Where will the next Altidore or Adu come from? We look at the new MLS youth development rules, and whether clubs will now be able to bring through their own elite talent directly to their rosters. Is the future bright for American soccer?
Who says MLS is meaningless and boring? Here’s video proof of the torment an MLS team goes through when it loses to a rival.
Away support in MLS will be under the spotlight soon when Toronto take a couple of thousand fans to Columbus for their season opener. Yet Toronto’s own front office is restricting away travel to BMO Field from opponents, and MLS headquarters seems disinterested in doing anything to assist those who want to journey to watch their team. What’s the way forward?
Take a look at the 2008 MLS jerseys and tell us which are the best and worst.
It’s the climax of the Major League Soccer season next Saturday, so this week we’ll be featuring MLS supporters all week on photo daily. We kick things off with my own Chicago Fire, and their giant megabandanera covering the Harlem End of Toyota Park.
Photo credit: Goldstone97 on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
I was at a bar full of Fire fans last night, watching my Chicago Fire beat DC United 3-2 on aggregate in the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. It was a thrilling and agonising game for both sets of fans, the Fire almost blowing a 3-0 aggregate lead, with DC’s late equaliser ruled […]
“You’re going home in a Cook County Ambulance!”. David Beckham received a warm welcome today from the Fire’s hardcore fans, Section 8, as the Englishman entered late in the game. As he came on, L.A. needed a goal and a win to advance to the playoffs and knock out Chicago, who needed just a […]
The MLS season is not really very long, but it sure feels that way. With well over half the league making the playoffs, and nobody getting relegated (not even sorry Real Salt Lake), the last month or two of the season can drag on torpidly for a number of teams. Whilst DC United […]
