The MLS

[m7mcfc]

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I can't start new topics, and I thought some of you might enjoy this article on ex-City player Terry Dunfield, who has signed with my local club, Vancouver Whitecaps.

He speaks quite a bit about his time at City.

Link: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Dunfield+excited+back+home/3468152/story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Dunfi ... story.html</a>

Thanks for that mate, great read, could do with pinning it up on the Academy wall for the "blinged up" (tm Steven Ireland) to read.

Yes I agree right underneath his photo for all the young lads to see what can happen if they start to believe their own hype.<br /><br />-- Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:38 pm --<br /><br />

Thanks for that mate, great read, could do with pinning it up on the Academy wall for the "blinged up" (tm Steven Ireland) to read.

Yes I agree right underneath his photo for all the young lads to see what can happen if they start to believe their own hype.

Deserves it's own thread this.

 

[Leyth Blue]

So what is the "Superliga" ?

The North American Superliga is a tournament style competition between the top 4 sides in MLS and the top 4 sides in the Mexican Premier division. It is a sub-regional championship tournament in the North American section of CONCACAF (the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football).

In 2008, CONCACAF created it's own Champion's League which is seperate from this Superliga competition and usually includes the top teams from each of the countries in CONCACAF and is a pathway to the FIFA Club World Cup. MLS decided that due to fixture congestion, they would not allow teams to participate in both competitions. So in practice the teams that end up participating in the Superliga aren't generally the top 4 teams in each division. It's in a sense like the Europa league in UEFA but much smaller in comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_North_American_SuperLiga

Thank you for the explanation!

 

[Ticket For Schalke]

You could seriously write an essay on all the differences between the two leagues, PL and MLS. There's tons of little things to do with their registration rules and such. At least they've got rid of the old system of taking penalty kicks from the half-way line (I'm not joking) though...

i remember those, i used to go to Alan Kennedys soccer schools, and we used to do an "american penalty". i used to love them.