As usual, For the Integrity of Soccer has a sobering, insightful, and depressing review of the quality of officiating in Major League Soccer. As an avid fan, the lack of improvement in this area has been stark in comparison to the progress the league has made on other fronts over the last decade. The reason […]
My friend Chris and I discussing DC’s Draft of Jeff Carroll: Chris vS.: Jaff Carrol Chris vS.: jeff Oscar: yeah, just saw Chris vS.: what is up with the brother connection in this draft Oscar: lol Oscar: mls figures they can survive better on a developmental salary if they can live with their brothers Chris
At the annual retreat for work, one of the sessions involved presenting about organizations we found interesting or good models. Finally, all my knowledge and time spent on BigSoccer and MLSNet paid off. Not all of us were tagged to present, and I felt really bad for eveyone else who actually spent some time researching
Staci and I were suffering through the DC United playoff fiasco this weekend. Luckily, we’d TIVO’d the game which let us fast forward through most of the game which made it somewhat bearable. So DC crashed out of the playoff without a goal to the best team in the league. Normally, I wouldn’t mind a
As a DC United and MLS fan, I was pretty worried about the league two years ago when it decided to contract its 2 Florida based teams. It’s incredible how things have changed since then! The year we had another soccer-specific stadium openened in LA, another breaking ground in Dallas, and plans for the same
This must be a first and of course its golden boy Landon Donovan. He’s got two goals up for Goal of the Week over at MLS.net
In a telling sign that Major League Soccer has a little more business acumen than the WUSA is this article in USA Today. The USSF staff and MLS’ central office and teams are providing virtually all of the tournament’s organizational and business-side structure. The league’s investors also took considerable risks when they built soccer-specific stadiums
Jeff Bradley’s regular column is up on MLSNet 10. I’m not one to rail on MLS officials. Really, they have a difficult job and I hate that so many of the MLS team-level (not national) announcers drone on endlessly about the refs. But, the Ali Curtis goal that was disallowed on Saturday night was one
…people have stopped wondering if the league will pull an XFL exit, "We now are treated like other leagues where we get the business questions about our attendance and about our [television] ratings and about our investors. It’s no longer about will we be here tomorrow." …new investors are about to come in, "The economy