“To hear the President of the United States single out certain professional athletes and call for their termination of employment was jarring and disappointing, as was his disregard for player healthand safety. Like NFL players, and players across the North American sports landscape, MLS players spend countless hours off the field doing charitable work that […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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Amercan soccer looks pretty good while looking back at past failures
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) If you didn’t see it, please check out the excellent story written by my friend and colleagueMichael Lewis in the Guardian, harking back 50 years to the launch of the National Professional SoccerLeague. I, too, have been around long enough to remember those days vividly if not always clearly. Having already […]
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MLS players express opposition to Trump travel ban
A day after U.S. men’s national team captain Michael Bradley came out in opposition toPresident Donald Trump‘s travel ban on citizens from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan entering the United States for 90 days, the MLS Players Union issued a statement Monday from executive director Bob Foose in support ofBradley:
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What will new and Improved TAM mean for MLS?
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Something about the number four must be messing with the MLS masterminds as they ponderother ways to permit teams to spend more money on players. Either that or they just love their newest acronym, TAM, which burst onto the scene earlier this year to great fanfare and,gasp, actual numbers provided! This […]
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Report | Brad Evans on CBA: 'We handcuffed ourselves'
Five months after the MLS Players Union and MLS reached an agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, MLS clubs have gone on a spending spree, shelling out millions for new Designated Playersand paying some big transfer fees to boot. That leaves veteran union reps like Brad Evans wondering what happened. The Sounders defender told […]
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MLS Players Union releases terms of ratified CBA
The Major League Soccer Players Union released key terms of the collective bargaining agreement that has been ratified. A strike was averted after an agreement in principle was reached in March, onthe eve of the 2015, season, and the agreement eventually ratified by 91 percent of its voting members. Here are key points of the […]
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Galaxy breaks new ground with Dos Santos signing
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) For the LA Galaxy, apparently, being the best is not enough. Three titles in the past four seasons anoints it as top dog of the current generation and in Year 1 P.L. (post-Landon), it has broken new ground thanks to a recently adopted MLS player mechanism:Targeted Allocation Money. It is the […]
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Veteran Larentowicz takes on new role
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Four games into his first full season as a centerback, veteran JeffLarentowicz is solidly into the mode for which he is renowned: Let’s get it done. “It seemed from the beginning of the year that I would be playing there,” saysLarentowicz of discussions with Fire head coach Frank Yallop. “So I […]
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MLS draft picks join second teams on USL contracts
As MLS clubs reduce their rosters from 30 to 28 player and some launch second teams — seven teams will join LA Galaxy II in the USL — these new teams are increasingly signing college draft picks andpotential Homegrown signings from their MLS clubs to USL contracts. Toronto FC II announced it had signed five […]