By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Doing the math for the Hexagonal can be intriguing, since 30 games played by six teams offer up a vastvariety of permutations, but so dire is the U.S. situation there’s little reason to look past its third game. There will still be 21 points on offer when the final whistle blowsFriday […]
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What They're Saying: Jordan Morris
“He’s always in there trying to figure things out. But it’s great. We were saying, ‘Let’s go out there for 10 minutes and see’ but it felt fine.” —Jordan Morris on his father Michael, the Seattle Sounders’ team doctor, who wanted the U.S. national team forward to come out at halftime of the Sounders’ 3-1 […]
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MLS Positional Rankings: Wright-Phillips, Giovinco take top spots up front
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) In classifying players up top, we distinguish between strikers and second forwards even thoughmany teams line up with just one true forward in a 4-2-3-1 formation or variation thereof. We list Giovani Dos Santos as a forward because he often plays close to goal and hispartnership with Robbie Keane, or lack […]
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Photos: Sounders' parade ends where it all began
Thousands of fans lined the streets of Seattle on Tuesday to celebrate the Sounders’ MLS championship. It culminated with a rally at Seattle Center, not far from Memorial Stadium, where it all beganin 1974 with the Sounders’ debut pro season. Photos: Jane Gershovich, courtesy of Sounders FC Communications. Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer was one of […]
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Jordan Morris takes advice to heart in 'surreal' rookie season
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Jordan Morris has gotten a lot of good advice in his rookie year from teammates and coacheson the Seattle Sounders, from national team players like Michael Bradley and Jozy Altidore whom he’ll face when the Sounders play Toronto FC in MLS Cup 2016 and from his family withwhich he still lives. […]
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College Men: Langsdorf does it again for Stanford
In his three seasons at Stanford, Jordan Morris never had a season like his former classmate Foster Langsdorf, who scored his 15th goal of the season — the most by a Cardinal in 35years — and eighth game-winner to lead defending champion Stanford to a 2-0 win at Louisville that sends it to its fifth College […]
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MLS Playoffs: Jordan Morris delivers when it matters
Jordan Morris missed the recent U.S. World Cup qualifiers after straining his hamstring in the Western Conference semifinals. He was suffering from a virus that kept him in bed for the 48 hoursbefore the second leg of Seattle’s Western Conference final against Colorado. All he did was score the winning goal in the Sounders’ 1-0 […]
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Jurgen Klinsmann, the U.S. years
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) After retiring as a player in 1998, Jurgen Klinsmann moved toSouthern California — an area he had visited many times while on vacation — to live and start a family with his American wife, Debbie. He played for a PDL club team, OrangeCounty Blue Star, in 2003 under a pseudonym […]
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Analysis: How the four MLS playoff survivors shape up
There are still a few more days before the long break between MLS playoff matches is closed, but both matchups in the conference finals are generating buzz. Both series will kick offTuesday in front of huge crowds. Montreal has already sold more than 55,000 tickets for its all-Canada showdown against Toronto at the Olympic Stadium, […]
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Klinsmann's promises of progress are not to be found
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Two games and two depressing defeats into the Hexagonal, the USA is still in a good position toqualify for Russia 2018. And therein lies the problem, and the problem is not the Concacaf allotment of three automatic qualifiers plus a playoff spot. The problem is that the Americans,while not as good […]