Kyle wrote:First game tonight for the MLS, anyone going to be taking a look at the two newest teams?
Kyle wrote:First game tonight for the MLS, anyone going to be taking a look at the two newest teams?
halnone wrote:can't wait. hopefully new york will do better this season.
Alioune DVToure wrote:Kyle wrote:First game tonight for the MLS, anyone going to be taking a look at the two newest teams?
Yes I'll be following Philly Union as best I can. My girlfriend's from Philadelphia and her mum bought me the shirt for Christmas. It's too late for me to watch tonight with work and that (not that I know how to get it anyway), but if you're watching it I'd love it if you could stick a little report in this thread afterwards. Cheers fella.
Kyle wrote:Alioune DVToure wrote:Kyle wrote:First game tonight for the MLS, anyone going to be taking a look at the two newest teams?
Yes I'll be following Philly Union as best I can. My girlfriend's from Philadelphia and her mum bought me the shirt for Christmas. It's too late for me to watch tonight with work and that (not that I know how to get it anyway), but if you're watching it I'd love it if you could stick a little report in this thread afterwards. Cheers fella.
Yeah man, i'm going to be watching the first half for sure, but then have to switch back and forth for the second. I'm sure someone will be able to comment on the second half though...
carl_feedthegoat wrote:Kyle wrote:First game tonight for the MLS, anyone going to be taking a look at the two newest teams?
Id rather watch crossroads.
Kyle wrote:halnone wrote:can't wait. hopefully new york will do better this season.
Yeah, do they get a pretty big turnout in NY?
CitizenYank wrote:The MLS play is horrible but if your going to support one team.....
DON'T SUPPORT SEATTLE!!! They have the worst fans, no knowledge of the game, bunch
of snotty coffee-drinking IT geeks. Still trying to admit to themselves that they are in
every way superior to Portland Timber fans.
Even tried to nick our title, "Soccer City, USA."
But hate, Seattle, to Portland they are a bunch of fair weather douchebags.
I hate them more than I hate U***d, which is saying something.....
And I hear their players eat babies, too!!!
P.S. Sorry for the word SOCCER.
DoomMerchant wrote:CitizenYank wrote:The MLS play is horrible but if your going to support one team.....
DON'T SUPPORT SEATTLE!!! They have the worst fans, no knowledge of the game, bunch
of snotty coffee-drinking IT geeks. Still trying to admit to themselves that they are in
every way superior to Portland Timber fans.
Even tried to nick our title, "Soccer City, USA."
But hate, Seattle, to Portland they are a bunch of fair weather douchebags.
I hate them more than I hate U***d, which is saying something.....
And I hear their players eat babies, too!!!
P.S. Sorry for the word SOCCER.
Soccer is a term the English created, and the Aussies have misappropriated. We're just along for the ride as Ugly Americans when it comes to the word. Ask John68. He knows we aren't to blame.
MLS as a professional league gets better every year to some extent, and a few clubs are worth watching sometimes, but as a rule of thumb as a football fan i don't get a throbbing hardon to watch any random match in say the Finnish League or the Belgian or Japanese Leagues and won't over MLS either (just as a comparison to uhm "foreign leagues"), which is absolutely not true of La Liga, Serie A, the Prem and the Coca Cola Leagues. i think the comparison to League 1/ Lower Championship is about accurate. Some fans do get it tho, and there are a few nice football-only stadiums which are in play.
What i have been excited about this season tho is the amount of coverage and buildup to the season which MLS is getting on ESPN and Fox Soccer here in the States...in general, the more exposure football gets, the better.
i watch about 1 MLS match every month, and i am rarely excited by the match i see, tho there are moments when i say to myself "this doesn't totally suck..." usually followed by 10 minutes of sloppy, excruciating longball displays which bring me back down to earth. There are some teams which are attempting to play football tho, no doubt about that.
Interestingly, the best American players obv don't play in MLS, so...in that regard the league will always be hard to watch as an American. Forever. That's probably no different than say the Swedish or FInnish or Belgian Leagues i'm sure.
cheers
andeez nutz wrote:To be honest- it was the first ever MLS game I watched, but I'm supporting my Philly Union.
I'm going to go the home opener, pretty excited about that.. they have there own stadium being built but it is not finishied yet.
so they are playing where the Philadelphia Eagles play there first two games.
the game last night was ok.
the MLS is so different than what i'm used to watching in Europe.
but our team is the youngest in the league.
the two goals conceded were not bad to give up.
had a few chances at goal.
a few stupid fouls that resulted in early yellows and one sending off did us in.
Alioune DVToure wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:CitizenYank wrote:The MLS play is horrible but if your going to support one team.....
DON'T SUPPORT SEATTLE!!! They have the worst fans, no knowledge of the game, bunch
of snotty coffee-drinking IT geeks. Still trying to admit to themselves that they are in
every way superior to Portland Timber fans.
Even tried to nick our title, "Soccer City, USA."
But hate, Seattle, to Portland they are a bunch of fair weather douchebags.
I hate them more than I hate U***d, which is saying something.....
And I hear their players eat babies, too!!!
P.S. Sorry for the word SOCCER.
Soccer is a term the English created, and the Aussies have misappropriated. We're just along for the ride as Ugly Americans when it comes to the word. Ask John68. He knows we aren't to blame.
MLS as a professional league gets better every year to some extent, and a few clubs are worth watching sometimes, but as a rule of thumb as a football fan i don't get a throbbing hardon to watch any random match in say the Finnish League or the Belgian or Japanese Leagues and won't over MLS either (just as a comparison to uhm "foreign leagues"), which is absolutely not true of La Liga, Serie A, the Prem and the Coca Cola Leagues. i think the comparison to League 1/ Lower Championship is about accurate. Some fans do get it tho, and there are a few nice football-only stadiums which are in play.
What i have been excited about this season tho is the amount of coverage and buildup to the season which MLS is getting on ESPN and Fox Soccer here in the States...in general, the more exposure football gets, the better.
i watch about 1 MLS match every month, and i am rarely excited by the match i see, tho there are moments when i say to myself "this doesn't totally suck..." usually followed by 10 minutes of sloppy, excruciating longball displays which bring me back down to earth. There are some teams which are attempting to play football tho, no doubt about that.
Interestingly, the best American players obv don't play in MLS, so...in that regard the league will always be hard to watch as an American. Forever. That's probably no different than say the Swedish or FInnish or Belgian Leagues i'm sure.
cheers
I feel exactly the same, and not only because I spend a fair amount of time in the States. I think a lot of English/British people are keen to ridicule Americans vis-a-vis football because it worries us that the pre-eminence of European football might be challenged if it really takes off over there (not to mention a cheapening of the game through a commercialisation of the game as a spectacle).
I see it a different way. I imagine that in ten years or so football/soccer will have overtaken ice hockey, but will never be considered a "national" sport such as basketball and - especially - american football and baseball. I also think that if the States ever got another World Cup the new stadia coupled with a new enthusiasm for and curiosity about the game would make for a mega tournament.
The way to go for the MLS, which I think they've realised, is to nurture the best talent from Central and South America - much like the top clubs in the Premier League do with young kids from Europe. This will raise the bar and make it somewhere that the best young American kids aspire to have a career rather than seeing the MLS as a shop window for a possible European move.
CitizenYank wrote:The MLS play is horrible but if your going to support one team.....
DON'T SUPPORT SEATTLE!!! They have the worst fans, no knowledge of the game, bunch
of snotty coffee-drinking IT geeks. Still trying to admit to themselves that they are in
every way superior to Portland Timber fans.
Even tried to nick our title, "Soccer City, USA."
But hate, Seattle, to Portland they are a bunch of fair weather douchebags.
I hate them more than I hate U***d, which is saying something.....
And I hear their players eat babies, too!!!
P.S. Sorry for the word SOCCER.
DoomMerchant wrote:Alioune DVToure wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:CitizenYank wrote:The MLS play is horrible but if your going to support one team.....
DON'T SUPPORT SEATTLE!!! They have the worst fans, no knowledge of the game, bunch
of snotty coffee-drinking IT geeks. Still trying to admit to themselves that they are in
every way superior to Portland Timber fans.
Even tried to nick our title, "Soccer City, USA."
But hate, Seattle, to Portland they are a bunch of fair weather douchebags.
I hate them more than I hate U***d, which is saying something.....
And I hear their players eat babies, too!!!
P.S. Sorry for the word SOCCER.
Soccer is a term the English created, and the Aussies have misappropriated. We're just along for the ride as Ugly Americans when it comes to the word. Ask John68. He knows we aren't to blame.
MLS as a professional league gets better every year to some extent, and a few clubs are worth watching sometimes, but as a rule of thumb as a football fan i don't get a throbbing hardon to watch any random match in say the Finnish League or the Belgian or Japanese Leagues and won't over MLS either (just as a comparison to uhm "foreign leagues"), which is absolutely not true of La Liga, Serie A, the Prem and the Coca Cola Leagues. i think the comparison to League 1/ Lower Championship is about accurate. Some fans do get it tho, and there are a few nice football-only stadiums which are in play.
What i have been excited about this season tho is the amount of coverage and buildup to the season which MLS is getting on ESPN and Fox Soccer here in the States...in general, the more exposure football gets, the better.
i watch about 1 MLS match every month, and i am rarely excited by the match i see, tho there are moments when i say to myself "this doesn't totally suck..." usually followed by 10 minutes of sloppy, excruciating longball displays which bring me back down to earth. There are some teams which are attempting to play football tho, no doubt about that.
Interestingly, the best American players obv don't play in MLS, so...in that regard the league will always be hard to watch as an American. Forever. That's probably no different than say the Swedish or FInnish or Belgian Leagues i'm sure.
cheers
I feel exactly the same, and not only because I spend a fair amount of time in the States. I think a lot of English/British people are keen to ridicule Americans vis-a-vis football because it worries us that the pre-eminence of European football might be challenged if it really takes off over there (not to mention a cheapening of the game through a commercialisation of the game as a spectacle).
I see it a different way. I imagine that in ten years or so football/soccer will have overtaken ice hockey, but will never be considered a "national" sport such as basketball and - especially - american football and baseball. I also think that if the States ever got another World Cup the new stadia coupled with a new enthusiasm for and curiosity about the game would make for a mega tournament.
The way to go for the MLS, which I think they've realised, is to nurture the best talent from Central and South America - much like the top clubs in the Premier League do with young kids from Europe. This will raise the bar and make it somewhere that the best young American kids aspire to have a career rather than seeing the MLS as a shop window for a possible European move.
if the US managed to get Thierry Henry, Drogba, Messi, Tronaldo, etc to open up futsal clinics in the inner city and/or rural southwest/southcentral US you could get young black and latino kids interested in this game at a young age which would change the gameboard here in the States.
cheers
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