Tag: MLS

Didier Drogba scores backheels when he wants

Six minutes into his first appearance of the MLS season, Didier Drogba scored a 56th-minute backheel equalizer against Chicago. Drogba’s debut was delayed by his refusal to play on turf in order to preserve his 38-year-old knees and almost didn’t happen at all as considered retiring to join Guus Hiddink’s coaching staff at Chelsea back in December.

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DTotD: Nigel De Jong introduces himself to MLS

It took five matches for him to settle in and become comfortable enough to be himself, but Nigel De Jong did his first Nigel De Jong in MLS during the LA Galaxy’s 1-1 draw with the Portland Timbers. The Dutch midfielder was only shown a yellow card for connecting with Darlington Nagbe’s ankle on a tackle that forced Nagbe to leave the match.

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MLS All-Star opponent decided with bad acting

MLS announced that their All-Stars will face Arsenal this summer and to coincide with the news, the league put out a video showing how the fixture came together starring a collection of MLS and Arsenal players.

Highlights include:

-A dig at Spurs (who lost 2-1 to the All-Stars last summer)
-Kaka requesting that Mesut Özil be reminded that he owes him dinner
-Thierry Henry’s eyebrows
-Poor phone conversation synching
-Arsene Wenger’s climactic cameo

No one here is going to win an award for their acting ability (not even a fourth-place trophy), but that’s part of what makes it enjoyable. Good fun.

Chinese Super League clubs paying big money for prime talent because they can

(Guangzhou Evergrande)
(Guangzhou Evergrande)

Chinese Super League clubs have used the winter transfer window to break Asian spending records on a near daily basis. And unlike most other leagues outside the European elite looking for rapid growth, they’re doing it by snagging valuable players in their primes from top clubs rather than stars pushing back retirement or young unknowns from South American leagues.

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An emotional retrospective of Ashley Cole’s time at Roma

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Ashley Cole’s brief spell at Roma has come to an end. With Arsenal, he won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups. With Chelsea, he won one Premier League title, four FA Cups, and a Champions League title. And with Roma, he was in that one picture where he stood an awkward distance from the rest of his teammates that became a meme.

But his time in Italy was so much more than that one image. Let’s take a fond look back on the end of an era…

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