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Bad day for MLS in US Open Cup

kidpurple — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:21:57 +0000

Several MLS teams took place in the 3rd round of the US Open Cup today. A few of those teams will play again in the 4th round – several will not.

Defending MLS Champions Columbus Crew went to OT and then to PKs against the always dangerous Rochester Rhinos. The Rhinos came out on top in PKs at 5-3 to move on.

The Chicago Fire have been hot in MLS play – but they couldn’t keep it up against Wilmington Hammerheads. The only goal of the game went to the Hammerheads in the first half. Four time US Open Cup champions Chicago Fire can now focus on the MLS regular season.

Chivas USA was the third MLS side to fall to a lower division opponent. They ran into the Charleston Battery and went home 3-1 losers.

Some MLS teams did advance out of this round. DC United beat the Ocean City Barons 2-0 and The Kansas City Wizards snuck out of Minnesota with after winning 4-2 on PKs after a 3-3 draw.

A couple teams will still be in action on July 1st. The Houston Dynamo will be playing at the Austin Aztecs while Seattle Sounders FC will be playing at their old USL rivals Portland Timbers.

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The Major League Soccer single table

kidpurple — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:19:08 +0000

I used to try to keep the MLS single table up to date here, but quit doing that after last year. I was too often several games behind and sometime would forget to update it for a whole week. It was not very reliable so I quit doing it. Today I started to miss the single table so I put together a very simple one. Here is the current standing after the Galaxy upset league leaders Houston Dynamo.

28 Houston Dynamo
27 Chivas USA
25 Seattle Sounders FC
23 DC United
22 Columbus Crew
22 Toronto FC
21 Chicago Fire
21 Colorado Rapids
19 Kansas City Wizards
19 Real Salt Lake
18 Los Angeles Galaxy
16 New England Revolution
14 FC Dallas
12 San Jose Earthquakes
10 New York Red Bulls

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Social networking for football fans

kidpurple — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:23:46 +0000

I just got my profile set up at www.footbo.com – social networking for football fans by football fans. Something between my cable modem and my computer is going really slow this evening so I haven’t been able to get around the site as much as I would like yet, but I look forward to exploring it soon.

After registering I was able to get a profile image uploaded, select some of my favorite teams and players, and write my first blog post there!

I don’t have any friends yet – so go register an account and the look me up and add me as a friend. Treasure chests full of gold for my first friend on Footbo.com!

http://www.footbo.com/Users/kidpurple

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MLS Pub Guide

kidpurple — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:25:36 +0000

The official MLS website has a nice little pub guide that tries to list the pubs that are very soccer friendly. We all know it can be tough to find a bar that you can watch a soccer game at with sound. Usually you get some weird looks if you ask for Fox Soccer Channel. So this is a great idea to have a pub guide. Check it out here:

http://web.mlsnet.com/mls/fans/pubs/

So the only problem with that is it only covers MLS cities. What about the other 99% of us that don’t live in MLS cities. I think I might like to start a database of MLS friendly pubs. To start it out leave comments with pub names along with location (state and city). Eventually I might set up a pub guide that covers anywhere there are MLS fans. That would be nice wouldn’t it?

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Seattle Sounders FC dominating all star voting

kidpurple — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:35:18 +0000

Fan voting is under way for this years MLS All Star Game. Just like with other all star games sometimes the fans of one team can dominate the voting. Luckily for everyone that is not on the Seattle Sounders FC roster the fans vote only count 25% of the final tally to determine the starting 11. If that were not the case – as of today the All Star starting 11 would be made up of 8 Seattle Sounders FC players.

Kasey Keller, Freddie Ljungberg, Fredy Montero, Osvaldo Alonso, Tyrone Marshall, Steve Zakuani and Jhon Kennedy Hurtado are the top 7 in the voting right now, while James Riley comes in at the 9th highest voting total. Non-Seattle players currently in the top 11 are Columbus Crew defender Frankie Hejduk, TFC’s Dwayne De Rosario and LA Galaxy’s Landon Donovan.

How would that be for a starting lineup?

The team that is 8 points ahead of anyone else in the league (Chivas USA) would not even be represented. Certainly someone there must be worthy? Would Brian McBride not make the starting 11? How about Josh Wolff?

Maybe Seattle will get into gear and get a starting 11 fully represented by Seattle Sounders FC players. That would be swell. Would MLS realize then that fan voting for all stars is a bad idea?

What do you think? Should fans still be able to get 25% of decision of who starts the all star game?

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Get free Red Bulls tickets

kidpurple — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:03:57 +0000

The Red Bull Reader has an interesting contest to give away tickets to this weekend’s game when the Chicago Fire come to town. They have apparently gotten into Facebook and are asking that you change your profile image to the Red Bull crest. Then some user that has has the Red Bull crest as their profile image will randomly be picked and given tickets. Sounds pretty easy.

Go check out the official Red Bull Reader post about the contest – and enjoy the game!

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If you don’t win those tickets you can always pick em up from Barry’s Tickets for any game.

Good luck with the ticket contest. If I was about 1000 miles closer I’d certainly change my Facebook profile image.

PS – Note to Red Bull Reader: please fix the title of your blog in your RSS feed.

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Who is the man?

kidpurple — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:32:54 +0000

These guys are on fire right now. Sorry if you think I’m excluding someone more deserving.

Josh Wolff

This 32 year old striker for the Kansas City Wizards struck Real Salt Lake for 2 goals today. This has Wolff right up near the top of the season scoring leaders.

Zach Thornton

Thornton started out as a backup keeper for Chivas USA. Just earlier tonight he beat Brad Guzan’s Chivas USA record for most consecutive shutout minutes – and he is still adding to it.

Both of these guys left Major League Soccer and eventually came back. Neither were too successful in Europe but they both seem to have a bright future in MLS.

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Start voting for your MLS All Stars

kidpurple — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:15 +0000

The MLS All Star voting is underway. This year Everton FC from England’s top league is coming over to get beat up on by our MLS All Stars! The MLS All Stars have historically done very well in these all star games vs European teams. This time they will likely have to face former MLS goalkeeper Tim Howard. Howard has had a pretty successful run at Everton this year.

People are worried that fan voting is going to fill a team full of Seattle Sounders FC and Toronto FC players. I guess just that idea should be enough to tip some people off that fan voting is not such a good idea. The NHL All Star game has only 4 teams represented in the starting lineups this year. How fun would that be to have 2 teams represented in the starting lineup? Go and get voting.

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New team will be called Philadelphia Union

kidpurple — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:10:13 +0000

Philadelphia will start play in MLS in just about 11 months and they today named their team for the first time. The 16th team to join Major League Soccer will be known as Philadelphia Union. The blue and gold colors represent the colors of the American Revolutionary Army. Check out the new Philadelphia Union logo below.

Philadelphia Union Logo

Check out the official Philadelphia Union website: http://www.philadelphiaunion.com/

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Getting set up on Twitter

kidpurple — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:07:02 +0000

I’ve finally got a Twitter account set up for MLS Fan Blog. Now you can follow and contact the MLS Fan Blog at your favorite micro-blogging site – unless it happens to be something other than Twitter. If there are others I should have an account at let me know.

http://www.twitter.com/mlsfanblog

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