Here's your chance to make your predicitons for the NASL Spring Sprint Table. The Spring Champion last year were Minnesota and the year before that Atlanta and we both know they ended up "falling" to the Fall Champions. This year we have an expansion team in Jville as well as a lot of retooled rosters and big name signings. What's on the line if you step up to the challange? Just Big Soccer NASL Board Bragging Rights. To get you started is an article by former NASL Communications and PR Department Director Kartik Krishnaiyer with his Spring Season Table Predicitons: 2015 NASL season preview: Predicted winners and major talking points by Kartik Krishnaiyer The North American Soccer League (NASL) will begin its fifth season as an independent league on April 4. The league, which features the world-famous New York Cosmos, faces numerous challenges in the marketplace. Currently, the NASL is the only designated Division 2 league under United States Soccer Federation (USSF) guidelines, but the rival United Soccer League (USL) — currently a Division 3 — has announced it will apply for D2 status in 2016. USL has an affiliate and partnership agreement with Major League Soccer (MLS) and NASL has not announced a new expansion franchise in almost two years. In that period, USL has added over a dozen new teams. Predicted final table 1- Edmonton 2- Minnesota 3- New York 4- Fort Lauderdale 5- Tampa Bay 6- San Antonio 7- Carolina 8- Atlanta 9- Ottawa 10- Indy 11- Jacksonville Read more at http://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/03/...and-major-talking-points/#G8AZvwm43LgF6oc1.99
My predicted schedule: 1- New York (who did you think I would pick the Rowdies?) 2- Tampa Bay 3- Minnesota 4- Edmonton 5- Fort Lauderdale 6- San Antonio 7- Ottawa 8- Atlanta 9- Carolina 10- Indy 11- Jacksonville
LOL K .... 1- San Antonio 2- Minnesota 3- New York 4- Tampa Bay 5- Fort Lauderdale 6- Edmonton 7- Ottawa 8- Indy 9- Carolina 10- Atlanta 11- Jacksonville
1- New York 2- Minnesota 3- Indy 4- Edmonton 5- San Antonio 6- Tampa Bay 7- Fort Lauderdale 8- Ottawa 9- Atlanta 10- Carolina 11- Jacksonville I'm telling you Indy is going to surprise people, our roster was very effective to end the season last year.
Actually, I went and checked a few things ... SOOOOOOOOOOO 1 - San Antonio 2 - Minnesota 3 - New York 3 - Tampa Bay 5 - Ft Lauderdale 6 - Indy 7 - Edmonton 8 - Carolina 9 - Ottawa 10 - Atlanta 11 - Jacksonville
1- New York 2- Minnesota 3- Fort Lauderdale 4- Tampa Bay 5- San Antonio 6- Edmonton 7- Indy 8- Atlanta 9- Ottawa 10- Carolina 11- Jacksonville Really hard to decide how to order the teams from 7 to 10.
I think between the top 4 its really anyones title. Edmonton could be a shock pick. Bottom, I think Atl and Carolina struggle a lot. Jacksonville will be solid 1 - San Antonio 2 - Minnesota 3 - Indy 4 - New York 5 - Edmonton 6 - Tampa Bay 7. Ft Lauderdale 8 - Jacksonville 9 - Ottawa 10 - Atlanta 11 - Carolina