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Kansas City manager Peter Vermes let slip word of a new MLS “retention fund” designed to retain top players within the league. Why didn’t we know of this before? Wasn’t this relevant? PSP’s Earl Reed explores how MLS reveals its rules and the question of whether there truly is a level playing field for all teams when it comes to the rules.
One defensive lapse aside, the US could not have asked for a much better result.
Despite the big city, Philadelphia Union operate as a small market team. Here’s where they fall into the grand scheme of things in MLS, along with evaluations of every other MLS club as well and how this status affects everything the team does. After readers’ requests for this post, here you go.
While the shellacking of Guatemala may have put visions of sugar plums in many fans’ heads, tournament soccer is a different animal than international friendlies, even against the likes of Belize.
After a slow start and some timely substitutions, the U.S. swept Guatemala aside in some style, 6–0 in the warmup game for the Gold Cup.
Coach Jurgen Klinsmann needs to learn a lot about the crew he has in a very short amount of time. The Gold Cup warmup game against Guatemala should help.