MLS: has it become a hackers league?

okok, firstly Nowaks team was absolute shite, Maybe he though this was a NFL game, myrie should of been red carded twice, his team sucked, Ljundberg did everything but dive and fake, hes small, he doesnt exacly carry any weight, the refs in MLS, have always really sucked, and personally, they really sucked in all the games in week one, I mean if you watched the rsl san jose game, i really was embaressing not to see a yellow when he bodychecked a rsl player where he looked like road kill, but hey what do i know

 

It was same thing as The SEA/Phil game; you guys started to dominate and they had to start hacking- specially after that Morales goal in the 14Th min. That was bad ass long distance EPL highlight kind of goal. But you didn't loose any team members did you? You ain't seen nothing yet, wait tell the Union come to town!

 

Landon is poor example, because only American players World Class, in MLS. I am talking about protecting skilled players like Donovan ( much lower scale ) from serious injuries.

Keep losing players like Yura, Rolfe, Goodson, Parkhurst etc..to Scandivia for deals around 100k, then MLS isn't doing it's job.

 

This is not a uniquely American problem. In the 1st half of Arsenal vs. Barça, when Fabregas got his yellow card that would keep him out of the 2nd leg, the commentator remarked that Fabregas forgot that the refs in European competition are stricter than EPL refs. Like EPL teams, USMNT players just have to learn to put kiddy gloves, err, boots on in international games (play less physical) due to the tighter refereeing.

 

It must have!
Have you seen what they did to the MLS web site?

 

I really hope the MLS starts cracking down and the dirty play soon. The league shouldn't need to resort to this type of soccer.

 

MLS is in many ways a hackers league. It did not "become" a hackers league, however. It's been that way as far back as history records, into the time of the ancients, when things like "Fusion" and "Burn" and "Quakes 1.0" made sense. Even before the birth of BigSoccer, archaeologists believe MLS was already hacking legs into a thousand tiny pieces.

With my responsible portion of this post done, I humbly and sheepishly submit this:

Pictured: Dema "Snap!" Kovalenko on the hunt.

 

yeah and the union is the poster team for that.

 

15 minutes in and I think Morales will be dead by halftime...without a single foul even being called.

 

At first, I passed over this thread, but after thinking about that Sounders/Union game and now seeing 2 PKs in the RSL/HOU game for just hack play, I'm tending to agree. There's not too much technical skill. It's a bit more physical, and sometimes there's just no ball control.
It probalby depends on which teams are playing and who's coach of the respective team.

 

The skill on defense just isn't there for the most part. I don't watch many foreign leagues but when Chelsea and Barca were in town last year, I was amazed at how well their defenders could tackle, cleanly and effectively. I'm talking multiple orders of magnitude better. I think the gap between individual talent on defense and individual talent on offense is growing, mostly as a result of the improved offensive talent. You don't use a DP on a defender.

Though Philly was flat out ridiculous, even if you forget the calls of diving against Montero and Ljungberg. What Myrie did to Zakuani was a f***ing disgrace to the game. That is not how men play the game. Nowak is an asshat.

 

A big difference also is the development of the players. The Europeans have been technically trained how to defend since age 9, by age 16 the pro's are picked up by a team's youth team.
US has a great player pool, but some of the players are coached by 'who knows' in college, and when they were younger they were probably hacking and stomping when defending. Our youth leagues and developemental leagues ARE getting better. It will take some time....

 

The disciplinary committee is expected to rule tomorrow or Wednesday.

 

This league has always bragged about being a physical league, which really means that it has a bunch of hackers around with little skill. The skill level is getting better. Mainly because of all the Argentinians we have around. Our guys (Americans) are still mostly hackers.

 

Why don't you wait until the discipline is handed out before blasting Garber.

What happened last weekend was unfortunate and both offenders deserve stiff punishment. But what league better or worse than MLS doesn't have it's own share of horrific injuries? Eduardo anyone?*


*Not for the squeamish

 

Are the pitch dimensions the same in every stadium, because when I watch European leagues looks like the field is bigger and the players have more space to manuever.

 

It varies from stadium to stadium. Generally, teams that play in SSS' have standard or close to standard sized fields. Teams that play in repurposed or shared stadiums tend to be significantly narrower. Portland, for instance, appears quite skinny. I was disappointed in that, because IIRC they built that whole smaller stand this offseason, so I don't know why they didn't make it wider.

 

when players have no much to offer "they play tought" aka english premier league

 

To answer the original question

At least until Beckham leaves, yes.

 

in an open cup game against the NE Rev reserves.