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CINCINNATI — FC Cincinnati and Orlando City SC dueled to a 1-1 stalemate Saturday at TQL Stadium, allowing OCSC to stay in second place in the Eastern Conference while FCC remains mired near the bottom in 13th. Goals from Brenner and Nani on each side of halftime ended up...
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CINCINNATI — Despite arguably being outplayed by the hosts, the visiting Colorado Rapids put their only two attempts on goal in the back of the net Saturday to sink FC Cincinnati 2-0 at TQL Stadium. Diego Rubio bagged the first in the 21st minute while Jonathan Lewis added the...
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CINCINNATI — The New England Revolution remained atop the Eastern Conference on 17 points after blanking FC Cincinnati 1-0 on Saturday in the second match ever played at TQL Stadium. A 70th-minute connection from Carles Gil to Adam Buksa put the visitors up for good. Follow Jamie on Twitter: @JamieSmed....
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Hello, Soc Takes crowd. It’s been a while, I know. The pandemic hit, sports got cancelled and my day job suddenly kicked into overtime. But now, the world is looking a bit more normal, and my soapbox needed a good dusting. You may remember that last January, I wrote...
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Major League Soccer announced “The 25 Greatest” last week, its 25 greatest players of all time in celebration of its 25th season. Most of the players deserve to be on the list. One of them caught my attention. And I’m having trouble rationalizing it. David Beckham. No disrespect to Beckham....
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CINCINNATI — In each club’s first game back since the conclusion of the MLS Is Back tournament, FC Cincinnati and D.C. United settled for a nil-nil draw Friday at Nippert Stadium. Both teams are currently in the middle of the pack in the Eastern Conference with FCC sitting on...
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In the latest episode of Front Porch Discourse, co-hosts John Lenard and Ian Foster discuss the pitfalls of FC Cincinnati‘s expansion season, comparing them to the decade’s other lower-leagues-to-MLS transitions. But first, they take on how the media seemed to completely underestimate Jill Ellis and the USWNT in 2019....
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The North Carolina city would be the league’s 30th franchise Following MLS Board of Governors meetings on Thursday afternoon in Brooklyn, N.Y., it has been reported that MLS will go ahead with the announcement of Charlotte as the league’s 30th franchise in the coming weeks. Initially reported by Soc...
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The most exciting factor of any playoffs is that often the best team of the regular season doesn’t win the championship. And the full domination of Los Angeles FC by the Seattle Sounders was not the exception to the standard rule. LAFC broke or reached every MLS record, became...
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Los Angeles FC is in dangerous territory. October will define if it’s remembered as the most ambitious project in the history of MLS or as another good team with an impeccable campaign. If LAFC doesn’t culminate 2019 with the MLS Cup, it’s going to be a statistic, a precedent,...
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With the rise of advanced analytics in soccer, expected goals (xG) has become a go-to metric for examining the quality of both clubs and individual players beyond base accumulation stats (goals, assists, etc.). Inspired by Ben Mayhew of Experimental 3-6-1, who utilizes similar statistics for the English Football League,...
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In June, the MLS Players Association unveiled its salary guide — as has become customary — listing the base and total compensation of every player in the league for the 2019 season. Here’s the 2019 MLS salary guide converted into an Excel workbook to help you farther sink into...
CINCINNATI — FC Cincinnati and Orlando City SC dueled to a 1-1 stalemate Saturday at TQL Stadium, allowing OCSC to stay in second place in the Eastern Conference while FCC remains mired near the bottom in 13th. Goals from Brenner and Nani on each side of halftime ended up...
CINCINNATI — Despite arguably being outplayed by the hosts, the visiting Colorado Rapids put their only two attempts on goal in the back of the net Saturday to sink FC Cincinnati 2-0 at TQL Stadium. Diego Rubio bagged the first in the 21st minute while Jonathan Lewis added the...
CINCINNATI — The New England Revolution remained atop the Eastern Conference on 17 points after blanking FC Cincinnati 1-0 on Saturday in the second match ever played at TQL Stadium. A 70th-minute connection from Carles Gil to Adam Buksa put the visitors up for good. Follow Jamie on Twitter: @JamieSmed....
Hello, Soc Takes crowd. It’s been a while, I know. The pandemic hit, sports got cancelled and my day job suddenly kicked into overtime. But now, the world is looking a bit more normal, and my soapbox needed a good dusting. You may remember that last January, I wrote...
Major League Soccer announced “The 25 Greatest” last week, its 25 greatest players of all time in celebration of its 25th season. Most of the players deserve to be on the list. One of them caught my attention. And I’m having trouble rationalizing it. David Beckham. No disrespect to Beckham....
CINCINNATI — In each club’s first game back since the conclusion of the MLS Is Back tournament, FC Cincinnati and D.C. United settled for a nil-nil draw Friday at Nippert Stadium. Both teams are currently in the middle of the pack in the Eastern Conference with FCC sitting on...
In the latest episode of Front Porch Discourse, co-hosts John Lenard and Ian Foster discuss the pitfalls of FC Cincinnati‘s expansion season, comparing them to the decade’s other lower-leagues-to-MLS transitions. But first, they take on how the media seemed to completely underestimate Jill Ellis and the USWNT in 2019....
The North Carolina city would be the league’s 30th franchise Following MLS Board of Governors meetings on Thursday afternoon in Brooklyn, N.Y., it has been reported that MLS will go ahead with the announcement of Charlotte as the league’s 30th franchise in the coming weeks. Initially reported by Soc...
The most exciting factor of any playoffs is that often the best team of the regular season doesn’t win the championship. And the full domination of Los Angeles FC by the Seattle Sounders was not the exception to the standard rule. LAFC broke or reached every MLS record, became...
Los Angeles FC is in dangerous territory. October will define if it’s remembered as the most ambitious project in the history of MLS or as another good team with an impeccable campaign. If LAFC doesn’t culminate 2019 with the MLS Cup, it’s going to be a statistic, a precedent,...
With the rise of advanced analytics in soccer, expected goals (xG) has become a go-to metric for examining the quality of both clubs and individual players beyond base accumulation stats (goals, assists, etc.). Inspired by Ben Mayhew of Experimental 3-6-1, who utilizes similar statistics for the English Football League,...
In June, the MLS Players Association unveiled its salary guide — as has become customary — listing the base and total compensation of every player in the league for the 2019 season. Here’s the 2019 MLS salary guide converted into an Excel workbook to help you farther sink into...