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I love how every summer during the euro teams' US tour, ESPN has headlines that say along the lines of  "famous soccer place is considering move to MLS!".

always as an answer to the question- "would you ever play in MLS?"... "you never know what the future brings, but sure- why not- I'd play in MLS".

 
El Floppo said:
I love how every summer during the euro teams' US tour, ESPN has headlines that say along the lines of  "famous soccer place is considering move to MLS!".

always as an answer to the question- "would you ever play in MLS?"... "you never know what the future brings, but sure- why not- I'd play in MLS".
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...they do the same with "players" too, so damn condescending & frustrating!

 
El Floppo said:
@shader

GREAT write-up! love that you got to see them train... I've never gotten to do that and would love to see it up close like you did. was the training literally right before the game? definitely a different intensity level if so.

oh... pics or gtfo.
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I got to see a Bayern Munich training session in Munich when I was in HS.  :P

 
NewlyRetired said:
This should slow down MLS expansion some

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/buying-an-mls-franchise-just-got-a-lot-more-expensive

Aspiring sports team owners will have to pony up if they want a piece of the American soccer boom.

Once seen as one of the last affordable investments in pro sports, Major League Soccer is preparing to nearly double expansion fees to about $200 million, MLS Deputy Commissioner Mark Abbott said in an interview.

The 20-team league has already committed to new franchises in Atlanta, which begins play next season; Los Angeles, which joins in 2018; and Minnesota, whose start date hasn’t been determined. It is also negotiating with David Beckham’s ownership group about putting a team in Miami.

In the most recent round of expansion in 2014, the owners of the L.A. Football Club paid $110 million to put a second franchise in Los Angeles. MLS teams are worth an average $157 million, with three clubs -- the Seattle Sounders, L.A. Galaxy and Houston Dynamo -- valued at more than $200 million, according to Forbes’s 2015 rankings.

With a target of 28 teams, league officials are talking with a number of prospective cities, including Sacramento, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Charlotte and Oklahoma City.

Abbott said league officials discussed expansion during last week’s All-Star Break, though no timetable for applications was set.
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What happens when they get to 28 teams and 30 more cities want first tier soccer?

 
roadkill1292 said:
My question was more a rhetorical one; the final number of teams is unimportant to the larger issue. Which is exclusion.
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I know your point but the 32 teams will actually help the exclusion issue in one way because of the size.  

Sure it will be the same 32 teams each year but that diversity of teams over a two decade period won't look too much different from the 20 and 18 team sized first divisions which just has the same handful of teams yo-yoing back and forth.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I know your point but the 32 teams will actually help the exclusion issue in one way because of the size.  

Sure it will be the same 32 teams each year but that diversity of teams over a two decade period won't look too much different from the 20 and 18 team sized first divisions which just has the same handful of teams yo-yoing back and forth.
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Yeah, why put us FIRE! fans through that emotional roller coaster???????????

 
NewlyRetired said:
I know your point but the 32 teams will actually help the exclusion issue in one way because of the size.  

Sure it will be the same 32 teams each year but that diversity of teams over a two decade period won't look too much different from the 20 and 18 team sized first divisions which just has the same handful of teams yo-yoing back and forth.
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Obviously we have differing perspectives about that. 

 
roadkill1292 said:
Obviously we have differing perspectives about that. 
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I don't think we do.

You are talking about everyone having a chance to be a Div 1 team. 

I was talking that the realty shows that it is actually a very limited amount of teams who are can achieve first division status.  The turn over in teams in the 1st division world wide is fairly small over say a 20 year period.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I don't think we do.

You are talking about everyone having a chance to be a Div 1 team. 

I was talking that the realty shows that it is actually a very limited amount of teams who are can achieve first division status.  The turn over in teams in the 1st division world wide is fairly small over say a 20 year period.
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Addressing this entails a much more extensive philosophical debate that I don't think this thread should be subjected to right now.

 
@Sinn Fein, & all other resident Tottenham fans...Roma have signed 6'9" cb Fazio, due to being ravaged by injuries on their back line.  I know he was decent for Sevilla, but sucked for Spurs.  Is there any silver lining, & he just didn't fit their system, or is he really that washed up?  It's been an awfully "silly season" for ASR this summer, (evidenced by the fact we only beat 'Pool by one goal)...& fear he's just a makeshift option, with no redeeming qualities left.  Spaletti does rate him, though,  :unsure: ....

 
Kafka said:
@Sinn Fein, & all other resident Tottenham fans...Roma have signed 6'9" cb Fazio, due to being ravaged by injuries on their back line.  I know he was decent for Sevilla, but sucked for Spurs.  Is there any silver lining, & he just didn't fit their system, or is he really that washed up?  It's been an awfully "silly season" for ASR this summer, (evidenced by the fact we only beat 'Pool by one goal)...& fear he's just a makeshift option, with no redeeming qualities left.  Spaletti does rate him, though,  :unsure: ....
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Pjanic at the disco

 
Kafka said:
@Sinn Fein, & all other resident Tottenham fans...Roma have signed 6'9" cb Fazio, due to being ravaged by injuries on their back line.  I know he was decent for Sevilla, but sucked for Spurs.  Is there any silver lining, & he just didn't fit their system, or is he really that washed up?  It's been an awfully "silly season" for ASR this summer, (evidenced by the fact we only beat 'Pool by one goal)...& fear he's just a makeshift option, with no redeeming qualities left.  Spaletti does rate him, though,  :unsure: ....
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I did not follow him last season when he was out on loan back at Sevilla - but the silver lining from Spurs is that he was a bad fit for the high-line pressing defense that Pochettino wants to run at Spurs.  He was a panic buy when Spurs could not get Musacchio.

I think he can be a solid defender, if you are looking to play a little deeper.

Still one of my favorite Fazio moments albeit before he came to Spurs

 
I had no idea they could do this but youth players now have to take an age test.

26 out of the 60 Nigerian U17 players tested failed the MRI test.  Everyone but 2 on the first U17 National team are now ineligible to play.

Not coincidentally, Nigeria have won the FIFA U17 World Cup a record five times – 1985, 1993, 2007, 2013 and 2015. 

 
Poke_4_Life said:
I was going to post something similar, but I like Kafka...

Let's just say he wasn't going to get much play at WHL this season.  He's slow, but he can defend.  
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The thing that sucks is that they just fully bought Rudiger & Rui, with Nura as a back up FB...& all 3 are out with torn ACL's....hence Nacho, Jesus, & Fazio: a most unholy trinity.

 
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