2015 MLS Cup | Columbus Crew SC versus Portland Timbers
Sunday, December 6th | 4:00 PM ET
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After nine months and 356 games, it all comes down to one final winner-take-all match between the Columbus Crew and Portland Timbers for the 2015 MLS Cup. With identical regular season records (18 wins, 11 losses and 8 draws), there’s no clear favorite heading into Sunday’s showdown.
Perhaps the last Real Madrid great game, complete from beginning to end, was the Champions League semifinal against Bayern Munich in April 2014. Even though after that game Madrid won its 10th Champions League, the Fifa Club World Cup and had a 22-game win streak, Real Madrid was gradually showing flaws that seem to have become more obvious during the past three weeks.
During the period from the Bayern game to now, the management, led by Florentino Perez, has committed a series of mistakes that may well lead to another trophyless season for los Blancos.
In a couple decades, soccer aficionados will debate the illustrious careers of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Heck, what are we talking about. Anyone who knows anything about soccer debates Messi vs Ronaldo now. It's practically an industry in and of itself.
During the Men In Blazers' 2015 BlazerCon event in Brooklyn this year, Everton manager Roberto Martinez said he believes that his goalkeeper, Tim Howard, is the greatest American soccer player ever.
It shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that Martinez would go with his guy, but it does raise the question of who is actually the greatest American soccer player of all time.
Most of the football world will be focused on Spain this weekend, where Real Madrid and Barcelona renew El Clasico. However, Liga MX concludes their regular season this weekend and seven of the nine matches have playoff implications.
In Mexico, the top eight finishers move onto the playoffs, where they are paired 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5 in the first round of the tournament. Pumas has locked up first place and are joined by Toluca, Tigres, America and Leon as having clinched a playoff berth.
Jesse Lingard has been called up to the senior England team in the wake of injuries to Michael Carrick and Jamie Vardy. The question is, what has he done to deserve it?
It’s an accomplishment any time a player can score for her country. Abby Wambach has done it 184 times, more than any other player (male or female) in the world. While that feat is amazing, Abby didn’t score her first goal until her second game.
Angel Correa was born in on March 9, 1995 in Rosario, Argentina (the same hometown as Lionel Messi). Growing up in a neighborhood riddled with poverty and violence, Correa began his soccer development at age six at local youth clubs Club 6 de Mayo, Alianza Sport, and Tiro. Six years later, Correa was noticed by first-division professional club San Lorenzo in the city of Almagro, where he moved and resided full-time.
With the closing of the 2015 summer transfer window, many European clubs found themselves heading into the season with a worrying lack of options at the striker position. It wasn't for lack of trying, it simply seemed as though world-class European strikers were at a bare minimum.
The classic, predatory center-forward, capable of providing a steady influx of goals in the box while constantly menacing the opposition's center backs, seems to have neared extinction.
While many soccer brands have been around since the early 1900s, jersey and individual player sponsorship slowly emerged in the mid-century. Iconic European companies like Umbro and Adidas were early player favorites but, in recent years, global behemoth Nike has set their sights on becoming the biggest brand in soccer. Last year, the American company put out one of the best soccer commercials which included some of the world’s most popular players like Ronaldo, Neymar and Rooney.