January 18, 2011

One of the most hotly discussed topics involving Major League Soccer is something that MLS has no business of doing: promotion and relegation.

People's ideas are very polarized when it comes to the concept.

Some, such as the Westerveltists at Soccer Reform, believe it will be the savior to American soccer, as it will create instant gratification among the American soccer fans—both hardcore and casual.

Others, take an extremely pessimistic approach, claiming that it would kill the league in a heartbeat.

Now, if in some bizarre parallel universe, if Don Garber decided to claim that MLS would adopt the system, that either one would happen, it's always fun to imagine what it would be like, and how it would be structured.

Promotion and relegation in MLS: My model of how it can happen

One of the most hotly discussed topics involving Major League Soccer is something that MLS has no business of doing: promotion and relegatio...

January 15, 2011

Don Garber's at it again, making American soccer fans infuriated once again.

No, not with talk about conferences and a single-table format, but with the MLS Commissioner's rather gung-ho plan to create "Rivalry Week" during the MLS regular season.

This tentatively called "rivalry week" would consist of the three clubs playing against one another in the span of the week, and having all of MLS solely focus on the Pacific Northwest. In a nutshell, it's Garber's latest scheme in hoping to garner television audiences that are complimented with unprecedented crowds out in the Cascades.

Just the idea alone is very unsurprising. Almost to the same degree of receiving a backlash of comments on MLS's website. However, what may shock you is where the core disapproval was coming from: Sounders, Whitecaps and Timbers fans.

Most of the it was either snickering at how married to rivalries Garber is, or how Garber is not foreseeing this rivalry as sport, but to showcase the league under a new light. Shaking his crystal ball, Garber is evidently hoping that this will create mass attention.

MLS Rivalry Week 2011: More Harm, Than Good?

Don Garber's at it again, making American soccer fans infuriated once again. No, not with talk about conferences and a single-table fo...

January 08, 2011

Earlier last month, D.C. United signed University of Maryland-prospect, Ethan White on a youth development contract, allowing White to bypass this month's SuperDraft, and to sign with the Black-and-Red's first team squad, with Major League Soccer paying for his contract.

It is not only White, either. The United's rivals from up the I-95 corridor are in the same process, also with a fellow Maryland Terrapin. In Maryland junior midfielder, Matt Kassel has signed with Red Bull New York on a youth development contract, as well, thus making him ineligable for the draft.

MLS SuperDraft: Why The Rise of Youth Academies Is Causing The Draft To Be Obsolete

Earlier last month, D.C. United signed University of Maryland-prospect, Ethan White on a youth development contract, allowing White to bypa...

January 01, 2011

Regardless of how much we disapprove the 2010 MLS Cup outcome, the fact of the matter is that the Colorado Rapids won the Cup and are arguably the defending league champions going into their 2011 campaign. 

While no club has won a consecutive MLS Cup title since the Houston Dynamo in 2007, there's evidently a myriad of things that the Rapids will need to live up to in 2011. Recent defending MLS Cup champions have had success in qualifying for the quarterfinals in the CONCACAF Champions League and either winning or falling short of winning the MLS Supporters' Shield, an award for the best regular season record. 

Colorado Rapids: Can they make a Supporters' Shield and CONCACAF Champions League run in 2011?

Regardless of how much we disapprove the 2010 MLS Cup outcome, the fact of the matter is that the Colorado Rapids won the Cup and are arguab...

 

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