Major League Soccer

the way things seem to be going that colombia list is gonna keep growing

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hey guess what guise, the refs suck

"To be honest over the last few games I think I’ve spoke too much about referees," Beckham said. "They’re becoming the stars of the MLS, and that’s obviously not what teams want and clubs want. You want the players to be playing out there. You want it to be fair. I just don’t think the consistency’s there. I think there’s bad calls, and we’ve had our majority of bad calls over the last few games, but it’s ruining games. It’s ruining our preparation for games. I’ll probably get in trouble, but it’s gone on too long. We want that consistency to be there, and we want to keep our players on the field."

he's such a bitch. nice late tackle last night, only urself to blame.

stoked for portland tonight

I srsly hope the Fire beat the living fuck out of Portland tonight but my heart was warmed a bit by reading this

http://www.oregonlive.com/pets/index.ssf/2011/04/pet_talk_jeld-wen_field_takes.html

and then there's this too

http://www.chicago-fire.com/news/2011/04/friendly-rivals

I am very excited for this game!! That pitch looks so nice too on the ol' Jeld-Wen.

Hahhaa I did not expect that result but I am well pleased.

bleh

lookin' good tho portland, wish I could say the same for our guys on the field... that was one of the 3 worst performances I've seen since I started following the club

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oh look, henry scored a goal

and luke rodgers scored two

international chicago fire jersey spot #2: this time a guy on the mexico city metro

blanco on the back?

oh yeah i forgot he played for them. i didnt see the back of his shirt though.

so does Benny Feilhaber sign w/ Chivas y/n

if n, then w/ who?

fire could sure use him

this fuckin kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt-gyxyiBsQ

What a night.

did you make the trip to DC?

Hell no.

holy fuck zakuani's leg, I can't watch video of that

also fuck you carlos de los cobos for trying to sit on a 1-0 lead for 80ish minutes, doomed to fail

thread of missing zakuani and ferreira

ugh just clicked a link and saw a pic of zakuani's break, can still see it when I close my eyes

http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/May%201,%202011%20Salary%20Information%20-%20By%20Club.pdf

thread of missing morales, this is getting silly

New York Red Bulls striker Luke Rodgers doesn't like Los Angeles Galaxy star Landon Donovan.

He made that very clear to the New York Post on Monday.

"In this league, he's a respected person, but he's telling Titi [Thierry Henry] to [screw] off. The kid's a [expletive] head," Rodgers, who was clearly upset at Donovan after the Red Bulls and Galaxy completed a 1-1 draw on Saturday night in L.A., told the Post. "I don't care. I just think the kid's a [expletive] jerk. I don't care what you put.

"After Henry scored he's running the whole length of the pitch to shout at the linesman. He must have eyes like a hawk to tell if he's offsides. I tackled the keeper [and] he's running the whole length of the field to tell the ref I should be sent off. He needs to be a bit more humble.''

Donovan responded to Rodgers' profanity laced tirade via Twitter: "I'm confused; who is Luke Rogers?"

LD misspelling his name in the tweet is the best part imo

also on the salary tip I cannot believe that our leading forward tandem (w/ 5 league goals) together make less than half of a DM who got subbed into one game, was immediately injured and hasn't played since

no fire players in the top 50 salaries, either (castillo doesn't count)

Donovan responded to Rodgers' profanity laced tirade via Twitter: "I'm confused; who is Luke Rogers?"

You may have heard of him. He's short, he's white, he loves to pick a fight? Ringing any bells, Fivehead?

The Vikings ownership drops one little inkling of a hint of a notion that they might want to maybe bring MLS to the Twin Cities (possibly) if there is public financing for a new stadium (the catch) and within the week people are running with it: http://www.mls4mn.com/

yeah i heard about that

i'm obv wildly in favor of an MLS team in MN, but i'm not a huge fan of the arden hills stadium plan. not for any sort of political or 'well-informed' reason, i just think far-flung stadia are stupid, esp in a city that's trying to develop a rep in canny urban development

There are twin cities there, right? Two teams is the answer imo, let 'em fight it out.

think an MLS-only stadium would make sense here: http://bit.ly/lO6CiX

esp since the SW corridor (assuming it gets built) is going to have a stop right there. i'd imagine some of the rich jerks in lowry hill might protest and i guess it'd be weird to have a pro soccer stadium right next to the sculpture garden, but w/e. that's where i want it. or on the dome site. having pro sports teams play in the burbs is just so stupid imo

There already is a lower division squad (I have friends w/ season tickets lol) but they're really far out from the city too. I admit to not knowing where the proposed development is but it's already been pretty handily proven that close-to-city-center parks are the way to go to get the soccer loving populace out in numbers. Arden Hills isn't anywhere near the light rail, is it?

no, it's not. and one of the sticking points in the local debate (from what i can tell) is that it's gonna cost 175M to make the road improvements necessary to manage the traffic.

but yeah: the soccer fans are imo more likely to be city-dwellers. i'm sure they'll show up for games, even in arden hills, but i have to say that part of the fun of going to the single mls game i've seen (sounders) was the fact that the stadium was right downtown. and it seems craycray to me to develop huge sports complexes in the burbs when we've got space and infrastructure in the city proper.

i don't know what the stats are for light rail ridership when games are on (twins or vikes or wolves), but i think its decompressed the parking situation in a big way

i dunno i guess i'm just sorta depressed by the idea of a big dumb stadium going up in the middle of nowhere, with parking lot with 20k cars in it.

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can I just say I hate this shit

actually, barca and united can play chivas and america and each other all they want, but stop f'ing up my league's season

Ach, play winters like the rest of us.

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orange ball and you'll be fine

just use an orange ball and you'll be fine

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:05 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

Was that an intentional callback? Great memory if so.

It did seem kind of familiar ... when you reach my level of posting expertise, muscle memory does the work for you.

lolz

Haha.

top 10 overpaid and underpaid in MLS

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/blog/_/name/schaerlaeckens_leander/id/6562718/top-10-overpaid-underpaid-mls

can't say I disagree with this much, I can't believe how little we're paying Diego Chaves

Kimura's great, my favorite full-back in the league I think. What is it with the Japanese and that position?

I didn't realize they were known for their fullbacks. Does he play for the national team ever?

He never has. I'd read that he was sure to leave Colorado for Europe or the J-League soon in order to get the national side's attention. But they already have Nagatomo and Uchida, so.