I notice there's a lot less MLS friendlies against euro teams. I remember a few years back almost every MLS team had at least one friendly, if not two or three.
The Revs have only had two friendlies [Benfica and ManU] in the past 8 years or so. Kraft likes to plan to them for when the team is at its absolute nadir, just so we really look good in comparison. So if the season tanks royally, and we are solidly out of the playoff picture, then expect Kraft to schedule a friendly......against Real Madrid.
RSL's game against Inter tomorrow is the first European friendly in almost ten years. The first one v. Real Madrid was to get the city or county or someone to fund the stadium initiative, and this one is to show them the plans and site for the training center. Dual purpose events really.
MLS friendlies , and in particular against Euro teams, were never as common as people seemed to think. Some teams had them quite often but others (as other posters are pointing out) barely had any. My team, the Houston Dynamo, has had one international friendly per year since 2009. Only half of those were against European teams. This year's game was against Real Sociedad back in May.
The Rapids had 2 European friendlies since 2007 (Everton and Swansea) and a handful of Liga MX friendlies.
in theory i like american players too. especially young ones. but then i watch a game like philly-nyrb, and i can't help noticing that muyl is a good two years away. and veron in ten minutes does more than myul did in eighty. the only time i really noticed muyl was when he tapped a dead ball away a few feet so philly couldn't take a quick restart. and that's without mentioning conor lade can't play soccer either.
I can imagine what Cincinnati were up to playing Crystal Palace but what cunning plan did Richmond Kickers have for taking on, and beating, Swansea City? Orlando are playing Stoke at a soccer-plex I believe.
This is actually the third year in a row they've played a Premier League team. They hosted West Brom last year and Palace in 2014.
Recently there was a letter campaign to an English supermarket demanding they change "10 items or less" to "10 items or fewer". The supermarket compromised with "up to 10 items". True story.