Miami has had a comfortable lead in the Supporters’ Shield race for a while now, but it’s still been fighting for history.
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MLS Matchday 30: Three big things
There’s been a lot of talk recently about whether the current Columbus Crew is the best team in MLS history.
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Timbers make ‘Cabecita’ Rodríguez their highest-paid player ever
The Portland Timbers acquired 30-year-old Uruguayan forward Jonathan Rodríguez in a full transfer from Club América in Liga MX.
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Everybody loves Coachella, which is building on, and transforming, MLS preseason traditions
MLS’s preseason rituals have evolved plenty over the years, but the Southern California desert is increasingly taking on an integral role in the process.
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Tuesday morning: What We’re Reading
A conversation with new US Soccer VP Nathán Goldberg Crenier … Jury awards wife of Andy Polo $600K … Player dies after being struck by lightning.
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MLS offseason moves: Montreal sells two World Cup players, Timbers acquire Brazilian Evander
CF Montreal, which reached the 2022 Eastern Conference semifinals, has now bid adieu to three players who are headed to Europe. Two of its seven Canadian World Cup players are on the move: defender Alistair Johnston to Scotland’s Celtic and Ismael Kone to second-tier English club Watford. They follow to Europe midfielder Djordje Mihailovic who […]
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Brazilian Fernando Pessoa on guiding Portland Timbers' youth: be positive, have patience, respect differences
Fernando Pessoa, who grew up in the Olaria neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, recently coached the U-15 Portland Timbers academy to victory at the 2022 Generation Adidas Cup. The championship came as a surprise to many in the MLS academy scene for the mid-standings Timbers struggled to notch results against their league opponents in the […]
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Caleb Porter on how MLS challenges coaches like no other league in the world
Only three head coaches have won MLS Cup championships with different clubs, and the first two — Sigi Schmid and Bruce Arena — are absolute legends. The third is Caleb Porter, whose path has followed a similar bend as these legends’. Like Schmid and Arena, Porter has shown a knack for building champions, first taking the […]
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No way they could play: MLS players protest latest police brutality against a Black person
I’ll probably always remember San Jose Earthquakes-Portland Timbers, Aug. 26, 2020 — even though it was a game never played. Two hours before the 7:30 p.m. kickoff, my editor-in-chief PaulKennedy texted me that the game would very likely be canceled. Within minutes, I drove into the Earthquakes Stadium parking lot to go through the efficient […]
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Watch: A trio of Timbers make three saves in three seconds
The Red Bulls’ three close-range shots were blocked by Portland goalkeeper Steve Clark, Jorge Villafana and Bill Tuiloma. Alas, it wasn’t enough forthe Timbers, who fell, 2-0.