As MLS Cup champion, Toronto FC was granted a couple of extra days to finalize its offseason roster decisions. TFC announced Thursday it has exercised options for the 2018 season on five playersand declined options on eight others. Four players, including captain Drew Moor, are out of contract. Contract options have been renewed for deals […]
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MLS Positional Rankings (Forwards): Giovinco still the gold standard
One of the recent trends in soccer parlance is lumping strikers and forwards and sometimes wingers and attacking midfielders into the general category of “attackers.” Since somany teams often line up with one player furthest forward, whether he be called a striker or forward, the more general term often applies. And when teams like New […]
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MLS Expansion Draft: Our five picks for LAFC
Poring over the list of unprotected players for the MLS Expansion Draft to be conducted Tuesday, one element that stands out is very few of them rate as “must-have” Los Angeles FC (orother teams around the league interested in dealing with LAFC). Each team can protect 11 players and off-budget Homegrown players (or Generation adidas […]
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MLS Cup 2017 Player Ratings
TORONTO FC-SEATTLE EXPRESS: Dec. 9 in Toronto Toronto FC 2 Seattle 0. Goals: Altidore (Giovinco) 67, Vazquez90+4. Att.: 30,584. After more than a nervy hour of controlling the action without getting a goal, Toronto FC punched through with a Jozy Altidore strike to propel itpast Seattle, 2-0, in the 2017 MLS Cup Final Saturday at […]
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MLS Cup Preview: Title game matches up tactics and toughness
Most head coaches can look great with great players, and the men in charge of MLS Cup finalists Seattle and Toronto FC can certainly point to their rosters as major reasons for their success. A championship game between two evenly-matched teams usually is decided by moments of brilliance and/or catastrophe, yet those critical points can […]
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Minnesota United president Nick Rogers steps down
Minnesota United president Nick Rogers, who helped steer the club from its days as the Minnesota Stars in the NASL to an MLS expansion team in 2017, is stepping down. The movefollows the hiring of Chris Wright, president of the NBA Timberwolves and the WNBA Lynx, as the Loons’ chief executive officer in September. In […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Toronto FC finishes in top, Sounders and Crew SC edge into top three
The final season came to a close with a flourish and a flurry of goals — 46 in the 11 matches played Sunday — and by scraping out a point in Atlanta Toronto FC held onto the top spot while setting aleague record for points in a season (69). Strong finishes for Seattle and Columbus […]
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MLS Awards: Gressel holds sway in Rookie of the Year race
Once mainly the province of college players who had either completed their eligibility or opted to leave school early, the proliferation of academy products and Homegrown players has brought adifferent feel to the award limited to players in their first year of professional soccer. Many of the top young players new to the league, such […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Five playoff teams move up, Sporting Kansas City slips
The penultimate weekend of the 2017 MLS regular season produced strong moves for teams such as Seattle, Columbus, Portland, Houston and Chicago, and a steep drop for Sporting Kansas City. Crew SC ran its winning streak to three games by beating Orlando City, 1-0, and Houston took four of six points in a pair of […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Minnesota United makes good use of double dip
With just four games played last week, there wasn’t much movement in Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings, yet by halting Atlanta United’s amazing run of home dominance expansioncounterpart Minnesota United got a boost. The New York Red Bulls also moved up by posting a solid defeat of Vancouver that also clinched a playoff spot. […]