MLS

Dear users decided to make the thread after watching the match of the north american soccer league recently. as the one who went to the us last year and attended a game have to say unexpectedly i wasn't disappointed with quality of the football. american league was set up 15 yars ago and have the only tier without the relegation most teams were set up in the middle of the 90s what do you think about the teams and their supporters? the league itself? do you watch it ? if you do why ? what is your favourite team? and with wich league you could compare this competition??

 

I don't really see it that often but there are a lot of good players in that league. Landon Donovan went to Everton and he doesn't look out of place in the Premiership. Dempsey has also does well at Fulham. Don't really have a team there.

 

didn't know you all loved me that much to put a thread in my name:icon_mrgreen:

 

id compare it to championship league1 no bad players and teams but not alot will hit the big time

i like chicago fire because ive always wanted to visit chicago and ive always wanted to be a fireman

 

but i fogot to add 1 :icon_mrgreen:

 

There are a lot of very good players in the MLS alright. I just don't like the concept of a "franchise". It seems soulless to me, all flash and no real passion or history behind it.

Maybe I'm just guilty of trying to view the MLS through European terms, but I just don't buy into it.

 

am i right in saying the MLS is on the verge of some kind of players strike like the NHL had a few years back?

agree with PRD, the idea of a franchise is a bit soulless, though thats how most American sports are based, doesnt stop clubs having history and prestige

 

I haven't heard about a strike but there has been a lot of fighting over how contracts and such work in the past.

Players and teams are controlled by the MLS itself, and is a single entity structure, very different from the more confederated Associations of Europe. As a result profits are divied up equally among clubs, and contracts heavily watched to ensure a wider balance.

This collective bargaining policy, along side things like AEG once owning six MLS teams, have led to a lot of legal problems and several run in's with FIFA and the IFAB (the MLS also likes to invent its own Laws of the Game from time to time)

But, other teams in other Americans sports are old enough to have earned that national prestige and that history. The oldest MLS team was founded in 1994. You can't help but get the feeling they've been trying too much too quickly since the World Cup of '94.

Back then they wanted to make the USA the next big power in football. The only problem is, the old major powers, and the minnows, grew naturally over more than a century. The way the MLS is trying to do it makes it seem, well, fake.

 

Personally a think it's a decent league payin standards are decent etc, seen alot a MLS games watch them if theres no other football on but if there is then i wont watch it.

 

I don't care about it so long as toronto lose tbh

 

There are mid-tier Premiership quality players in the league, but the talent is very top-heavy due to the small squad sides. You have guys like Landon who can not look out of place for a Europa League/CL side playing alongside guys who would struggle to get a match at a lower-table League 1 side. It all balances out to be about Championship level I think, with good teams being lower-prem and bad teams being upper League 1. New York was godawful last year and then LA had a really strong side and Salt Lake was peppered with US internationals.

Oh, and vamos DC United. :icon_mrgreen:

 

Haha, I go to Red Bulls games now and then, but for the most part the MLS is Lower table championship sides with a few good players thrown in, each team has 1-3 good players some mediocre ones and mostly * ones, the only thing going in their favor is that a lot of companies are pouring money into the league becuase of America's growing interest in football

 

one of the lattest play off winers

 

I catch a few Crew games a year (it being just up the road and all) and along with Seattle and Toronto (maybe the LA teams, havent seen them too much) they are the only stadiums that seem to have that real "football" atmosphere.

To echo what other people have said, the good playes are very good, the mediocre players are just that and about a third of each squad looks like they learned the game yesterday. It is fun though to see Donovan or Blanco take on someone that doesnt deserve to play conference football in England.

 

New York has a * awesome stadium that they're moving into now, and they've got a competent coach this year. Plus they're about to sign the US Youth kid John Agudelo, so I might be keeping an eye on them. If there was an MLS team in San Diego I'd go to every match but alas... the only teams close are Angelenos. Nothing more to be said about that really.

 

i think this is one of the reasons why i can't really get into the MLS. if there were a team in San Diego, i would definitely support them, but because there isn't, and the two closest teams are in Los Angeles, i just can't get interested.

 

Going for a Los Angeles team is sin here. :icon_mrgreen: '

See you're from Chula... Had an "interesting" time there once when our bus broke down at Chula Vista HS at night after a soccer game with all of us wearing our warmups, jerseys, etc. all of which were completely red. We were getting some unpleasant looks to say the least of it.

 

DC United all the way

 

hahaha, i've been raised to basically hate everything LA..especially the dodgers.
Chula Vista HS isn't really in the "best part of town", so that might've been why you got some unpleasant looks, haha. what part of SD do you live in?

 

DC or Columbus for me, have both their home shirts