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World Soccer XI: To South Africa, and Beyond!

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Red Cloud said:
It's a rule other leagues might do well to adopt - top 8 teams make the tournament regardless of which conference they're in. Any team who makes the playoffs finishing 5th or less in their conference get placed in as the high seeds of the other conference.

Like the top 8 teams in the East and the top 8 teams in the West are really the 16 best teams in the NHL, right? MLS gets it right.

BTW, I was just reminded of how much of a dumbass Sepp Blatter is - remember when he complained that MLS doesn't follow the European schedule? That MLS is a summer league? Clueless.
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Yeah, I have seen that used somewhat in some college conferences for tournement play.
 
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Well a coin toss is now going to decide the MLS Cup... err oh shootout. Same thing. All comes down to luck.
 
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~ Satellite... ~
 
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With the exception of Beckham and Donovan, it's safe to say these are the biggest kicks of anyone's career...you can stop saying the obvious...

Real Salt Lake wins.
 
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I can hear Don Garber shouting profanities from here.
 
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Better for Landon to do it now than at the WC next year. Now if he makes one there it will be like redemption, and a nice side story for ABC.
 
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Craig P. said:
Not substantially, no. The current FIFA rankings only account for 1/6 of the seeding formula.



Scratch the Netherlands and Portugal, add England. See the link I posted previously, Edgar has done a comprehensive workup of the prospective seeding.
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Is this actually outlined in some bylaws or anything? I just assumed that since FIFA requires the most recent world rankings to be used for seeding anything else that they would do the same for the world cup? Obviously they haven't done that in the past with weighed values for the current world rankings and results of the previous 2 world cups...but even doing that, what FIFA comes up with doesn't always match what we can calculate on our own...
 
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Landon's not going anywhere. He won't get 1/2 of what he makes in MLS over in Europe. Who would pay him?

I don't think there will be too many high profile MLS to Europe moves this offseason. Stuart Holden is out of contract and holds an EU passport (born in Scotland), so it wouldn't shock me to see him go to like Scotland or the Netherlands. There will probably be the annual rumors around Bornstein and Kljestan to Israel (both are Jewish and won't count against foreign player caps). I don't think any of the keepers are ready to make the jump. Should be a pretty quiet offseason.
 
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Red Cloud said:
I can hear Don Garber shouting profanities from here.
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I don't think he really cares who won. He got LA to the championship game and that's all they need.

Plus who didn't see this coming? LA were the chokers of MLS Cup before New England figured out a way to choke worse. Seriously, they're 2 for 6 in MLS Cup.
 
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