Jul 30, 2015 08:55
league: major league soccer (mls),
club: fiorentina,
club: celtic,
club: southampton,
club: tottenham hotspur,
david villa,
club: manchester united,
kaká,
club: liverpool fc,
club: chelsea,
didier drogba,
club: juventus,
club: bayern munich,
club: montreal impact
Leave a comment
LOL. Who's this actor? He's quite good.
right now, don garber is really set on having 24 teams operating in the mls without going defunct or needing to be shut down/liquidated (like with chivas usa). as much as they're looking forward to atlanta being a part of the league, i think the team that will make/break the mls & the decision of expanding to more than 24 teams is gonna be miami. this is the expansion team that they're taking a risk on bc they feel like the miami demographic is really positive, but they also don't know if that's enough to keep the expansion team afloat - despite beckham's involvement.
Wait. Stop. Sorry (I should be studying my Spanish, but, let me finish this first). Doesn't Florida already have a team? If Miami has one, isn't that near enough to Orlando to overlap territories? Can a state have more than two top tier teams (rather like say, Manchester in England have Manchester City and Manchester United). How will that go?
Off to research what a 'play off' is. I really need to rent Draft Day I think.
Reply
florida does have orlando city, but miami is about three and a half hours away from orlando - at the very least; i'd say the location differences would be the same as newcastle to manchester. so they're kinda separate of their own. orlando has their own NBA team, as does miami - so i would see why it would make sense for them to want to open an expansion team in miami when lots of people support the dolphins & heat. like i said - here in the us, people are fiercely patriotic but they're also very attached to representing their "city" or region, so to speak. so miami and orlando are def not close enough to overlap that territory, a 3 hr drive on a regular basis to see a florida mls team is really excruciating - especially when traffic is horrendous & public transporation is really lacking here in the us.
and california has two mls teams, as do texas & now new york too. let me tell you that the california clasico is a real thing and the rivalry between the san jose earthquakes & la galaxy is INTENSE. not as intense as la's town rivalry between their college football teams of usc and ucla, but the "clasico" here in cali is a big friggin' deal. not sure about texas and ny, but i can see it happening. the game between san jose and la definitely bring out the fans who, like said, really love to represent their city.
california fans go hard for their teams during these rivalries. even though seattle and portland are in different states, their rivalry is really insane as well. seattle fans have always been the loudest of the mls bunch so we're catching up when it comes to having multiple teams. los angeles is getting their expansion team with LA FC and i know lots of people are excited about the potential for that to become a crazy rivalry & scene for southern california.
Reply
basically there are 12 teams in the playoffs - 6 from the western conference and 6 from the eastern. they play in their own separate conference bracket first, so the western teams will go head to head with one another & the eastern teams will do the same. so the 6 teams from the west will try to beat one another to make it to the western conference final, and the 6 teams from the east will compete to make it to their own eastern conference final.
after a team has won their respective conference final, the western winner & eastern winner will go to the MLS Cup final against one another. and that's how they decide who really wins the league in the MLS. but lol, if you really need help visualizing this, i can draw up a mock playoff scenario with teams so you can see it work!
i kinda like the playoffs situation because it gives 6 teams from each conference to compete and earn the chance to win the league. so teams that sit "mid-table" in their own conference can actually come out and win the league despite not playing as consistent as the top mls teams.
Reply
Leave a comment