NYCFC won its fourth game in a row to keep pace with Eastern Conference leaders Toronto FC and Chicago when it beat Minnesota United, 3-1, in a rare Thursday night MLS game. In their last10 games, NYCFC has gone 6-2-2, just behind Toronto FC (8-1-1) and Chicago (7-1-2) as the three teams have opened up […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Busy week yields little movement
In a week of 14 league matches, the top teams prevailed and mixed results for most of the teams that played twice didn’t much reshuffle the positions in Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. The top four held their places by winning — collectively, they have lost only one of the last 12 games — and […]
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MLS Weekend: Fire extends win streak to seven games
The Chicago Fire extended its home winning streak to seven games – the second-longest streak in club history — with a 4-0 win over Orlando City. David Accam scored a hat trick and had anassist on Nemanja Nikolic‘s league-high 14th goal of the season. Despite the win, the Fire stayed a point behind Toronto FC, a 2-0 […]
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MLS Closeup: Sporting KC defense has dazzled so far
In the 22-season history of MLS not many teams have posted defensive marks that approach what Sporting Kansas City is doing in 2017. A 0-0 tie in San Jose Saturday dropped itsgoals-allowed per game average to 0.65 (11 goals in 17 games) and earned keeper Tim Melia his ninth shutout. If its play continues in […]
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Palmer-Brown could be headed to Europe soon
U.S. under-20 captain Erik Palmer-Brown, who is under contract with Sporting Kansas City, has attracted the interest from some of the biggest teams in Europe following his strong play at theU-20 World Cup in South Korea. The favorite to sign EPB, according to a Metro source, is Dutch club Ajax, which has one of the […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Portland moves up two spots
A Saturday of just three games generated little movement in Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. Portland jumped up two slots and dropped FC Dallas the same margin with a two-goal game from FanendoAdi. Second-ranked Chicago racked up another victory at home, where it is unbeaten, by downing Atlanta United, 2-0, and No. 4 Sporting Kansas City […]
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The season so far: a quick rundown of all 22 MLS teams
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) In about a month, the domestic transfer window will re-open, all 22 MLS teams will sign theperfect players to fill their needs, and all the fans shall rejoice. In the real world, more teams will fail in their quests to land the ideal midseason additions than will succeed and afew […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Fire stays second behind TFC
The Chicago Fire couldn’t exploit a two-man advantage to get a win in Orlando, and thus stays second in Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. A 0-0 tie ended the Fire’sfour-game winning streak and left it just behind leader Toronto FC, which lost, 3-0, to New England to end an eight-game unbeaten run. New York City […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Torrid Fire sweeps into second
Toronto FC held the top spot by romping over Columbus, 5-0, to run its unbeaten streak to eight games. Important wins for Chicago and the L.A. Galaxy moved them upSoccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. Heading in the other direction are Portland and Orlando City. Their winless streaks were extended to five and six games, respectively, […]
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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 […]