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shirts and skins posted:Man, if that's Zardes at his best this year then I'd hate to watch him at his worst. He looked awful. Was gonna post this, he's a loving donkey.
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JayMax posted:This looks hilariously bad. Wrong thread. Holy loving poo poo that looks bad. It's like they took the movie Goal and Playmakers (ESPN show that made the NFL threaten to pull their support of the channel) and mashed them together and threw in a Quebecois accent.
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JayMax posted:A character talked about being the first female coach in "the MLS", so I figured this was the thread, The Weekend Web thread is the correct thread.
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How many of those TFC players were actually Canadian? I bet it was zero.
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camoseven posted:Cool go watch and post about another league if you're so sure this poo poo is gonna fail Just because your team is insanely bad doesn't mean you should make insanely bad posts about things.
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Dallan Invictus posted:I kind of agree with this much at least, except that that pessimism extends to the Euro leagues (and basically all other televised sports) as well. Sky is already squeezing blood from stones to pay for the PL's TV deal, and frankly that isn't sustainable either. Even less so, really. I'm not arguing that this leaves MLS in a better position for not having had that TV money in the first place - more that the whole landscape of money and sports is due for a shakeup when that bubble bursts and we'll honestly just have to see what happens. Are we really going to compare Sky's four year £5.2 billion TV deal for the Premier League with MLS's eight year $700 million TV deal? When that deal was signed we're talking about more than ten times the money for half of the duration.
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Say we cut both deals in half for the next contract. MLS folds at worst or greatly struggles at best and the Premier League will be just fine because there are 200 other countries that will pay for TV rights to the Premier League while there are two who would pay for MLS TV rights. No one stays up until 4am to watch Real Salt Lake play but there are plenty of people who will watch a 4am Premier League game in the US.
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Seltzer posted:Shep messing is alright imo. I chatted with him for a bit at MLS Cup 2008, he's a good dude.
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Nostradingus posted:I'd laugh at this but the last time I made fun of an old guy signing, it was Schweinsteiger and it actually worked out He's still only 32, goddamn.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Which dos Santos is the good one Both, but also neither. Gio featured heavily for Barcelona during a season where they didn't win anything and his career has nosedived since. Jonathan was always supposed to be the better of the two but turned out to be a below average midfielder in La Liga.
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all-Rush mixtape posted:I don't know why it just dawned on me, but Real Salt Lake has FC Barcelona's colors. THAT'S hosed up. No it isn't.
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Tomorrow's Headline: DC United Extends Ben Olsen's Contract by 69 years
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binge crotching posted:
gently caress off, we're full.
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What the loving gently caress. Red Bull Stadium is available on the 23rd, but I guess that would have been too easy.
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binge crotching posted:And why the gently caress are the conference finals being played on a Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday? Because the NCAA and NFL exist in the fall.
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MBison Yes.
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Star Man posted:Someone please find Stan Kroenke and drag him to his stadium in Commerce City kicking and screaming and have him drawn and quartered before a live audience, sell his poo poo team to loving any one willing to buy it, and forget that there ever was an MLS team in Colorado. Something something Arsenal.
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The good news from that article is that worst team name ever Rayo OKC folded.
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highme posted:This is some bantz I don't get it.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:D.C. released their ticket plan for Audi Field today. 1,500 spots in the supporter section, and the only way in is through a season ticket. Tom is right about MLS and it makes me sad.
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Papal Mainframe posted:Open Cup final hype. (Here's hoping that it doesn't go to PKs Red Bulls gonna win.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:unless you root for the New York Red Bulls Mods! Technically the Red Bulls have won two consistency trophies.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:I want the eleven year old boy to gently caress off, yes. You're irrationally upset about a child playing soccer. Take a step back and think about that.
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Crazy Ted posted:It's like a U-11 or U-12 team. Those are generally pay-to-play, no tryouts involved. I started playing travel soccer when I was 9 and there were most definitely tryouts. Y'all are soft as gently caress.
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I'm glad the Red Bulls haven't won in like two months. Really really glad.
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I wonder if Cyle Larin went.
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The MLS business model is a disgusting cash grab and the level of the play regresses every year they add an expansion team. MLS should be a 12-16 team league at most.
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Crazy Ted posted:I can't remember: isn't one of Garber's unofficial official positions that new stadiums need to be artificially small in capacity to create the fake image that there's a lot of demand for ticket sales? Red Bull Arena is an absolutely fantastic stadium to watch a match in and it's always half empty. 10000 people is still a pretty good number for the caliber of play MLS produces.
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10000 is 40% of the capacity for Red Bull Arena. And yes, the prices are too high. You could pay $60 for tickets in the first 10 rows or just walk down there a half hour into the game with your $15 ticket.
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No one cares about the TV if the product is poo poo.
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bewbies posted:I honestly don't know what youth soccer is like in other countries, but now i'm pretty curious. It was pretty fun for me as a kid, I played at the highest skill level available locally until I lost interest. Parents were generally cool, it wasn't that expensive, and it seems now like a good developmental environment. Youth soccer is a money making scheme, not a development process in the US, and to be fair every other country. The few extraordinary talents who actually make it fuel that. There's a .0018% chance of making it as a professional athlete across all sports. The difference in the US and other countries is the structure, mostly that the US has none. Marcus Rashford has been a Manchester United "player" since he was five, Lionel Messi has been a Barcelona "player" since he was 12. The biggest detriment to US Soccer in my opinion is the high school and college game. The emphasis on technique and tactics stagnates and the quality of play drops off a cliff. NCAA soccer's level of play is shockingly bad and if I were talking to a kid who was high school age and had the ability to be a pro soccer player I'd tell him to skip the NCAA entirely and go on trials at European clubs and get into their setups.
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bewbies posted:point being, there's no earthly reason why pro clubs here couldn't use the same approach as european clubs do. they might even end up making money on the deal...sell a quality player to a european club and fund your youth system for a decade! The fact that MLS is a Ponzi/Pyramid scheme doesn't really incentivize the clubs to really push youth talent because they then have to share the profits with everyone else. Most if not all MLS clubs now have a youth structure but it's very much the part-time, go to high school/college, play with us on the weekends approach that doesn't work on the international stage and doesn't develop players technically. The biggest failure of US soccer is that they don't develop players who are technically gifted. Obviously there are the rare exceptions, we can go back to players like Claudio Reyna or John Harkes, and through to Dempsey or Donovan(and even that's a stretch since he spent a couple years in a European youth setup) but don't think for a second that US Soccer had anything to do with the type of player Christian Pulisic has the potential to be.
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:Well, NASL is folding so it seems we're doing ok on that front. MLS is dogshit so what does that make the folding NASL?
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paddyboat posted:Make Austin Great Again Austin is Cascadia except it's hot and miserable instead of rainy and miserable. I'm sure they'll have the same pants on head retarded fans too.
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G-Hawk posted:For one last thing on that point: One of the exceptions on the 2017 list, Josh Sargent, signed a contract to move to Werder Bremen in January.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:They are all poo poo. All of them And yet they're still a better route to developing into a professional soccer player than the NCAA.
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Crazy Ted posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not even a full-scholarship sport in the NCAA, which is why players can transfer without having to sit out a year, right? True, but to be fair only baseball, basketball, football, and hockey have that rule. Baseball, basketball, football, and hockey...
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Imagine having push notifications on at all, let alone for MLS. Jesus wept.
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Robot Danger posted:It looks like he has a single dreadlock rat tail Oh he definitely does.
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MLS, still leading the world in domestic violence arrests. http://www.espnfc.us/houston-dynamo/story/3255227/houston-dynamo-keeper-tyler-deric-arrested-and-charged-with-misdemeanor-assault
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