Not the greatest look to kick things off in Charlotte. You are playing in a NFL stadium with seats to spare for god's sake. Fans priced out? Charlotte FC’s cheapest season ticket seats are most expensive in MLS.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sp...249452735.html
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
2 interesting tidbits
The next most expensive seats in the league - Austin (Precourt FC)
St. Louis refuses to go down the route of seat licences.
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I think the Charlotte people have no clue how much papering they are going to have to do if they don't sell those seats.
I still think the north end gets rebuilt for WC 2026
(You want to feel old - we are closer to that WC then to when Seba signed for us)
On a sad note, Sacramento seems out of it for the #30 MLS team. Their sugar daddy - sorry - main investor has backed out. Rumour on twitter is stadium costs got too much.
Speculation the replacement might be Phoenix or Vegas.
LAFC stadium naming rights given up but they haven't found a successor yet so using the old name for now
JHams to Indy 11
Athletic reporting TFC leaning towards Orlando over Tampa for where to play at first.
It's a nice stadium, went there for a game back in 2018 when TFC played Orlando. It's got good facilities.
Argh, I hate playing in other team's home stadiums...
The Raps bubble in Tampa has totally broken down. 11 players and coaches out tonight. Suspect that may be playing a part.
"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
You'd think groups of people that went through stringent bubble situations for months on end would know better.
Somebody in Raptors management there did not take the maintenance of protocols seriously, let people of a certain level within a certain workgroup get away with stuff & its biting them on the arse. Covid doesn't care about your internal status within a company. I'd like to think TFC's internal management & culture is better then that but you never know.
A WHOLE lot of the issues in North America related to mask use come down to Alpha male behaviour, and sports teams are filled with alpha males.
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"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
Inter Miami being investigated over their transfer of Blaise Matuidi.
https://twitter.com/samstejskal/stat...765795840?s=20
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56164159
Interesting article on how teams are using data.
One interesting tidbit is that a lot of teams aren't taking shots outside the box as much, because the odds of those going in are low.
So, we complain about how TFC tries to walk the ball into the net... well, closer to the net you are, better odds of an goal.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Sure.
You do need a balanced approach that takes in all the variables, such as taking rare shots from outside the box to keep the opposition from crowding the box.
But factoring in a lucky bounce that might fall on one of your player isn't something you should be taking into account when you're designing tactics. The whole point of data based approach is to eliminate or attempt to control as many variable as possible to produce the highest amount of quality chances to score.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
On the Miami thing - some interesting speculation here that the rest of the league is ticked off at Beckham
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/samstejskal/status/1367844041002524674
Too late. Data driven decision making has been part of football for a while now. And esp with COVID's effect on economy, teams will be looking for ways to be more efficient with their money. Sifting through data looks way more attractive to find that best bang for buck.
Vancouver is supposedly all in on moneyball.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano