Have you guys seen the latest All for One about Bernadeshci?
It's interesting that he doesn't seem to have any compunctions about showing everyone where he lives.
Have you guys seen the latest All for One about Bernadeshci?
It's interesting that he doesn't seem to have any compunctions about showing everyone where he lives.
I’m guessing that the MLS end of year awards must have a nominee from every team, because Bono is nominated for keeper of the year. Either that or I’ve woken up in a different dimension today!?
Yeah, every team gets one or more players nominated for every award:
TFC Nominees:
MLS MVP: Michael Bradley & Jonathan Osorio
Keeper: Alex Bono
Defender: Shane O'Neil
Newcomer: Lorenzo Insigne & Federico Bernardeschi
Young Player: Jayden Nelson & Kosi Thompson
Comeback Player: Ayo Akinola
Humanitarian: Lukas MacNaughton
Coach: Bob Bradley
https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/major...of-year-awards
TFC keeper of the year has to be Ranjitsigh. He never cost us a game.
"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
Sorry, but as someone working in municipal asset management I have to take umbrage with this.
Our municipalities only have a certain amount of money and it's definitely not enough to keep the roads in pristine condition, especially when that same budget envelope has to provide money for building/maintaining water/sewer pipes, libraries, fire halls, police vehicles, traffic signals, recreation centres, and sports fields (just to name a few). Unless you want your taxes to raise even more each year, we have to decide where to prioritize funding and those funds allocated to road are better spent on arterial roads that see thousands of vehicles per day rather than local roads that see a couple of hundred cars per day at best.
Again, sorry for kvetching but that's really a sore spot for us.
Drew Moor retiring at the end of this season - his last game in Colorado was this afternoon.
Last edited by OgtheDim; 10-01-2022 at 04:53 PM.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Do MLS players have a work ethic/maturity problem?
Are they too comfortable in their roles with so much league parity?
The Lens coach Franck Haise mentioned the other day that Adam Buksa is still not fit enough to start after nearly three months in France. " “ For Adam, it's first and foremost a question of time. It's obvious after 3 months of absence, arriving at our club with our way of working, our intensity in training which is very far from that of his club in MLS"
Couple this with the heat Hernan Losada took for "overworking" players in DC and I wonder if -- and maybe it's travel related -- the standards of fitness and work ethic just lag in this league. We have players like Chiellini and Higuain saying the league has as much talent as the big leagues but that the tactics and discipline are lacking; then Bernie said similar in his interviews with Italian media.
I do wonder if maybe freeing up more high-end salary money next year -- an extra DP, more TAM -- might be good for helping younger players realize just how much more is required to be a top player.
Tactics, no question we are behind. We just don’t have the culture here yet.
Fitness? I think we have it and train for it. My best guess: what Buksa‘s coach is describing is a result of not having enough strong competition. Guys raise their level to those around them, all else equal.
Buksa also played for NER...for an old school MLS manager.
I know this isn't MLS related but I just had to post this.
One of the wildest finishes and atmosphere I've seen in a football match.
K-League has got some really great announcers. Wish we had the same excitement over here in the West.
Football is Life
Crazy town. The announcers remind me of Ray Hudson in Miami.
My limited number of Korean friends and associates over the years sort of fits with this though, very far removed from the old stereotypes about southeast Asian nations being stoic. Very passionate fans.
The NA sports pro scene is so large and fractured. I wish we had more hardcore support, I really do. It's difficult sometimes to watch pretty much any team in England or Germany's first three divisions fill all or most of their stadium and have EVERYONE singing, new songs for opposing players every game etc.
So much of that is unfortunately due to the media. I was in newspapers for 25 years and in that time, would say 80% of the sports reporters I talked to, at a minimum had a clear bias AGAINST football.
I'd point out that Edmonton and Toronto's early pro teams routinely drew more than 10,000 to shitty old stadiums when there was no cable and no competition with US pro sports. They'd say "but those leagues failed." I'd point out that the Canadian franchises had nothing to do with them failing. They'd say "but those leagues failed", scrub, rinse, repeat.
Cause and effect rarely played any deep part in their analysis of why they thought 16 hockey stories a day was the minimum and football should be relegated to the agate scores section.
Last edited by jloome; 10-08-2022 at 12:16 PM.
Porter out at CBus.
No, we don't want him
From the Dispatch article:
"But on the final day of the regular season, the ugly trend that Porter couldn't solve reared its head one more time. Orlando scored the tying goal in the 56th minute, shortly after broadcast cameras captured Porter encouraging his team to slow down the tempo of the game, and they scored the winning goal in the 84th minute — the 17th goal the Crew allowed after the 75th minute this season."
Eek. Could be coincidence but it sounds like he was too conservative all year. Fewest losses in the league and they still don't make the playoffs due to all the late draws.
the great bezbatchenko now has one mls cup with columbus but also missed playoffs in three of the last four years...arena savarese schmetzer vermes also missed playoffs...fans have to realize how difficult this league is and be more patient instead of calling for the removal of a coach after a rebuild season
This was the last Power Rankings blurb for TFC this year:
"A huge offseason begins in Toronto.
#TFCLive coach Bob Bradley called this one of the most challenging seasons of his career.
— steve buffery (@Beezersun) October 9, 2022"
If BB is putting this season up there with his stint at Swansea, I'm not sure what that says about the Management, Supporter Engagement, and Player Management
A little MLS biz good news:
https://www.tennessean.com/story/spo...g/10308502002/
This should be in a random section. But it's been bothering me for some time.
But anyone else remember this, my son and I joke about the bizarreness of it all the time.
Back in April there was a game with a big OLG tie-in, it was around the time when all the betting apps became available so OLG had to step up its game.
Anyway there was a spin the wheel game at half-time with the TFC on field rah rah person. Normally prizes are a years supply of pasta, signed football, but he spun the wheel
and won $450,000 other spots were like $800,000. Not much else was said about this he turned up won close to 1/2 million and wandered off.
We wanted to know how he got picked and why no real fanfare. The prize went from here's a can of soup to 1/2 million and with not much difference in delivery.
My son and I now think we imagined this since no remembers it and it is not mentioned anywhere.
It was prob the new york game which we won so we might have been delirious.
Anyone help?
Last edited by CorrwgBach; 10-13-2022 at 09:21 AM.
I don't remember this, but there was this thing -
https://winners.olg.ca/en-ca/winners...y-y-07-06-2022
It was $200,000 he won - but could've been more -- I don't see a date in the post, but the URL suggests it's later.
I don't want to give anything away in this bizarro story of online pranking and MLS recruitment so I shall just post it and say
THIS IS A MUST-READ (Not for scandalous or embarrassing reasons, it's just a great read.)
https://www.theguardian.com/football...lexander-lopez
Last edited by jloome; 10-13-2022 at 12:06 PM.
That...was amazing...thanks for pointing it out
MLSE hooked up Insigne and Criscito with Raptors tickets today. From Insigne's wife's Instagram it seemed like their kids had a great time at the game. Criscito's kids also got to take photos with some of the players. Hopefully this can help settle them and their families in. Good to see that they're still in the city rather than going back to Italy (even if they are contractually obligated to stay and practice).
EDIT: Berna was also at the game and Siakam apparently had a Berna jersey on (or at least with him) during post game interviews.
Last edited by noxx98; 10-20-2022 at 12:28 AM.