Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced today that a partnership of global sports powers, Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees, has acquired the League’s 20th expansion club. The new team will be named New York City Football Club (NYCFC) and expects to begin play in 2015.
Wait, I thought Manchester United was the Yankees’ fellow member of the Legion of Doom, not Manchester City!
This is it, the biggest month of the year for soccer. Some key games/dates:
May 2nd: Europa League semifinals—Benfica v Fenerbahce and Chelsea v Basel
May 4th: Final day of the season in England’s second division. Wolves look done but Barnsley will attempt to escape the drop. Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City will try to snatch the last play off spot from Bolton while Hull needs a win to secure automatic promotion or risk losing it to Watford.
May 8th: Chelsea v Tottenham
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Update your bookmarks, it’s the soccer thread.
Football hipster word of the month: Catenaccio
THTF news: Two months of fixture hell begin in which Spursin’ it up becomes all too possible
Shooty news: He’s decided to follow Real Zaragoza, because that’s totally not a hipster choice
Hamburglar / French Freiburg news: I still find both puns funny. Monthly updates to follow
News news: I am now done with the bit.
Meet the nets?
Read More...The Mets are “very interested and fully capable” of bringing Major League Soccer to Citi Field, City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) announced Thursday.
The move would boost the baseball team’s coffers and eliminate potential competition from a $300 million MLS soccer stadium proposed for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Vallone, who is running for Queens Borough President, said this would be a win-win for soccer fans and open space advocates opposed to another ...
Because the first sporting event of 2013 that I watched was a soccer match.
Is it December already? Well, it must be a few days in, because I’m posting the thread!
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