2014 NASL Championship Final Pre/PBP/Post thread

My Predictions : Minnesota United over the Strikers and New York Cosmos over San Antonio to set up the Soccer Bowl Final in Minnesota.

 

ftl (-2) over min (-3), and sas (-3) over nyc (-6) in the semis. ftl (-2) over sas (-3) in the final.

you can't win the league if you got beat by indy or if you never beat indy.

 

Nice that it worked out that way. I like how the NASL gametimes are mostly later in the day as opposed to the MLS which usually has some early KO times like today, dislike those especially on Saturdays.

 

Just wanted to say. If you are planning on watching the games tonight, and have access to ESPN3. The best way to show support for the league is by watching ESPN3 over NASL Live.

 

The Scorpions will host the Strikers in the Soccer Bowl.

 

Wow. what heartbreak for United. They deserved it, but that's whats great about playoffs!

 

Semi Final Attendance :

6113 in Minnesota
6548 in San Antonio

 

http://www.nycosmos.com/article/uuid/1no2cdlx7rjxv1v83c2g2axaj4/highlights-cosmos-v-scorpions

 

Other than getting them exactly wrong, you were spot-on.

I guess they wanted DC/NY Saturday for the NBC time slot. ESPN2 wanted games today and Seattle couldn't play at home until tomorrow.

San Antonio will be a nice venue for the final. Hopefully they will pack the place.

 

What's the capacity of the stadium in SA? I was hoping to see a sell out crowd, Surprised me to see plenty of empty seats. Hope they can pack it in for the final.

 

8,296 I guess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Field

 

Will be interesting to see how packed the crowd will be. Weather for SA is going to be cold. Highs should be around 50 with lows in the 40's so kickoff will probably be in the low 50's.

However the Spurs will not be in town unlike last night. Also UTSA football plays on Thursday. So there should not really have anything competing against the match. So outside of the weather, will be very interesting to see how the fans turn out.

 

Minnesota v. Ft. Lauderdale was the first NASL game i've watched start-to-finish. quality was pretty good, i was impressed with Minnesota. the Strikers' keeper made some awesome saves.
but, what was up with those offside calls???

 

MLS gets the best refs, so that tells you the quality of the next best

 

For anyone interested, the organization that assigns the referees for MLS, NASL, and USL-Pro made a statement on the non-offside decision: http://www.nasl.com/article/uuid/17...-minnesota-fort-lauderdale-match#.VGETR_nF-aq

 

Its gameday for NASL Soccer Bowl 2014, Bruce Silverman has a pregame show on sofloradio.com 2 hours before kickoff at 6:30pmET :

http://silvermanonsports.com/

Game on ESPN3, OneWorldSports, and NASL Live at 8:30pmET
Live Radio Broadcast on sofloradio.com

 

Will we being using this as the pbp thread later?

 

Awesome! Thanks Prime.

 

Just got in from the movies. Where is everyone?

 

Any online stream?

 

ESPN3 has a stream.