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¿Realmente Ronaldinho no merecía estar en la selección?
GOAL: Thierry Henry AMAZING Bicycle Kick | New York Red Bulls vs Montreal Impact (08.05.2013)
De porqué Thierry Henry es el jugador mejor pagado de la MLS
By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM
PHOENIX, Ariz. – We’re ready. Estamos listos.
Through the years, pro soccer has never managed to take hold here in the Valley of the Sun. For many reasons.
By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM
Designated players are good for Major League Soccer. Let’s just say that first. They don’t always work out, but several European imports have. Take David Beckham and Robbie Keane from the LA Galaxy and Thierry Henry of the New York Red Bulls, for example.
By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM
The 20th Major League Soccer franchise is coming, and the target year for it to begin play is 2016. All signs point to that franchise being the second one in the New York metropolitan area.
By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM
For some 90 minutes Monday, Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber addressed media members in a teleconference.
Por Juan Carlos Agüero / @juankaguerom
Para FOX Deportes
Terminó el cuento de hadas, la historia mágica que se inició hace seis temporadas, el caballero británico que llegó a conquistar los Ángeles partirá con destino a quien sabe donde, dejando detrás de sí una estela de éxito y un imperio fortalecido.
David Beckham, de 37 años, anunció en un comunicado que dejará el Galaxy, equipo al que llegó en medio de voces de odio y envidia que decían estaba acabado, sin fútbol y que llegaría a disfrutar de un millonario salario en su exilio activo, tantas dudas y críticas que en se encargó de callar con su clase, con su exquisito fútbol, digno del país del que ha sido embajador universal.
By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM
As we approach Election Day (we all voted, right?) and we get ready to pick a president and other government officials, let’s take a moment to consider voting in sports.
What if you could? What if you had a say in who runs your team, who makes personnel decisions, how many tickets you can reserve for away games, etc.?
A Dallas Cowboys fan and you’re tired of Jerry Jones? Why not cast a vote to get rid of him? Sick of the way Larry Beinfest is running the Miami Marlins, or frustrated about Ozzie Guillen being fired? A vote would be your way to truly express your displeasure.
Major League Soccer’s Western Conference has produced the last three league champions – Real Salt Lake, the Colorado Rapids and the L.A. Galaxy – and also is home to the top club in the 2012 regular season, the San Jose Earthquakes.
Between the top-seeded Quakes and the No. 5 seed Vancouver Whitecaps, a team in only its second season of existence, the second through fourth seeds were separated by three standings points in the regular season. All of which should make the MLS postseason pretty entertaining in the West.
The Whitecaps and Galaxy open the postseason with Thursday’s knockout round match pitting No. 5 at No. 4. The Galaxy, the defending MLS Cup champion, probably feels a little disappointed with how its regular season went, and now must play the extra game just to keep its season alive.
By Jose M. Romero /
It’s Halloween Week. The NFL remains king of American sports, the NBA 2012-13 regular season tips off on Tuesday with openers all week and baseball is over.
But soccer still has a place here, and the Major League Soccer postseason starts Tuesday as well just outside of Chicago when the hometown Fire host the Houston Dynamo in the Eastern Conference knockout round.
With 19 teams in the league, the decision was made to add two teams to the postseason. They are the fifth-place finishers in both the East and West, and they face the No. 4 seed at the home of the fourth-place team Tuesday in the East and Wednesday in the West.
Fall Sundays in America aren’t for soccer, right?
They’re for the NFL. Maybe the baseball playoffs. And if its soccer you want, the European or Mexican leagues. El Clasico from Spain. The best football in the world.
Anything but Major League Soccer. Especially when Sunday night’s Seattle-Portland match went head to head with the New Orleans-San Diego NFL game and two baseball playoff games.
Maybe the TV ratings for MLS weren’t there, but the people sure were. How about 66,452 to be exact?
There’s no more dismissing or ignoring or failing to mention MLS, though the ever-present critics will find some way to spin their ant-soccer rhetoric. But the masses of folks who have bought in will grow because pro soccer in the USA is here to stay. It matters. It is the world’s game, with a North American flair.
By Jose M. Romero / @RomeroJoseM
Way up in the left corner of the United States, a place so often overlooked in other sports except soccer, a 25-year-old newlywed originally from Colombia is coming into his own as one of Seattle’s most beloved sports stars.
Se llama Fredy Montero, and as the Seattle Sounders’ ace striker, he’s leading his club up the standings in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference as Seattle steams toward its fourth playoff appearance in four seasons of existence in MLS.
Four in four years would be impressive, but what Montero has done individually since he arrived alone to Puget Sound from South America in early 2009 is equally if not more impressive. Montero, a slight 5-9 and 160 pounds, has led the team in goals the past three seasons and is in position to win the team’s Golden Boot for a fourth year in a row and surpass his career mark of 12 goals in a season.
Por Juan Carlos Agüero / @juankaguerom
Para FOX Deportes
Muchos lo vieron con recelo, le llamaron acabado y creyeron que llegaba solo para estar más cerca de Hollywood y hacer carrera como actor, pero la verdad es que David Beckham fue el motor que puso a caminar en serio a la MLS.
Recién llegado a los Ángeles el “spice boy” comenzó a dar de que hablar, sus camisas se vendían al por mayor, los estadios se llenaban para verle y la gente coreaba su nombre, al que en Europa empezaron a infravalorar en Estados Unidos era venerado.
By Jose M. Romero / @RomeroJoseM
For Fox Deportes
Someday, maybe, this game will mean a little more to a lot more people. But until that time, the truest of soccer fans must hope they have GolTV (bless that network’s heart for broadcasting this match) in order to view the 2012 U.S. Open Cup final, the championship of American soccer.
It’s two Major League Soccer clubs for the right to hoist the trophy in victory – the three-time defending champion Seattle Sounders on the road at Livestrong Sporting Park to play Sporting Kansas City Wednesday night at 8 p.m. CT.
After months of one-and-done games for teams from amateur adult leagues to lower-level professionals and all the way up to MLS, the last two standing are the Sounders and SKC. For Seattle, a win gives them an unprecedented fourth straight Open Cup title after wins in its inaugural season (2009) at Washington D.C. over DC United and home victories over the Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire in 2010 and 2011.
By Jose M. Romero /@RomeroJoseM
For Fox Deportes
Drubbed the past two years by Manchester United in the Major League Soccer All-Star Game, the All-Stars got a goal in stoppage time from Eddie Johnson of the Seattle Sounders and rallied for 3-2 win over Chelsea of the English Premier League Wednesday night in Chester, Pa.
Wins like this are good for MLS. People across the pond, soccer snobs that they are, will see this result and perhaps a few of them might say ‘Hey, these guys in MLS can actually play football.’”
It’s all about recognition and legitimacy for MLS. The league and game are still in the manageable growth stage in North America.
By Jose M. Romero / RomeroJoseM
For FOX Deportes
It’s hard to argue that the heart of professional soccer in North American beats in the Pacific Northwest.
When Major League Soccer placed expansion teams in Seattle in 2009 and in Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C. two years later, the league re-ignited the flame of longtime soccer rivalries between the three cities. It re-established Cascadia – the name that residents of the region gave to their part of the world – as the hotbed of soccer in the U.S. and Canada. Rivalries between the three clubs that began in the North American Soccer League heyday – the mid-to-late 1970s – were rekindled at an even higher level.
The stakes are always higher when the Cascadia clubs face each other, and there is no more fierce a rivalry in all of MLS than Portland vs. Seattle. The two teams square off for the first time this season – the first of three regular-season meetings in 2012 – Sunday afternoon at Jeld-Wen Field in Portland.
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