MLS - Credit to USA for finally embracing Football **Not Soccer**

Gibbon to Fly
Gibbon to Fly Sussex, UK Posts: 74
edited June 2016 in All Encompassing Trip
Just a Line to say it's been noted around the World how the USA is embracing the MLS at the moment. I know it's not always been that way in the past, but 40,000 crowds, decent Stadiums, a real atmosphere at games, a passionate New York derby game the other week (albeit one sided!!). MLS games are being shown here in the UK now, and you guys supporting are coming across as a credit to the teams you follow. Long may it continue. PS - How is Gerrard getting on?

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  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    What?
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Gerard est bien.

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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,729
    Embrassing?

    Did you mean embracing? Or embarrassing?

    Hard to tell from the op
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    He meant embracing, but with the way soccer is viewed here in the States, embarrassing works as well.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,829
    the hipsters seem to like soccer.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Gibbon to Fly
    Gibbon to Fly Sussex, UK Posts: 74
    Ha! Apologies, obviously embracing. Lampard aside, can't find anything embarrassing.

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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    If you actually watched the games, embarrassing is correct. I mean, it's old timers day every game. We embrace good soccer on tv from across the pond (as they say) while soccer moms glom onto 37 yo has beens running clinics on locals whose parents are happy they can say their little johnnie really made it while making less than entry level programmers.
    Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,935
    EdsonNascimento said:

    If you actually watched the games, embarrassing is correct. I mean, it's old timers day every game. We embrace good soccer on tv from across the pond (as they say) while soccer moms glom onto 37 yo has beens running clinics on locals whose parents are happy they can say their little johnnie really made it while making less than entry level programmers.


    Agreed. MLS is garbage. I've tried several times to get into it but it just doesn't do it for me. Sick of all these 35 year olds coming over here for a couple years for one last payday. And the way the league is run as a whole is a complete mess.
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,979
    The MLS had done a good job over the years. If you look at US Men's Team roster from 10-15 years ago most of the players were playing abroad and MLS wasn't competitive enough to pull players from. That has changed dramatically.

    Older star players coming over to play is not a new thing in soccer. In Europe, the same players, when unable to compete for the top teams, still can earn big money playing for smaller teams in 'lesser' leagues. Sometimes it even rejuvenates their career. Look at Donadoni when the MLS first started. He wasn't able to start for AC Milan nor the Italian Team. He was so successful in MLS that Italy called him back up.

    If you're a football fan then MLS is a decent league. It has been on a steady rise in terms of level of the game and level of players.

  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    eddiec said:

    The MLS had done a good job over the years. If you look at US Men's Team roster from 10-15 years ago most of the players were playing abroad and MLS wasn't competitive enough to pull players from. That has changed dramatically.

    Older star players coming over to play is not a new thing in soccer. In Europe, the same players, when unable to compete for the top teams, still can earn big money playing for smaller teams in 'lesser' leagues. Sometimes it even rejuvenates their career. Look at Donadoni when the MLS first started. He wasn't able to start for AC Milan nor the Italian Team. He was so successful in MLS that Italy called him back up.

    If you're a football fan then MLS is a decent league. It has been on a steady rise in terms of level of the game and level of players.

    Yeah, except the starters all play abroad except the older guys who came home bc they were no longer going to play significant roles with their teams.
    Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    So is this a football thread, or a soccer thread?
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,799
    Degeneratefk said:

    So is this a football thread, or a soccer thread?

    yes
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  • EdsonNascimento
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    Degeneratefk said:

    So is this a football thread, or a soccer thread?

    Football. The throw, run, concussion sport is something different.
    Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.

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