I don’t think it’s possible to accurately explain what Fabian Castillo did to set up the first goal in Dallas’ 3-1 win over Chicago on Saturday, so just watch the video. I mean, he lobbed two defenders and then did a rabona pass to Max Urruti’s head. We’ve all seen people score goals with a rabona, but goals are big and Urruti’s head is not. This is ridiculous.
Category: USA
Portland fans hoist massive Freddy Krueger tifo for Cascadia derby
Portland’s Timbers Army has established itself as MLS’s kings and queens of tifo and they continued to demonstrate this with an unnerving Freddy Krueger/Nightmare on Elm Street display as they hosted their rivals from Seattle.
2016 FA Cup finalist Alan Pardew compares atmosphere at Cincinnati friendly to a cup final
It was less than three months ago that Crystal Palace lost to Manchester United in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium. And with that memory still fresh in mind, Palace manager Alan Pardew still compared the atmosphere for a friendly in Cincinnati, Ohio to that of a cup final.
NWSL match played on insanely small pitch
As the U.S. women’s team beat South Africa 1-0 in friendly attended by 19,272 people at Soldier Field in Chicago, an NWSL match between the Western New York Flash and Seattle Reign was played on a shrunken field at a minor league baseball stadium.
Officials miss clear own goal by Sporting KC
MLS does not have goal-line technology because it’s too expensive, but after their match against Sporting Kansas City, FC Dallas might want to foot the bill themselves.
Andrea Pirlo scores first MLS goal with well placed free kick
It took 27 appearances for Andrea Pirlo to score his first goal for NYCFC, but he did it at a good time and in typical Andrea Pirlo fashion with a free kick that left the goalkeeper helpless.
Michael Bradley wears rainbow armband to show support for Orlando
Michael Bradley wore a special rainbow captain’s armband bearing the U.S. team’s “One Nation” motto for their Copa America Centenario quarterfinal against Ecuador as tribute to the victims of the gay nightclub shooting in Orlando that left 49 people dead.
Fans of both nations attending the match in Seattle showed their support for Orlando with flags and signs as they entered the stadium.
The opening match of the Copa America Centenario is now a thing that has happened
At a purely objectively level, few people thought the U.S. would open the Copa America Cashgrabenario by beating Colombia. Though FIFA rankings are deeply flawed, this was still the No. 31 team in the world facing the No. 3 team in the world.
But memories of advancing through a difficult group at the 2014 World Cup and months of hype leading up to a special tournament designed specifically to be played in the United States encouraged a uniquely American brand of optimism to grow in the lead-up to the tournament’s first match. And then an underwhelming Colombia beat the U.S. 2-0, with goals from a corner kick and a penalty that resulted from a handball. Oh, and James Rodriguez left with an injury in the 73rd minute.
FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo tried to play in a swimming pool
Meahwhile, in Dallas… #rainy pic.twitter.com/8MW8ciOfS4
— Nate Dowdle (@nmdowdle) June 3, 2016
Remember the Bishop from Caddyshack who played a round of golf in a biblical storm? Well apparently that guy is real and now an MLS referee. The match officials for FC Dallas v Houston Dynamo decided to attempt to play in the worst conditions this side of Noah’s Arc.
The two sides actually played four minutes of handsfree water polo before the match was finally halted.
Look at this nonsense…
U.S. club introduces abomination of fashion seersucker shirt
The bizarre kit arms race happening in lower divisions across the world continues with Shreveport, Louisiana NPSL (the U.S. fourth division) club Rafters FC. Perhaps inspired by Spanish side Cultural Leonesa’s tuxedo kit, Rafters have given the on-pitch formal wear idea a southern U.S. spin with the seersucker kit, complete with clownish bowtie graphic.
From the Wikipedia entry on seersucker:
The fabric was originally worn by the poor in the U.S. until preppy undergraduate students began wearing it in the 1920s in an air of reverse snobbery. Damon Runyon wrote that his new habit for wearing seersucker was “causing much confusion among my friends. They cannot decide whether I am broke or just setting a new vogue.”
I’m sure Rafters FC will cause similar confusion when they wear this thing.