Yes, collectively they took the title and the spot in the CCL of 2021, but they did just as well at the individual level as the charges of Giovanni Saverse brought home a trio of honors as well.
Sam Jones on the Daily Kickoff fom MLS, the o is in the shape of a whistle being blown, clearly blows it with his comparison of the recent goal by Tyler Adams to that of not only Paul Calaguri all those years ago. Yes, it really is his fault even though he was not born as yet. Odd how he states "It's not quite CONCACAF, but still seemed pretty important." Psst, Sam, the first "C" only is in caps now.
As mentioned yesterday, Alex Muyl is now in Music CIty USA with Nashville SC, he was both a homegown and a NYC resident, things teams try to hold onto. They did receive one international spot until the end of next season and $50,000 in GAM should he achive particular goals.
Kevin Thelwell, Head of Sport told "We'd like to thank Alex for his contributions to the club. All clubs take pirde in players from their Academy progressing to the First Team and Alex has always represented the organization well on and off the field. We wish Alex the best in this next stage of his career."
So great to see my fellow SJU alum and his firm front and center on this, Mike Repole is a great benfactor to the sports programs at our alma mata and here with MLS.
Those from the north will take on eachother, thrice locally in phase one, all shown in Canada on TSN & the half dozen of Montreal also onTVA Sports, in the states on ESPN+.
As explained in earlier writings, the time has now been determined for when the region will set the journies for the 35 member nations to compete in getting to Qatar. This event is set for Aug. 19 @1900 CET and streamed on FIFA.com, conducted of course in the home of FIFA, Zurich. At that time, the first and final rounds will be known as per the new rules of qualification. The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings on July 16 of 2020 are the basis for this happening as the lowest 30 go into 6 groups.
Please MLS come up with a better name for this award, if I were MLB, we would be going to court over this and you should differentiate yourselves from other US based sports. Maybe honor the late great David Vanole who coached 'keepers in the league?
Anywho, this high honor was snagged by Andre Blake of the Philadelphia Union as he topped the 'keepers in the games with his 32 save by a long shot, his 86.5 save pct. was near the top as well as the Union helped him to 4 wins on their way to the semis.
FIrst order of business, MLS wise, a massive congrats to the Portland Timbers on their title last night. Giovnni Saverese with his staff and to no suprise had his players ready and raring to go. Oscar Pareja and his charges put up a most valiant fight, but I feel in the end the better team did in fact win and they were by far the more experienced team in such big games. The man in the middle did an admirable job, yes he missed some, as all always will, but it was officiated very fair, consistent and he handled the players well.
It all comes to a head on Tues eve, OCSC & the historic TImbers, the victor gets the spoils $1.1 million, the title and a berth in the CCL of next year, a huge prize.
There are few times in the game of soccer when a booking is a good thing, in this case it does a World of good as MLS will now be in the Guinness Book of World Records. This was achived throughout their MIB tourney and the conducted the "Largest Single Location Professional Soccer Tournament" at the ESPN Wide World of Sports facility in Orlando, the final is Tues. eve., 8 p.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN Deportes, TSN & TVA.
