MLS Summer Interregnum Thread (Nations League, Euros, Copa, Gold Cup, Other PBP)

So, you're saying that we need to have a Women's Division 1 league in Canada?

 

I mean most countries start with a Men's Division 1 league, but whatever.

 

You mean the one that eliminated a team from yours in the domestic cup, but whatever

 

Unrelated by fun fact: I've actually shot the University of Montreal's women's soccer team. For some odd reason they came down at the start of the college season a number of years back and played Duke and UNC.

Just looked it up. Holy crap I'm old. It was 2012.

8/24/12 vs Duke
https://goduke.com/news/2012/8/24/205668547.aspx
https://andymead.photoshelter.com/g...vs-Montreal/G0000NjkZQXp273c/C0000v3JBtyS912g

8/26/12 vs UNC
https://goheels.com/sports/2012/8/26/Stats_8211.aspx#GAME.BOX
https://andymead.photoshelter.com/g...th-Carolina/G0000pncDOon7jEg/C0000v3JBtyS912g

 

I'm an original Kansas City Wizards fan, you can't "cut me down" by bringing up domestic cups. I'm used to my team losing to amateurs. It's not that big of a deal.

Plus I'm familiar with the Canadian MLS teams. You've got some proper shit-shows there. At least they're developing some nice talent for your national team.

 

They kind of proved they are D1 in their continental runs, I mean they did eliminate a team with a win in Panama, something FC Dallas couldn't do in 2018 but anyways - doesn't change that MLS is the stronger league

Actually most of the nice North American talent came from non MLS academies but yes, Canadian MLS teams contribution is much appreciated.

 

A new member association is expected to be joining CONCACAF next month. They wont play in World Cup Qualifiers but they will play in regional competitions. Stay tuned.

— Simon Preston (@SimonPreston93) August 3, 2021

TIL that Saint Pierre and Miquelon (population: 6-freaking-thousand) has a national team and a soccer league made of three teams.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon national football team - Wikipedia

 

Why not?

 

Three teams that play in the French Cup I assume

 

Their international results are interesting:

0-11
0-7
0-10
0-13
0-10
1-11
1-16

W 0 D 0 L 7 GD -76

 

And I'm guessing those are scores against teams like St Kitts and Nevis or the British Virgin Islands, not Honduras.

 

Based on what I saw at the Gold Cup that 0-7 scoreline might have been against Mexico

 

They will fit in nicely with Bonaire, Saint Martin and Montserrat!

 

The four of them should have a tournament.

 

It's called the Nations League.

 

Nah, they'll all end up in different groups as the Uber-minnows (except maybe for Montserrat at #180)...let them play each other.

 

Hopefully the bottom 4 ranked teams will play in a group with pro/rel.

 

It lived up to the hype.

 

I wanted Bol to spoil the NBC slobberfest coronation over Sydney but Bol didn't have the foot speed to catch the Americans. (unbelievable thing to say about a euro who split 49.99 indoors back in march. )

 

Did someone post this yet?

NBC paid $7.75bn for its Olympic rights ... and we got televisual vomit
- The Guardian

 

How was this Olympics different? Is this guy new to the Olympics.

 

This year my Olympics viewing has been some early morning live stuff on Telemundo (mainly uninterrupted soccer) and NBC Sports Youtube highlight videos (on the YouTube app on my smart TV).

A 6-15 second commercial at the start of the video, then basically just the event. I have missed a lot of context, but - as we all know - it's not like the main broadcast provides any of that. I'm a cord-cutter, so my choices are NBC and Telemundo over the air.

I have flipped to both channels during prime-time in the hopes of seeing something from time to time, but frankly most of the time I find them mid-commercial. And of the times not in commercial, I'm more likely to find NBC showing some "profile" or they're in the studio than an actual sporting event. Sigh.

I'm old enough to have grown up watching the Olympics on ABC with Jim McKay. It was sports, sports, and more sports - outside some horrific news stuff in Munich. If I recall the profile stuff started in earnest around the time we get to LA in 1984. Possibly as a reaction to the growing impact of cable TV in splintering the television viewership, but that might be me misremembering.

 

I have streaming cable (YouTube TV) so when I get home from work I look on NBCSN, USA, and CNBC to see what they showing because they tend to actually show sports. I watch 3-4 hours of Olympic coverage on those channels every evening very rarely venturing over to NBC. I love the Olympics but I like the sports. Any time they aren't showing sports I find another channel.

I know I'm missing some big events but I'm ok with this approach. In the past I tried recording the primetime network coverage and fast-forwarding through the jibber jabber but I've just given up on that approach.

Last night I watched water polo, basketball, marathon swimming, a bit of men's gymnastics, and a lot of track & field covering some heats and the beginning of the heptathlon and decathlon. It was the Olympics so I was happy.

 

I'm in the same boat as Andy. Fully cut the cord and would rather be set on fire than watch the tiresome non sports approach of NBC.

I think I've probably watched 10-15 minutes of live olympics events this year and mostly just click through what looks interesting on the NBC Sports YouTube page once or twice a day. That's been more than enough.