird league.

our leading goal scorer from last year is there now, sam adenarin. he was here on loan from seattle and was a major reason why sa won the usl championship last year. he's gotten some playing time off the bench as a striker in stl so i kinda root for them.

always happy to talk about other leagues in here, rename as necessary

https://i.ibb.co/ZmDzYTn/Fs-Qh-JBYXo-AEyf-DG.jpg

The place is gonna pop off when Dike takes the field. Best striker Orlando City ever had, he's a hero here

That was one boring half. Got more beer

Don Garber at the USSF board meeting, expresses MLS' disappointment in the setup of the the US Open Cup (streams, fields, etc): "They are not games that we would want our product to be shown to a large audience so frankly I'm not all that disappointed that the audience is small."

— Jeff Kassouf (@JeffKassouf) May 5, 2023

DonG Arber rapidly approaching Gary Bettman levels of booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Lol this fuckin league

All my friends with season tickets are putting the Inter Miami game on the resale market with huge markup, lol

hahaha.

shit, when do they come to Orlando.

Messi experiment is gonna be kinda hilarious as he's going to a real shit squad and gonna get frustrated with how terrible they are at setting him up but he'll spike attendance everywhere he goes.

but if he comes in the summer window, how many matches is he gonna start after already playing an entire full season with PSG

This sounds like a retirement move (haven't read anything about it though. Been out of the loop)

oh totally is.

I'm gonna keep my ticket so I can maybe see him play but let's be real if they do it in the summer window it's more for next year anyway

also he's going to get angry real fast when he sees what MLS soccer is like lol....

lots of European studs have slotted in nicely in MLS, like Zlatan, Beckham, etc, but Messi strikes me as someone who's gonna be like "JESUS FUCK can anybody here play?" real fast.

I remember Pirlo having a disastrous stint in MLS and saying "everybody runs too much here"

Lol now debating flipping my ticket for profit vs getting to MAYBE see Messi play which isn't guaranteed

Be hilarious if Miamis attendance, which has slightly improved this year, goes back to dead last when nobody can afford them

also presume loan back to barca for off season maybe?

So people in MY section are unloading their Tix for $600.

I'm in the upper deck lol and the game is in Sept. Who TF knows if he'll be playing.

I listed mine for 5k as a joke

(mind you I haven't seen anyone PAY more than $200-250 for any yet)

messi shouldve gone to miami fc in the usl, wouldve been legendary

Lol otm

Inter Miami just punched their ticket to the Open Cup semifinal, will Messi be available in time to take on his old rivals from Real (Salt Lake)?

Not an MLS match but being played in our stadium - The Beautiful Game all star charity match featuring Ronaldinho.

Early reports are that dozens of pitch invaders keep running onto the field and it's gotten so bad the players left the field.

They just abandoned the match

There were pitch invasions galore when Ronaldinho and AC Milan played a friendly against the Fire in Chicago.

Seedorf scored the winner iirc