The Bundesliga has kicked the can down the road for another week, per ESPN: https://www.espn.com/soccer/german-...undesliga-return-delayed-by-german-government
Paris is burning - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...-France-despite-season-ended-prematurely.html
EPL brass still pushing for re-opening season, but not the players https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...-news/man-city-aguero-premier-league-18183069
Per The Score: MLS players allowed to use facilities starting May 6 https://www.thescore.com/mls/news/1972656 "A maximum of four players will be allowed to use each field at the same time." In the case of DCU and our state-of-the-art RFK auxilliary practice fields, the 4-at-a-time player limit will keep the players from damaging all those ankle-breaking divits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...teams-come-orlando-resume-season-this-summer/ I hope I don't need the Disney App to watch any of these games.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020/06/28/major-league-soccer-announces-covid-19-testing-update About a 3% infection rate. MLS is the first big sport to try the bubble. Unfortunately, it’s in Florida.
That's my biggest concern. It seems the best place to have those tournaments today would be New Zealand or Iceland.
Yummm... #MLSisBack pic.twitter.com/nelyLH9YsW— Omar Gonzalez (@Omar4Gonzalez) June 30, 2020 MLS should suspend lunch service.
Toronto isn't even in Orlando right now so it's still unclear where the food in Gonzalez's picture came from.
Probably the same place this came from. Regardless of where it came from whoever supplied the food should be ashamed. 😬 pic.twitter.com/z0tE4OwaUl— Eriq Zavaleta (@_AIR_RIQ_) June 30, 2020
Thats a pretty piss poor showing. I've stayed at that hotel a couple of times for conferences and stuff, its a nice place and even their room service menu is better than what Slomar shared. Someone at MLS who booked the event got rolled because those kinds of things are negotiated in advance as part of the group stay. Don't forget, the goal of the group sales manager is to extract as much money as possible from the organization booking an event. My guess is MLS has no idea how to execute an event on this scale. My wife worked in hospitality for a long time, she'd have been doing well if she sold those lunches for $15 for a conference's attendees.
Dallas FC up to nine players - https://www.espn.com/soccer/fc-dall...positive-for-coronavirus-ahead-of-mls-restart
Listened to the "Allocation Disorder" podcast today. Dallas now has only 16 negative testing players (for now) and Columbus has one post arrival positive. The Nashville team was kept on a bus for an hour and half because the team couldn't get all the test results and they are still in Nashville as of the filing of the podcast. Today I watched the qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix and have been watching European soccer. So far, all of those events seem to be going OK. The reason -- none of those operations tried to restart until Europe had crushed the spread of Covid-19. Here, there never was anything like that, barely a flattening of the curve. Instead, it was all make believe that things were getting better -- just magically. Is it any surprise that the two professional teams that are in the worst shape are the Orlando Pride and Dallas FC. Those teams are from Florida and Texas, the epicenters of the dipshittery that passes for governance and public health in this country. Imagine the world as a lifeboat that is overloaded. The captain looks over the "crew" and knows that some of them will become shark chum. The first words from the captain --"US and Brazil over the side, you are the two dumbest ********s to walk the planet and if you stay with us we will all die." Happy 4th, we have now demonstrated complete failure as a functioning country. The only thing we seem to be good at is passing a virus because of our insane insistence on the "right" not to wear masks and socially distance. This week, Arizona had more new case than the entire European Union. We are #1 with a bullet. I hope all of you stay well and safe. The odds, however, are against it.
I can't find anything wrong with your post, except I would replace 'dipshittery' with 'dumb********ery.'
I completely agree with your post but would note that we could have spent the last 3+ years talking about that subject instead of soccer. I care about it (and act on it) but come here for a break from it. As far as the tournament, I justify (rationalize?) supporting it with the belief that the players are actually safer in the Orlando bubble than hanging around their families and friends the next 3-5 weeks. They'll be monitored and supervised 24/7.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...allas-and-vancouver-whitecaps-postponed-later In the meantime, one of the first games already jumped...
While I agree with you that this should be a soccer focused forum, the problem is that the general dipshittery has affected the game as well. My son said that today, the sports betting apps no longer take bets on the NBA or NHL resumptions because they appear highly dubious. The MLS tournament is on a razon's edge right now and that is supposedly helped by a "bubble" except that both Dallas and Columbus players have tested positive in Florida within the "bubble." I think MLB will be a disaster, read the Post today on a comparison between MLB and the Bundesliga. MLB has one paragraph devoted to Covid-19 in a 113 page document, the Bundesliga distributed a 50 page booklet to players solely on Covid-19. Today I watched Aarhus play Copenhagen before 8000 fans in the stadium in Aarhus. This country failed, and its failure will impact the sport we love and follow through 2021.
Sorry to double post, but Paul Tenorio reporting that Nashville had players test positive following arrival in Florida. The team hasn't practiced since Tuesday. This is a total failure.
If more players test (true) positive, I can't see this continuing. Another problem as I see it is that there are a number of tests being administered that aren't accurate, because there's no one, consistent, accurate, test. The testing, like the states, are all over the map. That's a very dangerous condition on which to base the start up of a sports league.