Month: March 2019

And, one day later, Dominic Kinnear comes back to earth. I guess we don't really need to wait for the MLS playoff percentage calculator at Sports Club Stats to update. They still had the Dynamo making the playoffs fifteen chances out of a thousand before last night, but I have to think De Rosario –…

In a move which a just-released FIFA statement calls surprising, the Chairman of the Investigations Chamber of the Ethics Committee, American Michael Garcia, has announced his resignation. In a lengthy statement posted by Kirkland and Ellis, his Chicago-based law firm, Garcia spells out some fairly shocking details. Maybe the most outrageous of these is the…

SLOVENIA 1, ALGERIA 0 "Whoops! Shot's coming. Now, let's see. What was it Robert Green told me just before the game? Something important. Something really, really important. What to do when someone shoots the ball. I remember! I'm supposed to stop it. Okay, so all I need to do is stop this shot. Okay, Faouchi….

It all looked so promising in the beginning: ​ And unfortunately for Toronto, it will be five coaches in five years. We'll send scaryice an email but that's just got to be a record. Interestingly Gareth Wheeler wrote ON SUNDAY that Assistant Nick Dasovic had been sent off "scouting" youth someplace during the last game,…

One of the beautiful things about soccer is that the fun never ends. Sure, the World Cup might be over, but there is no need to break into a cold sweat, turn off all the lights, and wait for the helicopters to arrive and take you away. Dig deep and fight the end of mundial…

Mexico will try to put the pieces together against the Ivory Coast at the Meadowlands in their FIFA Friendly match. The game has become a lightning rod for a number of reasons: can Jose Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre loosen up; who replaces an injured Chicharito; and, of course, the one that has eclipsed every…

Happy Mexican Independence Day! It was on this day two hundred years ago that Mexico forfeited the 2010 World Cup title. Adam Serrano at Major League Soccer Soccer introduces us to Miguel Ángel Ponce, a potential US national team left back – well, sort of. In case Jonathan Bornstein was sweating his spot: This is…

10:21 AM The media has been allowed in to the auditorium but the ExCo is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps they discovered a twenty dollar bill on the floor and there are now 22 old men fighting over it. My money's on Blazer. 10:30 Media around the world is reporting that England went out in…

Major announcement from MLS tomorrow, LIVE from Toronto! Wonder what it could be! ….okay, it might be more than one thing. They might also announce that TFC, and other teams who so choose, can finally have their extra Designated Players, which will solve everything as well as making all the existing players better, just like…

A third jersey for a team that doesn't even need two? Perfect. Drew Carey wasn't kidding when he said the Sounders owners liked making money. I suppose I have to put up a picture of it. Crap. Oh. Wait, that's not the Sounders jersey. That's a picture you get when you put "ridiculous garbage" into…