Spotted at the local sporting goods store... Messi goes preppy. What will they think of next???

With the venerable, inimitable @mattdoyle.bsky.social catching a brief breather this weekend, it fell to me to try and make some sense of MLS Matchday 35: www.mlssoccer.com/news/vancouv...

Messi Mileage: 2g, 1a, 90 minutes in MIAvDC on Saturday, Ballon d'Or gala in Paris on Monday, playoffs race six-pointer vs NYCFC in Queens NYC on Wednesday

📉 dashare.zone ADMIN

With the venerable, inimitable @mattdoyle.bsky.social catching a brief breather this weekend, it fell to me to try and make some sense of MLS Matchday 35: www.mlssoccer.com/news/vancouv...

"As we talked through the candidates and what we really wanted... we realized they were an Erkut." "Maybe the smartest guy in football we've been around, and hardest-working." Yesterday I chatted with Erkut Sogut, DC United's... offbeat choice for CSO: www.mlssoccer.com/news/dc-unit...

“Quebec is changing, and it's represented in the sports people play.” I took a fascinating dive into one of North America's most interesting soccer communities - the thriving, profoundly multinational scene in Greater Montréal. 30 Clubs, 30 Stories goes nord: www.mlssoccer.com/news/cf-mont...

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

Ce fut un plaisir de discuter avec @cboehm.bsky.social au sujet de la culture foot au Québec, et autour du #cfmtl. Belle lecture ! Good job Charles 👊🫡

INBOX: DC United's new chief soccer officer hire is official - first club job for former agent Erkut Sogut

“Quebec is changing, and it's represented in the sports people play.” I took a fascinating dive into one of North America's most interesting soccer communities - the thriving, profoundly multinational scene in Greater Montréal. 30 Clubs, 30 Stories goes nord: www.mlssoccer.com/news/cf-mont...

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

Get ❌️💊ed

On a train, ama

We’re in for an all-Vancouver #CanChamp final from BC Place!

Some real mask-off moments from House Republicans attacking DC elected officials and the District's responsible self-governance today

This is the story:

🗣️Shoutout to my alma mater's UNDEFEATED BroSo program, now up to #15 in the NCAA D3 national rankings. 📈 Let's go Bucs 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Very important: DC United's presumed new GM has written multiple novels about a Super Soccer Agent From Amazon: “Such an exciting read…I loved this book! Really opens your eyes to the dark side of football.” Mesut Özil ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Mourinho Takes Job, Confirms He's Not Dead

A tense, legitimately insane Open Cup semifinal. Thank you to the Loons and Dillos #MagicOfTheCup

In these dark and dour times, I'm reminding myself that the tournament now known and revered as the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup survived the Great Depression, two world wars, the collapse of multiple US professional soccer leagues and a global pandemic or two. History matters, and futbol really is life.

the joke that got Kimmel kicked off ABC isn't even at the expense of Charlie Kirk. the way the US is accelerating in fascism is truly scaring the shit out of me!

"In a lot of ways, our club is thriving, but we have not gotten the results that we need." I caught Curt Onalfo's media avail today, as #NERevs get set to reboot, again: www.mlssoccer.com/news/what-s-...

Audi Field opened in 2018; that's now 7 years ago. The venue has hosted one MLS playoff game, ever.

I don't post asks like this very often. But as we speak, Congress is rushing through a raft of bad bills that punish DC and its people, steal what little autonomy we have and leave us at the mercy of POTUS-selected lackeys with no outside oversight. Please call your reps and ask them to vote NO.

This, from the USSF release, is pretty remarkable: Pressley is the first Black head coach in women's YNT history

Arsenal fans have Osama bin Laden and now Liverpool fans have this

did a mistake and ordered directly from my preferred premier league club bc of an item U.S. stores didn’t have & joke is on me bc now I get to pay the tariff fun fun fun

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i think what is most annoying here is that the people who have covered this movement for the last decade have basically had to stare into the abyss - you gotta expose yourself to a *lot* of dumb and upsetting stuff. and now these ppl have to watch others kool-aid man into the discourse w/o context

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FC St. Pauli is off to their best start ever in Bundesliga - 4th in the table. And NYCFC loanee James Sands is right in the midst of it playing all but 4 minutes in 4 matches (2 wins, 2 draws). Sands is under contract w/ the Pigeons thru 12/31/28 & his loan expires 6/30/26 @newyorkcityfc.com

The New England Revolution parted ways with Head Coach Caleb Porter. Assistant Coach Pablo Moreira will serve as interim head coach for the remainder of the season. ➥ nerevs.us/4gn7Nng #NERevs

Something else that emerged from CLTvMIA: Suspended coaches have more leeway to communicate with their staffs than many of us realize (at least in MLS). Kudos to Dean Smith for being open and matter-of-fact about it.

Trump take coffee

ICYMI Friday, even Jeopardy! is finding time to goof on the Galaxy this year. (Category: REAL "O.G."s) j-archive.com/showgame.php...

Dean Smith was suspended for Charlotte FC's visit from Leo Messi's Inter Miami. But instead of stewing up in the mezzanine, he roped his club's owner and its technical director into joining the fans' pregame Poznan. A pretty apt snapshot of MLS's hottest side: www.mlssoccer.com/news/idan-to...

an important thing for everyone to realize is that Elon manipulating the feed of which posts you see on the site (and which of your posts are seen by others) is *much* easier than Elon manipulating the Grok AI is. It's a brainwashing machine

MLS idealists, meet the pragmatists

Fiiiiilthy backheel here from Logan 'Hot Dog' Farrington

did journalism www.mlssoccer.com/news/charlot...

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

Hardships there are, but the land is green and Yasiin Bey is dropping new tracks with George Evelyn 🔊 youtu.be/cacsDhNVclY?...

fwiw: at Austin, Seb had a fairly unique combination of defensive output and ball progression (+ exemplary work ethic, obvs), even if that didn't exactly add up to being a good player yet. There was definitely a reason to take a chance on him (for 50k GAM at least).

"I really looked around and thought, you know, I might be the worst player on the field right now. "I'm so thankful that Vancouver took a chance on me, because there was no reason to." Sebastian Berhalter is the latest subject of 'Breakaway,' and it's a good one: www.mlssoccer.com/news/sebasti...

"But there was the issue of—like, fucking ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.” - variety.com/2025/music/n...

Did you really think we’d miss the chance to stump for Cristian Roldan on the USMNT? @cboehm.bsky.social and @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com break it down. www.sounderatheart.com/2025/09/nos-...

This obviously puts Martínez Ocasio at risk of missing Puerto Rico's October friendly against Argentina next month in Chicago. Will wait for a formal update from Rimas, but seems unlikely he'll be able to face Messi at Soldier Field.