Will Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Draft be the second chance Gonzalo Veron needs to find a home in MLS? Signed by the Red Bulls as a Designated Player in 2015, Veron never established aregular place in the lineup and went into the Re-Entry Draft. D.C. United claimed him with the second pick after the […]
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MLS Positional Rankings (Central Midfielders): Schweinsteiger's class headlines a myriad group
This is a hodgepodge category of two-way midfielders, and players shuttled between different positions and roles. Primarily defensive midfielders will be ranked separately. Some of theseplayers carried a fair amount of their teams’ offensive burden and did so from a deeper position than most attacking midfielders, so they are listed here. There are also classic […]
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MLS Positional Rankings (Left Midfielders/Wingers): Piatti leads the pack in goals and presence
As more teams playing with wingers in three-forward alignments, the role of a traditional left midfielder has undergone some change. Wingers stay high and if defenders well behind themneed defensive help, a midfielder needs to pick up slack. Teams that play with two blocks of our seldom use wingers, but still the wide midfielders are […]
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Yet another goalie leaves the Galaxy
The Galaxy continued its goalkeeper clear-out Wednesday by trading Jon Kempin to Columbus in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2018 SuperDraft. Kempin, 24, has been in MLS eightyears with the Galaxy and Sporting Kansas City, which made him its first Homegrown Player signing in 2010 when he was 17. He played seven games […]
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Colvey and Diop claimed in MLS Waiver Draft
A reunion and a fresh start are the products from a Waiver Draft conducted by MLS on Wednesday by which Kip Colvey and Clement Diop have changed teams. Colorado claimed defender Colvey, a New Zealand international who be will reunited with his fellow Kiwi and former national team head coach Anthony Hudson. The Rapids officially […]
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Former French star Joel Bats will join Impact coaching staff
Joel Bats, France’s starting goalkeeper when it won the 1984 European Championship, will leave Lyon, where he has been the goalkeeper coach since 2000, to join former Lyon coach RemiGarde with MLS’s Montreal Impact. Bats, 60, will leave Lyon at the end of the year and join Garde, who was recently hired to replace Mauro […]
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What They're Saying: Ignacio Piatti
“Montreal is a beautiful city. It is more of a European style, very different from Toronto, where there are many buildings. It’s all very calm. Even the soccer. Here nobody knows me. And you can losea game, 10 [goals], 12, 20, and they do not tell you anything. Also, I have two and a half […]
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Montreal Impact hires former French international and EPL and Ligue 1 manager Remi Garde as head coach
Out of work for more than a year and a half, former French international Remi Gardeis the new head coach of the Montreal Impact. 2017 MLScoaching changes: Real Salt Lake: Jeff Cassar –> Mike Petke. San Jose: Dominic Kinnear –> Chris Leitch. LA Galaxy: Curt Onalfo — SigiSchmid. Colorado: Pablo Mastroeni –> Steve Cooke (interim). […]
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Montreal's Joey Saputo: 'It's time to make a change in the leadership of the club'
Mauro Biello led the Montreal Impact to the MLS playoffs in 2015 and 2016, but its fall to ninth place in 2017 has been his undoing. Impact owner Joey Saputo on Mondayconfirmed that Biello is out as head coach. Montreal was 11-17-6 in 2017, fading badly in the last two months of the season. It […]
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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 […]