Major League Soccer and United Soccer Leagues (USL)

Bonsoir
Good evening

I have just read this section of the forum: there is of very good posts on the MLS but absolutely nothing on the USL premiere division.

I know that many amateurs of football believe (in twists) that the MLS is superior to the USL. Now how come that a team of MLS, calibrate normally stronger, is stuck in a system of mini Canadian championship. We have assist matches between Vancouver Whitecaps, FC Toronto and Impact de Montréal ......where FC Toronto of the MLS in front of both Canadian teams of the USL takes itself a sacred slap in this tournament so far!



Within the framework of the U.S. Open Cup, the American equivalent of the Canadian Championship, two teams of the USL has just passed in semi-finals by beating teams of the MLS.

As a result, the calibre of the MLS is overvalued?

Can we according to you begin to speak about a tendency?


see
USL first division
http://usl1.uslsoccer.com/index.html

Impact de Montréal
http://www.montrealimpact.com/

Vancouver Whitecaps
http://www.whitecapsfc.com/

I'm not sure who says that the MLS is 'superior; to the USL. As a Galaxy season ticket holder I think it is safe to say that the MLS is a better quality league overall. In response to USL teams beating MLS teams in the U.S. Open Cup, I think its the comparable to a lower division team beating a EPL side in the F.A. Cup, and I don't think one can conclude that when this happens that the winning side is evidence that the 'lesser' league is 'superior' to the EPL......

I have nothing bad to say about the USL, but I will also say that the MLS is a better league..... That's my opinion anyhow......

Bonjour oranjepalooza
good morning

Yes all right. Yes for me there is of the check and the bad in both leagues.The most surprising are that it exists of many supporters of l' impact de Montreal (Canada) who wish that team leaves the USL and adhere in the MLS. A petition circulates even here to Montreal....

It is true that there is probably a team champion above all other MLS and USL. It is the positive of this compétion Concacaf Champions League: determine what is the best male team of all the American north soccer (Usa +canada+Mexique and central amérique).

Lesson of humility: the Impact of Montreal in last position at the middle-season of the USL

ouch




It hurts but the facts are there: halfway the regular season, the Impact of Montreal, occupies the last place of the classification of first Division of United Soccer Leagues (USL) with 15 points in 15 matchs....

see standings
http://www.uslsoccer.com/standings/8588667.html


Who would have believed it in the beginning of season?

Who would have been able to predict, before the training courses in Europe, that at the middle-season, the Impact would not be among the first seven qualifying places for the qualifying rounds?

Lesson of humility....

And nevertheless here is the sad reality. What is terrible, it is that the Impact does not play as the last one of class. Far from there. There dominates, are themselves occasions but do not succeed in converting them. Whether it is by adversity or by extreme clumsiness. And then on a defensive error which smells of the naivety, the team loses everything.
Who waits for l' Impact now? Doubtless, the most important ten days of the season. After the reception of FC Miami next Friday, the Impact will cross swords twice in front of Rochester Rhinos July 25nd and 27nd. And then without forgetting the last match in front of FC Toronto of the MLS on July 22nd (the CONCACAF champion League ).

After this sequence, we shall see more clear there....

Who is the coach?

Did they lose many players from last season to the MLS?

Bonjour Oranjepalooza




After a first part of catastrophic season, Nick De Santis is not any more the coach of the Impact. It is henceforth John Limniatis who is in the coach of the team.

Nick De Santis was named a technical director and a recruiter




Nobody. The impact has the same players as last year. In more there is a player (Rocco Placentino) who comes back from Italy apres some years over there...


All the macths last ones of the Impact were lost 1-0. Evertheless the Impact had the majority of time the controle of the balloon and the number of shootings in the net....

The team is actively in search of the player who can make the difference between a defeat and a victory. An fabulous offensive player. $$$$$$$$. Somebody as Sebastien Le Toux ( a french player of France) in Seattle team. It is him who marks most purposes in the Team of Seattle (the team of Seattle won the championship 2007 of the USL first division and will pass in the MLS in 2009). One needs that somebody who is always present, who is really dangerous for the other team.

For the moment present, the frustration seizes little by little players. Patric Leduc ( midfielder ) the first one to admit him. See the report of the canadian television French-speaking:

http://www.radio-canada.ca/Medianet/2008/CBFT/TelejournalMontreal200807141800_1.asx

Bonsoir
good evening

The beauty of the football, it is its irrationality. In front of Miami FC in the unconquered and iron defence during its last nine matches, l'Impact de Montréal got back into the saddle after two consecutive defeats by taking him by the mark of 3-1 on Friday evening at the stadium Saputo at Montreal. Here is an excellent way of preparing the match of the Canadian championship which will take place on Tuesday in the BMO Field Stadium in Toronto. In case of draw or victory, l' Impact would be qualified for the League of the champions of the CONCACAF.

I learn that FC Miami (which exists for 3 years in the USL) would belong to Brazilians. Many players of the FC Miami are Brazilian, what is more the coach would be the one who has won the world cup in 1994. A team Brazil C if I can say....

I looked on TV at the match of the MLS today: FC Toronto - San Jose.
see CBC,ca
Toronto FC held to draw with San Jose
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2008/07/19/toronto-fc-july19-report.html


I admit that I was not impressed. Yes I think that the game play in the USL first division amounts to that of the MLS.... Can be that the MLS has bigger financial means? That stadiums are bigger? Of that to think of it you?




I also learnt that Montreal has this year the records of assitance in the USL first Division: that is 12,000 persons by match. Only consolation for us at Montréal.

This evening :Impact de Montréal 1 - Toronto FC 1

So the Impact be please held (which is in the last rank of the USL first division) will represent Canada in the new League of the champions of the CONCACAF.




The TFC opened the checking in the 15th minute when Rohan Ricketts redirected of the head Jim Brennan's perfect center.

L' Impact answered in the 26th minute, of Roberto Brown's head. He took advantage just like that of foot of Joey Gjertsen's graduated corner.

see Impact claim Canadian Champion League
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2008/07/22/concacaf-impact-tfc.html

Reflections;
I left some days crossed to reflect.


What happened in Toronto? How was the older brother of the Canadian football able to miss his qualification for the League of the champions of the CONCACAF in the term of a dull Canadian championship?

Cathal Kelly of Toronto Star indicates: that he is not ashamed there to lose. But [the defeat of Tuesday] was little as if your small brother beat you in an arm wrestling. You go to hear about it a long time.

see Can't get much worse than this for Toronto FC
http://www.thestar.com/article/465577

Dean McNulty of Toronto Sun wants less metaphoric but also examiner. " How can a team of the MLS with a payroll of about 2,5 millions not beat a team of the USL which even has half of this payroll? " Because if everything is possible on a meeting (to see the surprises in the European national cups), the Toronto FC had four games in this mini-championship to translate its His superiority of the paper in the ground.

see Impact hits hard
http://www.torontosun.com/Sports/OtherSports/2008/07/23/6237476-sun.html


It was not the case, what thus means that:

A) The Toronto FC did not take their opponents seriously and already saw each other in Nicaragua before even the first match of May 27th in Montreal.

B) As writes it Ridge Mahoney in Soccer America, the awkward result proves that Toronto, and not every 14 teams of the MLS, is not necessarily superior to a team of the USL …



In brief we were fortunate.

Yes our stadium at Montréal is smaller but it is magnificent (it is not the league which makes the atmosphere, they are the supporters), the staff of the Impact very professional and courteous, the policemen are nice. Monsieur Saputo, the owner millionaire of the impact is a lover of the football.

Rumours run this week: the MLS would announce its plans of expansion Vancouver and Montreal would be " to the menu " for 2011

I haven't read the rest of the posts here; but, the USL is definitely not inferior to the MLS. The USL can easily match up to the quality of the MLS and that is proven year after year in the US Open Cup.

If the MLS were smart; instead of doing their idiotic expansion teams to expand the MLS, they should find a way to merge with the USL, with the best clubs in the USL joining the MLS and being the "first division" while the rest go into a 'so called' "second division" and incorporate a promotion/relegation.