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MLS Week 5: Reality check for Sounders as Dallas, Red Bulls and Dynamo score first wins
Is the MLS the most balanced football league in the world? Why does the Galaxy insist on building teams around a single player? Will Seattle recover their grove? All this and more in our MLS weekly review.
MLS Season Openers: Predictions vs Reality, USL Islanders blow past MLS in CONCACAF, and Garber promises two more franchises in 2012.
Our last column, inspired at 2AM, carefully selected winners for MLS season openers. Some were slightly off, and today we discuss why these results went topsy and what to expect down the road. 1) NY Red Bulls @ Seattle Sounders Result: Seattle 3-0 New York Prediction: New York 3-2 Seattle Excuse: Seattle is a strong…
NYRB v. Seattle: The Post Mortem
I’ll be brutally honest: this was probably one of the worst NYRB performances I’ve ever seen. No heart and no real interest from the first whistle. Three-nil was a flattering scoreline – it should probably have been four or five. It’s going to be a very long and humiliating season if this is the way…
MLS 2009 Predictions – out of the gate
The MLS season opens with fireworks Thursday night for the Seattle Sounders inaugural game at Qwest field against New York Red Bulls. The Seattle Sounders management did everything right to create a model club, including stealing 2008 MLS Cup Champion coach Sigi Schmid from Columbus Crew. The supporters group, FC Alliance can vote out the…
WPS ‘reveal’ uniforms, Barcelona dance around Miami, MLS slash reserves while Galaxy prepares for life without Beckham
A picture says a thousand words, a video says more. Debate even flared at the Washington Post about the skirt controversy. Arena recharges Galaxy roster to fly with or without Beckham Whether David Beckham stays or goes, the LA Galaxy will stagger on. Forging ahead, this week Bruce Arena jettisoned five (and more on the…
Beckham, Donovan and Angel: tales of loyalty and respect from Major League Soccer
Gary Andrews is still wading through the ocean of comments attracted by last week’s MyFC column, so he asked me to step in this week. I couldn’t hope to get close to Gary’s knowledge of non-league football, so I’m going to look at the exact opposite end of the spectrum: the artificially-created marketing-intensive world of…
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…
Dumb Luck: Why Juan Carlos Osorio Will End New York’s Season
Juan Carlos Osorio, coach of the New York Red Bulls, is a lucky, lucky man. This past Saturday, his side pulled off one of the greatest upsets in MLS playoff history, defeating the two-time defending champions Houston Dynamo 3-0 at Robertson Stadium in Houston. Osorio fielded an unchanged side from the first leg, which ended…
Appreciating Claudio Reyna
Usually, when one of our sporting legends retires, we Americans spend weeks praising him (or her, usually him, though) and reflect on his career while wondering if anyone will ever meet or surpass his standard. ESPN devotes a considerable amount of time to run retrospective videos on “SportsCenter” and brings in numerous experts to debate…
MLS 2008 Power Rankings: Week 15
There were six games spread over this holiday weekend culminating in an exciting double header. Only DC and Toronto didn’t play, making the potential for a lot of movement. We saw 9 out of 14 teams switch positions and with Superliga coming up, teams needed to make these last games count.
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