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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

LynahFan said:
53 shots, 30 on goal....ouch.
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14-0 at halftime.

Seems FIFA changed the format for the U17 World Cup and increased the number of teams to 48. CONCACAF will qualify 8 teams so CONCACAF decided to change the format for qualifying, putting all 35 entered teams into 8 groups where the group winners qualify. Just so many matchups that should not be played. There's already been a few 8-0s, a 7-0, and a 12-0.
 
USL has announced that they intend to create a Division 1 league to compete with MLS starting in 2027 or 2028.

This feels like a space agency that can barely get a probe landed on the moon suddenly announcing they're going to colonize Mars while their competition already has a lunar base and are picking out landing sites. Like, it's certainly possible they can compete but I don't think they have an understanding of what they need to do just to reach parity with the bottom teams of MLS. Most of the USL Championship teams are far closer to the level of the Flint Tropics than the Boston Celtics.

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Among the main reasons cited by McDonough for starting a new D-I competition is the USL’s belief that the United States is big enough geographically to sustain more professional teams. Europe, he pointed out, contains over 400 professional Division men’s I teams in an area comparable in size to the United States, which only has the 30 served by MLS. There are obvious differences there: Europe’s 400 top-flight teams play in in separate countries’ league systems, and the population of the continent is more than double that of the United States. However, McDonough is focused more on how such a saturation of pro teams creates a soccer culture and would “grow the game” in the Unites States.
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Among many other requirements, USSF standards dictate that the USL’s new league must have at least 12 teams to begin play in D-I, and must expand to at least 14 by year three of its existence. These teams will need to come from across the country, with at least 75% of them serving metro areas of at least 1m people. In addition, every team in the league must play in a stadium that seats at least 15,000 people.
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I really don't believe that these people actually know what they're getting into.
 
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Over 56K people are in attendance at the Arsenal/Tottnm Women's Super League match. Arsenal holds the top 3 spots for attendance in the WSL.
 
MLS teams kicking off with CONCACAF Champions Cup matches.

Miami-SKC had to be postponed to tomorrow due to a winter storm in KC.

Colorado-LAFC about to kick off in Colorado where it is a lovely 6 degrees fahrenheit.
 
Orange ball already out in Colorado.

Referee crew is from the Caribbean and they look miserable.

Stands are packed... full of empty seats.
 
The defining characteristic of MLS Week 1 may well be "When playing it out of the back goes wrong". Or DOGSO. Kinda hard to tell.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
US Soccer wants to take the ACC, Big Ten, and a few other schools to pilot a two-semester season. I couldn’t tell if this means it would be a winter sport or if they would play a schedule in the fall, take a couple months off, and come back in the spring.

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/co...-college-year-round-pilot-program-1234829400/
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It’s hard to find solid information on this, that article is probably the best source, so it’s difficult to find out exactly what the plans are. There was a tweet from some USMNTprospects account about this a few months ago but that’s it.

There does seem to be some rumblings of a major shift of schedule changes coming in the entire US Soccer landscape though. The MLS to fall-spring rumor train seems to be gathering steam and now this with men’s college soccer.

Interesting but unsurprising that the women’s side is not involved in this conversation though, the men’s and women’s collegiate soccer sides have always been two separate worlds.
 
CONCACAF Champions Cup Round of 16 is set. Some interesting quarters that are going to be hard fought. One includes LAFC, Columbus, and Miami (and the unfortunate Cavalry of Jamaica), another includes Chivas, Club America (a R16 matchup), Cruz Azul and Seattle. Two teams will definitely be earning their semifinal spots.
 
How the USL plans to launch a competing first division league.

The USL hasn’t said which existing USL Championship teams, if any, will be considered for the proposed tier-one league. Yet despite the enthusiasm of Trevisani and Bautista, officials with several franchises seem lukewarm on the idea. The Times contacted other teams in the league’s Western Conference but none agreed to speak about the proposal on the record.

Many, including Bautista, said they first heard about the idea just hours before Papadakis made his announcement and they had questions about the finances, the quality of player the league could attract and other basics. The league, they said, had few answers.

“You can call it Division 1. But is it really Division 1?” said one executive, who asked that his name and the name of his team not be used because he feared retribution for speaking out. “No it’s not. It’s very much not. It’s not going to have the same level of players. I just don’t understand what they’re doing.”
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In a sentence: Not very well.
 
SonofSouthie said:
The 2026 World Cup Final at MetLife Stadium will be the first in the competition's history to include a half time show, FIFA president Gianni Infantino has announced.

www.cbssports.com

2026 FIFA World Cup final to have Super Bowl-style halftime show: Gianni Infantino says Coldplay to help plan

The first-ever halftime show is being put together in conjunction with Global Citizen
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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Note to rest of the world: FIFA is planning this. I know you’re going to put this shit on us but, FIFA is planning this.
 
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