This was also me singing Golden

Foreigner on the Stranger Things float is making me explain too many things right to my kids 😂

Great W. NYCFC hopefully just closed out the Ernst Tanner era in Philadelphia.

Ojeda has been cooking. Alonso Martinez is fast, but Ojeda might be a little faster. Key role creating that Moralez goal.

Didn't have Maxi Moralez running in behind on my how to replace Alonso Martinez gameplan.

IM CALM

Get pressed by Maxi Moralez is very funny

Looks like it's O'Toole & Shore double pivot with Pascal keeping Martins & Haak at CB with Gustavo at LB.

Jonny Shore one of those missing piece tonight. In April, he played 90 against Philly in a 1-0 win. After that match, I asked him how he looked so comfortable against the press. He said it was nothing new for him w/ his xp playing Philly's academy. Pascal is counting on that poise tonight.

As an educator and coach, Danya was one of the best teachers of anything period. For someone to be able to play at the top level and be able to break down such a complex game into simple, understandable chunks even for patzers was unsurpassed by anyone IMHO. Dude was just 29.

Loved this one by @treyfillmore.bsky.social. A lot of my feelings of frustration about the direction of MLS and the sport in general, I felt in this one.

My first contribution to @thecup.us: I watched former NYCFC midfielder Daniel Bedoya score a free kick in a nor'easter on Sunday at Hofstra. Impressive effort by Josh and co behind the scenes to organize a 59-GAME recap article written by ACTUAL HUMANS. They deserve a couple bucks if you can spare.

Look for Raul Gustavo today left back and for Haak to push into the midfield.

Just need everyone to know that NYCFC is starting three tiny Argentines and Miami is only starting one.

I wrote WAY too much on where the U20 USYNT stands heading into the U20 World Cup, one of my favorite tournaments. Part 1 is out now; part 2 is coming in a few days, and covers the other groups in the tournament: 500wp90.substack.com/p/a-way-too-...

Hearing that Miami fans that try to wear Messi attire in the Supporters Section tonight at Citi Field will be forced to change into 2015 Ned Grabavoy jerseys.

The biggest impact of Nico Fernandez's DP has been the fact that NYCFC now $12.5 million in U22 transfer fee coming off the bench to run at tired legs. Both Julian and Ojeda have been cooking off the bench for the last month. Imagine if they had actually filled all of their prime roster spots.

At this point, I think I would buy 11 $2 hot dogs and start them for Atlanta United.

I have been saving up for the World Cup for the last 10 years. Wild that it is becoming more real.

Zohran Mamdani is a dribbly boi

MLS GMs furiously trying to see who they can trade to DC

Las Vegas Lights FC has signed #MLS veteran Tommy McNamara for the remainder of the season with a club option for the 2026 #USL-C season. (Disappointingly, his hair remains short.) #VivaLights www.uslchampionship.com/news_article...

Poku Power! Kwadwo Poku's #TennesseeTempoFC won the #UPSL championship this week – and younger brother Seth is one of the team's stars @battista.bsky.social has the full story here ⬇️

Maybe New York Red Bulls should play a few games at Yankee Stadium while they sort the pitch out...

WREXHAM RELEGATION WATCH ALERT

He got that orca in him

I am a little late to the dancing on Hulk Hogan’s grave, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrs_...

The plot thickens

Alright, here’s my breakdown of the Rodrigo De Paul move. Why it works, and my thoughts on whether MLS should allow or not. Plus, are there previous examples of moves like this happening? For FAM:

@chriscampbell.theoutfield.nyc asked Pascal yesterday about starting Perea at the wing. Mentioned wanting to get "the extra bodies in the central part of the pitch" and that Perea "can find his way into these spots in midfield" from the wing.

I'll just add that with Thiago out, Pascal Jansen is going to have to fiddle with his chess pieces again...but whether he has enough pieces is a bigger question now.

My 8-year-old son had a sleepover with his best friend last night and now they are playing a game where one of them has an NDA and can’t show the other their work ??????????????????

Wow sounds like a guy NYCFC might have been able to use

♨️ stove is hot today new report from Csak Foci that the deal for CB Raul Gustavo is finalized between Ferencvaros and NYCFC for approx. $1mil euros - they had previously first reported talks betwixt the clubs two weeks ago Gustavo rejoins Pascal Jansen after the departure of Birk Risa

This move makes the Risa move make sense. A prime aged, tall, athletic, left-footed CB that’s played for Corinthians, Bahia and Ferencvaros is a heck of a profile to get for just €1m Interested to see what this does to Haak’s role, but overall this seems like shrewd work from David Lee

Ojeda earns another start and a player to watch tonight. Really like how he played last week...was disciplined with his positioning and his width really opened up space for the fullback on the underlap.

Basically confirms that Risa is gone. #nycfc

Wife has family visiting from Jersey and they have confirmed Long Island bagels > New Jersey bagels

With the introduction of non-expiring GAM, MLS teams can now have multi-year roster builds and carry assets over. Does that incentivize a team to a tank and do a North American style rebuild? My thoughts on the idea of a rebuild in MLS for FAM:

Reports in Norway have Birk Risa back to Molde and family has already relocated to Oslo. www.nettavisen.no/sport/nettav...

Crazy idea, but hear me out: what if we grouped all NCAA teams into conferences and had them play end-of-season tournaments to help decide who gets into March Madness?

The Cosmos, MechaHitler, and the U.S. Open Cup are back in the news, which reminded me: I wrote about all this six years ago. Glad NYCFC left that era behind. And by “that era” I mean Nazis… and Tony Rocha at left centerback. www.theoutfield.nyc/p/north-caro...

I think the bigger issue here is that we have an MLS manager who has sat on the “disciplinary committee for years” and doesn’t know the criteria for a serious foul red card. Whether the elbow was being used as a “tool or a weapon” is not one of them. It's just lazy from Armas, IMHO.

Let's name a national soccer trophy after this guy said no one

Alexis Lalas about to tell everyone that this line was more organized than the USMNT at the Gold Cup