Some points that I took from the Nashville game. 1. This team is RESILIENT. 2. Nashville's bench/reserved players are good and play as a unit. 3. We dont have a set piece specialist, and/or our set piece coach is not good. 4. The fitness of the squad is looking good so far. 5. The front 4 needs to learn to rotate so they're not getting congested in the same route. 6. McCarthy is a step above Bond. 7. Aude needs some heavy mentoring. 8. Caceres and Yoshida are a great pair. 9. Barry is a workhorse, but he's a bit of a clumsy player. He should NOT be subbing on for our wingers. 10. This team is trusting each other and sticking with each other. Im looking forward to the rest of the season.
tl;dr I hate the direction mls has been goin in for a while. They would rather have very slow growth of a game that is fully under their umbrella and control, over natural growth at all levels and all tournaments 1:02:30 US soccer did not do this to themselves, MLS is oppressing them and everything they don’t own. Creating the leagues cup and ignoring the us open cup and concacaf cup tells you where their minds at. They’re trying to add enough teams to where you can’t even realistically keep track of the lower leagues if you’re watching mls. Back when there was a reasonable amount of teams and no midseason tournament you could watch or keep tabs on pretty much everything. Now it’s turning in to a 30 team, unbalanced mess. 100+ years of interesting history to read about w this competition. Even in the lil over a decade since I’ve been watching: dc United saving one of the worst seasons of any team w a miracle run; the random Cinderella runs like union Omaha or Colorado Springs; galaxy getting spanked by the rail hawks a few years in a row; that 2019 one in front of 35k+ Atlanta winnin over Minnesota w sooo many mls vets on both sides; just last year inter Miami and the Barca boys had that run w that exciting semi final against Cincinnati, just to lose to Houston (coached by ben olsen, the same coach that took DC United on that miracle run). I mean jeez yall, where’s our pride at? We’ve won this damn thing twice, and we’re okay just lettin it wither away. Greg vanney and Kevin Hartman have lifted this trophy for us. I’m disgusted at how tight-lipped everyone has to be w how mls is giving out fines, bc I’m sure both of those guys are not pleased w how the open cup is being treated. Notice how in our last us open cup el trafico, we fielded a more first choice lineup and lafc played kids. Now mls is forcing us to play our literal second team and lafc is one of the few teams that is actually “fully” participating (and will most likely field kids again cause they don’t care about it). The last American soccer league that was this anti competitive, self centered, and overly focused on stars was the NASL of the 70s/80s. And we know how that turned out
Some points that I took from the Nashville game.
1. This team is RESILIENT.
2. Nashville's bench/reserved players are good and play as a unit.
3. We dont have a set piece specialist, and/or our set piece coach is not good.
4. The fitness of the squad is looking good so far.
5. The front 4 needs to learn to rotate so they're not getting congested in the same route.
6. McCarthy is a step above Bond.
7. Aude needs some heavy mentoring.
8. Caceres and Yoshida are a great pair.
9. Barry is a workhorse, but he's a bit of a clumsy player. He should NOT be subbing on for our wingers.
10. This team is trusting each other and sticking with each other.
Im looking forward to the rest of the season.
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tl;dr I hate the direction mls has been goin in for a while. They would rather have very slow growth of a game that is fully under their umbrella and control, over natural growth at all levels and all tournaments
1:02:30 US soccer did not do this to themselves, MLS is oppressing them and everything they don’t own. Creating the leagues cup and ignoring the us open cup and concacaf cup tells you where their minds at.
They’re trying to add enough teams to where you can’t even realistically keep track of the lower leagues if you’re watching mls. Back when there was a reasonable amount of teams and no midseason tournament you could watch or keep tabs on pretty much everything. Now it’s turning in to a 30 team, unbalanced mess.
100+ years of interesting history to read about w this competition. Even in the lil over a decade since I’ve been watching: dc United saving one of the worst seasons of any team w a miracle run; the random Cinderella runs like union Omaha or Colorado Springs; galaxy getting spanked by the rail hawks a few years in a row; that 2019 one in front of 35k+ Atlanta winnin over Minnesota w sooo many mls vets on both sides; just last year inter Miami and the Barca boys had that run w that exciting semi final against Cincinnati, just to lose to Houston (coached by ben olsen, the same coach that took DC United on that miracle run).
I mean jeez yall, where’s our pride at? We’ve won this damn thing twice, and we’re okay just lettin it wither away. Greg vanney and Kevin Hartman have lifted this trophy for us. I’m disgusted at how tight-lipped everyone has to be w how mls is giving out fines, bc I’m sure both of those guys are not pleased w how the open cup is being treated.
Notice how in our last us open cup el trafico, we fielded a more first choice lineup and lafc played kids. Now mls is forcing us to play our literal second team and lafc is one of the few teams that is actually “fully” participating (and will most likely field kids again cause they don’t care about it).
The last American soccer league that was this anti competitive, self centered, and overly focused on stars was the NASL of the 70s/80s. And we know how that turned out