Impact Soccer

Pourquoi ne pas continué à suivre notre bonne vieille ligue?

Alors je commence avec une nouvelle; NSC Minnesota Stars change de logo et de nom pour le Minnesota Stars FC, pas gros changement mais bon,

L'Équipe de San Antonio (Futur équipe du circuit) commence les constructions de leurs futur stade.

Rapport avec le Canada?!

Tampa bay change de nom et de logo Rowdies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Tampa_Bay

Celtic a écrit :Rapport avec le Canada?!

Je sais pas ein? NASL? North American soccer League
North American? USA, CANADA, Mexique
Canada? A bah j'sais pas pourquoi sa se retrouce dans ce forum?

Quebec city?

Entk je sais que ça parlait de Phoenix, St-Louis (oui), San-Diego, San-Francisco et Sacramento. C'est important cette NASL, elle doit se développer d'avantage et sur du solide.

Content de revoir les Rowdies!!!

serieux je crois pas à Québec, il ny a pas de stade et le PEPS a un turf avec des lignes permanante

Bouncenick a écrit :serieux je crois pas à Québec, il ny a pas de stade et le PEPS a un turf avec des lignes permanante

Bah! Avec un petit extra sur le Colisée Labeaume, par exemple, 10 - 12 millions, on devrait pouvoir y bâtir une petite enceinte dédiée au soccer pas mal du tout!

La dernière fois que j'ai regardé une carte Edmonton était encore en Alberta et l'Alberta était encore au Canada...

On pourrait bien revoir Kevin Cossette en NASL, il sera a leur Combine en février.

faudrait aussi mettre à jour le forum de la USL.

Celtic a écrit :Rapport avec le Canada?!

Il y a un club canadien en NASL et aussi Ottawa en 2013....Alzheimers?

Francesco84 a écrit :

Celtic a écrit :Rapport avec le Canada?!

Il y a un club canadien en NASL et aussi Ottawa en 2013....Alzheimers?

+1

Je déplace quand même dans soccer international
Ça reste un championnat sous bannière américaine avec des participants canadiens [la MLS les saisons précédentes était pas ici malgré la présence de Vancouver et Toronto]

Il y a un club canadien en NASL
Il y a un club canadien en
Il y a un club
un club

UN CLUB (qui d'ailleurs a déjà son sujet dans le Au Canada). Pas besoin d’être méprisant Francesco.

Bon alors c'est bon, no fight

Les Silversbacks signent Stephen Ademolu, un vétéran du Canada
http://www.nasl.com/index.php?id=3&newsid=1630

La scédule es sortie http://www.nasl.com/index.php?id=3&newsid=1642

Les premiers matchs se sont joués, hier. Minnesota essaiera de conserver son titre cette année. Les Scorpions de San Antonio font leur entrée dans le circuit, à Atlanta.

Atlanta 0 - 0 San Antonio

Ft. Lauderdale 1 -0 FC Edmonton
But : Andy Herron (61')
Cartons jaunes : EDM - Fabrice Lassonde (19'), Chris Kooy (26'), Ilja van Leerdam (90')
Cartons rouges : FTL - Aly Hassan (40')

Puerto Rico 1 -0 Tampa Bay
But : Nicholas Addlery (69')
Cartons jaunes : PR - Nicholas Addlery (21'), Noah Delgado (25'), Justin Fojo (42') / TB - Shane Hill (45'), Takuya Yamada (68,), Frankie Sanfilippo (90')

Minnesota 0 - 0 Caroline

Classement

1- Strikers de Fort Lauderdale : 1-0-0 (1BP-0BC) 3 points
2- Islanders de Puetro Rico : 1-0-0 (1B-0BC) 3 points
3- Silverbacks d'Atlanta : 0-1-0 (0BP-0BC) 1 point
4- Railhawks de la Caroline : 0-1-0 (0BP-0BC) 1 point
5- Stars FC Minnesota : 0-1-0 (0BP-0BC) 1 point
6- Scorpions de San Antonio : 0-1-0 (0BP-0BC) 1 point
7- FC Edmonton : 0-0-1 (0BP-1BC) 0 point
8- Rowdies de Tampa Bay : 0-0-1 (0BP-1BC) 0 point

Les Scorpions!! Misère, on se croirait dans la ligue du mardi soir...

La NASL c'est tout ce qu'il nous manque, IMFC est en MLS, on a une ligue semi-pro qui semble avoir du potentiel à long terme. Une, voir deux, franchises en NASL au Québec et on a un beau setup!!

Le premier match de l'histoire des Scorpions à San Antonio s'est joué en fin de semaine alors que l'équipe locale a été accueillie par 13 151 personnes au Heroes Stadium. Si nous comparons avec le Onze montréalais, l'Impact avait attiré 12 060 spectateurs lors de sa plus grande foule en 2011. Nous avons aussi eu droit à un festival offensif en Caroline. Voici les résultats.

Caroline 4 - 4 Atlanta [WakeMed Soccer Park, Caroline : 3683 spec.]
CAR - Mike Palacio (1) (Coup pied de coin) 1:39
CAR - Nick Zimmerman (1) 37:20
ATL - Reinaldo Navia (1) (Shane Moroney) 38:27

ATL - Raphael Cox (1) (Tony McManus) 41:34
ATL - Willie Hunt (1) (Ciaran O'Brien) 66:50
CAR - Nick Zimmerman (2) (Jason Garey) 73:52
ATL - Reinaldo Navia (2) 79:49
CAR - Brian Shriver (Ty Shipalane) 89:30

Cartons jaunes : ATL - Kohel Matsushita (21'), Lucas Paulini (43'), Willie Hunt (53' 76'), Ciaran O'Brien (70'), Daniel Illyes (80') / CAR - John Krause (25'), Amir Lowery (60'),
Cartons rouges : ARL - Willie Hunt (76'), Nico Colaluc (90') / CAR - Brian Ackley (90')



Fort Lauderdale 0 - 0 Minnesota [Lockhart Stadium, Fort Lauderdale : 2916 spec.]

Cartons jaunes : / FTL - Scott Lorenz (82') / MIN - Kentaro Takada (51'), Kevin Friedland (71'), Devin Del Do (77')
Cartons rouges : Aucun.



Tampa Bay 1 - 0 Edmonton [Al Lang Stadium, Tampa Bay : 3129 spec.]
TB - Takuya Yamada (Andres Arango) 19:16

Cartons jaunes : TB - Shane Hill (81') / EDM - Jonathan Jo-Augustin (24'), Dominic Oppong (66') Ilja van Leerdam (77'), Kevin Hatchi (83'), Shaun Saiko (90')

Cartons rouges : Aucun.


San Antonio 0 - 4 Tampa Bay [Heroes Stadium, San Antonio : 13 151 spec.]
PRI - Jonathan Fana (David Foley) 6:52
PRI - David Foley 19:29

PRI - Nicholas Addlery (Noah Delgado) 55:09
PRI - Jonathan Fana (Stephen DeRoux) 72:46

Cartons jaunes : SAN - Fabian Kling (6') / PRI - Edson Edwards (52'), Stephen DeRoux (84')

Cartons rouges : Aucun.

Classement

1- Islanders de Puetro Rico : 2-0-0 (5B-0BC) 6 points
2- Strikers de Fort Lauderdale : 1-1-0 (1BP-0BC) 4 points
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
3- Rowdies de Tampa Bay : 1-0-1 (1BP-1BC) 3 points
4- Silverbacks d'Atlanta : 0-2-0 (4BP-4BC) 2 points
5- Railhawks de la Caroline : 0-2-0 (4BP-4BC) 2 points
6- Stars FC Minnesota : 0-2-0 (0BP-0BC) 2 points
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
7- Scorpions de San Antonio : 0-1-1 (0BP-4BC) 1 point
8- FC Edmonton : 0-0-2 (0BP-2BC) 0 point

*Les deux premiers passent directement en demie-finale alors que les positions 3 à 6 s'affronteront au premier tour.

Le retour du Cosmos de New-York en NASL pour 2013

http://nycosmos.com/news/new-york-cosmos-join-nasl-2013

http://www.nasl.com/index.php?id=3&newsid=2779

Apertura/clausura arrive en NASL. Next, la MLS? Bonne lecture ( de soccer news day)





American sports fans need to have playoffs; they’ve become addicted to it. Tell someone that the season is over and the team with the best record is now the champion and they will blink dumbly as though you just spoke some language of clicks and whistles. Well, maybe not that bad but you get the idea. Playoffs have become ubiquitous and, honestly, this has been to the detriment of the leagues.

Because of the playoff obsession, teams no longer play to be the best team in their league but rather play for playoff positions. Perhaps the most successful team to employ this underwhelming strategy are the NFL’s New York Giants—a perennially middling team in the regular season, the Giants found a way to become Super Bowl champions without being the best team in the league…twice. The NBA insists on taking half of the teams from each of their conferences as part of their seemingly endless playoff slog and the NHL mimicking the NBA has sensibly extended the hockey season into summer for the sake of more playoffs. I can’t imagine anything more pointless than playoffs that admit half the league. Such an action dilutes the impact of having playoffs and a post-season in the first place. Extending the reach of the playoffs/postseason isn’t done because teams are so very good that they deserve it, it’s done because the league wants more revenue (i.e., greed). I loathe a team that barely manages to play over .500 and yet is allowed into the postseason. It’s a furiously stupid endeavor.

What irritates me about playoffs is that they too often become a series of do-overs—“C’mon, best of three” becomes “Alright, best of five” leads to “Okay, best of seven.” Playoffs are the only legitimate example of the slippery slope fallacy. One of the things I’ve always loved about proper football is that there is no playoff; if you win the league, you are champion—period. Last season in the EPL was a perfect example of how crushing and elating this can be. There are no excuses, you win or you lose, and the character of the team, of a player, and of you as a supporter is revealed. As much as the United States likes to pretend it’s a meritocracy, American sports are based on the idea that everyone should get a trophy no matter how well or how poorly they have played (this, incidentally, is the greatest hurdle to promotion/relegation). So it was a bold move by the NASL to announce this week that next season they would initiate an Apertura/Clausura format that is widely used in Latin American leagues.

Apertura/Clausura means Opening/Closing in Spanish, it is a format that splits a season into two parts. The NASL will have a spring (March/April to July) and fall (July/August to November) stage. The winner of the Spring Stage will face the winner of the Fall Stage to determine the champion of the league—the winners play each other for the Championship. This presents a remarkably elegant solution to the American need for a playoffs without creating a milquetoast postseason. It will also allow the league to avoid many of the international conflicts that come with having a season that runs counter to most of the rest of the soccer world.

There will be a month-long break between the two stages that will correspond to the international transfer window open in Europe, Latin America, and North America. During this break, every team will be able to make roster changes or schedule friendly matches. But, of course, there are still a good amount of questions to be asked of this new format. What if the team that won the Apertura wins the Clausura as well? How will the championship be decided? Easily answered, the team with the second-best record for the full year will be in the championship. What if a team has the best overall record but doesn’t win either the Apertura or Clausura? The answer is simple—if that happens, then that team doesn’t win the league and has to try harder next season. You don’t get participation ribbons as a professional.

As the name of the season format suggests, this scheduling is already in use in Central and South American and is working quite well. What this move does is bring the NASL in line with the professional leagues of the rest of the continent and with its transfer window break provides a neat fit with the European leagues. By switching to a season format more familiar to Central/South American players and clubs and by creating a break that coincides with the ‘silly season’ of most European leagues, the NASL has been significantly strengthened. How will this affect the top tier of American soccer, MLS? Probably not at all.

There is no reason that the NASL needs to force itself into the same box or paint itself into the same corner (whichever idiom you’d prefer) as MLS. In fact, with an Apertura/Clausura format, the NASL has now enriched the US soccer landscape without in any way taking anything from MLS (perceived or actual). No toes are being stepped on in this move; there is no unnecessary competition between the two leagues. What’s more, this in no way means that the two leagues can’t co-operate in the future. If anything, the NASL just became a better place to send talent that needs minutes and development. Players will be better able to serve a team, maintain their fitness, or improve their skills if they are loaned out with this format. But not just looking down from the MLS, players from the NPSL, PDL, and USL (Divisions 4 and 3) will be able to continue their play if they are in good from thanks to this move. Furthermore, teams that are looking to expand or to move up the ladder will find this format to be more manageable and, ultimately, more profitable simply because this opens more doors while providing significant marketable milestones.

The most important aspect of this format change is that it demonstrates that the second division of US soccer is solidifying, that it’s putting itself in a secure lasting position. As the NASL expands to reach its twenty team goal, moves like this one demonstrate the league’s practical, long-view policies. Next season will see the addition of the New York Cosmos to the league, the Ottawa Fury will join soon after once their impressive new stadium is complete, there is movement for a team in Northern Virginia, and the possibility that the San Diego Flash may opt in. More stable teams in more markets mean that all of American soccer is strengthened. Already the NASL is providing quality play to cities and regions ignored by MLS, and as lower division teams grow in clout and in success the real winners are the fans and the players.

Voilà quelque chose d'intéressant. Enfin.

Manquerais que la relégation entre les deux divisions et on a une vrai ligue.

Odinok3000 a écrit :Manquerais que la relégation entre les deux divisions et on a une vrai ligue.

Oui, faudrait vraiment arrêter de jouer dans une fausse ligue..Dans une fausse ligue y a t-il vraiment des matchs? L'Impact est une délusion dans nos têtes?

SteveBeau a écrit :

Odinok3000 a écrit :Manquerais que la relégation entre les deux divisions et on a une vrai ligue.

Oui, faudrait vraiment arrêter de jouer dans une fausse ligue..Dans une fausse ligue y a t-il vraiment des matchs? L'Impact est une délusion dans nos têtes?

Dans une fausse ligue y'a des club comme Toronto! Besoin de plus d'explications?