With Philadelphia joining MLS as its sixteenth team, will the league be able to keep up standards on and off the field during such rapid expansion?
Yesterday, CONCACAF officially announced its new Champions League tournament, to replace the not particularly cared for Champions Cup. Does this herald a brave new era of regional competition in North and Central America?
American soccer needs a vibrant press to compete in the world’s toughest sports market. Yet MLS seems intent on frustrating the journalists trying to cover the sport professionally.
Take a look at the 2008 MLS jerseys and tell us which are the best and worst.
You might have heard of Philadelphia’s Sons of Ben, the supporters’ group without a team. They are, you see, very keen on MLS awarding Philadelphia an expansion franchise (currently hanging in the balance over funding), and they’ve attracted a lot of attention for their cause. They even showed up at the MLS draft this week […]
Has Alexi Lalas gone barking mad with his signing of Carlos Ruiz for the Galaxy, Mike Gumballhead asks, or is this the final stansa to complete the epic poem he’s long had planned?
Ivan Gazidis, Major League Soccer’s Deputy Commissioner, was interviewed by USSoccerPlayers.com this week, and there were lot of interesting nuggets in there. His views about changing the development of American youth soccer chime with what we’ve been discussing here recently as well. And in fact, the problems he addresses are shared with numerous countries, including […]
Try as the likes of Ian Plenderleith might, it’s increasingly hard to satirise the David Beckham Extravaganza. Reality has become too absurd.
Major League Soccer (USA), the J.League (Japan) and the Hyundai A-League (Australia) today announced an unprecedented and innovative partnership in the creation of a new international soccer tournament to be hosted in Honolulu, Hawaii: […]
Major League Soccer as a whole does not get great coverage in the national media. As the blogger That’s on Point often reminds us, outfits like the Associated Press don’t do soccer many favours. That makes it all the more important outlets that do try to cover MLS both broadly and deeply are treated with […]
