[MLS ATTENDANCE] Four weeks into the 2010 season, MLS’s average attendance is up by more than 2,000 compared to 2009’s average for the entire season. At thesame stage (29 games), average attendance is 3,000 more in 2010 than last season. The boost is thanks to the fact that the Seattle Sounders have already hosted three […]
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Soccer America ranks Designated Player chase
By Ridge Mahoney Rankings are all the vogue these days regarding all things MLS, yet in this age of power rankings and other opinion-ridden rankings there’s oneglaring omission; that of ambition, of zeal, of commitment to spend. Suffice it to say, the expansion of Designated Player options gives license to those teams willing to pay […]
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Quakes hit milestone; Who's to blame in Toronto?
[MLS] A league fixated on parity has a team at 4-0, and another is 0-4, and it also has a player on a torrid scoring streak. Here’s what the fourth week of MLSplay brought forth … QUAKES ARE … DEEP? In its first two seasons, San Jose hasn’t been able to assemble a consistently competitive […]
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Salt Lake downs Quakes in thriller
[U.S. OPEN CUP] Just a few days before its toughest back-to-back league matches this season, Real Salt Lake needed overtime and penalty kicks to subdue San Joseon penalty kicks, 5-3, after they finished 120 minutes of play tied at 3-3 in a U.S. Open Cup match Wednesday. RSL drilled home all five of its penalties […]
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QUICK TAKE: Joey Gjertsen
[MLS] In his five USL seasons, Joey Gjertsen, 27, won MVP honors (2006) and two league championships (2006, 2009). The Washington state productsigned with San Jose this past winter as a free agent, played the opener against Real Salt Lake as a sub, and went the full 90 last weekend on the right side of […]
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Great goals and gaffes mark exciting MLS battles
[MLS] The classy and the calamitous punctuated eight MLS games Saturday. They produced a few ugly goals as well as several of the spectacular variety, andmemorable nights for rookies. LE TROIS TIMES DEUX. By hitting the first two hat tricks of the season, New England’s Zach Schilawski andPhiladelphia’s Sebastien Le Toux answered some questions about […]
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What They're Saying
“Coming out at halftime was the most embarrassing and disappointing thing that has ever happened in my career, and this is my 11th year. I don’t think it was warranted. … When a team loses, therealways has to be a scapegoat, and that was me [last season]. And unfortunately it happened in that first game […]
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Better finishing could put Quakes on track
[MLS] Surely the Quakes’ back line, in which part-time defender Ike Opara made his MLS debut against defending champion Real Salt Lake,didn’t perform well in a 3-0 loss Saturday night at Buck Shaw Stadium. Opara is bouncing back and forth between learning the ropes as an MLS rookie and finishing up the semester at WakeForest. […]
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Three stories we're following …
[MLS] Two former U.S. national team players let go on the eve of the 2010 MLS season might be back to work shortly. Thursday’s Houston-Real Salt Lake matchcould come too soon for the Dynamo to have the services of a key offseason signing … 1. Busch might return to work Jon Busch might not be […]
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2010 team-by-team rosters
[MLS] Teams continue to make moves as the 2010 MLS season opens. Toronto signed Croatian-Argentine midfielder MartinSaric and goalie Jon Conway and waived Brian Edwards. New England signed former Rev Khano Smith and Serbian midfielder Marko Perovic. For all 2010 numerical rosters, based on the latest information, including career MLS games andgoals … Note: r=rookie. […]