Arena The Old Title Was Way Too Long: USMNT/MLS Discussion

Yep. That's what I'm thinking. I still think there's enough interest/money/TV rights to do two fll-on National Leagues before you get to East West and North East / North West / South East / South West type leagues.

hell, at this point, I'd settle for Japanese style relegation.

 

You need to have promotion and relegation otherwise there is nothing long term for the lower teams to play for.

My team in National League and we want to get into the league proper at some point in the future. We know we could never be a Premier league team by my god we want to get to the highest league position we can. Saying we can't get out of the league we are in would make a mockery of the club trying to improve itself as what would be the long term aim of the club

 

So, your team decides to make a giant banner. Do you have one celebrating your players/managers team, ala



Or one featuring Rooney's mug, an opponents player?

 

personally, I think that Giant Banners / Tifos should be used to praise your team / lift them up, and not mock/dig at the opponent. If you're going to put in that much effort, do it for a positive reason.

use a smaller sign to mock the other team:

 

sounders vanquished the hated timbers yesterday, extending their club record win streak to 7 games. their starting 11 is really clicking now, it's been fun to watch.

 

Atlanta United is at the top of the standings in the Eastern Conference (with more points than any team in the Western, too). Also, striker Josef Martinez broke the MLS single season goal scoring record the other night, and they still have eight games left in the regular season. He also has the most hat tricks in MLS history.

 

I was at Deuce Face game, literally Dempsey's shining moment in gif form for the National Team.

 

i mean it was definitely time, but i'm a little surprised he didn't hang on until he could get one more goal. instead he retires tied for the most league play goals in sounders history with fredy montero.

 

In terms of men's outfield players, my current top five for US players are

1) Dempsey
2) Donovan
3) Dolo
4) McBride
5) Boca

Soon to be #1 - Pulisic
Soon to be #2/3 - Weah, McKennie

Hell, Pulisic is probably already top-five, I'm just over reacting to my desire to avoid recency bias.

 

Brad Friedel is from Cleveland, and therefore Friedel > Howard. Best American Keeper ever, IMO.

 

Zack Steffen is the real deal and the next great American keeper.

 

I remember the days when Steffen played for the Riverhounds. 2016 was a bad, bad season.

And because nobody else has posted the Deuce Face, I will. Definitely one of my favorite USMNTers of all time.

 

Inter Miami CF is the official name of David Beckham MLS

I mean, on one hand, it's not Miami FC.

On the other hand, it's like a ten year old was designing a dream team on FIFA and needed to name it.

 

That's a really stupid name.

 

I think the best names in MLS are, in no particular order

Seattle Sounders
Chicago Fire
Portland Timbers
Vancouver Whitecaps
Columbus Crew
New England Revolution

And the worst names are

Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake



<anything other than D C> United


<Anything> FC

 

Good call - I did forget about Earthquakes and Rapids in my list. And, posthumously, Chivas USA deserves to be mocked for somehow being more terrible than Real Salt Lake.

Las Vegas Lights, BTW, is not only a great name, but a great community-embracing soccer club all around.

 

I would have been okay when they were re-branding Columbus if they went with a Germanic style name to pay homage the German roots in Columbus. Something like 1.Columbus 96, and keeping the Crew moniker as an official/unofficial nickname. Hell, I'd still be happy if they did that when PSV get their hands off my club.

 

Deadspin hates MLS and does a great job of mocking Inter Miami.

 

Atlanta United is my team, but I kind of wish they hadn't gone with the United part. Together with the others in MLS (DC and Minnesota) it feels like too many. But I like the names that follow the more European convention of making the city name the primary part of the name... like FC Barcelona, etc. I like the simplicity of that, and the two that just sound the best to me are LAFC and FC Dallas. For soccer, I don't like the names that have a "multiples" mascot-style name like other American sports teams often do, so I don't like names like Sounders, Red Bulls, Timbers, Earthquakes, or Rapids. I don't like the sound of Galaxy at all, either. But the worst, just because it makes so little sense and looks so much like uninformed copying, is Real Salt Lake.

 

Look to Bolivia for inspiration, I say