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".

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.

Ffs no one is relocating a team to Austin bc of latinxs, it's flush with white tech brother money

This is well done

http://amp.si.com/soccer/2017/10/18/anthony-precourt-columbus-crew-austin-texas-relocation-mls

I should note: I fucking hate the Crew. Some of the worst moments of my soccer-watching life have taken place at Crew Stadium. I still think they're being done dirty by their owners and it's indicative of larger problems with the game in this country.

i mean im no leafs/toronto fan but this shld be good

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/toronto-fc-mls-cup-final-seattle-sounders

it wasn't last year.

But Toronto FC are better than they were last time. They have improved over the course of 2017, showing a willingness to progress and develop almost as soon as they’d suffered defeat in last year’s MLS Cup game. “To be completely honest, I think we can use a little bit of a more creative player,” Altidore reasoned after the 2016 loss to Seattle. “I think we’re a very good team. But if we have another piece that is creative, whether it be a winger or a creative player that can kind of, on his own, help us decide games as well, that would be great.”

And so Vazquez was signed to be that creative figure, giving Toronto FC the extra dimension in the final third that Altidore spoke about.

There is a clear-headedness to everything TFC have done in recent years, which is in stark contrast to the scattergun, scatterbrain approach of the past. That is illustrated by the strength of their 2017 campaign to date.

That's nice and all but they've looked the same as last year's playoffs for most of this year's playoffs.

Is it too late to root for a giant meteor to hit BMO field?

LET'S GO METEOR!

https://i.imgur.com/6kzYNWV.jpg

Would have been nice if both teams showed up. The MLS playoffs are such a bummer.

Lol

Sounders fan?

much better game than last year imo

idiot soccer journalists who shit on jozy for his national team performance are eating crow now, he didn't have anyone to feed him passes as good as vasquez

https://deadspin.com/usmnt-starlet-josh-sargent-inadvertently-offers-scathin-1821274105?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Deadspin_twitter

very good assessment of where MLS is going wrong wrt young players

so this Cyle Larin saga huh

Zlatan. On. Repeat. 🦁 #LAvLAFC pic.twitter.com/vY5KzyYnaW

— Major League Soccer (@MLS) March 31, 2018

Zlatan remains Zlatan.

Dwyer had two today in victory. OCSC fans already jumping ship - game wasnt a sellout

lol 3 goals in 10 minutes. never change OCSC

Toronto just should forfeit all their games until they're done with their cup run

They kinda have

Including the first leg of the final iirc

Lol @nycfc

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-biz-tom-ricketts-soccer-team-ryan-ori-20180508-story.html

nice knowing you Fire

that said, all the insider scuttlebutt I have heard points to this being increasing leverage over Fire ownership to sell to Ricketts & then strong arm their way out of Bridgeview

Breaking MLS-Chicago Fire news: Joe Mansueto, the executive chairman & founder of investment research firm Morningstar, is acquiring a 49% stake in the Chicago Fire from owner Andrew Hauptman. Hauptman will remain chairman/controlling shareholder. More to come in @sbjsbd

— Ian Thomas (@byIanThomas) July 11, 2018

!

Reminder: The Chicago Fire support went from this (in 2009) to this (tonight in 2018) in 9 years due to the franchise ownership of Andrew Hauptman and the leadership of Don Garber.

(2nd picture from the account of @folsom23) pic.twitter.com/s6zgEsw7eP

— The Nutmeg News (@TheNutmegNews) August 24, 2018

one of those moments when the satire site drops the veil

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article13196005.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_Miami_ICF_Crest-01-copy.jpg

will be called inter miami apparently.
i like the badge.

http://www.startribune.com/grand-opening-minnesota-united-allianz-field/490168911/

We made Deadspin:

https://deadspin.com/herd-of-orlando-city-fans-stampede-to-opposite-side-of-1836277834

At the All Star game.

100% rooting Atletico.

Lol MLS managed 1 shot, not on frame, first half

Such a pointless spectacle

I enjoyed watching Atletico Madrid. Only reason i went

Is Josef Martinez legitimately good or just better than MLS defenders?

I doubt he's Almiron level good, maybe Mexican league good

Fire's Nico Gaitan:

tackles opposing player, probably should have been a yellow, but is called a red
the red gets VAR'd
ref upholds the red, Nico is sent off (Fire hold on to win 2-0)
today, red is rescinded

tackle: https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/08/17/red-card-nico-gaitan-sent-reckless-tackle

WTFVAR

If that's a red, Orlando City would finish every match with eight guys

the whole vancouver whitecaps sexual abuse and harassment scandal and being bottom of the league has zapped my interest in the MLS pretty thoroughly

I can imagine!

The current fight with fans over antifascist imagery in stadiums is doing much the same to me… at least to the extent that following a team run by an egomaniac venture capitalist shitstain hadn't already sapped my interest.

The current fight with fans over antifascist imagery in stadiums is doing much the same to me

yeah that's dumb as hell!

ATL united posted a slightly anti-gun banner after the recent slate of shootings at the last OC match, was a nice touch.

fans I should have said

Yeah and a bunch of them got thrown out and banned for a year because of it

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