Hooray! I'll add the Sounders to the list of teams I'll be ********ing. They're fans have been insufferable since way back when Roger Levesque was torching us in Open Cup finals. I'm ready for them to come crashing down, actively rooting for it.
I can vouch for this, as the first soccer I ever saw was in Seattle in 1971 or 1972 - and I am fairly sure it was either the Sounders in a previous-previous form, or the UofW Huskies (who I doubt had a soccer program that early). Since I never saw it beforehand, that must have been when/where it was invented This, or the evergreen ******** the Metros should be the first post in all other-team or general MLS threads - so thank you song19 for your efforts! Also looking forward to a (nother) horrible year for the Miami team.
well - other teams' academies - not ours https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/...numbers-1387302?ito=twitter_share_article-top
I don't recommend anyone look for video or images. It's some of the most brutal stuff I have seen from a sporting event. People were being beat senseless and left naked on the ground. LigaMX tried to look the other way and continued play for last night's games. Likewise, the city government is definitely underreporting what happened.
The coverups around everything that happened and so many outlets (especially English language) simply accepting the local government statements are sickening. There are several local and independent interviews of Atlas fans who were at the game who confirm tens of people died.
I loved those Portland jerseys when they were released but on TV they are really an eye sore. I guess there's a reason lots of jersey designs tend to be very simple.
Interesting stat, but not at all surprising. Go look at MLB, only about 10% of minor leaguers make the majors and while I have no stats to validate it, my guess is that with much bigger rosters, four times as many games, a great deal of position specialization and situational subbing that a larger percentage of that number are trivial appearances. Like Crash Davis even made it to the show.
its not an equivalent comparison but the rate in soccer seems to be much higher than in pointy-ball football (I posit one can reasonably consider NCAA to be essentially be the academy/farm team system for the NFL): How many NCAA football players make it to the NFL? (sportskeeda.com) NCAA Participants: 73,712 Approximate # Drafts Eligible: 16,380 # Draft Picks: 254 # NCAA Drafted: 254 % NCAA to Major Pro: 1.6% I suspect basketball has even smaller percentage....
I'd say at least ~1% of the 16,000 make it to the pros, at least the old Taxi squads, as undrafted free agents.
I don't watch Euro soccer so I may be talking out of my hole but this much I know: if Christian Pulisic played for the Earthquakes, fans would be absolutely howling about his inclusion on the US team. He was, yet again, the worst player on the field for either team last night. I'm fine with players having bad games, of course. It happens. What I'm not OK with is players getting passes based on reputation. Brooks certainly kept getting chances based on his pedigree even when he was terrible on the pitch. Last night, Pulisic was a total drag on the team. He would routinely dribble into a crowd of defenders when there were open players asking for the ball. I understand Berhalter can't leave him off the team, but sub him out, for God's sake. One other negative note on a night of positives. Zimmerman is a perfectly capable defender but he can not be trusted to build out of the back. Nearly all of Mexico's best chances were the result of his clumsiness on the ball. He needs to know when to just hoof it upfield.
As a decades-long US fan, the irony is not lost on me that I'm complaining about the US performance when they left the Azteca with a point, something that was utterly unimaginable when I started watching this team. But, let's be real, they left two points on the table last night. Mexico probably shouldn't have hired a coach that repeatedly got schooled by Ben Olsen.
Those have to bee the worst MLS jerseys in a long time, if not worst of all time. Nothing about those jerseys says rose city. Those blobs on their jerseys they say are roses, you clearly can not make out. The red third jersey the Timbers had several seasons ago was a way much better Rose City jersey then this monstrosity.
VAR continues to be an abomination. At least once a week, I question why I'm still watching this sport.