Fuck France. Ireland deserved to go to South Africa. Anyone who saw how awesome the Irish fans were in Euro 2012 should understand what the world missed out on not having them there. Hell they might have even drowned out those terrible vuvuzelas with "The Fields of Anthenry."

It didn't end that way for Apollo

Putting the Busquets in the Basket since 1931

Note to people not in the know: in Europe, most popular soccer teams are part of actual athletic clubs, where they field professional teams in multiple sports. For instance, I think FC Barcelona has won championships in basketball, soccer, handball, and like table tennis. It gets super obscure, because when you make a…

Okay, now that you won't allow us to compare based on pre-season results, and season results are out by definition: the USL teams had better showings against MLS teams in the Open Cup. Will that fact make it into your NASL bunker?

Come on, man. The idea that Orlando "would not be competitive over an entire NASL season" is laughable. City beat the third place team in the NASL 3 times this year (once at a 3rd site, once at home, and once away). I acknowledge that I'm not a neutral party in this, but honestly: I would have to dig pretty deep for…

Who in the Serbian community will stand up against this culture of lawlessness?!

And both supporters clubs mobilized to ethnically cleanse the country. Smartass.

This is a step up from the rivalry in the 90's, where instead of setting fire to stadiums, both fan bases engaged in genocide.

Well they would be moving from tier 3 to tier 1. Though the movement in the American pyramid isn't merit-based, "essentially receiving a double promotion" is an accurate way to describe that jump.

Exactly. It's not as if soccer is an incorrect term anyway. It's basically slang for "association football" and originated in the UK, not the US.

It's almost as illogical as Americans calling a sport "football" when feet rarely touch the ball and the few players that do are usually derided as not real players (or just plain pussies).
Sometimes sports aren't logical.

They're trying to appeal to the Latino market by aping the Spanish style of putting the initials before the team name. Which is even more irritating because it's just more needless appropriation.

Another thing that bothers me is FC Dallas....Football Club Dallas is basically what they're saying. AFC/LFC, Arsenal Football Club/Liverpool Football Club.

By the USSF's.

If we're going to get pedantic, we could point out that "soccer" is short for "association football", so there's no conflict there - the "association" part is assumed in "FC".

Still no word on why MLS needs 21 teams, but whatever.

Does Florida really need 2 football teams that don't draw?