Major League Soccer

PS Fire 1, United 0 at the half.

We've all totally lost interest because our glorious hero David Beckham is no longer involved. Sorry.

Yeah, that's right, my team kicked his broke ass out on Sunday.

Any excuse to watch this again.

is blanco playing? soccernet isn't working for me right now

Golaso de De Rosario

Blanco started, but he hasn't had much of a game thus far.

i'm marginally interested. when my town, seattle, gets a team in '09 i'm sure i'll be way more into it

Some friends of mine saw (the US) Chivas this last weekend. Said it was straight bollocks.

Welcome, shit-talking British people.

The game ended 1-0. DC put in their goal-scorers in the second half but they didn't do much of anything either. Leg 2 is in a week in DC.

Also, it occured to me that Brits ought to know "bollocks" football when they see it, considering their national team.

Yeah, the British National Football Team has a long and varied history.

"Brits" = the English. No Scots would call themselves "Brits".

Sorry, you're right.

First round:

Chivas over KC
Revs over NY
Houston over Dallas
Fire over DC

After that, I don't know.

Any excuse to watch this again.

Great free kick, not sure about this "upper 90" term instead of the traditional "postage stamp" or even "top corner".

Is that Tim Lovejoy MLS show still on?

Conference finals are set:

✧✧✧@✧.✧.
K.C.@Houston

NE looked assy in their 1-0 win over New York. Aside from the fact that the Fire have to play in their huge, empty stadium, on turf, I think they have a great shot of breaking the playoff curse vs. the Revs. Houston should roll over KC.

Stupid ILX, those aren't email addresses

Chi AT N.E.

So the season starts tomorrow, does anyone care?

Yes, I'm going to New Jersey to watch like 7 hours of MLS tomorrow, since our first game isn't until Apr 5.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/powerranking?cc=5901

lol: Riquelme to MLS?

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-soccer9apr09,1,6870991.story

Similarly, if Riquelme plays for Argentina in its June 8 friendly against the U.S. at Giants Stadium, all it will take for him to reject any move is one look at the dreadful, patched-up, threadbare, NFL-logoed carpet that passes for a soccer field at the Meadowlands.

ahahahahaha

Seattle Alliance, Seattle Republic and Seattle FC beaten out by popular opinion. New Team:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2008/04/07/2004333628.jpg

meet the new team
same as the old team

with an FC!

Dan kind of sold me on Emerald City FC, I don't think it got a fair chance...but good for them, anyway. Nice work chucking the proverbial monkey wrench in the league's plans.

Although I did read a decent rejoinder from a Seattle fan somewhere who said they were happy that E.C.F.C. didn't get picked b/c they'd be spared all the teasing and the stupid jokes (especially when KC came to town).

even though i voted for just seattle fc, i'm happy with the name.

pretty uncringeworthy as far as u.s. professional soccer team names go, historically speaking, anyhow

Didn't Chicago almost get called something really lame?

Oh god, I'm not sure since I haven't followed the team for that long, but I remember reading a reference somewhere online to calling the team the "Rhythm"? GAG

YES, that's what I was thinking of. Can you imagine? SO MANY JOEKS, I CANNOT DECIDE

The K.C. Wiz has to be stupidest ever, even taking the NASL into account.

Dallas Burn & Tampa Bay Mutiny pretty close behind

still, i don't sneeze at their rhythm method-inspired offsides trap

all football strategies should take cues from dodgy birth control methods

like the d.c. united 7-up douche corner kick formation

worst logo
http://web.mlsnet.com/imgs/logos/t102_md.gif
it looks like the label on some weird 90s era mirco brewed soda.

DC are douches, that is for sure.

i first read that as "micc10 brewed soda"

step away from computer, dell

but yeah, that's a fitting description

either that, or the failed irish-amer hip hop band that lost it to house of pain

best NASL team logo

ESPN talking heads going off on streamers being tossed at games:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8pgexephJM&eurl=http://theoffsiderules.blogspot.com/

i was watching that game on the telly. i thought the streamers fiasco was pretty funny. Actually it was a pretty decent game, although I'm perfectly aware that the "open" style of play was down to no defending on either side whatsoever.

Whoever the guy in that video was ranting is a total fuckwit.

My girlfriend and I were thinking about going to a Revolution match this season. Any suggestions on which? Neither of us follow the MLS closely. LA is out as its sold out.

HAI GUISE I M GOING TO DC TOMORROW. Wish ush luck.

LOL:

In a pair of sweeping changes brought about by a Major League Soccer season in meltdown, the Los Angeles Galaxy today removed Alexi Lalas as team president and general manager and Ruud Gullit as coach.

In its official statement on the changes, AEG, which owns the team, said that Gullit had resigned "for personal reasons" and that Lalas' contract was up at the end of the year and that the team decided to part company now rather than wait.

that's what you get for spending all your salary cap (plus some lol) on three players

I'm so happy, really. They deserved the boot.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
LOVE YOU
WE LOVE YOU
WE LOVE YOU
AND WHERE YOU PLAY WE'LL FOLLOW
WE'LL FOLLOW
WE'LL FOLLOW

Congrats to NY for completely stuffing DC yesterday and making a lot of people very happy.

Lalas is such a tool, really. I remember hearing him say, in all earnestness, that the Gals would be the first MLS "superclub".

Also I should have said VULTURE capitalist shitstain above… he doesn't have enough money for ventures, which is part of the problem.

God i wanna fuck ATL up toni

Ght

HAUPT
MAN
OUT

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

^^aforementioned egomaniac vulture capitalist shitstain

I went to my first mls game of the season today, the latest i’ve left it in years. Weird one. ECS walked out at halftime because their iron front flag bearer got kcicked out. Quiet and sloppy second half, but a sounders win

Nice, y'all are in 2nd, huh?

Got so close to perfect home attendance this year for OC. made the first fifteen games, had to miss last night and will be out of the country for the finale.

Missed a wild one too. I have a feeling next year is our year. Definitely a better squad than a year ago

how'd I never notice that Houston basically has the same kit as Wolverhampton

GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL

Motherfuck our stupid dumbfuck front office.

Sixth season and we will be on our fourth goddamn coach.

You can have Chicago's

oh shii we get to host

Thank fuck ATL lost.

Their fans were insufferable pricks to my friend who was there with her young kid, telling her to "shut the fuck up" for cheering for OC in our own stadium

ok who is stoked

on my way to watch the WNT play in Jax so I'll miss a lot of this.

pulling Seattle

hell the fuck yes. never seen the stadium like that. hoarse. WOOOOOOOOOO SOUNDERS!!!!!!

maxi is correct

This is an incredible amount of money for a league that...

- Barely gets 200K viewers a game.

- Barely earns any amount of national media coverage.

- Still has players fly in economy.

- Actively claims it's not profitable. https://t.co/9kwRhUzMqW

— Maxi Rodriguez (@FutbolIntellect) December 16, 2019

they need a few foldings to remind them of their stature

yeah, that is nuts

The city of Charlotte is apparently offering to stump up $110m from public funds - which seems even more absurd.

this is a big reason why san antonio balked at pursuing an expansion franchise (that and eventually austin landing one for themselves)

Got tickets to the Atlanta v Nashville game next Saturday. Should be fun!

This is so incredibly, comically bad. I LOVE MLS I MISSED YOU SO MUCH
pic.twitter.com/YgPEllLHga

— Kylo Force Choking Appreciator (@LindsayAdaire) February 29, 2020

lmao missed u mls

On my way to opening day

me too!

https://i.ibb.co/2yGn0DS/IMG-20200229-180548.jpg

fun opening game in Nashville. I think the team will be solid this year once they get more time to gel.

Josef Martinez torn ACL. damn

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/mls/major-league-soccer-resume-play-tournament-1.5605884

I'm going to watch the hell out of this

will be weird (no crowds) and possibly bad

Oh it's going to be really bad

im entirely too starved of fútbol at this stage. I am a desperate man

i'll watch the hell out of it.

looks like what I paid for season tickets is gonna roll over to next year since we won't be able to see many (if any) games in person this year.

the draw for this has massively rigged energy

as long as NYCFC are all eaten by a bear on live tv i'm game

https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/mls-coronavirus-tournament-format-groups-unfair-132017049.html

Bubble is going well.

It's the tournament Garber deserves.

truly

That wall of ads is so distracting. I feel a little guilty watching this because it's stupid and dangerous yet, as with most things MLS, it's such a dumb crazy spectacle I can't look away.

lol at Dwyer whiffing in front of an unguarded net

when your feet are too rusty to score, try fisting it in

what a garbage goal, any squad with a slightly above average defence should have broken that up. sigh

never like to see a player with his hands around his throat like that. stretcher coming

ugh. that was ugly. hope Reyes is ok.

Goal!

Tesho Akindele scores a lot of goals for a guy who doesn't look like he was made to play this game.

which probably explains why he so horribly whiffed on that one

Dwyer should have had like two yellows before he crushed that guy's throat.

Dwyer should perenially always have two yellows, he's a reckless player in general

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