Sources: MLS owners are expected to vote on flipping to fall-spring calendar at Thursday's BOG meeting. Could happen as soon as 2027. Also: Changes to competition format expected too, including single league table + divisions. w/ @paultenorio.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

MLS owners are *expected* to vote on flipping to fall-spring calendar at Thursday's BOG meeting. Changes to competition format also expected. Let's see if it actually comes to a vote, but implications are enormous. Exclusive details with @tombogert.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

It all comes down to this matchup 👀 #Iraq has been absent from the #WorldCup for over 40 years and now, the nation is on the cusp of returning to the big stage. Hear why it means so much to the nation as Iraq prepares to battle the #UAE for the last playoff spot 👏

Walker is probably my favorite centerback of all time, any level right now. Would love for him to end his career with one of my clubs somehow

nightmare blunt rotation

Today's @mkickaround.bsky.social is happening. Covering NWSL to Atlanta, Green Bay's push for a pro team, World Cup parking prices, what to do when your local club dies (hint: start a new one) and MLS calendar switch (with @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com). LET'S GO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rxU...

Washington Spirit’s quarterfinals against NCC in 2021

They REALLY want me to read more about that gambling story, relax

“The pocket-protector nerds of MLS will point to expected goals. “Seattle had an xG of 7 compared to Loons’ 2 over three games?!?” Shut up, Young Sheldon, we’re playing soccer here.”

Everyone cheering for Northern Lights and long exposure, meanwhile I’m cheering for Apollo and the Rule of the Heliosphere

me seeing everyone's sky photos on this app

Said the same thing, nice to see a defender's defender in Jordan Skelton get the award.

Oh and you bet your ass I will be double dipping NWSL fandom between Boston & Atlanta the same way I do for MLS

Sounders went from +1 (28 goals scored, 27 goals allowed) in open-play last year to +19 (44, 25) this year. Pretty good improvement!

The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.

Lletget IG post on the skyline today

I broke down and I talked about Minnesota United and how f*cking dumb fun they are and how outside pundits don't get it. open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...

Knowing myself, I’d probably be defending Vlatko’s coaching in the midst of the upset this week if he didn’t admit to risking Bia like that. I don’t agree with the negative assessments of your season but you are absolutely on your own now dog, lol

American soccer folks always laude the “European schedule” like it’s a monolith, when places like Belgium and Austria are doing goofy split seasons where the top teams and bottom teams filter into two separate brackets: one fights to avoid relegation, and the other fights for trophies and UCL bids.

Football players from Galatasaray and Besiktas are among 1,024 players suspended by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) as part of an investigation into betting. More from @colinmillar.bsky.social

Given the NCFC situation, and the league’s shameful response, the remaining owners owe it to the players and the fans to ratify the new CBA immediately.

Looking forward to all of this sort of thing your Aunt is seeing on Facebook today

you can be the best women's player of all time but you must post like a boomer facebook aunt tough trade-off imo

They used to wiretap your phones to collect this kind of information from you but now you pay for a Bluecheck and post it yourself

Flipping the MLS soccer calendar? I do think it would help avoid the conflict of playoffs & international windows. I do think that there’s a valid climate change argument, summer extremes becoming worse than winter extremes. But I really do not buy the “transfer window alignment” argument

Hate to go all "we have food at home" but it's Vlatko by a mile, & González 2nd. KC had the best reg. season in NWSL history. A 21-pt gap atop the table is Lyonnes-in-France dominance, & KC's roster is not 21 points better than the rest. Yanez showed real future CotY potential, but again: future.

📰 Nashville SC's 2025 season finished on a low note. But despite the ending, it shouldn't be remembered as anything other than a major success, one that put the club ahead of schedule under BJ Callaghan and should set them up for more in 2026. @sixonefivesoccer.com ⤵️

For me Coffey was a slam dunk for Midfielder, and was on my MVP shortlist. I genuinely do not think the Thorns make the playoffs if her season was even 10% worse (i.e. merely great) than it was. Thorns defensive set-up for half the season was to shrug and hope Coffey took care of it.

@oneknoxsc.bsky.social will host Spokane Velocity FC in the 2025 #USL-1 Final at Covenant Health Park. The 2025 Players' Shield winner will square off with the 2024 finalist on Sunday evening at 5 p.m. ET on @golazoamerica.bsky.social. www.uslleagueone.com/news_article...

THE ONLY THING THAT STOPS A BAD GUY WITH A MANERASER™ IS A GOOD GUY WITH A MANERASER™ (and longer arms)

Fun night

ATLANTA NWSL LETS FUCKING GO

Absolutely insane goal in insane conditions in the CPL final. Absurd.

🫡🫡🫡🫡

A Coffey-Howell-Bethune midfield would delight me

Football in Canada🥶 #CanPL Final

Injury debacle aside, I’m not sure Bia & Sentnor as a 9 & 10 works. Bia’s instinct is to combine with back to goal, Sentnor’s instinct is to float underneath a higher striker. Both want to occupy the same space but neither make the run to stretch centerbacks to open up that space for the other

Quote with 5 games in your backlog - Dragon Age: The Veilguard - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - The Outer Worlds - Blue Prince - Firewatch

there are a lot of head coaches that make this same decision for a ko game (wiegman + bronze) but we need to be giving more credit (incentive? how idk) to the ones that won't (gonzalez + rodman)

Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Matthew 25:45 Jesus said he literally inhabits the most vulnerable among us, and that the way we treat them is the way we treat Jesus himself.. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/im-not-say...

“Underdog my ass,” says Jaedyn Shaw at the #GothamFC post game presser.

So much for those regular seasons...

Alright isn’t there a live game they should’ve cut to like a minute after whistle??

This is why I love American sports. You can have the most historic regular season ever, beat everyone by a million, but you lose in the playoffs and nobody cares. Gotta lock in for the postseason, and KC can’t get it done when it matters most.

DOWN GOES KANSAS CITY! GOTHAM ADVANCES TO THE SEMIFINALS!!!!!

Sonnett completely ran the show today

Imagine hating playoff soccer.

AKB is an amazing GK but she was begging for this moment after that time-wasting stunt