All posts tagged "United States"

  • MOTD Preview: SJ Earthquakes to open Avaya Stadium

    The San Jose Earthquakes’s history is riddled with fantastic highs and lows, often correlating with the tides off the pitch. They won the first match of MLS, but then missed the playoffs in all of the next...

    • Posted February 27, 2015
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  • MLS trailblazing a new way to run a football league

    It seems ill-fated to make a movie about football in which the executives are the heroes. FIFA tried it in their movie United Passions, but somehow created an odd mix of propaganda and a story that nobody...

    • Posted February 12, 2015
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  • MLS will be an exciting presence in the transfer market

    As the English transfer market goes, the past eighteen days have been ominously quiet. The departures of Lukas Podolski and Fernando Torres and the arrivals of Victor Valdes and highly touted youngster Andrej Kramarić count for something,...

    • Posted January 19, 2015
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  • MLS should whisper its frustration over Lampard amongst itself

    This whole Frank Lampard debacle has become one big headache for the MLS. New York City FC, the new kids on the block set to debut in the MLS next season, have made their first impression upon...

    • Posted January 8, 2015
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  • The future is now – What 2015 holds for USMNT breakout prospects

    Julian Green: Since scoring his famous hundred-and-seventh minute goal against Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16, Bayern Munich have done a good job of sheltering Green from media hype. Green returned to his parent club...

    • Posted December 31, 2014
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  • “Soccer’s coming home” – the history of an Americanized word

    When the US Men’s National Team took the lead against Colombia early in their international friendly in November, the American Outlaws, located behind the goal in a small section of the Hammersmith End at Craven Cottage, it...

    • Posted December 23, 2014
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  • MOTD: Seattle Sounders 2-1 LA Galaxy

    The LA Galaxy didn’t really care so much about insisting their dominance on old rivals Seattle Sounders and being crowned as the Western Conference Champions, only indirectly. What tonight was about for them was undoubtedly one objective...

    • Posted November 30, 2014
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  • LA Galaxy V New England Revolution final likely

    As the MLS Cup final nears, it also seems increasingly likely that Thierry Henry’s New York Red Bulls career is as well, with his New York side having lost 2-1 at home in the first leg of...

    • Posted November 23, 2014
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  • Do more DPs mean more success in MLS?

    The Western Conference Finals, the semifinals of the MLS Cup, should, theoretically, decide the best team in the Western Conference, considering LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders, who will meet in the semifinal, also finished first and second...

    • Posted November 10, 2014
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  • Petition formed to ban USA World Cup jersey

    Nike recently revealed the United States Men’s national team 2014 World Cup jersey, and to put it in a conservative way, have not gotten a very positive response from fans.  In fact, a petition has been started...

    • Posted March 3, 2014
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