I think that a good general rule is that players who are always aware of what is going on around them and thinking a couple steps ahead have a...
Will Johnson and Diego Chara are both more #8 type midfielders rather than #6 type midfielders. They somehow managed to form a good partnership...
Is standardizing training, formations, and tactics really a good thing? The soccer world is constantly evolving, and whatever standard tactics we...
I'm pretty sure that we were undervaluing mental ability before, though I wasn't paying as much attention to the youth teams back then. It's...
Westbrook still had a descent amount of interest from colleges if he was recruited by a top program like UCLA. Damian Lillard, on the other hand,...
I think the problem now is that we are overvaluing technical ability and undervaluing mental ability. Between physical ability,technical...
Are the first team and the U23s both going to be playing in the NPSL? Or is one of them going to be in a different league?
Actually the PASL is a professional league. Rather than being a step up, the NPSL could be considered a significant step down from the PASL....
To me, level of play = ability to win games. By that standard, the level of play of the teams that are able to get themselves promoted to the...
To state the blatantly obvious, good teams win games and bad teams don't. Chattanooga has won their conference 3 times and never finished lower...
I think that the reward would be that most of the basket case teams that aren't at all competitive and are likely to fold in the middle of the...
The league blocked Portland from signing Mix Diskerud.
And yet despite that Ghana is ranked below teams like Costa Rica and Australia in the Elo rankings. It just goes to prove that a national team's...
If the potential ceiling for MLS players with the USMNT is scoring 50+ international goals and 50+ international assists, then I am pretty happy...
Nagbe is a mediocre winger, I don't think he has a future with the national team at that position unless he makes some major changes to the way...
Portland Timbers: Diego Chara The way I see it there are 5 reasonable candidates for Timbers MVP: Valeri, Nagbe, Will Johnson, Chara, and...
The Timbers have only lost 5 MLS games this season. The first loss was at home to Montreal on March 10th, but the 4 losses since then have all...
I don't think taking Nagbe off was a good idea. One thing that I have noticed after watching Nagbe play a lot is that he is much better when he...
That isn't true, or at least it hasn't always been true for DPs in the past. DPs still go through the normal player acquisition mechanisms at...
It's great to have Dempsey in the league, but the method Seattle used to acquire him does not seem fair at all. When Portland wanted to acquire a...
Most of the major clubs in other countries have farm teams, and it seems to work out pretty well for them.
I've never really thought of Zemanski as a potential national team player. He's been getting some starts recently with Will Johnson playing for...
Pro/rel is an interesting concept, but there is no chance that MLS will implement pro/rel any time soon. There are many huge barriers preventing...
It should be noted that every other 19-loss team in the post-shootout era was much worse than last year's Rapids. The Rapids ended the season with...
I don't understand why Jac Mac should be behind Wondo and Bruin. He has scored more goals in MLS this season than both of them put together. He...