It was another great weekend for FC Dallas, who maintained their three point lead at the top of both the Western Conference, and the Supporters’ Shield standings. RSL and Colorado also won to keep the pressure on the league leaders’ in the Western. Montreal also produced a comeback win to ...
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MLS Review – Week 1
This weekend saw the start of the 2016 MLS season. 20 teams came into this weekend hoping to get their campaign going with a win in the season opener. The Portland Timbers came into 2016 as the reigning MLS Cup Champions after beating the Columbus Crew in the final in ...
Read More »Favourites for the MLS Cup in 2016
As the MLS season gets underway on Sunday, who will go on to win the trophy in December? Will it be one of the old guard, or will it be one of the new expansion teams? Well, the main favourites for the title are the LA Galaxy (9/2 – according ...
Read More »Can New York City FC still win the MLS Cup?
View image | gettyimages.com Before the Major League Soccer 2015/16 season began big things were expected of new comers New York City FC. The franchise had secured huge investments from both Manchester City and the New York Yankees amounting to somewhere in the region of $100 million. These investments allowed ...
Read More »MLS – Best Starting XI
View image | gettyimages.com Earlier this week, I saw an article published by the BBC giving their best MLS XI. It was certainly an exceptional team in terms of talent, but given the amount of attacking players in the side, the formation was all wrong. For example, Kaká was ...
Read More »Major League Soccer: a growing international force?
View image | gettyimages.com The Atlantic Ocean is what separates Europe and the vast expanse of land known as the United States of America, and for many years this division was seen in the world of sport. Whilst Europe remained “football (soccer) crazy”, the biggest sports in America were “football”, basketball, ...
Read More »Dempsey Gets 2 Year Cup Ban
View image | gettyimages.com Seattle Sounders forward Clint Dempsey has been banned for two years from the US Open cup after being sent off in their defeat against Portland Timbers after ripping up the referee’s notebook. Former Liverpool and Fulham striker Dempsey, who is also the national team captain saw ...
Read More »Pirlo heading to New York City FC
View image | gettyimages.com Italian legend Andrea Pirlo is set to join MLS side New York City on a free transfer after requesting his release from the final year of his contract with Turin side Juventus. The Italy international could join former England and Chelsea star Frank Lampard and former ...
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