The 11’s super-duper MLS 2012 season preview 7 Mar 2012 We tallied up our votes, and came up with our list of how the teams will finish, who will win MLS Cup and who will be the league’s MVP. No need to play the season, now. We have it all figured out.
Impact acquires Fucito and Neagle from Seattle in pick-and-trade deal 18 Feb 2012 Fucito scored six goals in all competitions last year; Neagle scored five in MLS and then added another playoff marker in the Western Conference semifinal loss to Real Salt Lake. Three of Neagle's goals came in an August win over Columbus.
Sturgis trade ensures TFC gets a poor return for a first-round pick 30 Dec 2011 At that time, C.J. Sapong, who would go on to become the league's rookie of the year, was still on the board. Will Bruin, another forward who had some impressive spurts in 2011, was also still there for the taking.
Expansion Draft: Impact ignores Ching’s retirement threat 23 Nov 2011 Brian Ching, scorer of 77 career regular-season goals, made it public that he would rather retire than be plucked off Houston’s roster and go to the Impact. What did Marsch do? He made Ching the first pick of expansion draft.
Hassli’s wonder strike doesn’t take MLS Goal of the Year 16 Nov 2011 Vancouver Whitecap Eric Hassli’s wonder strike against the Seattle Sounders didn’t win the Goal of the Year honour. Instead, rookie Darlington Nagbe got the award for his volley-and-shoot effort against Sporting Kansas City.
Hassli finishes third in MLS Newcomer of the Year balloting 16 Nov 2011 Vancouver’s Eric Hassli, who is likely to win the Goal of the Year for his stunning volley against Seattle, and who scored 10 times this year, finished third in voting, behind Rosales and New York Red Bull Luke Rodgers.
Why was Koevermans AWOL on Newcomer of the Year ballot? 8 Nov 2011 Danny Koevermans’ name wasn’t on the ballot for voters to select. And while his body of work, 10 MLS games, might not be enough to dislodge Rosales, he deserved to get some notice from the voters.
Real Salt Lake gets a scare, while MLS Cup holders fizzle 3 Nov 2011 Canadian midfielder Will Johnson will play in the MLS Western Conference Final; but his Real Salt Lake had to survive a furious charge from the Seattle Sounders.
Real Salt Lake sends message to all of MLS 30 Oct 2011 And if there is a group of Canadian fans who want to see Real Salt Lake return to the form it showed in the early part of the season — when it looked two steps better than anyone else in the league, including the Los Angeles Galaxy — they would have been overjoyed by Saturday night’s performance.
Was there ever a choice? Keller wins MLS Player of the Week 17 Oct 2011 Throw away the fan turnout, the hoopla surrounding the game. The truth is that Keller made seven saves in the game, many of them from point-blank range. He bailed out a Seattle team that in no way deserved three points from its match with San Jose. And that’s why he got the vote — and most of the other votes, too.