Manchester United, Barcelona, or Toronto FC or Rochester Rhinos - I don't care if its football or soccer - I just want to see goals!

Friday, 11 July 08, 02:09 PM · Comments(3)

David Beckham, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Landon Donovan, Brian Ching, Josmer Altidore, Maurice Edu... Those are just some very recognizable names in the MLS. But the United States football or soccer (it doesn't really matter to me) has much more than that if you're really interested in enjoying some local action while Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Juventus and the rest of the European clubs are on their break.

Some people might not know but there is, besides the MLS, something called USL (United Soccer Leagues) which is actually much older and in my opinion better organized than the MLS.

First of all you have a First Division and a Second Division. That by itself is already an advantage over the Major Soccer League. But the USL goes beyond that and offers a PDL (Premier Development League) where 67 amateur teams must have at least 3 players under 18 years old and a maximum of 8 players over 23 in their 26-man rosters. The USL also has a very strong Women's League.

I don't expect any football fan in the USA to abandon their European favourite teams and start cheering for the Atlanta Silverbacks, or Montreal Impact or even the soon-to-become-an-mls-team Seattle Sounders. But while we wait for the kick off in Europe I'd suggest you to at least try to find out if your city has a USL team (no matter in what category) and go there to watch them play.

Remember, the more we support football (or soccer) in the united States, and the more we tell our local radio and TV stations that we want some coverage, the more the sport will improve here.

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Tags: MLS 2008, US Soccer, David Beckham, Cuauhtemoc Blanco

Topics: MLS 2008, US Soccer, David Beckham, Cuauhtemoc Blanco

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Shdw921 Wrote: | 21.10GMT | Dec 11, 2008

i agree with you and you know whats sad? im from houston texas and our MLS team won back-to-back MLS Cups and still didnt get respect in the sporting community of houston. they would rather cheer for a sub-par NFL team than watch a winning MLS team. i've been lucky to watch the Houston Dynamo play, and they are good. im LA LIGA fan, but i do watch the dynamo from time to time.

t90alex Wrote: | 02.36GMT | Dec 17, 2008

i agree

kartoon Wrote: | 17.21BST | Apr 24, 2009

I agree FOOTBALL inda USA itz not stron... My zkool socer team have been winning Championship after championship . and we Even got to semifinalz on da lazt state championship. but my lame azz zkool keepz spending mozt of itz income on da weakazz American football n bazketballz da havent won anythan in da last 14 yearz dey recently got new uniforms and we didnt get shit...

Manchester United, Barcelona, or Toronto FC or Rochester Rhinos - I don't care if its football or soccer - I just want to see goals!

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