Well this was all very dramatic. DC United were down 2â1 in the 116th minute of Thursday nightâs knockout round match against Columbus Crew, until Nick DeLeon ripped home a clutch equalizer from the edge of the box off a blown clearance.
The Philadelphia Union play in a stadium in Chester, Pennsylvania. Itâs on the Delaware River waterfront near a casino and a prison. Despite the odd location, the stadiumâbuilt with $77 million in public moneyâis pretty nice. Itâs still relatively new. The riverfront location and the Commodore Barry Bridge in theâŚ
Three months after sitting at the bottom of the MLSâs Eastern Conference playoff race, D.C. United have secured a playoff spot, thanks to the efforts of Old Man Wayne Rooney. He scored two goals in todayâs 3-1 victory against NYCFC to make the postseason berth official.
Former Manchester United star Wayne Rooneyâs first season in MLS was already a huge success before last nightâs game against Toronto. He came into it with nine goals and seven assists in 18 appearances, and as the owner of one of the best soccer highlights youâll ever see. In the 18th minute of last nightâs game,âŚ
The Crew have been saved after all.
Zlatan IbrahimoviÄ scored what might have been the greatest goal of his life last Saturday in the L.A. Galaxyâs game against Toronto FC. Somehow, that goalâthe 500th of his careerâmight not have been the most ruthless thing he did that day.
In their ninth MLS season, the Philadelphia Union finally (finally) have a mascot. It seems like mere days ago he was a giant egg at the Philadelphia Zoo, which at least indicated that he was not a mammal, or was at least a monotreme. Today, we all got the big news:
David Beckhamâs Mosaic trek through the American sports grifter desert as he seeks to realize his MLS team ownership dream has come another step closer to reality. We now know what to call this allegedly imminent franchise, and itâs a name as nauseatingly cosplayish as weâve come to expect:
After playing professional soccer for 15 years, Clint Dempseyâcelebrated striker and guy who broke John Terryâs faceâis retiring at age 35 from both the Seattle Sounders and the United States national team. The Sounders posted a statement detailing Dempseyâs long and successful career; Deuce, characteristically, keptâŚ
AtleticĂł Madrid pulled off an upset on Wednesday in taking down crosstown rival Real Madrid 4-2 to bring home the UEFA Super Cup. After the game, AtleticĂłâs star forward Antoine Griezmann dropped some fire quotes, as he tends to do during post-game celebrations.
There was a lot to like in D.C. Unitedâs 4-1 win over the Portland Timbers Wednesday night, namely the continued resurgence of old man Wayne Rooney, who scored two goals, including one extremely sweet free kick. The best highlight of the night, though, came from this deadly accurate ball boy.
Old man and Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney was supposed to be irreversibly washed. He still largely isâhence why heâs in MLS to begin withâbut, still, heâs definitely been making the most out of his American sabbatical. Heâs already mashed his face into bits and notched one of his career-best highlights, onâŚ
Columbus Crew SC, in conjunction with MLS czar Don Garber, has crossed one of the final checkpoints in their plan to move the team to Austin as early as next season. The Austin City Council passed a vote on Wednesday, seven to four, to pave the way for the building of a soccer-specific stadium onto city-owned land inâŚ
Big Daddy Kane might not have thought pimping was easy, but back when he wrote that song he hadnât seen how simple it was for the Columbus Crewâs grease-palmed owner Anthony Precourt to merely raise a hand menacingly at his current johnâthe city of Columbusâwhile also whispering of his serviceâs illicit physicalâŚ
D.C. United sent their keeper up for a corner kick with a minute left in stoppage time of a tied game. It backfired, spectacularly. Then it didnât, spectacularly, and it was all thanks to good olâ Wayne Rooney.
Wayne Rooney scored his first MLS goal Saturday night, in his fourth match with DC United. The goal came in the 33rd minute of Unitedâs match at home against Coloradoâafter the ball sort of chaotically pinged around in the midfield, United triggered a quick attacking move and Rooney finished it off by going betweenâŚ
Upstart Los Angeles Football Club and the Los Angeles Galaxy played their second-ever derby on Thursday night. The first match was an all-time classic, featuring a three-goal, second-half Galaxy comeback capped off by two Zlatan IbrahimoviÄ goals, the first perhaps the best MLS goal to date, to give his squad the 4-3âŚ
Bayern Munich have completed a deal today with the Vancouver Whitecaps for the MLS teamâs 17-year-old winger, Alphonso Davies, effective at the January transfer window after he turns 18. The German giants will pay $13 million for Davies up front, with various bonuses kicking in if the young Canadian internationalâŚ
LAFC striker Adama Diomande wrote in an Instagram post that an opponent on the Portland Timbers called him âthe âNâ wordâ during his teamâs U.S. Open Cup match on Wednesday. Diomande came on in the second half as a substitute in his teamâs 3-2 win, and while he exchanged a few words with Timbers players towards theâŚ
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