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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

I was watching a bit of the UEFA Women’s Champions League match between Lyon and Wolfsburg, two of the top teams in European Women’s soccer, and attendance was maybe 4K? I’m curious as to these teams are being funded? Because they have payrolls supposedly larger than NWSL teams yet their attendance is way below the NWSL.

Decent game at least.
 

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Canadian Premier League Final in a blizzard
 
Meanwhile Reece James is warning his England teammates about the extreme heat and the lousy pitch conditions the team will face when the World Cup comes to America next summer.
 
cF[Authentic] said:
MLS voting today to align with the European league schedule - fall to spring.

Going to need to order a lot more orange balls...
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It’s apparently a lot more involved than that. (link to a Reddit thread because I’m not linking to The Athletic)
Barring last-minute snags and final discussions and agreements with the MLS Players Association, the board of governors is prepared to make official a change to a fall-spring calendar that syncs up with many top European leagues, according to multiple sources briefed on the agenda. In addition, the league will likely vote on changes to the competition format. The proposal would see MLS move to a single-table system – one that also incorporates five divisions, more on that below – rather than two conferences.
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The plan is for the MLS regular season to span from mid-to-late July or August to April, with playoffs staged in May. The league would take a winter break in December and January. Games would likely pause from around the second week in December through the first or third week in February. MLS understandably is trying to avoid restarting the league on Super Bowl weekend. There would also be a summer break in June and July.
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The plan is to move the league to a single-table format, but that also includes five divisions, sources said. MLS currently plays with two conference tables. The divisions would be organized geographically, and teams would play home and away against divisional rivals. The divisions would essentially operate almost as a secondary competition and objective for teams, with no substantive impact on playoff seeding other than that division winners would be guaranteed a playoff spot. (Though it would be unlikely a team that wins the division wouldn’t already be qualified for the playoffs via the single table.) Teams would then play the other 24 teams in the league once, either home or away, for 34 total games.
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ticapnews said:
Meanwhile Reece James is warning his England teammates about the extreme heat and the lousy pitch conditions the team will face when the World Cup comes to America next summer.
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Wait until they find out about the thunderstorms and humidity.
 
It is done.

Switch comes in 2027.

On another note, Apple announced they’re ending the separate subscription for MLS and all games will be available on AppleTV starting next season.
 
I guess MLS decided there isn't much of a fan overlap between them and the NFL?

Or do they think they can lure away top talent to the MLS if the seasons line up?
 
Bronco said:
I guess MLS decided there isn't much of a fan overlap between them and the NFL?

Or do they think they can lure away top talent to the MLS if the seasons line up?
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Come here and make a quarter of the money but don't die of brain injuries at 44 sounds like a damn good deal TBH.

If football finally dies of litigation, those folks have to go somewhere. The brutes go to MMA. Or ICE. The super agile and the super fast to the NBA. But the pretty strong, pretty fast, pretty agile, high endurance guys have an obvious soft landing on the pitch.

It would be so nice not to suck at the World Cup.
 
Bronco said:
I guess MLS decided there isn't much of a fan overlap between them and the NFL?

Or do they think they can lure away top talent to the MLS if the seasons line up?
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I mean, there’s already overlap between the MLS and NFL seasons. If anything this change helps against that because now the playoffs and the run up to the playoffs won’t be in the middle of the NFL season.
 
Awful move for MLS. The summer is when there is very little competition from other sports and that is what they did away with. Maybe it helps the warmer markets but certainly not in the north.
 
Jimjamesak said:
I mean, there’s already overlap between the MLS and NFL seasons. If anything this change helps against that because now the playoffs and the run up to the playoffs won’t be in the middle of the NFL season.
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I don't have a MLS team so my comments are mostly out of pure ignorance. I used to turn on a game during the summer for background noise when I'm doing other things, but now it doesn't exist for me, since I don't get their content.

I am much more likely to have an EPL game on in the morning only because it is easily accessible.
 
Jimjamesak said:
It is done.

Switch comes in 2027.

On another note, Apple announced they’re ending the separate subscription for MLS and all games will be available on AppleTV starting next season.
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I was discussing this with my brother (Sounders fan who has gone to his fair share of games), and he told me about the elimination of the MLS Season Pass. I then told him how Apple got the F1 contract, and they were also not going to charge anything extra for F1. So, it appears Apple TV's business is changing to rolling everything into the regular monthly subscription.

He said the email he got said no increase in the monthly cost. For now. But with all these sports moves (and still not having commercials for their shows), I got to think that will eventually go up.
 
Kepler said:
Come here and make a quarter of the money but don't die of brain injuries at 44 sounds like a damn good deal TBH.

If football finally dies of litigation, those folks have to go somewhere. The brutes go to MMA. Or ICE. The super agile and the super fast to the NBA. But the pretty strong, pretty fast, pretty agile, high endurance guys have an obvious soft landing on the pitch.

It would be so nice not to suck at the World Cup.
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Bronco was talking about foreign SOCCER talent coming here to play.
 
Interposing North American cities using latitude with similar European cities with an explanation of the Gulf Stream should've nipped this in the bud, but I'm sure a 2 month mid season break will be just fine.

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European & North American Cities Transposed Onto The Opposite Continent At The Same Latitude - Brilliant Maps

Maps created by Beardsley Klamm via metafilterThe map above does an excellent job of illustrating the relative latitudes of European and North American cities
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Russell Jaslow said:
I was discussing this with my brother (Sounders fan who has gone to his fair share of games), and he told me about the elimination of the MLS Season Pass. I then told him how Apple got the F1 contract, and they were also not going to charge anything extra for F1. So, it appears Apple TV's business is changing to rolling everything into the regular monthly subscription.

He said the email he got said no increase in the monthly cost. For now. But with all these sports moves (and still not having commercials for their shows), I got to think that will eventually go up.
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I just got the email as well. Everything is being rolled into one, MLS, F1, MLB, with no price change.

Apple and Universal also started an AppleTV and Peacock bundle last month too, so now you can have the PL and MLS in one subscription.
 
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