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- And so the inevitable conclusion of the Beckham circus is about to happen.... I'm getting my popcorn ready! To those who constantly state that MLS is now broadcast all over the world: Is there...
- The USL has made its mark. In the CONCACAF Champions League that is. I'm a person who has very little time for MLS. The USL results has made me watch the sole USL game on FSC at the expense of...
- MLS has for years fudged it's attendance numbers. This is a well written piece if we could really trust the numbers. It's been speculated as many as half the tickets in places like San...
- MLS actually publishes this information directly at http://web.mlsnet.com/stats/index.jsp?club=mls&year=2008 They report an average attendance just higher than you, reporting 3,456,641 total...
- I pulled all the attendance figures from ESPN.com, which were just raw numbers without any information as to how those numbers were compiled. I'm not sure how those Stuttgart numbers were...
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Weâre constantly hammered with one side of the coin including Sunday at the conclusion of the US-Netherlands match on NBC by Marcelo Balboa: we hear constantly that Major League Soccer is responsible for the US being more competitive in ... Continue reading »
Weâre constantly hammered with one side of the coin including Sunday at the conclusion of the US-Netherlands match on NBC by Marcelo Balboa: we hear constantly that Major League Soccer is responsible for the US being more competitive in ... Continue reading »
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I think you might be onto something about how the MLS lacks the emphasis on possession and individual ball skills, but to make an argument that the MLS is treading on the success of Sam's Army is a stretch. The opportunity to play professionally has expanded the number of players who have the opportunity to develop. Even Portugal's golden generation of stars couldn't deliver in the big tournaments--they had to wait for the second generation.
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I think that the case of Benny Feilhaber sums up the issue of playing abroad for US players. He rose well at Hamburg, getting some Champions League appearances and settling into the US lineup; his high point came with a beautiful volley at the 2007 Gold Cup. So, in that case, playing abroad worked well for him. But then he made a disastrous career move in going to Derby County. Now, he's even considering moving to Maccabi Tel Aviv to get first team football, and, meanwhile, he's lost his place in the US team. In that case, playing abroad hurt.
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