MLS 2015

aodea wrote: »

Drogba the latest to add his star billing to the MLS. Also saw Shaun wright phillips joined his brother at New York red bulls.

ARENA: The league didn’t know what a proper field looked like. We had a crown field in Tampa, where standing on one touchline and looking at the other side, you could only see a guy from his knees up. In San Jose and Columbus they had a small little fields.

FRIEDEL: If you scored a goal, it was really easy to defend the game out because you never had to run more than 10 or 15 yards to close anyone down.

LAGERWEY: In Kansas City, the concept of a locker room did not exist in the sense of a private space for the team, let alone a training facility or a field. Alan Mayer was my goalkeeper coach, and he was part time. He’d sell insurance and then come train us when he could—and that was probably a better situation than a lot of places.

STILLITANO: I had to argue for an equipment manager. MLS wanted a brief on what the guy does. What he does? He does laundry. They said the team should do their own laundry. We have guys like Tab Ramos, Roberto Donadoni, Peter Vermes, Tony Meola, and I’m gonna ask them to do their own laundry? After the first training, Donadoni said, “It was like when I go play with my friends on Sunday at the park.”

DIR: The first year we rented a high school field and we had two trailers from the trailer park that we were using as a locker room. But by the time we finished, we moved up to a double-wide.

TONY MEOLA (Goalkeeper, N.Y./N.J. MetroStars): Donadoni and Stillitano, they wanted us to learn professionalism. The problem was that we were forgetting about the soccer part.

SAVARESE: Donadoni was such a perfectionist, eating the right things all the time. He used to tell the guys, “Do you see your plate? That’s why you’re a Volkswagen. Do you see my plate? That’s why I’m a Ferrari.”

JEFF BRADLEY (Press Officer, N.Y./N.J. MetroStars): We would dress in these double-breasted Enrico Coveri suits—they might have been three-piece, and they were linen. We were the only team in the league with a suit sponsor and Charlie made a rule that the whole team would dress in suits on the road. We went to Columbus and people are looking at us—These guys must be really important. Then we went outside and piled into a school bus. All the opposing team could budget for us was a school bus.

CSF wrote: »

Any idea what time Irish time the playoffs are likely to be?

dreamers75 wrote: »

Winning a 34 game league with 60 points, that has to be a record.

dan1895 wrote: »

Interesting bet between the mayors of Toronto and Montreal. Losing city has to fly the winning team's flag at their city hall.