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Ricardo has posted 8 links and 402 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 8 comments to the Locker Room.
Password change: Asked about this a while back ... was it ever added anywhere?
posted by Ricardo to other at 02:45 PM on November 04, 2013 - 1 comment
Robbie Rogers comes out as gay: US Soccer player Robbie Rogers has stated on his blog that he is gay and will be taking a break from soccer to concentrate on life.
posted by Ricardo to soccer at 02:53 PM on February 15, 2013 - 9 comments
Password Change: Where can I change my password? I cant find anywhere on the site to do so.
posted by Ricardo to feature requests at 11:02 AM on September 26, 2012 - 2 comments
Liverpool Football Club board agree sale: The board of Liverpool has agreed to sell the club to the US owners of the Boston Red Sox baseball team despite protests from owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
posted by Ricardo to soccer at 06:15 AM on October 06, 2010 - 24 comments
Heartbreak for women's US soccer team.: As Brazil head to the World Cup final with Germany.
posted by Ricardo to soccer at 10:04 AM on September 27, 2007 - 52 comments
If Wales wins through their play-in, group B will be the only group with no teams outside the top 25 (regardless of who wins the other play-ins). Every other group will have at least one lower than 25 and a couple groups will have two lower than 25. I'd say B is the group of death if Wales can make it. I hope they don't.
posted by Ricardo at 11:50 PM on April 04, 2022
The U.S. has never won in Mexico's great soccer cathedral.
We did. In a 2012 friendly.
posted by Ricardo at 04:07 PM on February 04, 2022
I'm still amazed that the team agreed to leave the old name behind without any sort of contingency plan except just calling themselves the Football Team.
I was amazed also. But being more of a soccer fan, I liked it and wish they had kept it. I had naively hoped it would start a trend in America. I don't hate the new name, but find Washington's color scheme of red and gold an odd bedfellow of the military theme.
posted by Ricardo at 01:31 PM on February 02, 2022
This does away with home teams playing overly defensively in the first leg
Home team plays overly defensive, not away team.
posted by Ricardo at 08:18 PM on June 26, 2021
Away goals>Penalties
While that might be true, it isn't a case of one or the other. Getting rid of away goals gives the teams thirty minutes to try to decide it on the field.
extra time > away goals > penalties
With that, you either take the middle position or you take the two outer options being possibilities. I wonder what the percentage of games are that get decided in the extra time as opposed to having to go to penalties.
posted by Ricardo at 10:29 AM on June 26, 2021
This does away with home teams playing overly defensively in the first leg creating more exciting matches. I much prefer extra time to settle it.
posted by Ricardo at 01:17 AM on June 25, 2021
I don't know that either side was really in the wrong here. The tour rightly asks players take interviews and a player should rightly decline if that's weighing on them in such a negative fashion.
It sounds like she said the right things when she withdrew (when I'm ready, I want to have the discussion on how to make this better for players, press and fans) and it sounds like all four majors are now saying the right things (mental health is a real issue and needs to be addressed, we'll work on finding how to make sure all stakeholders do their job to the best of their ability, without impacting player health).
posted by Ricardo at 03:23 PM on June 01, 2021
I think they're trying to create an alternative to the Champions League as opposed to La Liga. And a better move is to work to make those countries have more than a couple dominant teams. It shouldn't be necessary to cross borders to create a competitive national league.
posted by Ricardo at 04:14 PM on April 21, 2021
As a long time fan of the beautiful game, one of the things that made it beautiful for me was the very antithesis of American sports. There are few meaningless games towards the end of the season with teams fighting for spots at either end of the table, whether it be for the title or a spot in the Champions League or a team fighting relegation. The romance of the little guy being able to fight through to achieve something special as Leicester did a few seasons ago. This just feels like an Americanization of something that was much better beforehand and hopefully it doesn't come to fruition. This is the first time in 15 years as a Liverpool supporter I'm ashamed to be so.
posted by Ricardo at 07:53 PM on April 19, 2021
I've worn a different Liverpool shirt every day since the Chelsea/City match. It would feel more like dreamland if we didn't have several months to brace for it and had already been running away with it to begin with. Still seems a bit surreal. Time to design my next tattoo. UP THE REDS!!!
posted by Ricardo at 03:17 PM on June 29, 2020
Wow! Cindy Parlow Cone has been named President in Cordeiro's place. This will get interesting I suspect.
posted by Ricardo at 12:24 AM on March 14, 2020
Within each team, an argument can be made for different pay scales. You can pay each male the same as each other male or you can pay them based on their individual skills (e.g. the best male makes more than the worst male).
Revenue should play into it, but country is slightly different than club. At a club, you can shop your skills around to the highest bidder. You cannot do that for your country (for the most part). That gives the USSF (and other federations) an unfair bargaining chip.
If a federation is going to pay the worst male the same as the best male, then each female's pay should be very close to that same amount, with some allowance being made for the difference in revenue whether it be in the favor of the men or women.
posted by Ricardo at 05:59 PM on March 13, 2020
Jurgen Klopp Leaving Liverpool
I'm gutted. What a revelation Jurgen has been for us. I'm glad we rebuilt our midfield before he left. This could spell the end of Mo Salah at Anfield also. I'm anxious (not in the good way) to see what happens in the next few years. YNWA.