The MLS All-Star game is tonight and there are no DC United players on it. Not even one. I thought maybe Benteke or Herrera might be on it. In my experience, every team in an All-Star (NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.) game is represented, no matter how putrid they are. This shows exactly how low DC United has sunk, for those not paying attention. I have watched the games when DC was represented in the past. I won't be watching tonight. I know that Don Garber will be broken hearted.
It's never been a requirement for every MLS team to have a representative. DC didn't have one back in 2021, either. The league is too big and the rosters not big enough to have every team represented now, anyway. They'd have to go back to an East vs West thing to do that.
The CBA contract states that if there is an all-star game, there will be a minimum of 24 players named but there is no obligation to have more than 24.
In the meantime, in Burlington... https://vermontgreenfc.com/playoff-match-report-vermont-green-fc-0-0-dothan-united-4-2-on-pks/
Djordje Mihailovic to TFC for 8 million dollars. This is the kind of deal that makes all parties regret it. Colorado's season is over, TFC is still shit, and Mihailovic is going to look a lot worse passing to whatever scrubs Toronto puts around him.
so, what is worse - our manglement not spending and getting poor results, or TFC spending and being just as bad? Djordje is gonna be getting a nice pay increase - so what does he really care which scrubs it is with? At least it ain't DC.
He’s a solid MLS player and I’d love to have him. He ain’t worth $8 million. At least TFC is actually doing something, however.
I'd rather the team spend and it not always or even usually go well, because as we have seen at LAG, there is hope if your owner spends. There's zero hope if there isn't a sufficiently compettive spend. We're the 25th of 30 (which I expect includes most of Klich's DP salary) teams when it comes to payroll. We're right back where we were before we left RFK from this aspect, except now we're the fifth most profitable (+$10M exclusive of SUM) team in the league if that Wikipedia link SuperDave posted the other day is accurate. That $10M is the difference between a bottom bottom fifth payroll and top fifth payroll. A big spend doesn't guarantee you anything, but its a hell of a lot more likely to be successful than with a bottom fifth payroll. A lot more margin for error. The idea that Leavien and his merry band of pikey millionaires are playing a billionaires game and skulking away with $10M in cash, while prices for tickets, parking, concessions go up almost every year while fan experience and team performance are down is repugnent.
Ha ha ha ha (and I can't stress this enough) ha ha ha!!! https://www.hudsonriverblue.com/nyc...atch-postponed-due-to-citi-field-grass-issues
Its funny an all, but don't laugh too hard, in another year and a half, they'll have a really nice stadium with all the bells & whistles and even a roof all the way around.
Looks like USMNT stans can put to rest any dreams of Lucho Acosta playing for the US, as he's off to Fluminense.
Dallas played that very badly. Cincinnati played that very well. In retrospect, I give Ben a little more credit for the way he handled Lucho over the course of his four years here. Lucho pretty much wrecked Dallas' season this year after trying to do the same for Cincinnati in the playoffs last year.
Do you have any more info on that? I watched Lucho with Cincinnati all last year and thought he was great with them. It seemed about as good a fit for him as he could realistically hope for. And the results showed it. Not sure what happened in the playoffs except that that's soccer. When he said he wanted out after the playoff loss, I just assumed it was frustration at the loss. But the move to Dallas did not suit him. Or Dallas.
FIFA out there FIFAing from Bluesky post from Brad Weldon (no, I do not know who it is, but seems to be Canadian): : FIFA is asking for volunteers for the 2026 World Cup. VOLUNTEERS! FIFA is a $6 billion USDollar company. It can and should pay wages for the labour to put on its biggest revenue-generating event. People of Vancouver, don’t fall for this nonsense. https://bsky.app/profile/canadensis.bsky.social/post/3lwam6xk5p22b
the only fans more miserable than us is fans of the Fire. It’s just science. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/45344992/sports-misery-index
If you want to step into the Twilight Zone, lurk in the Crew forum. To me, they’re the most likable team in the league. They play attractive soccer, they win. They’re like the newly hot girl next door and not the botoxed up cheerleader (Inter, LAFC, etc.). They have a charismatic coach. The front office allows its players to move on, and generally finds replacements (Zelarayan out, Rossi in; Cucho out, this new Palestinian in). They develop players for the Nats. Their fans bitch more than ours. It’s unreal.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-mirro...-blasts-fc-cincinnati-boss-in-fiery-statement “If my move out of FC Cincinnati occurs, it is all because of general manager Chris Albright,” Acosta stated, according to SoccerwiseHQ . “My frustration after the last game of the season was all because of my issues with Chris that had evolved to a point that the locker room became too small for the two of us. [...] “My frustration with Chris started at the end of the 2023 season when we were close to making the finals, and instead of maintaining the team’s core, his lack of experience dealing with the players pushed away key players such as Alvaro Barreal, Junior Moreno, and Santi Arias. “This season we are having the same issues again where our lack of leadership from the GM pushed away Yamil Asad (who recently announced his departure on X), Yuya Kubo, and Luca Orellano and even bringing back Alvaro (who just joined Brazilian side Santos on loan) so we could have a team that would fight to bring a championship to Cincinnati."