Major League Soccer is now and has been since it’s an inception, a project. There is no escaping that. For every great bit of news, there’s soon to be not-so-great news, and vice-versa. Because soccer fans in the U.S. believe that so much is riding on the success or failure of this venture, many hardcore MLS fans like to keep an eye on league attendance in the hopes that maybe it will give some insight as to how the project is progressing. (more…)
September 14, 2006
September 12, 2006
MLS Attendance Analysis – Intro
I’ve finished my preliminary study on MLS attendance numbers. Kenn Tomasch has done a great job so far of providing this info and doing some analysis of it, but I wanted to dig a little more in-depth and get a little bit more into the abstract of just how MLS attendance might work. Special thanks to Kenn for letting me use his data on doubleheaders. His site has a bunch of attendance info on all sorts of leagues, so if that floats your boat, check it out.
“DON GARBER! JEFF CUNNINGHAM WILL BE THE FIRST NEGRO IN THIS LEAGUE TO SCORE A HUNDRED GOALS!”
An interesting interview with former Columbus Crew forward and current Real Salt Lake forward, Jeff Cunningham.
September 1, 2006
What if LeBron James played soccer
You see this type of quote (sometimes with Michael Vick) a lot in the American soccer community: the general lamenting of soccer folks that the sport doesn’t get the “best athletes” the country has to offer. (more…)
