Dan Leo
The 2008 MLS Season Review
When the Columbus Crew won the 2008 MLS Supporters Shield (the award given to a club with the highest point total in the regular season) and subsequently their coach Sigi Schmid won the MLS Coach of the Year award, it eloquently summarized the very odd and unusual MLS season. For starters, the Crew didn’t even…
Barcelona’s bid for Miami MLS franchise
On October, 15, MLS announced that Brightstar Corp. CEO Marcelo Cuare , Barcelona FC President Joan Laporta and a number of the Miami-Dade public officials made a formal bid to be granted an MLS franchise as soon as 2010. But this only put Barcelona into a very crowded playing field. Simultaneously, MLS has…
Meet Galaxy’s new boss… same as the old boss
Bruce Arena is a tired retread who ran out of ideas ages ago. Bruce Arena is just the tonic the LA Galaxy needs to salvage its disastrous two and a half year run, during which it has managed to miss the play-offs in each year. Or both, depending upon whom you ask. Tim Leiweke, the…
US Football in Crisis? What Crisis?
The 2008 edition of the European Championships was an unbridled success. The quality of play, the desire to compete by the participants on the field and the enthusiasm of the crowd were all of the highest order. A few weeks ago. as a preview to the Euros, an opposite type of soccer festival was touring…
Youth Football in the US
Ruud Gullit: ‘We can’t play sexy football at LA Galaxy’ “I can’t play sexy football with this team at the moment because we are not ready for this. There is a huge difference between the very good players and some of the average players. The reason for this, I have found out, is that young…
MLS’s Show and Biz
Resident MLS expert Dan Leo takes – believe it or not – an optimistic look at the future of the MLS. Saturday, March 29th marked the opening kick-off of the 13th MLS season (see Liviu’s review here), the United States’s and Canada’s top professional soccer (football) league. As I had pointed in my previous pieces,…
Why the MLS needs to improve – fast
In my previous Soccerlens column, I touched on the quality of soccer/football in the top domestic US league called MLS (Major League Soccer). Clearly, the subject isn’t an entirely comfortable one for the fans of the league and most home grown American soccer fans do tend to follow it. I follow it as well, sometimes…
US Soccer in Crossroads and Crosshairs
Dan Leo takes an in-depth look at US Soccer, the problems it faces and what the future holds for soccer in America. Soccer isn’t big in the US. It’s not a major sport. It’s not even a second tier sport. It’s below that. The top American soccer league MLS draws the attendance numbers similar to…
Abandon it like Beckham
This article is a submission for the Soccerlens Football Writing Competition; to participate, please read the details here. This article was first published at World Football Commentaries. Recently, David Beckham disclosed that he may return to Europe after the MLS season is over. Some in the media, both mainstream and soccer-specific, have criticized this potential…
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