All Entries in the "Major League Soccer" Category
The Wacky World of MLS Playoff Standings
By Andrew Villegas Take a second to look at the up-to-the-moment playoff standings for MLS. What strikes you? If you’re anything like most people, it’s that the New York Red Bulls – is it wrong that I automatically think to add “machine” to the end [...]
Why Is MLS Sides Losing To Big Teams Good? Humble Pie.
By Andrew Villegas People looking to glean some sort of noble truth about the MLS by how it performs against heavyweights in their preseason are often met with a scoff and a few spoken caveats: It’s preseason, and the players have come a long way – often just returning back to playing form – for [...]
Youth academies could kindle burn if Designated Player signings not stoking MLS fire
By Andrew Villegas If Mexico’s U-17 World Cup win this week has shown us anything, it’s that the gap between U.S. Soccer and FMF development has widened into a gulf. In that tournament, the U.S. lost to Uzbekistan in the group stage after beating the Czech [...]
Which MLS Player Will Have the Best Gold Cup 2011 ?
By Andrew Villegas MLS clubs are well represented on the rosters of the nations participating in this summer’s Gold Cup (37 players total), and with good reason. National team managers are recognizing and tapping a growing pool of player talent in the United States’ domestic league to fill their Gold Cup teams despite the league’s reputation [...]
Create Your Own MLS Salary Adventure!
By Andrew Villegas Every year, we working stiffs await with eager anticipation the day when MLS salaries are released. We crunch numbers and either feel good or bad about how much money professional soccer players in America make. Also we feel better or worse about how much money we make ourselves. With that in mind, below [...]
Will MLS Ever Have Its Own Clasicos ? After A Month of Barca-Real: We Wonder Aloud
By Andrew Villegas Soccer fans, heave a collective sigh of relief – no pun intended. So much theater, so much wrestling, so much on the line, so much falling over coupled with ankle grabbing and head embracing — the four Clásicos are finally over. Now back to football. Is there so much on the line (millions [...]
Charlie Davies Comeback Hits a Bump in the Road, Agudelo’s Future, and other Mid-Week MLS Musings
By Neil W. Blackmon Last week was one of the more eventful seven day periods in the history of MLS thanks o Real Salt Lake’s 2-2 draw at Monterrey, and with the return leg Wednesday night providing the Claret and Cobalt an opportunity to be the first MLS side to win the competition in its [...]
Real Salt Lake Run To Immortality Giving League, Country Reason to Believe In MLS
By Neil W. Blackmon Nearly one year after a British announcer’s call on a Californian’s defining moment in a game played on a far away continent catapulted American soccer into coffee break and living room fodder and inspired a country, fate intervened. Fate intervened in the 89th minute and delivered the American soccer diehards, the [...]
Feilhaber MLS Move Latest On List of “No-Brainers”
By Andrew Villegas Is MLS becoming the “no-brainer” league for middling Americans abroad? In February, when Charlie Davies was deciding if he wanted to take his comeback tour to D.C., he called U.S. Men’s National Team Coach Bob Bradley to see what Bradley had to say about joining D.C. United on loan. “He told me [...]
How “Silent Stan” Kroenke’s Arsenal Takeover Benefits MLS
By Andrew Villegas If MLS is to become a global brand, then this week’s announcement that Stan Kroenke will take a controlling stake in Arsenal must have many mouths at MLS headquarters agape in anticipation. Kroenke – that Missouri businessman and part heir to the Wal-Mart family fortune – has a reputation, one that almost [...]
