Major League Soccer’s seemingly endless regular season has just three weeks left, and the playoff race seems as jumbled as ever. With the playoff field expanding to seven clubs from each conference this season, the West is ridiculously tight, with just six points separating second through eighth place.
The Eastern Conference is a little more defined, although there remains plenty of jockeying for position in order to land a coveted home playoff spot. That homefield advantage will be crucial…
Saturday’s USL Championship match between Phoenix Rising and LA Galaxy II was abandoned with six minutes remaining over concerns about player safety.
Phoenix’s Ben Spencer had just scored to put the Rising ahead 4-1 in the 77th minute when a beer can was thrown onto the field that landed in close proximity to several Galaxy II players. A statement from the Phoenix Rising identified the perpetrator as a “non-Phoenix Rising supporter.”
*ahem*By the way…20 STRAIGHT WINS#UpRising pic.twitter.com/8o9qQqxmve— x-Phoenix Rising FC (@PHXRisingFC) September 15, 2019
The referees suspended the match, which took place at Phoenix’s…
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Joe Mansueto has bought out Andrew Hauptman’s controlling interest in the Chicago Fire, giving the founder of investment management firm Morningstar 100 percent ownership of the MLS team, the Fire announced on Friday.
Mansueto, who in 2018 purchased a 49-percent stake in the team, will take on the role of chairman as sole owner of the Fire, effective immediately. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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The Timbers Army went silent for the first 33 minutes of Friday’s match against the archrival Seattle Sounders.
A trio of supporter groups, along with the Independent Supporters Council, will meet with MLS officials in Las Vegas on Sept. 19 in a bid to find common ground as it relates to the league’s ban on political signage, and in particular the prohibition on the Iron Front symbol.
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The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that the USSF conspired with FIFA and Soccer United Marketing, the commercial arm of Major League Soccer, to prevent matches from foreign leagues from being held in the U.S. Both FIFA and SUM are named as non-party co-conspirators in the court filing.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s about three hours to go until the kickoff of the Portland Timbers’ biggest game of the year, a Cascadia Cup clash against their bitter rivals, the Seattle Sounders. The match is arguably the pinnacle of Major League Soccer’s Rivalry Week on a balmy Friday night.
On the surface, all appears normal. But the Timbers Army (TA), in conjunction with their Sounders counterparts, the Emerald City Supporters and Gorilla FC, have planned a protest over MLS’s in-stadium ban on political…
The Timbers Army went silent for the first 33 minutes of Friday’s match against the archrival Seattle Sounders.
Goals from Cristian Roldan and Raul Ruidiaz proved just enough for the Seattle Sounders over arch-rivals Portland Timbers. To watch MLS sign up to ESPN+.
A “handful” of fans belonging to the Timbers Army, the main supporters’ group for the Portland Timbers in MLS, have been banned from attending games at Providence Park for three matches, multiple sources have confirmed to ESPN.
The fans were banned for waving flags that show the Iron Front symbol, which violates MLS’s prohibition on political signage in its stadiums. MLS has stated that the symbol is connected to the antifa movement and thus constitutes a link to a political organization. The Timbers…
The Timbers Army went silent for the first 33 minutes of Friday’s match against the archrival Seattle Sounders.
Goals from Cristian Roldan and Raul Ruidiaz proved just enough for the Seattle Sounders over arch-rivals Portland Timbers. To watch MLS sign up to ESPN+.
A “handful” of fans belonging to the Timbers Army, the main supporters’ group for the Portland Timbers in MLS, have been banned from attending games at Providence Park for three matches, multiple sources have confirmed to ESPN.
The fans were banned for waving flags that show the Iron Front symbol, which violates MLS’s prohibition on political signage in its stadiums. MLS has stated that the symbol is connected to the antifa movement and thus constitutes a link to a political organization. The Timbers…
The Timbers Army went silent for the first 33 minutes of Friday’s match against the archrival Seattle Sounders.
Goals from Cristian Roldan and Raul Ruidiaz proved just enough for the Seattle Sounders over arch-rivals Portland Timbers. To watch MLS sign up to ESPN+.
Multiple fans belonging to the Timbers Army, the main supporters’ group for the Portland Timbers in MLS, have been banned from attending games at Providence Park for three matches.
The fans were banned for waving flags that show the Iron Front symbol at an Aug. 31 home win against Real Salt Lake, which violates MLS’ prohibition on political signage in its stadiums outlined in the league’s Fan Code of Conduct.
MLS has stated that the symbol is connected to the antifa movement and thus constitutes…
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