MLS players react to the league's 30-day suspension of games due to coronavirus https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...agues-30-day-suspension-games-due-coronavirus The Financial Blow of the Coronavirus on Sports https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/sports/sports-coronavirus-impact.html All soccer activity in Canada suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic https://nationalpost.com/sports/soc...emic/wcm/880ded86-03a5-4078-99a4-4c7af3b33684 Remainder of Liga MX weekend matches to be played behind closed doors https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...weekend-matches-be-played-behind-closed-doors Vancouver Whitecaps donate food prepared for postponed match to local food bank https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...food-prepared-postponed-match-local-food-bank Sounders fans are still trying to maintain sense of community with MLS season on hold due to coronavirus https://www.seattletimes.com/sports...-suspension-of-mls-season-due-to-coronavirus/ Cindy Parlow Cone is new U.S. Soccer Federation president amid USWNT equal pay lawsuit https://www.inquirer.com/soccer/usw...cer-president-cindy-parlow-cone-20200314.html Zenit fans chant ‘we’re all going to die’ during game amid coronavirus outbreak https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2020/0...to-die-during-game-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/
Very non-detailed analysis after other sports, including Tennis, golf, UFC. Doesn’t even posit the NWSL may likely go under given the track record of women’s leagues in the USA. Thx, Jay! M.L.S. and N.W.S.L. Just by virtue of the calendar, American soccer leagues are better off than their counterparts in basketball, hockey and other sports if the prohibitions on mass gatherings last significantly longer. Major League Soccer’s season just started, and the National Women’s Soccer League has yet to kick off, giving teams time to make up for lost games. “At M.L.S., it’s a 30-day pause and then we’ll re-evaluate,” said Merritt Paulson, the owner of both the Portland Timbers and the N.W.S.L.’s Portland Thorns. There could be more weeknight games, which are often bad for attendance, or the seasons could stretch into December. Canceling games is problematic, because both leagues depend so heavily on ticket sales for revenue.
I think MLS will kick-back in May 1, but mid-April might also happen off the top of my round head: I like the idea of a 24 game schedule with separate east and west conferences (each team would also have 1 bye)- that would take us to early-mid October and then the playoffs begin- games would usually fall on the weekends, but there would have to be 2 to 3 mid-week games for each team, depending on when the league wants to end the regular season (October 10-11 ??) the points from the 2 March games would be included in the standings to start- at most, the teams would only loose 1-2 home games cutting down travel would save money and player fatique
Ahahahah, no. There's pretty much no chance the league is back in 30 days (mid-April) and May 1st is a real stretch (behind closed doors only? Maybe, but doubtful). March 2 was a Monday, do you mean the Feb 29/Mar 1 games? And why not the Mar 7/8 games?
If we reset the schedules somehow could we make it possible in the future for Atlanta to not have all their Cascadia matches either all away or all at home in the same season, please? Thanks!
TO CLARIFY: 1. I choose May 1 to restart the season as the Chinese epicenter of the virus was in Wuhan which really only took off in late December-early january- now after 8 weeks, the infection rate is basically zero (keep in mind that at its height, Wuhan only had a .005 infection rate- (100 000 in a city area of 19 000 000; death rate was 1/30 of the infection rate, or 3 300, mostly the already ill elderly) 2. I meant the first 2 games of the season (feb29/march1; March 7/8)- those game points would be included in the restart of a reformatted 24 game season-- poorly worded before
Well the CDC just recommended all gatherings of 50 or more people be cancelled for 8 weeks, which would be May 10th. So no way May 1 is in play. June 1 might not even be in play.