I watched Johnny Torres play for the Chicago Fire this summer on "loan" from the Minnesota Thunder of the A-league. Now I see he is playing with the Milwaukee Wave of the MISL. How does this work? How can a player bounce around like that? I was just curious.
This is a forum for this kinda thread. Its called the USL: United Soccer Leagues and its below the Yanks abroad stuff all the way under the MLS.
I think Torres was coolio! He was pretty good..... he could outrun carlos ruiz 7 out of 10 times.... and had a few goals, not too bad...
Thanks for that thoughtful contribution..?!?!.... The point, I think, was how does the loan system with MLS work? Who can get called up and who can't? Is it like baseball? Can MLS teams raid ANY players from their "affiliated teams" ? Are there deadlines? If any one has any information on this, and would like to share, I'd be interested as well. Or, if you'd rather talk about where this question should be filed, and in which folder the thread shoud go...well, maybe some would be interested in that too...
I took the question to be about how he can bounce around from the A-League to the MISL. In that case, the question could probably be better answered at the forum I specified.
Torres is in the lower divisions for one simple reason - he couldn't play with the big boys. Despite what some trollers might say, there's a world of difference between the NCAA and the MLS. Just because you were good in one, doesn't mean you are gonna be a phenom in the pros. Torres is a great example of this. When he played for the Revs, he'd just dribble around, then get knocked off the ball by one of the bigger defenders. And even if he did score some goals, they were so few and far between that it made no difference (kinda like Wolde at the beginning of this season).
...so anyway, I believe the way it works is that Torres has a contract with the Thunder. In that contract, he is given the freedom to arrange play for another team during the offseason. In this case, that would be the Milwaukee Wave. The arrangement between the A-League and MLS is different because it is more like the Thunder loaning him out to Chicago. I believe he gets an extra paycheck out of the deal, but in this case the arrangements are made between the Thunder and MLS rather than the player and the team he is loan-playing for. Sorry to ruin all the fun. You all can resume the bickering now.