The good feeling that New England Revolution fans had heading into the new MLS season lasted all of 62 seconds. That is how long it took for Houston striker Will Bruin to capitalize on a mistake by Revs defender Jose Goncalves and make it 1-0 Houston. Eleven minutes later it was game over when Bruin scored again. […]
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In a highly unusual move Major League Soccer has rescued the Chivas USA franchise by acquiring the team from its owners Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes. MLS Commissioner Don Garber says that the league paid “market price” for the club, and that MLS will now look to flip the team to a new local owner […]
A really good move by the New England Revolution on Wednesday as they acquired forward Teal Bunbury from Sporting Kansas City via trade. To get the 23-year-old striker, the Revs gave up their first-round draft pick in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft and that nebulous thing called allocation money. In 89 career appearances in Kansas City, […]
A tantalizing piece in the French newspapers Le Parisien that David Beckham has approached Paris St. Germain owners to help with funding for his new MLS expansion team, which is expected to begin play in 2017 Beckham finished his career at PSG, and is reported to be on very good terms with the teams owners, Qatar […]
Nothing like a bit of Major League Soccer aggro to get the day going! With the opening of the 2014 MLS season less than a month away, Eastern Conference rivals the Philadelphia Union and Toronto FC are already exchanging handbags. It appears that Philadelphia Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz is not amused with TFC’s spending spree […]
Wow. What an offseason it has been for Toronto FC and it looks like it is going to get even better with the news that TFC is closing in on Brazilian national team goalkeeper Julio Cesar. According to a report from Brazilian daily O Globo, and on mlssoccer.com, Cesar is set to join the revolution in […]
We have known for months that David Beckham was going to put a Major Soccer League franchise in Miami, but MLS made the decision official today. When Beckham joined MLS and the LA Galaxy his contract with the league included an option for an MLS expansion team at a bargain price of $25 million. Beckham […]
The latest report from The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) names Major League Soccer as the 49th strongest league in the world, out of 125. The criteria is based on all national and (inter)continental results, or to put it in plain English, the U.S. Open Cup and the CONCACAF Champions League. Neither […]
For the third consecutive year the New England Revolution has to be celebrating another terrific MLS SuperDraft. In 2012 the Revs picked Kelyn Rowe with the third pick overall and last year they moved up to take Andrew Farrell with the first pick overall. Entering the draft today, New England had three picks in the […]