Is Almeyda the best coach in MLS? A bit of a wonder San Jose grabbed him.
Is Almeyda the best coach in MLS? A bit of a wonder San Jose grabbed him.
Telfer scored a game winner for York9 against the Eddies. He's on a roll. I'm looking forward to when he becomes a first team regular.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/can...y-14-1.5211695
Whitecaps now in the Western conference basement. Terrible record. Team seems to have given up. Fans demoralized.
Got rid of Robbo for not winning enough in recent years and brought in a new coach who burned down everything. It sounds vaguely familiar but worse than TFC during the Mariner era or the Preki era.
https://theprovince.com/sports/socce...rence-basement
Last edited by Oldtimer; 07-15-2019 at 06:46 AM.
I see plenty of reasons to be demoralized if you’re a whitecaps fan. The owners are still too cheap to invest in the team or commit to real designated players. All the attacking signings they made in the off season have flopped in an epic fashion.
Clearly, they need to gut the front office (as if the sexual harassment scandal wasn’t enough of an incentive to begin with). Bob Lendarduzzi might actually be worse than Mo Johnston.
I think MDS is smart (and has succeeded at every level he’s coached) but something is still off.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
Well, they lost midweek in the USOC so TFC's treble will still be the benchmark.
For MLS sides the Open Cup and the Canadian Championship are about the same difficulty. The larger number of lower-league and amateur teams in the USOC doesn't matter to an MLS side as they only enter near the end of the competition.
A bigger issue is that TFC doesn't feature much in US media so most Americans aren't that familiar, except that we have 2 of the players that they blame for the USMNT failures. So more Americans will be aware of LAFC than TFC.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
You’re preaching to the converted.
That said, your arguments would never sway fans of an American team so it doesn’t really matter. For them, CanChamp simply doesn’t count. Has nothing to do with the USMNT players or that Toronto was or wasn’t given enough media attention — it’s basically all centre around the fact that TFC didn’t win the Open Cup even though they can’t.
Maybe it's not a lot more difficult for the MLS sides (but I'd say it's clearly more difficult), but this is just one take of the whole picture.
The strenghth of any competition in the world in any sport is given by the number of "strong" teams competing in it. Only one team takes the final trophy.
From the 24 MLS teams 21 are Americans.
In the US open cup there are 21 "strong" teams competing, and in the Canadian Championship 3.
So seriously and sadly, but the truth is that the US open cup is way more strong and prestigious from a neutral observer's point of view.
I’d put it this way: in the argument for greatest season ever, if the two teams are relatively similar, does anyone really think a domestic cup performance is the tie breaker?
Dominance in winning MLS playoffs, CCL record, regular season points total / dominance in regular season. I’d consider any of those more important than the domestic cup.
The question is: what do you consider the TFC CCL run? The same team or a different one?
LAFC looking good but still with lots of work to do to match 2017 TFC
LAFC play a very pleasing game and dominate their opponents like nobody else before them. They will not be the most successful team in MLS ever. But they do remind me of Man City last season.
how does adding in the CCL next year? would they be the most successful?
In league they are dominant but as C.Ronaldo said above I think they might get stopped in the final if they get there. The points total record though looks like it's about to be fully rewritten.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
people just need things to talk about, columns to write.
absurd to be talking about "best team ever" halfway though the season.
if they go on to win the MLS cup and supporters shield, then the conversation can start.
as someone noted before, TFC 2017 had a lot of injuries and still managed to get 69 points and win MLS cup.
doubtful that if vela or kaye get inured they will have the same dominance.
Joe Bendik has been on a lot of teams today.
Zlatan is something else. The goal he just scored in El Traffico is insane
My god man. 37 years old and he's the best striker in the league by a god damn mile.
He's too full of himself for my taste sometimes but shit I guess he should be...
That was a very fun match to watch. The man talks a lot of shit because he backs it up everytime. Pure entertainer.
His audacity is matched only by his skill. He's on a whole different frequency.
Zlatan being Zlatan. Spectacular hat trick.
There are maybe 4 leagues where Zlatan wouldn't be kicking people's butts BUT....he was disengaged for most of their last 10 games.