World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

[cF[Authentic]]

I read an impossible to understand article about why this week is vital to Champions League qualifying. WTF is going on with that? Do CL teams now play pre-tourny round robin throughout the year to determine their tourny slot or something? It seemed like an ouroboros.

Where was the article?

 

[Kepler]

Where was the article?

I couldn't find it, sorry, I suck. It was frothing about the 6 EPL teams still being capable of top 8, and indeed that there are still 18 teams with a path to top 8 with one game to go because the schedule happens not to play them against each other.

I read up on the new format and I understand it now. I mean it's still ridiculous, but it has its own consistent logic.

 

[Jimjamesak]

NYCFC finally embraces their “Pidgeons” nickname.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Seattle has transferred Obed Vargas to Atletico Madrid.

Crazy that a kid I reffed is going to be playing in La Liga.

 

[Jimjamesak]

San Diego FC kicking off the MLS season with a CONCACAF Champions Cup victory over Pumas 4-1.

Not a bad result considering SD is only 2 weeks into preseason.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Also, Tigres of Mexico traveled to Hamilton to face Forge FC. Temp at kick off? About 10 degrees.

 

[SonofSouthie]

Macclesfield out in the 4th round of the FA Cup. An own goal in the 70th minute sent Brentford through 1-0.

 

[RaceBoarder]

Whelp, missed out on my final chance for drawing World Cup tickets...

So Globe Pub in Chicago it is for the tournament

 

[Kepler]

Macclesfield out in the 4th round of the FA Cup. An own goal in the 70th minute sent Brentford through 1-0.

John O'Mally and Jim Pooley wanted for questioning.

 

[Jimjamesak]

MLS season started this last weekend.

Miami lost to LAFC, Messi went after the referees.

San Diego continues to score goals.

Jordan Morris got injured. Again.

 

[RaceBoarder]

So, uh, when do we get booted from the World Cup because we started a war?

 

[Jimjamesak]

MLS rules on injured players and slow substitutions to be adopted worldwide.Under the off-field treatment rule, players who cause a delay to the game because of injury “will be required to leave the field of play and remain off for one minute once play has restarted.”

Major League Soccer originally implemented the rule with a two-minute waiting period. During a match between Inter Miami and Montreal in 2024. Messi went down for an extended time with an apparent knee injury and was sent to the sideline to wait for two minutes before re-entering the game.



Messi was seen complaining during the wait, saying in Spanish, “With this type of rule, we’re going in a bad direction.”

Injury-related stoppages in MLS dropped from an average of five to six every match to 1.5 per match.
A timed substitution rule devised by MLS was also adopted by IFAB on Saturday. It directs substituted players to leave the field of play within 10 seconds of the substitution board being displayed. If they don’t, the substitute will not be allowed onto the field until the first stoppage after one minute of play has elapsed.