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Soccer Down Here
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
NWSL Challenge Cup: Lavelle shines, Courage unleashed
by Jason Longshore The NWSL returned to the field yesterday in their Challenge Cup event, held in Utah. They overcame the loss of the Orlando Pride for the tournament, added new sponsors, and gained a spotlight that the league has struggled to attain. That spotlight gained in intensity ahead of the second match of the day as the Chicago Red Stars prepared to play the Washington Spirit. Initially, it was the powerful images of Casey Short that gained most of the attention. The
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Soccer Down Here
- Jun 26, 2020
- 4 min
Checking in with Scotland...
by Jarrett Smith
Major League Soccer is amazing. It’s not the best league in the world and no one is going to rationally argue that it is but it has its own brand of absurdity and hilarious nonsense that just makes it so wonderful. Every league has something like this; something so weird and possibly dumb and beautiful that you just want to admire it from a third party-approved safe distance. We all just want to have fun. Scotland is fun. A league dominated by two teams acro
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Soccer Down Here
- Jun 19, 2020
- 27 min
The Opus, Part 4
by Joe Maye (better known as TAFKA) INTRODUCTION This is Part 4 of the extensive writings that the Soccer Down Here podcasters affectionately refer to as “The Opus”. It’s a well-earned joke, given the absurd length of the writing. Also, in retrospect, it’s a FAR better title than “MLS – From Now Until Perfection” which just sounds so nauseatingly pretentious now. (My apologies!) I found that discussing pro/rel in America meant expanding the discussion into topics I had not in
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Soccer Down Here
- Jun 11, 2020
- 1 min
MLS is Back... on July 8
The timeline is now known, Major League Soccer will be back with a tournament in Orlando that has a 2021 Concacaf Champions League spot on the line. Every team will play a minimum of three matches in a group stage, which will double as regular season games. Sixteen teams (six group winners and runners-up plus the four best third-place teams) will advance to a knockout tournament that will conclude on August 11.
More on the tournament page at MLSsoccer.com. The tournament dra
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Soccer Down Here
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
MLS Roundup, June 9
Day 2 of full training for MLS clubs came and went without too much fanfare. The wait is still on for updates about the return to the 2020 season for the league, which will take place "soon" in Orlando. The biggest news of the day was in Kansas City. Chilean central midfielder Felipe Gutierrez will miss the remainder of the 2020 season. Surgery to repair a cartilage defect in his knee will rule him out for seven to nine months. In 63 appearances since joining the team ahead o
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Soccer Down Here
- Jun 8, 2020
- 1 min
3 MLS Teams Return to Full Training
Atlanta United, the New England Revolution, and Sporting Kansas City returned to full team training on Monday. (Photos courtesy of MLS) Players for these clubs passed two COVID-19 tests, and took an anti-body test, in order to participate in the training. This was part of the return to training protocols that MLS implemented when they lifted the training moratorium last week. There is more on the requirements of the clubs to be able to train here.
The expectation is that an
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