Actually, it was Durm who assisted Auba’s hat trick goal... what, do all gangly white boys with hitler youth haircuts look the same to you?

2.BuLi is inarguably the 2nd best 2nd division in the world (1st best being The Championship). Some of today’s best players in England, Spain, and Germany have kickstarted their careers at 2.BuLi clubs.

Last fall, after my friend’s wedding rehearsal dinner, I was waiting in the valet line with the groom’s father when Vanderbilt basketball coach Kevin Stallings cut in front of us. When I pointed out what had happened, the grooms father very audibly said “yeah, well, he better make the tournament this season or else…

It is a re-skinned Octagon from Rocket Labs / Rumble, and it will be in all competitive playlists... however, they are adding a “map preference” feature as well.

It’s developed a bunch of Americans that wanted nothing to do with MLS (Weston McKinnie, Maki Tall, Haji Wright, Emerson Hyndmann) or sit languishing on the bench because... uhhh... idk (Tommy Thompson, Jordan Allen, Bradford Jamison). Oh, and there’s Kyellen Acosta and Gyasi Zardes, they’re pretty good, but I don’t…

He spent less than a year with the Sounders Academy before going to Akron, the majority of his youth career was spent at Crossfire Premier, which is a pay-to-play private club that still exists.

Yeah, what failures! Good thing we didn’t have MLS coaches like Caleb Porter or Richie Williams in charge of any of those teams!

“Because from where I’m standing, the only forward progress being made in American soccer is at the club level”

Where are you standing? Players like Pulisic, Gooch, Yedlin, Wood, Gyau, and Rubin spent large chunks of time in USSF development teams and programs, not in MLS academies. So far, the best player MLS has produced entirely organically is Matt Miazga, and he’s struggling to find his footing in The Netherlands...

You would have been better off citing Venegas’ goal, Bolanos was a seasoned Champions League player at FC Copenhagen who helped the club become the first Danish club to reach the knock-out rounds by hold Barca to a draw during the 2010 group stages. Like Dempsey and Jones, he’s in MLS to get paid into retirement.

#outed

I can see the headline now: “Best team in England managed by best manager of past 2 decades figures out how to beat team he managed 4 seasons ago” and it will get all the clicks because it is SHOCKING NEWS.

I’m starting to suspect that you have a picture of Ronaldo’s big-dick statue as your phone background...

or because it’s much less shocking than the reigning Champions of Europe drawing (and almost losing) to Liga Warsaw, a team that scored 1 goal in its first 3 CL group stage matches. Billy has a big ol’ Barca boner, but that doesn’t make Real’s draw and Ronaldo’s performance any less fascinating. 

You say it like Man City doesn’t have one of the largest payrolls in Europe and isn’t being managed by Pep ‘literally tactics’ Guardiola, and thus was some kind of upset...

I mean, that’s fine, but SKC aren’t the only team underperforming: Dallas drew level with a team that’s only 2 weeks back from a 2 month break. I’m not saying that MLS isn’t the 2nd strongest league in the competition, but frankly it’s just sad to watch MLS fans excuse the poor performances in the knock-outs on the…

I like this excuse from MLS fans because it perpetually ignores the mediocre performances from MLS teams in the group stages when they are in “mid-season form” and some Central American and Caribbean leagues haven’t even started their season. Just last week Sporting KC drew 2-2 to Central, a Trinidadian team that…

There is both the CONCACAF Champions League (AKA the Liga MX victory lap) for North and Central America, and The Copa Libertadores for South and a select few Central American teams, which is honestly the most competitive club competition in the world.