Great night for NSC Minnesota, bad night for NASL 30 Oct 2011 For anyone not cheering for the NSC Minnesota Stars to take the Soccer Bowl, it was an ugly spectacle.
GolTV Canada to broadcast second leg of NASL final 27 Oct 2011 The NSC Minnesota Stars hold a 3-1 lead over the Fort Lauderdale Strikers after the first leg. The league announced Wednesday that the second leg from Florida would be broadcast on GolTV. The game will be shown on tape at 10 p.m. ET this Saturday. It is shown live on the web, through nasl.com.
Halfway home: Minnesota edges closer to NASL title 23 Oct 2011 The Stars’ Cinderella run through the NASL playoffs looks like it might never strike midnight. The Stars will head to Florida with a 3-1 lead after the first leg in Blaine, Minn.
Collapse of Rennie’s RailHawks a cause for concern for Whitecaps’ fans 16 Oct 2011 When the Vancouver Whitecaps announced that RailHawks coach Martin Rennie would take over the MLS side next season, the Scottish boss was smelling like a rose.
FC Edmonton outgunned, outclassed in playoff shocker 2 Oct 2011 The Eddies were routed 5-0 by the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in their NASL quarterfinal, as FC Edmonton’s season came crashing down around its ears.
FC Edmonton needs better finishing if it is to upset Fort Lauderdale 27 Sep 2011 FC Edmonton hopes to learn from its mistakes when it faces the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in their NASL quarter-final on Saturday.
Impact wins the battle, but not the war: Montreal out of NASL playoffs 25 Sep 2011 The Montreal Impact will not take part in the NASL playoffs. Sure, the Impact did its part — crushing the last-place Atlanta Silverbacks by a 4-0 count on the final day of the regular season. But, the NSC Minnesota Stars preserved its one-point advantage over the Impact with a 2-1 win on the road over the first-place Carolina RailHawks.
FC Edmonton plays the waiting game in final week of NASL regular season 22 Sep 2011 But this week has been strange, because FCE doesn’t actually know yet who it will be playing. It can focus on itself, but not the other team. The players can’t talk about systems or key matchups.
Montreal dominates FC Edmonton in must-win situation 18 Sep 2011 Undistracted from the task at hand in tonight’s match against the visiting FC Edmonton, getting the three points needed to close the gap between them and Minny, the Impact came through in the clutch with a 2-0 win and has almost climbed out of the hole that it has dug for itself with its dismal play in the first half of the season. Montreal is now just a single point behind Minnesota with each team having a game left on the schedule. Montreal owns the tiebreaker between the two teams.
Poor finishing likely costs FC Edmonton home-field advantage 12 Sep 2011 In a game the Eddies needed to win to improve their chances of home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs, they surrendered a 1-0 lead and lost 2-1 to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the regular season finale at Foote Field.