The new and improved OFFICIAL Major League Soccer thread

retired_google · 01-30-2006, 08:58 PM

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Originally posted by Puedlfor:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by PMLF:
Did they and you played with the first teamers?

Nah, Norway team was a bunch of young-uns, US team had a few first teamers and fringers, but mostly people looking for a shot at the WC squad.

And the game wasn't as close as the score. Best part of the game was Marcelo Balboa's review of Clint Dempsey's rap album. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Dempsey needs to get on the TruWarier label.

retired_google · 01-31-2006, 09:14 PM

PHP gets MLS Cup again (Sports Network)

MLS Cup returns to Frisco (Dallas Morning News)

X marks a problem with MLS (North Jersey Media Group)

Crew starts training; Oughton not ready (Columbus Dispatch)

Razov heads to Chivas USA, reunited with Bradley (Los Angeles Daily News)

MetroStars cite salary cap for trading Razov (Newark Star-Ledger)

Chivas gambles that Razov is worth potential trouble (Torrance Daily Breeze)

Soccer site smaller, pricier (Salt Lake Tribune)

Sequeira happy to be reporting to new camp (Salt Lake Tribune)

Wizards will be winging south (Kansas City Star)

Twellman breaks through (Boston Globe)

Grass is greener on natural side (Houston Chronicle)

Goalkeeper quality has thinned out (ESPN Soccernet)

Cooper cut loose by ManUtd (Yanks Abroad)

retired_nico1121 · 02-01-2006, 07:42 AM

Not that everyone doesn't have their own ideas on what the best format for the league is, but I consider BA's input worthy of consideration.

Socer America Interviews Bruce Arena

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BRUCE ARENA: My particular theory on the subject is that the regular season [should be] much more important than postseason and that the MLS champion comes out of the regular season. Bonuses for teams [should be] much larger for regular-season performances.

And then for MLS Cup, the postseason, I'd let everyone be involved. It extends the playing season for all the clubs, which they need. Seed the top four teams and give them a bye.

Right now if you win two games in a row in September, you're in the playoffs, it seems. It just seems that way. So you go through a whole regular season where the games don't mean a whole lot.

I think the regular-season champion [should be] the team that goes into the CONCACAF Champions Cup, not someone that wins a couple of games in the postseason.

I think this is an excellent way to invigorate the regular season, while still maintaining an additional league recognized competition with a playoff format that would give teams something to compete for even after the league championship is decided.

retired_google · 02-01-2006, 08:10 PM

Giibs joins Den Haag (AP)

Fire start the year in style (Sports Network)

Harrison moving to take site (Jersey Journal)

1836 players set for Camp Kinnear (Houston Chronicle)

The Sound Guy sounds off: An open letter to MLS (WOAI)
Um, you just anycredibility with me when you suggest the shootout is a good thing

Davis: MLS delivers again (Dallas Morning News)

Frisco is MLS' big cheese again (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

MLS Confidential: Sigi the Seer? (Soccer America)

Borchers begins Odd tenure (Yanks Abroad)

retired_google · 02-01-2006, 09:46 PM

Michael Bradley transferred to Heerenveen (ESPN Soccernet)

retired_shrutz · 02-02-2006, 02:34 AM

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Originally posted by Peter Henchey:
Not that everyone doesn't have their own ideas on what the best format for the league is, but I consider BA's input worthy of consideration.

Socer America Interviews Bruce Arena

<BLOCKQUOTE>BRUCE ARENA: My particular theory on the subject is that the regular season [should be] much more important than postseason and that the MLS champion comes out of the regular season. Bonuses for teams [should be] much larger for regular-season performances.

And then for MLS Cup, the postseason, I'd let everyone be involved. It extends the playing season for all the clubs, which they need. Seed the top four teams and give them a bye.

Right now if you win two games in a row in September, you're in the playoffs, it seems. It just seems that way. So you go through a whole regular season where the games don't mean a whole lot.

I think the regular-season champion [should be] the team that goes into the CONCACAF Champions Cup, not someone that wins a couple of games in the postseason.

I think this is an excellent way to invigorate the regular season, while still maintaining an additional league recognized competition with a playoff format that would give teams something to compete for even after the league championship is decided. </BLOCKQUOTE>

this would be brilliant! however, the regular-joe media hack sportswriters would have a field day... they'd say that since all teams make the playoffs the regular season is a joke, when the opposite would be true.