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Mark DeBlois

@mddeblois

7 months

I can’t believe that I am saying this, but I wouldn’t mind if MLS went away and we were forced to start over. Their presence is incredibly toxic and we are worse off for their existence.

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6 months

I encourage people to boycott MLS on every level. I don't like it, but Garber has made it clear that you have to take sides - the love of the game or MLS. Garber has already decided that only 1 will survive. We have to choose which side we are on.

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3 years

@11Yanks Gregg’s roster and lineup decisions. He is a good man manager, but that won’t matter if he doesn’t drop his stubbornness. He has shown that he can make good choices when backed against a wall, but goes back to bad habits when he perceives margin for error.

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10 months

@StanUsmnt You sound like a 3rd grade snob to me. Everyone who knows school knows that 2nd grade is just as good as 3rd grade - despite what all the 2nd grade haters say.

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8 months

@MichaelBattista @hudsonriverblue When you make a decision to go against anyone who loves American soccer, in favor of only courting those who "like" American soccer or like spectacles, you are creating your ceiling. I already don't watch MLS, but if the US Open Cup goes down, I will turn openly hostile to MLS.

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@mddeblois

8 months

@theUSLshow I’ve lost interest in MLS, but not the Open Cup. I will continue to support anything that promotes/embraces the future of American soccer. At the moment, the Open Cup embraces the future of American soccer, but MLS doesn’t. MLS is looking to kill off anything that they don’t own.

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10 months

@DCU_soccer Dude - this is an incredibly poor take. Every major soccer country has a tournament like this. I’m not going to tell you what to do, but as long as this tweet stays up, it is going to cause you embarrassment.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@Bonetti Yes, the World Cup and top European clubs are proving to be an excellent development pathway for Inter Miami. Props to the club for finding the gems everybody else is missing.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@AgentSmith34 $500 million franchise fees leading owners to a sense of entitlement that they get to do whatever they want. A WWE/Ice Capades approach to a league where everyone paying the salary of the top players and the league rule. These are toxic habits for a competitive league.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@thegaffer Participate fully in the US Open Cup, obviously!

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@mddeblois

10 months

@THEChrisKessell @opencup Support a local team. A lot of tier 2, 3 and 4 teams are very good. They are trying to play good soccer, the player pool strengthens every year and the clubs figure out more and more every year (youth clubs field adult teams, clubs charge admission, clubs on social media, etc).

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@mddeblois

2 years

@MLSNEXTPRO There is something about that kid I really like. He doesn’t care who, what or where. He goes after you. I don’t know if he will make it in MLS, I realize this is MLS NEXT Pro, but I like him just the same.

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@mddeblois

3 years

@JackDeLarrinaga @GrantWahl - instead of lame stories blaming the fans, why aren’t you covering this? This guy forced his brother into the National Team job, created a toxic work environment in USSF, now gets hired to create havoc in MLS. THIS, and you not covering it is what is toxic in soccer.

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@mddeblois

8 months

Just so that I am clear (not that anyone, except me cares) - I am done with Cindy Parlow Cone. She has been an incredible disappointment and she should be viewed as an obstacle to American soccer moving forward. Don Garber is an enemy of American soccer, Parlow Cone an obstacle.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@SacRepublicFC As long as they don’t “Freddy Adu” him and market the team with him, he should be fine. Everybody’s path is different and getting experiences with adults is fine as long as it is remembered that he is a 13 year old first and foremost at all times.

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@mddeblois

10 months

@THEChrisKessell @opencup This is a defining moment for US Soccer. How they react to this is going to be remembered for generations to come - regardless of what they choose.

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@mddeblois

5 months

@MLSMoves Have you ever heard the saying, "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."? To a marketing guy like Garber, every soccer problem looks like a marketing problem. He isn't the guy to lead MLS anymore, but all the owners see is short term cash grabs.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@ManagerTactical You clearly misunderstood the Canadians. They weren’t implying that they are now CONCACAF’s best team and therefore the new Kings. They simply thought it was like youth soccer where everybody gets a trophy. They thought everybody gets to be the Kings of CONCACAF.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@sgkirkpatrick You are using 20 years ago metrics to analyze this decade’s problems. That is what parents running youth soccer clubs in the 1990s did to hold youth soccer back for so many years. “But look how many kids are playing!” At what point do you switch over to becoming competitive?

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@mddeblois

1 year

@ManagerTactical @DoscincoM But for him at his stage of development, it was a good season. You are describing the next level for him. This season was about finding his place in 1st team competitive football, and he did that.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@USMNTvsHaters I don't know what the score of the match will be, but I love that the English think it will be easy. We need for them to be playing like the game won't be too challenging, since their overall talent level is above ours.

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@mddeblois

3 years

@JasonAS07 No Nyeman with DC United? He might turn out to be really good.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@11Yanks I think the center backs are going to be Berhalter’s biggest problem at the World Cup. It is the position he thinks he knows the most about, yet the one he is the least secure about in the modern game.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@ManagerTactical You forgot that Tuchel edged closer to being shown the exit door at Chelsea - that alone is a huge positive for Christian Pulisic.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@THEChrisKessell I just want MLS to be the most popular soccer league in the USA, as apposed to 3rd behind LigaMX and the EPL. I only see that as possible with pro/rel. I see this as parallel to ignoring your kid's needs all year, then buying him a pony to shut him up. Messi is the ultimate pony.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@TXUnitedFC How does a game like this even happen? Not blaming anyone, just pointing out that this is a waste of everyone’s time and is horrible for a level of the game that a lot of us care about. USL2 needs to be better than this.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@Eyesandvibes It isn’t all on Tuchel, but it is very obvious that, whether or not he wins a trophy quickly, his joystick approach to coaching will eventually destroy a squad’s identity on the pitch. If he doesn’t win a trophy right away, the trophy isn’t coming.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@usmnt_historian What if you have neither, but got your job because of Nepotism? What does that powerpoint look like?

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@mddeblois

6 months

@THEChrisKessell I will only support soccer that has nothing to do with MLS.

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@mddeblois

8 months

@dancreel MLS’s D1 status is a joke. This whole episode is a sign of their weakness, not strength. They don’t even know what competitive sport at the highest levels really is. Sportainment and spectacle ain’t it.

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Mark DeBlois

@mddeblois

2 years

@ELROLONW @ManagerTactical @anthonykdrives @wolffy71 @Turberville Right back at you with the “Don’t act like you are a victim here.” line. Somebody made a legitimate point about Roldan. You went way out of your way to crowbar Tact unfairly into the narrative and all you give is external reasons for your condescending, degrading tone.

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Mark DeBlois

@mddeblois

3 years

@11Yanks As you have pointed out many times, Greg is a good man manager who promotes good team spirit, but there is a point where you either have the quality to compete for a title or you don’t and that needed to be addressed during roster selection. This will be a learning experience.

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@mddeblois

5 months

@RaeComm Matarazzo made a great choice bypassing the dysfunction and bureaucracy of the US to move up the coaching ladder in Germany. His problem? You need to know the intricacies of the dysfunction and bureaucracy of the US to succeed in coaching for our federation.

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@mddeblois

9 months

@dancreel In other words, Don Garber gets to do whatever he wants until the rest of the board are able to take their power back. That is the most important challenge to the future of US Soccer at the moment.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@THEChrisKessell A phony sense of competitiveness throughout the league. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. All Don Garber knows is marketing so that is how he solves every soccer problem.

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@mddeblois

9 months

@THEChrisKessell Thank you for bringing it into the light. The 1st step toward solving a problem is acknowledging that it exists. This is a major problem that we will not move forward from until we realize exactly how much power a guy who doesn’t really even like soccer has within the Fed.

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Mark DeBlois

@mddeblois

2 years

@Meg_Swanick Mapping out his bounce pass itinerary for the World Cup

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@mddeblois

6 months

@SHEscoresbanger Weird how he is going out of his way to do it all publicly. It’s like he thinks he’s bulletproof & he’s going to put them in their place from the start. I hate to say it, but this looks like the beginning of a bizarre story.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@11Yanks @ManagerTactical was right on the money when he named him “Sensitive Grant”. Tactical Manager might be the best inventor of nicknames that I have seen in a long time!

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@mddeblois

8 months

@THEDanVaughn @VEClub This type of opening round matchup is, both an example of what is amazing about the Cup and, at the same time, everything that someone who “likes” soccer but doesn’t love it wouldn’t get. Luke is one of many “likers” of the game that scratch their heads about the Cup.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@NWSL Now that you have another D1 league to compete with, we get to see who connects better with the grassroots of American soccer (like a Women's US Open Cup). Don't bypass that. You might find yourselves as disconnected as MLS.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@ManagerTactical After you click on the “Report” flag, choose “Infringes my rights” and then select “Copyright Issue “

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@mddeblois

7 months

@usopencup @TheChampions @opencup ...and Houston are only there because they took the US Open Cup seriously.

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@mddeblois

6 months

@CBSSportsGolazo More. MLS shows people who don’t know anything about soccer that they can like soccer the way they like Ice Capades or WWE. Welcome to Wrexham shows people how to LOVE soccer with passion.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@Jimfrombaseball @pptsapper Lee never adjusted to the death of Stonewall Jackson. He continued to make decisions as if the guy who could make any aggressive, audacious plan work, was still there. His army still had clear strengths, but it wasn’t the same army.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@J_hunt1123 Garber and MLS are the ones who decided to try to destroy everything that they don't own in American soccer. They are the ones that decided to ignore all of the passes/advantages they were given over previous decades. The rest of us didn't pick this fight, but we are up for it.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@BSmile Roy grew up in the Anacostia part of Washington DC - part of a once rich country music culture in the area that now is often forgotten.

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@mddeblois

7 months

In Richmond to experience the magic of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup - Richmond Kickers vs Maryland Bobcats!

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@mddeblois

1 year

@DaytonaSportsLG @fer_esquivel22 You have us confused with English players. A bunch of them definitely do that. Americans, not so much.

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@mddeblois

9 months

@USLTactics So...unless MLS votes against itself - which it will never do, mathematically it gets to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants and there is nothing that anyone else can do about it. This is not how strong organizations work.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@SoccerInsider Joy stick commissioner. Saved MLS in the 2000s. Solidified it in the 20-teens. Not the right guy for the 2020s. We need a more competitive league while he is counting attendance numbers which are important, but once they are solid, you need to make the league more competitive.

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Mark DeBlois

@mddeblois

2 years

I can’t believe that Pulisic made Mount miss that PK. It is obvious that Pulisic is holding the Blues back from going to the next level. Mount did everything he could before Pulisic being his teammate demoralized him. Great effort Mason!

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Mark DeBlois

@mddeblois

8 months

@ManuelVeth Yes - MLS made a choice to focus on people who “like” soccer over those of us who love it. If you love something, you want it to grow and be everything it can be. If you like something, you want it to be convenient in the moment.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@11Yanks Come on NPSL Annapolis Blues!

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@mddeblois

7 months

@ConcacafEdgar I think that is the narrative that they want us to assume, without anyone actually saying it. Narrative control seems to be what the national team is about. I like our players, but the Federation is a massive turn off for me.

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@mddeblois

8 months

@MLSMoves The league is a fiasco.

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@mddeblois

6 months

@soccer_rabbi Once the announcement was made that MLS would have very limited participation because of "schedule congestion," DC United immediately started filling their schedule out with friendlies. You can't trust anything Don Garber says. It is all marketing narrative.

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@mddeblois

10 months

@AmbroseFord2 I already stopped being an MLS fan this year and I only go to actual, authentic local club games. Not everybody will be able to understand or appreciate how fun it is to watch the game grow right before your eyes, but for those who do, it can really bring your smile back.

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@mddeblois

6 months

@KaylorHodges This kind of debate is what happens when everything is subjective. The way to end this is to implement pro/rel - then opinions go out the window because the system tells you who is good, who isn't and exactly how good they are. Subjectivity is the bastion of the comfortable.

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@mddeblois

11 months

@Eyesandvibes We are seeing a kid who is pushing for a roster spot on a championship club, and he appears to be making quite a case for himself.

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@mddeblois

6 months

@Lopez_Roro I agree with your opinion about what he said, but not about his level as a player. Before all of the injuries, he was a force to be reckoned with. His comments reek of just being a poor loser - who else pulls a power move after a loss? - but he was a really talented player.

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@mddeblois

2 years

Biggest winner of the CONCACAF U20 tournament? Mikey Varas, who’s team got stronger as the tightly scheduled tournament wore on while every other team wore out. Color me impressed!

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@mddeblois

1 year

@thesoccerdon Let’s not forget to pay tribute to his $500 million expansion fee - a short term win, long term addiction - but we aren’t thinking long term here, are we?

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@mddeblois

1 year

@FIFAWorldCup Diego Maradona 1986 Tournament

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@mddeblois

2 years

@ManagerTactical The way he said it was ridiculous, but the point was correct. In the 1920s, the Olympic championship was the World Championship. It is just possible to say it in a way that isn’t like a 3rd grade fight.

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@mddeblois

5 months

@TFHBs There can only be one!

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@mddeblois

11 months

@THEChrisKessell Winning is a part of player development. Players can’t reach their potential unless they are focused on it, but the ADULTS have to be prioritizing development for THEIR goals while they help the players to problem solve against people who are trying to beat them in a contest.

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@mddeblois

6 months

@THEChrisKessell Soccer could become the most popular team sport, but it needs to offer something that the other American sports cannot. This is it.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@Turberville Let’s stop amplifying his “opinions.” I believe he is putting them out there for a reaction. Re-tweeting them is giving him what he wants.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@EinSchwarzwelt Unused sub two out of three games. When you have a guy who can break lines with his passing like Gio does at Dortmund, the other team can’t push forward like Iran did today or else they’ll get scored on. Gio would have been perfect for the second half - at the very least!

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@mddeblois

10 months

@JayAH985 How do you not root for a kid like that?

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@mddeblois

2 years

@kickswish @usmntonly @FOS They actually are taking a serious look at MLS.

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@mddeblois

11 months

@Ricardo_Pepi9 You’re a great player, for sure, but thank you for being such a class act. We are all proud of you and the discipline and grace you show through thick and thin. Well deserved success!

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@mddeblois

7 months

@herculezg The big question is, is this a spectacle or a competition? If it is all played in the US, we know the answer to the question.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@kkfla737 USL need to get rid of all of their regional policies and only recruit ownership groups that put, in writing, that they will support a change in format that includes pro/rel. Chattanooga Red Wolves wouldn’t agree to either of those things.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@AnnapolisBlues UPSL team? I know that it would be a different roster and less ambitious than the NPSL version, but I have a feeling that this club would still kill it.

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@mddeblois

9 months

@CBSSportsGolazo He's at his best when he can be a cheerleader. His team has enough talent for him to play that role, and every late goal makes them believe in themselves more and more. I understand Klinsmann's flaws, but when he has a team like this, this can be a strength for him.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@ProspectsUsmnt Hard to say anything definitive about someone his age, but I will say that every time that he opens his mouth, I like what I hear from him and it makes me feel good about his future.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@ManagerTactical That has to be reported. If there is no rule against it, it needs to be brought into the light so they can make a rule against it. A social media platform of any kind need to see this kind of activity as a cancer to their platform.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@USMNTOtaku I love the kid - he is so competitive and ambitious. That is what you want in a player.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@ManagerTactical @OrbelinPi File this one under, "How did the author of the original tweet not realize that this one was coming?"

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@mddeblois

11 months

@THEChrisKessell @NISALeague Chattanooga FC didn't want to leave because they didn't have other good options. Them leaving the league for MLS Next Pro is a sign of how bad shape the league is in. Also, Flower City Union are making no secret of their desire to get out immediately after their championship.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@FootballReprt Spanish language broadcasting treats the game like a sporting contest as opposed to a one dimensional cartoon. I highly recommend the sporting perspective. If you don’t understand the language, listen to a YouTube watch along video.

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@mddeblois

5 months

@DR928 From your lips to Apple’s platform. We can dream.

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@mddeblois

1 year

@HelltownBeer Pro/rel would personally connect many more people in small to mid-size towns and cities, but our current top league is financially addicted to franchise awarding fees and a lot of the fanbase don’t understand how much it would change things.

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@mddeblois

8 months

@THEChrisKessell There is a long, long history of greed and corruption driving the game. Our country just has the people with better “know how” to cross the line into pure self destruction.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@jojuanjon @ConcacafEdgar It’s the owners of Liga MX who control the Federation. El Tri could be better than ever in practically no time and everyone who pays attention knows it!

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@mddeblois

1 year

@BTLvid @HE_Ftbl You need to distinguish between the actual facts and your assumptions because you have created an alternative narrative by mixing the two together. The Reynas handled themselves poorly, but that doesn’t mean you can turn the story into whatever you want.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@Erik_VOBG @sgkirkpatrick The goal now needs to be making the game competitive so, how does everything that we do improve our competitiveness. Once you know you are going to survive, you need to focus on getting better. MLS is going in the opposite direction of that.

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@mddeblois

7 months

@ImTheBolognaMan Competition and competitiveness are mandatory. You don’t get to choose whether you are going to be competitive. With a country like ours, that would lead to heights (eventually) that some are having trouble imagining. Pro/Rel is the best way we know for that.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@Eyesandvibes Good call. Against a low block, his skillset would be a great option.

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@mddeblois

10 months

@NISALeague If this is the case, why wasn’t NOVA FC “promoted?” FYI, I appreciate and support you moving in that direction. I just wish you would separate the marketing narrative from the reality.

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@mddeblois

10 months

@HelltownBeer This is because William Hulbert, the founder of the National League (baseball) in 1876, watched John D. Rockefeller create a monopoly with Standard Oil in eastern Pennsylvania in the early 1870s. He based his league model on Standard Oil and all leagues since have done the same.

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@mddeblois

8 months

@kkfla737 I have season tickets for Annapolis. I am hoping they average upwards to 10,000 per game. They are connecting to the community and go out of their way to play exciting soccer. Lots of good teams in the DMV, but they obviously stand out. Also looking forward to 2 women’s teams.

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7 months

@StanUsmnt The kid is growing. We need to let him do it the same way we did for Christian and Wes. The kid is ambitious. He will get to where we all know he can be.

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@mddeblois

11 months

@JayAH985 I lived through youth soccer “trophy ball” in the 1990s and I will live through this, but I won’t pretend that this isn’t just as bad. I will just have to get used to being labeled as “toxic” for doing it.

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3 years

@sadfcdfans Tim Chandler was an example of a duel national who might well be a decent enough guy otherwise, but was clearly not fully committed to the USMNT. You have to judge on a case by case basis. Both of the two in the picture WANTED to play for us and chose us over other countries.

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@mddeblois

8 months

@kkfla737 If USL doesn’t embrace pro/rel and grassroots clubs, they are going to continue to lose to MLS Next Pro.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@Turberville Gregg Berhalter throwing the National Team and the entire nation under the bus during a World Cup by not playing our most talented attacking player so he can pretend his son is good enough to play in MLS and didn't get cut because he didn't measure up as a player.

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@mddeblois

2 years

@GraigKreindler Spotswood’s grave site at Arlington Cemetery - a proud member of the Harlem Hellfighters during WWI.

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