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World Soccer XXX: We Have Men Too!

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Second Round of the US Open Cup starts today with the professional clubs outside of MLS (so USL One, USL Championship, NISA, and the two MLS Next Pro teams of St. Louis 2 and Rochester) entering.

The notable one right now is Indy Eleven losing to St. Louis 2. Not a good look for a USL Championship team to be losing to a future MLS Expansion team full of youth players and deep (like #21 to #30) roster depth players.

All matches are on ESPN+ if you have it.
 
Seattle v NYCFC is a CONCACAF Champions League semifinal, already 2-1 Seattle in the first half. This game is already worthy of a "Champions League" moniker, smooth, crisp passing, attacking back and forth, chances galore.

I'm jealous of the Mexican referee crew, they're essentially spectators at this point.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Second Round of the US Open Cup starts today with the professional clubs outside of MLS (so USL One, USL Championship, NISA, and the two MLS Next Pro teams of St. Louis 2 and Rochester) entering.

The notable one right now is Indy Eleven losing to St. Louis 2. Not a good look for a USL Championship team to be losing to a future MLS Expansion team full of youth players and deep (like #21 to #30) roster depth players.

All matches are on ESPN+ if you have it.
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Apparently my town has a NISA team playing at the local high school. Go Bay Cities FC!
 
Third Round pairings are out for the US Open Cup, most MLS teams are entering in this round (a few aren’t, like the CONCACAF Champions League teams).

Notable match ups:

Minnesota travels to Madison.
Columbus travels to Detroit.
Landon Donovan takes his new team (San Diego) to play his old team (LA Galaxy).
 
Jimjamesak said:
Third Round pairings are out for the US Open Cup, most MLS teams are entering in this round (a few aren’t, like the CONCACAF Champions League teams).

Notable match ups:

Minnesota travels to Madison.
Columbus travels to Detroit.
Landon Donovan takes his new team (San Diego) to play his old team (LA Galaxy).
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Hometown Bay Cities FC taking on homecity San Jose Earthquakes. Who to root for?
 
Kepler said:
Which Bay?

There are a lot of Bay Cities.
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There’s an amateur team still in the draw called Motown FC.

They’re not from Detroit.

Edit: There are some pretty generic team names out there.

Let’s play “which one is the MLS team”:
Inter Miami CF
Miami FC
Miami United FC

(Those are all teams currently in the draw)
 
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Watching El Trafico (LA vs LA) and seeing the reaction to this play has not convinced me that fans and announcers actually know the Laws of the Game.
 
Kepler said:
Never fails to make me smile.

Whoever coined this has done more for US soccer than anyone else.
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Surprisingly, it was a fan one. It kind of took off from Reddit and Twitter and most everyone involved just collectively decided “well, there won’t be anything better than that”.

The only people I know who don’t like it are the LAFC fan groups, and everyone makes fun of them for it.
 
Pep Guardiola on NBC after the City-LFC match and Rebecca Lowe told him they were broadcasting to the USA. Pep's immediate reaction: Hey, congratulations on qualifying for the World Cup this time!
 
Broadcast schedule is out for the World Cup.

Most games are on Fox with a few group stage and round of 16 games on FS1. All the US games are on Fox.

All in all it seems Fox got lucky with the schedule. College football will be mostly over by the time the tournament starts and they can work around the NFL Sundays.
 
Welp, it’s set up for what is the best chance for an MLS team to win the CONCACAF Champions League.

Pumas advanced over Cruz Azul after a 0-0 draw (2-1 on agg.) meaning whoever advances out of Seattle and NYCFC will host the second leg of the final (Seattle leads 3-1 going to New York).

UNAM isn’t the strongest club this season, they sit in 10th in Liga MX, but you still can’t call an MLS team the favorite until they actually win.
 
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