/mls/ general + /ayy/ apparently

>January 23
Preseason begins

>March 3
MLS Seaon begins

>NASL / USL
No calendar yet

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Old thread died, way to go, gents.

Also FIRST for SOUNDERS

>No calendar yet

USL starts the last weekend in March.

uslsoccer.com/news_article/show/675074-usl-expanding-2017-regular-season-schedule-to-32-games

BRING MLS TO SAN DIEGO

Xth for Promotion/Relegation when?

The MLS owners will never go for it, but maybe there will be hope at the lower levels.

>tfw sdfc

Last two digits are year America gets pro/rel

>26 years

if not in 5-10 then never

Anglosphere Champions League when?

>yfw you homos didn't bump it

nice anons, nice.

>outdated pyramid

Daily reminder this team will play its first MLS match in 2020.

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FIXED

I am looking for cities in the United States, where soccer is the most popular sport, and where Major League Soccer (MLS) is the dominant and most popular professional sports league.

None, you should look towards Australia and the A-League for your city.

Obviously you couldn't find it in America.

Portland

Why Portland, Oregon?


please tell me. Why Portland is the best city to be a fan of soccer and Major League Soccer (MLS)?

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Keep looking.
You might find it in 2032.

Honestly think it is a ploy to keep mlels money train going.

Sure we like to think we are stable and shit, but even if a shitshow like naslel goes down, it will have some aftershocks to the whole pyramid, and suddenly that cashcow called expansions fees will cease coming in.

Ohh, come on!

to me I only like the soccer of the United States and Canada


Come on, I want a city where major league soccer (MLS) is super popular

Only other major sport team is the Portland Trailblazers, and the NBA season doesn't overlap much with the MLS. Not having a lot of competition helps. The LA Galaxy being the most successful MLS team has to compete with the Lakers, the Clippers, the Dodgers, the Angels, the Kings, the Ducks, UCLA, USC, and now the Chargers and the Rams for attention. Also Portland easily has the most passionate fan base in the MLS.

Ok good arguments

Would also be by the hipsters


And are there other cities in the United States, MLS (Major League Soccer) is the most popular professional sports league and where soccer is popular?

Hello, to me I only like sheilas and dropbears. Kangaroos are cute too.

I want a city where the Hyundai A-League (A-League) is the more popular professional sports league. Not rugby, not cricket, not women's cricket, but A-League!

I hate american continent league and i hate europe leagues, only Australia Continent.

Just right up the road from Portland is Seattle. The Sounders are pretty popular there. Also popular in Salt Lake City (Real Salt Lake) and Columbus (Crew) because of the lack of competition.

>NASL and USL on same footing

False.

LET'S GET IT ON

Right, one should be dead and buried already and the other is the farm league.

When will Hiro range ban all costa rica IPs?

CR has the internet?

>Eight days

Who /out/

What?

Some of us have jobs.

Its major league king day

Here's to hoping the NFL doesn't kill us again

>le footy lads

USL schedule due out sometime this week

What is the hamlet or province of Costa Rica where the National Football League (NFL) is the dominant and only sports league

Until teams aren't relegated mls will be a meme.

I demand credit for this

>Soon

I'd rather MLS be a meme league than a yuro-lite league that panders to cucks

>drinking the NFL jewber kool aid
wew

Number of English-language nationally broadcast games for each team (on ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, FS1):
13 Portland Timbers
12 Seattle Sounders
12 New York City FC
12 LA Galaxy
11 New York Red Bulls
11 Atlanta United FC
10 Orlando City SC
8 Sporting Kansas City
8 Minnesota United FC
5 Philadelphia Union
4 Toronto FC
2 New England Revolution
2 FC Dallas
2 Colorado Rapids
1 Vancouver Whitecaps
1 San Jose Earthquakes
1 Real Salt Lake
1 Montreal Impact
1 Houston Dynamo
1 D.C. United
1 Columbus Crew SC
1 Chicago Fire

Why would I want to listen to the English broadcast when I can listen to the sheer unbridled enthusiasm of a Spanish-speaking commentator shouting GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL

I only speak English, btw, but luckily so does Joe Buck.

>1 Houston Dynamo
As justified as it is for them to have only 1 game nationally televised, fuck Root Sports.

Why the fuck is Portland at the top of the list?

WHAT WON'T HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON
Complete uncontrolled promotion-relegation. If we're being completely realistic, MLS owners will veto the decision every time, as if they find themselves at the bottom of the table, they move to a new league with less money than they think is worth it, and abandon the team. Or the fans of the division 1 team abandon it, as they only want to see top division soccer. Or the good players leave for a higher division team for a chance to neg noticed by Europe, and the team can't fill in the gaps fast enough (because they are a 2nd division team) and ultimately folds. Or all of the above.

WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY HAPPEN, MAYBE
A controlled pro/rel system. The way I personally see it working is (and if someone has a better idea, please, I'm all ears) there is a relegation zone below each MLS conference. It can be the bottom two, bottom three, whatever number the league picks. If a team finishes in the relegation zone for two or three straight seasons, they have to maybe appeal to the league as to why they should stay up, or maybe have to meet some sort of requirements in terms of attendance, revenue, TV deals, that sort of thing. OR maybe just put them through a playoff with the winning USL/NASL team, I don't know.

Promotion could work similarly for the lower division pro teams. A team wins twice/three times in a row, and they meet a certain number of requirements, or win a playoff with the relegated team, they move up. I don't know, just something quick I thought up.

# of games on national TV as the home team:

Atlanta - 8
Orlando - 8
Portland - 8
LA Galaxy - 7
Seattle - 7
NY Red Bulls - 6
New York City - 5
Sporting KC - 5
Dallas - 4
Minnesota - 4
Philadelphia - 4
San Jose - 3
Chicago - 2
Colorado - 2
Columbus - 2
D.C. United - 2
Houston - 2
Toronto - 2
Montreal - 1
Real Salt Lake - 1
Vancouver - 1
New England - 0

>Welcome to American sports.
Why don't people see this. I understand that there less performing leagues in this country. It's a fucking business it was built like a business.

>perf

doesn't mean I'll except it bending down

ATL and ORL i get, both have new stadiums. But Portland? What the fuck? This would never happen with the Trailblazers.

SEEMS LIKE I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
SEEMS SO FAMILIAR

yeah, sure bud

It will never happen on an MLS level. I'm not personally apposed to it by any measure, but the reality is that businesses and owners wouldn't want it.

Your telling a business with sponsorships and investments that it will be knocked down to a lesser league because it sucks? This will rob it of TV money, viewership, attendance, and potentially the MLS Superdraft.

That just doesn't work in the US. I think a pro/reg system could work in the D2 and D3 leagues when the MLS finally sorts that out, because they are smaller teams with less financial weight and smaller attendance.

The US doesn't have the same history of soccer as other countries, so if a big name team were ever to fall to D2 like, say, the Galaxy, the MLS would lose a shit ton of money because people would have no interest in supporting a D2 team. the bandwagon would fall out from under it, making it harder for them to crawl back to D1 without the support or revenue.

Again, I hope i'm wrong. But with the way American sports leagues are run, especially the centralized MLS, I just don't see it happening.

WELL I COULD

>Portland

>apposed

wew lad

you got me

>Soon

pull it

really disgusting anons, why must we be ok with the communism, thought we were against that. was I duped? and if so, by whom?

>communism

That's the government distributing your goods for you. What you're talking about is Socialism, where everyone shares their shit equally. This is basically what sports are now, except it's an exclusive club (NFL, MLB, NBA) and they won't let anyone else in.

True socialism would be, say, college sports.

But being a communsit/socialist league is what makes MLS American and more fun to watch, sure Johnny Supporter of Flyover FC probably won't get to see his team in MLS but like another user said MLS does what's good for business and making their own teams more valuable, and it's the right call, pro/rel would have destroyed some of the most storied MLS teams

This, Soon.

Is >Soonposting an official practice now?

theres got to be at least one person who works for MLS social media or the teams who browses /MLS/

The soon meme has shown up a few times in official feeds when it's not used in conjunction much with MLS outside of here

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i will blow my brains out if so, but it didn't originate from the south, so whatever.
I'll save the bullet for later.

put your trip back on

We have 4 soccer leagues? Christ

>nasl
>league
pic one

I'm not the first person to ever say ">Soon" but I'm the GOAT


>Soon

>11 national TV games for shitlanta

Horvath

Carter Vickers - Brooks - Cameron - Yedlin

Johnson - Nagbe - Kljestan - Pulisic

Wood - Dempsey

honest question, what will you do after the season kickoff? I imagine you'll hang around and still post, but will you keep the >Soon gimmick?

>mfw they go 0-34-0

>Dempsey
They're still not sure if his heart is okay, i wouldn't be surprised if he never plays again

You seem to have forgot the boy-wonder Manneh

>not understanding the communism is workers owning the means of production
>League isn't run by the players

WTF is this shit?
Horvath? That Spurs player? At right back?

call the communist police, idgaf

MLS players get guaranteed paychecks and a system designed to better keep them in the league, the only thing they need is free agency, paying shitters higher wages doesn't solve anything and that's where having a communist league is a benefit

Switch the wingbacks and this is pretty gud.

Who?

thanks for that ticket senpai
>11 nationally broadcast games
shit the local broadcast is so much better Shep>Alexi

How well would this team do?

>le textbook communism

You are retarded

Shit, forgot the image, bear with me

>MLS players get guaranteed paychecks and a system designed to better keep them in the league

Pretty sure those are a given in any top league. MLS actively tries to suppress player's wages to both shitters and non shitters alike. Why else can't franchise bid against each other?

>Mcmememara

>Castillo

>Bradley in the XI

Okay/10

This is Transfermarkt's most valuable American XI, not mine.

This next one factors in secondary positions

No user you are

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For a solid 3 seconds I thought that said Danlel Williams. kek.

Red Bulls choking in the offseason

It's like they want to be bought out by the Cosmos

with so many midfielders someone was gonna go and sean davis did a great job filling in when dax was injured anyway

ew I don't want a chicago fire player on MY national team

>bradley

Center midfield wasn't the issue, it's the 15 wingers the team keeps. And trading your captain is a big middle finger to the remainder of fans you still have.

so lag and now nyrb are giving the finger to their fans.

what team/s is/are next?

Chicago, when they inevitably trade Matt Polster to NYCFC.
Does Vancouver count if they've been doing it for the last 2 years?