Houston Dynamo makes the move East 28 Jan 2011 The Houston Dynamo will spend the next season in the East. MLS announced that, to keep the conferences balanced at nine teams apiece and, with two Pacific Coast teams, Vancouver and Portland, joining in 2011, the Dynamo will be the team on the move.
MLS schedulemaker puts the pressure on Toronto FC 20 Dec 2010 The team still has an interim coach and interim general manager. But the heat on Toronto FC was turned up when MLS released its First Kick schedule Monday. As was widely expected, TFC kicks off its season in Vancouver against the Whitecaps on March 19. The game is exactly what CBC, which would love to expand its reach for soccer broadcasts, would need to create a new national brand that shows that it could create a soccer broadcasting franchise built on the Hockey Night in Canada model. The next week, Toronto FC returns to BMO Field to welcome the Portland Timbers for the home opener.
Whitecaps, Timbers stay away from high-priced players 24 Nov 2010 The shop window featured a heck of a lot of high-priced talent. The Vancouver Whitecaps weren’t buying.
Five players who could be worth picking in the expansion draft 23 Nov 2010 Here are some of the interesting possibilities out there for Vancouver and Portland in Wednesday’s expansion draft. Here are five names that really jumped out on the lists of unprotected players released Monday.
Designated Players go up for auction 23 Nov 2010 DPs for sale or rent... rooms to let 50 cents... OK, apologies to Roger Miller for that one. But, when Major League Soccer released the lists of players its existing 16 teams had made available for Wednesday’s expansion draft, the Designated Players jumped off the page. The Vancouver Whitecaps and Portland Timbers could each max out the three DPs allowed on their rosters in the first three rounds of the draft. Not that either would do that.
Ferreira takes the MVP award 19 Nov 2010 It’s a clean sweep for David Ferreira. The FC Dallas playmaker was named MLS Most Valuable Player in Toronto on Friday. In a tight race, Ferreira got 20 per cent of the votes, edging out Los Angeles Galaxy Edson Buddle, who finished second in the scoring race with 17 goals, and San Jose striker Chris Wondolowski, who led the league …
San Jose coach shrugs off RSL comparison 9 Nov 2010 Is San Jose, heading into the Eastern Conference Final this weekend in the Denver suburbs, drawing inspiration from the Real Salt Lake of 2009? No.
Sorry Wondo, but Ferreira’s the MVP 8 Nov 2010 A run-off vote was needed after FC Dallas's David Ferreira and Chris Wondolowski, San Jose's Cinderella-story striker who led MLS with 18 goals this season, finished in a tie. They tied in first-place votes and second-place votes.