Wynalda wants MLS to change it's season to match rest of world...

Just saw this thread and wanted to point out something. The Finnish, Swedish, and Norwegian First Divisions had 44 teams combined in the '17 season. 24 of those teams played on artificial turf last year according to Wikipedia (Sweden: 9, Finland: 6, Norway: 9). So there has been a bigger push in those leagues to use artificial surfaces.

 

While that's true, my reply was to a previous poster's contention that winter weather automatically makes grass unplayable. But even in Scandinavia, I think it's more the wet weather rather than the winter weather that makes artificial surfaces more interesting to the teams involved.

 

In shorts I hope.

 

Depends on the weather. I prefer shorts so if it's above freezing, I'll go in shorts but if it's snowing or below freezing, I wear long pants.

 

Pretty sure @The Franchise was being sarcastic with that post.

It will be interesting to see the numbers reported and the numbers actually in the stands for the TFC-Colorado CCL series in late Feb.

 

When I woke up this morning to 12 degree weather, the first thing I thought was "man, I wish I had a DC United game to go to this weekend."

 

Oh duh. I think my sarcasm meter might be on the fritz lately. Too much Christmas cheer, etc.

 

FIFA Calendar.

 

Yep, don't see any league schedules on that

 

My guess is 12k-15k actual fans in Toronto for the second leg. What's your guess for leg one?

 

5K, if we're lucky

 

January and February in Chicago and Minnesota will make the cow pastures of Central America seem like old Trafford in comparison. It would be really rough going. The quality of the play would be really deminished.

If it made real financial sense to play in the winter, MLS would be. It doesn't. So, they don't.

 

Unfortunately, when you are man on a mission to bring US soccer out of the stone age of a summer schedule into the light of a enlightened European winter schedule, financial considerations are very low on your list of reasons to not do something.

 

We'd need a 3 month break like Russia. It's -10 Celsius in New York City today,

 

And, at that point, you might as well be on a spring-fall schedule.....

 

Which I wasn't arguing. I think a winter schedule is foolish. My point was simply that a winter schedule does not automatically require a plastic surface as a previous poster implied.

 

I believe Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all on a summer schedule.

 

You're correct. Moldova changed to having its season within one year also.

 

I won't say it would require turf, but the amount of money and effort to keep a field playable in the winter would be ridiculous. A three game week would destroy a field. Having watched many winter games being played at Lambeau, which has the heating elements under the field. The field would not have been usable for soccer.

 

Wynalda introduces pro/rel, "FIFA calendar", abolishes single-entity and payroll controls to appease EPL, BL and La Liga fans.

EPL, BL and La Liga fans express delight but cut short celebrations as they have to get up early to watch EPL, BL and La Liga games.

 

Given the "cyclone bomb" working it's way towards the East Coast, a winter schedule would probably include an indoor stadium.

 

That and the WCQ in Colorado a while back that was played in a heavy snow storm. Wynalda should know better.

 

And the two snowbowls that RSL have played in, last years win against Vancouver and the Fiji National team game in 2007 when RSL still played at the University of Utah. Both games were played in the balmy weather of April.

 

Well, April's well within the season no matter which way you go--fall-winter-spring or spring-summer-fall season.

 

But having snow games at the start of the season when you know that you've already gone thru winter and the weather will be getting better are different from snow games when you know that you still have two or more months of winter to go thru.