VOTW: Only Real Men Wear Pink
By: Steven | March 25th, 2008I know I’ve been neglecting you a bit, but I’ll make it up in the next week…here’s a starter.
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I can’t stand the MLS. Crap league with crap players…no point in watching it. lol
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MLS is like watching high schoolers. The people that get contracts to play in this league are appalling. Terrible first touch, no flair, no tactics…it’s basically all based on size, power and high balls to forwards. It’s like the English Premier League minus the talented foreigners and the speed of the EPL, aka the best 2 things the EPL has going for it.
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I also just wanted to add that a lot of the players I played with growing up that are going through the youth system are head and shoulders above the late 20 year olds playing in the league now. We will see a massive amount of foreigners going overseas, and I think the MLS quality will improve as the players start getting more technical. US coaches 10 years ago cared only about physicality and being able to run for 90 minutes like a chicken with head cut off. US definitely needs to encourage some flair and creativity in US young players or else we will never compete with the likes of Italy, France, Brazil, Spain etc.
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honestly, i can’t stand watching the MLS either. It’s brutal…I really don’t see the MLS making a jump to higher quality because the style is just bad and the overall gameplay it’s absolute crap. In fact, I could probably only name 3 MLS teams…That’s how much interest I have in it. The problem is that the league is so bad that the young kids who choose to play there instead of going overseas are doing major damage to the USNT.
Oh, and I hate Landycakes with a passion (Landon Donovan). There’s your poster boy for MLS – guy who thinks the European Leagues “were too rough in practice” so he decided to come back to the states to play. What a pansy.
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Im not a fan of the MLS either, but I dont see you guys playing in it… I played on the same team as the Twellman brothers in high school, and believe me, they’d both wipe the table with anybody on this board.
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But, yes, I think the problem with the MLS was that Landycakes was the face of the league and, cough, the US Men’s team as well.. Living in the US, I hope the MLS could someday be an equivilant to the Dutch league… It all depends on how soccer grows in the US.. We have the money and resources to go big. Yet, we have location and NFL to contend with.
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I wouldn’t play in it even if I had the chance. I’d much rather ply my trade somewhere in Europe…even if that meant playing in C2 under Guido. lol
the other problem with the MLS is that they look like they’re going more and more down the NASL route. The MLS looks much like what the NASL turned out to be: the professional soccer players graveyard. Old stars came here to end their careers…
Now you got the “Beckham rule” which allows teams to throw a ton of money at “franchise” players who might be global names, but still not hot commodities. Beckham came here a year or two too early, but still, he’s in the twighlight of his career.
it’s a tough dilemma the MLS faces…and you’re right, they have to compete against the likes of more popular sports here…namely the NFL and MLB.
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Well, i’m first and foremost a Palermo fan, but i’m ALSO a hardcore chicago fire fan. Sure, it’s not up to Serie A standards….but sometime that’s what makes the games exciting, Serie A is not often a high scoring game to watch, and there are some great players developing in the MLS. I would give it a watch, don’t worry EVERYONE hates Landon Donovan….it’s the lower profile players with great skills that will impress you. Also, I live in chicago, I might get to see Palermo play at the renzo like what, maybe twice in my lifetime? I can see the Fire whenever I want, the games are cheap to go to, the stadium is nice….it’s also easy to watch the games, ESPN2…now my50…and their webstream from MLS.com is $20 for damn near every game. So come on guys, no one should compare it to serie a, but you’ve got to support the home team right? isn’t that why we like the pink team?
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I agree Giusep…gotta support the home team. I’ve been to Red Bulls games a few times and I kind of like the way they play.
KJ, I never said I could play in the MLS but I was just commenting on the way they used to pick players. A lot of the creative, talented guys who were smaller or not the most physical got tossed aside and never ended up making it. Most of the true “#10″ players in the MLs are foreign guys or grew up playing in Latin America. The United States has never developed that kind of player.
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You guys do know that all of Europe thinks MLS is a joke, right?
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right, and as for the beckham rule….because of the NFL and the MLB being the sports staples of the US, if the MLS allowed teams to sign high profile players at high prices, the clubs would go into the red so fast the whole league would collapse…it sucked, but it was what it was. As the leagues gaining popularity it’s going to change…yeah Beckham, old…but the other teams that tried that are all writing choking on it…(Denilson to Dallas, HAH)…..Blanco may be old but the guy kicks ass….and once again, some of the best Italian players are all pretty old..I wonder what the going rate on Toni or Totti would be right about now? Hell, even Inzaghi could probably still grab a premium. But i’m digressing, as the league gains popularity the’ll spend the “Beckham rule” money, on players that no one has heard about but kick ass. Soccer is never going to be football or baseball in the US, but I think we can beat out hockey and we might even have a shot at basketball. When i’m in a sold out stadium watching the fire I hardly give a rats ass how the rest of the country feels about my sport.
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Steven, the rest of the world hates us right now anyway
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Nah.
MLS will never ever be a respected league as long as they keep playing play-offs.
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lol i forgot all about the “playoff” system the MLS runs. didn’t they have some sort of weird system to avoid “ties” as well? it was like some sort of hockey type shootout, if i recall.
giuse’, the problem with signing all these old guys is the same problem that ended up being the downfall for the NASL. they got all of these old famous players and never replaced them with young talent…and the league died. the other thing is that most of the US doesn’t recognize these former “great” players. Other than Beckham, who could the MLS get that would make a bigger impact? and we’ve already seen the “Beckham” hype fade off…
I went to a Chicago Fire game once like 3 or 4 years ago during the summer when Milan came to play.
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Lorenzo- i WISH I was following the fire back then….I agree with the old timer theory, trust me. i get pissed whenever I hear someone getting signed that’s over 30 good or not. I think it’s important for the to be developmental leagues, think of all of the great players in Serie B no one will ever get to see play? There’s so much talent in Serie A that only the most exceptional players will ever make it (aside of relegation/promotion)…Ah, the playoffs….that is strange for soccer isn’t it? But they don’t really hold too much on the playoffs…think of it like the coppa..and they def. got rid of the shootout dealy. BUT possibly the rest reason to also be a MLS fan…we are American and we’re too good to follow the same schedule as the rest of the world so for us soccer fans, that means soccer all year long. After Palermo’s season ends I keep following the fire. The over lap for about two months at a time at the end and beggining of the Serie A
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well, hopefully there’s a little tournament going on this summer that will keep your attention as well… lol
it’s just hard for me to stomach that style of soccer. i mean, i can tolerate the EPL, but I’d much rather watch La Liga after Serie A of course.
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As long as we all agree that Serie A is the most beautiful competition in the world, followed by Serie B, we’ll all get along just fine.
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Zampa is officially insane.
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Care to elaborate on your bastion of knowledge with which you bring to Palermo Offside, Mr. Rubentus?
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I think he heard the word ‘Serie B’ and immediately remembered last year.
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Tell us something we don’t know.
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Tell Moggi thanks for discrediting our league for us…
Btw, nice job on the site Steven, I love the videos
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Serie A is great, best league by far. Even the small teams play beautiful calcio but they can defend as well. In Spain and England these small teams get worked over 6-0 like once a month. Outside of our 5-0 drubbing at the hands of the cheaters, I don’t think there’s been a game like that all year. Easily the most competitive league top to bottom. Italy – the best football on both sides of the ball by far.
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So what has Colantuono been up to during his absence?
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Thanks Kev, glad to still see you around from time to time.
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