All posts tagged "United States"

  • American soccer’s revolutionary week

    American “soccer” fans are a boisterous breed. Rowdy, taking up too much space and all for a team that is never really that competitive. That’s what they say; but then the US occasionally outperforms and proves everybody...

    • Posted June 10, 2015
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  • Rampant Red Bulls furthen road woes for SJ Earthquakes

    So far this season, the San Jose Earthquakes have done a decent job in protecting their new home, Avaya Stadium. “We want to protect this house because we take pride in it, because we believe it is...

    • Posted April 17, 2015
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  • Gerrard, Lampard set to spearhead international MLS following

    David Beckham put American Major League Soccer on the map. In 2007, when Beckham joined the LA Galaxy, not only did he herald a new era of popularity for the sport Stateside, but internationally as well. For...

    • Posted April 8, 2015
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  • SJ Earthquakes 0-1 Real Salt Lake: Despite result, a game to grow on for the Quakes

    On the boot wall in the tunnel of the San Jose Earthquakes’ new Avaya Stadium reads the motto: “Eleven playing as one.” Despite this motto, the Quakes were at times too individualistic on the pitch today, as...

    • Posted April 5, 2015
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  • SJ Earthquakes, RSL down to business

    A theme has emerged locally of turning Avaya Stadium into a fortress. Not only is the San Jose Earthquakes’ new stadium a brilliantly engineered, state of the art venue, but the Quakes aim to make it a...

    • Posted April 5, 2015
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  • When should MLS cap its expansion?

    For so long, Major League Soccer was a pitifully small league for a country the size of the U.S. — just nine years ago, it hosted only ten teams across fifty states. The league was desperate for...

    • Posted March 26, 2015
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  • Orlando City 1-1 NYCFC — First impressions

    Only once can first impressions be made, and today, two MLS franchises — New York City FC and Orlando City — did so with their 1-1 draw via a last-minute equalizer by Kaka. Brek Shea is a...

    • Posted March 8, 2015
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  • Dear Don Garber: A letter from MLS fans

    Dear Don Garber, Congratulations! When you took the reigns of MLS in 1999 things weren’t looking good, but your guidance has led us to our first season with twenty teams — double than in 2001 — and...

    • Posted March 7, 2015
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  • It’s all in the next twenty years — predicting MLS’ future

    At the age of twenty, MLS remains a young league, still with training wheels on in certain dimensions.  The newest CBA deal, signed only just ahead of deadline to avoid a potentially disastrous Players’ Union Strike, was...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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  • San Jose Earthquakes 3-2 LA Galaxy: Quakes open Avaya Stadium

    The San Jose Earthquakes’ bore little resemblance today to the last-place Western Conference side they were last season. Both the Earthquakes’ beautiful new home and their renovated team excelled beyond expectation in the club’s final test run...

    • Posted February 28, 2015
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