We watched the MLS Superdraft so you didn’t have to 11 Jan 2019 If you could make it through the marathon of men in suit and ties calling timeouts, the trading of GAM and TAM, the flipping of picks, you might have noticed that five Canadians were selected in the first two rounds of the 2019 MLS Superdraft.
MLS playoff revamp: The good, the bad and the ugly 17 Dec 2018 The good news: MLS is revamping its playoff system. The bad news: MLS is revamping its playoff system.
Back from Spain, Romero hopes to impress MLS clubs 6 Dec 2018 Canadian teenager Matis Romero will be cheering for the Portland Timbers in this Saturday’s MLS Cup game.
Organic team identities, team contract options, single table: What CanPL can learn from MLS 15 Jan 2018 As CanPL moves toward its 2019 launch as this country’s division one, despite the presence of three Canadian sides in MLS, it will be interesting to see what the league takes away from MLS — and what it stays away from.
MDS to MLS: “I’ve really achieved all I can achieve in Division 2” 12 Jan 2018 But, after a phone call with LAFC head coach Bob Bradley, MDS was convinced that maybe he could be an assistant coach.
Despite Toronto FC’s dominance, ratings slide for MLS Cup in Canada 11 Dec 2017 Now, there are a lot of factors to why the 2016 game did better than 2017; cord-cutters, the move to an afternoon game and the fact that 2016’s game was one of most boring things ever, maybe that scared a fraction of the audience away for 2017 (“fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you”). The fact that Toronto FC put up one of the most incredible seasons in MLS history didn't help increase the reach of the big game.
MLS Cup in ’17 will be one last hurrah ahead of a harsh 2018 for Canadian club soccer 7 Dec 2017 The truth is, 2018 will be a low point for men’s soccer in Canada. Boy, is it going to suck. It will be ultimate in lame-duck years. Canadian jobs will dwindle. We’ll have fewer teams to support. And even in TFC beats Seattle 10-0 on Saturday, that’s not going to change a thing.
MLS opens a marketing office in Canada: Is it already too little, too late? 2 Oct 2017 But, where MLS has truly stumbled in Canada is in making itself a national concern. Basically, in this country, interest in the league is restricted to the three metro areas that have teams. The three Canadian MLS clubs have virtually no presence in the rest of Canada.
Another Canadian in legal trouble in Orlando: Will Johnson arrested on domestic-violence charge 6 Sep 2017 For the second time this season, a Canadian national-teamer playing for Orlando City has been arrested.
Miami FC’s begins legal action in fight for pro-rel: What it could mean for Canadian clubs is muddy 3 Aug 2017 What Miami FC, along with the lower-division Kingston Stockade FC (a team based in New York state), did is initiate an international legal proceeding targeting FIFA, CONCACAF and the United States Soccer Federation. What do the two clubs want? They have gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming that FIFA is violating Swiss law (the body’s headquarters are in Switzerland) by not compelling the USSF to have a system of promotion and relegation between its professional divisions. MLS is Div-1, while USL and NASL are Div-2.
