General Galaxy, Chivas gain TV Deal - LA Time MLS News: MetroStars' Guevara selected MVP - KC Star Guevara is MLS' best - NY Daily News Toward sensible soccer tiebreakers - Christian Science Monitor New kind of head-fake takes hold of MLS - KC Star Harkes keeps both feet in the soccer world - USA Today MLS Confidential: Arena's men; expansion draft - Soccer America DCU Adu returns to MLS Cup, this time as a player - Arizona Sun (AP) United much more than Adu - KC Star United's resilient Moreno is MLS's Comeback Kid - Washington Post DC heads to MLS Cup on wings of (Screaming) Eagles - USA Today He's back on Easy Stree - LA Times United go to the tape on Wizards - Boston Herald Rapids Goalkeeper unable to win MVP honor - Denver Post FCD FC Dallas striker will train with Man U - Dallas Morning News Crew Marshall rules MLS - Press-Enterprise
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight That's exciting news for the Gals and Chivas TV deal. A rights fee! Let's hope this is the beginning of a new trend league-wide in the coming years.
This article was ghostwritten by either Sepp Blatter... ...or Sean Wheelock. Re: penalty kicks - if it's good enough for the World Cup final, it's good enough for me. Besides, they are exciting for the fans. Re: a "flagship" team - Whatever. The Cosmos are dead. The NASL is dead. Get over it. Does the NFL have a flagship team? No, and yet it is considered widely to be far and away the most successful league in America. Should? Should? What is this "should" you speak of? Hey, don't get me wrong. I would LOVE to see a team in St. Louis. I would buy season tickets tomorrow, and I'm an hour and a half away. But no city SHOULD get a team unless they meet the criteria. Whoever this "Ross Atkin" guy is, he obviously doesn't read these boards.
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight Barça USA - ESPN Deportes (Spanish) There's not much substance here, but it's another confirmation of how the big clubs want to go global.
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight San Antonio has appetite for big-time soccer There is a hypnotic ebb and flow to soccer. It is a sport that is as much dance as dash, as much chess match as chase. There's a gentle cadence to it, a rhythm that its fans feel as surely as a heartbeat. Played out on a sprawling landscape as large as any in the athletic universe, the action unfolds in tiny, exhilarating portions, a slow boil of drama that can squeeze emotion out of the hardest soul. Though I wouldn't know about any of that.
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight No flagship teams in the NFL? HA!! Giants, Cowboys, Raiders, Packers........... not flagship teams?? Not that I care either way..... cause the Metrostars are a massive club!
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight Massive at losing. And anyway, you proved my point - "a" flagship team, not several. If you're talking several, then every league's got 'em.
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight Note to those unfamiliar with naval operations: the definition of "flagship" is that [Christopher Lambert] There Can Be Only One. [/Christopher Lambert]
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight That USA Today article, btw, is a beaut.
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight Does John Harkes have any coaching credentials(UEFA or USSF licenses)?
another reason to love CHicas USA Another reason to love Chivas USA. MLS first major rights TV deal that brings in cash. THAT MY FRIENDS IS WHAT ITS ABOUT!!!! NOT THIS BS MEXICO vs USA CRAP some of you have been spewing!!!!! Don Garber is dam man and AEG is just the god of soccer deal making.
Re: another reason to love CHicas USA Ah, but the whole US-Mex angle will prove profitable outside the Latino market. Chivas attracts Mexicans and breeds contempt amongst Mexicans, Central Americans and regular ole' 'Mericans.
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight Every league's got several flagship teams? Which teams are MLS' flagship teams?
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight DC United Metrostars LA Galaxy just look at the player movement history For a while Chicago Fire was moving towards such status. Crew could've gotten it with SSS AND a MLS Cup. Metrostars have tried to squander such status at every turn (management not fans/players)
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight Point being, it's plausible to stretch the definition to two, like in the Lakers-Celtics days, but when you get to five or six, the exercise of calling them 'flagship' is pointless, because in all probability, if you can list several, then there's only a quantitative (not qualitiative) difference between that group (and the above list is pretty good) and the next group down (Metro, Columbus), not a gigantic gulf. Certainly that's true in the NFL.
Here's a powerfully bad idea: Why not create a scaled-down version of a normal game? Move the goals in from either end of the field to create a compact playing surface and play six to a side (rather than 11-on-11 over a much larger area). This might ensure ample scoring opportunities without turning it into a shooting gallery (a la indoor soccer). To make sure nobody takes an overly defensive posture, the team that wins is the one that either scores a goal first or has the most shots on goal by the end of a 10-minute overtime.
Re: 11/12 I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tight I found the answer. He has a USSF 'A' license.