Recently, the United States Soccer Federation made its decision to bring the US Soccer media rights back in-house. For the past 17 years, US Soccer bundled those rights with Major League Soccer (MLS). This happened via the MLS marketing entity, Soccer United Marketing (SUM). World Soccer Talk had the opportunity to speak with Cindy Parlow […]

The U.S. Soccer Federation yesterday announced an expanded Open Cup format and schedule, one that will incorporate all MLS and lower division teams in a newly and hopefully more condensed way.  In essence, the changes allow the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup to mirror the English FA Cup, where lower division and semi-pro teams have […]

The Seattle Sounders won a thrilling 2-0 victory in last night's U.S. Open Cup as the Sounders have now won three straight Open Cup trophies.  Their opponents, the Chicago Fire, failed to become only the third team ever to win the Cup five times.  The first goal came in the 77th minute and Chicago had […]

The Week 25 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 25 194 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   12,373     8   16,126     14,997     167   2007   18,809   52.02%   8   16,743   3.83%   16,251   8.36%   167   2008   15,671   -16.68%   7   16,336   -2.43%   17,015   4.70%   168   2009   10,176  […]

The Week 23 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 23 177 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   11,814     10   15,158     15,139     153   2007   17,413   47.39%   7   16,522   9.00%   16,019   5.82%   151   2008   19,222   10.39%   6   16,472   -0.30%   17,121   6.88%   154   2009   16,665  […]

The Week 22 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 22 170 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006  13,932  6  15,082  15,361  143  2007  16,209  16.34%  6  16,311  8.15%  16,005  4.19%  144  2008  15,294  -5.64%  9  16,350  0.24%  17,036  6.45%  148  2009  16,236  6.16%  6  15,903  -2.73%  16,559  -2.80% […]

The Week 21 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 21 162 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   14,771     9   15,093     15,424     137   2007   17,381   17.67%   9   16,134   6.90%   15,996   3.71%   138   2008   15,625   -10.11%   7   16,409   1.70%   17,149   7.21%   139   2009   23,667  […]

The Week 20 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 20 154 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   17,497     7   15,233     15,449     128   2007   23,740   35.68%   7   16,027   5.21%   15,899   2.91%   129   2008   13,907   -41.42%   4   16,484   2.85%   17,230   8.37%   132   2009   12,055  […]

The Week 19 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 19 145 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   92,650     1   15,378     15,194     121   2007   25,407   -72.58%   5   15,897   3.37%   15,449   1.68%   122   2008   18,584   -26.85%   6   16,467   3.59%   17,334   12.20%   128   2009   16,846  […]

The Week 18 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 18 137 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   11,399     7   15,564     14,549     120   2007   15,894   39.43%   6   15,966   2.58%   15,024   3.26%   117   2008   13,013   -18.13%   6   16,524   3.50%   17,272   14.97%   122   2009   16,634  […]

The Week 16 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 16 124 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   13,158     6   15,716     14,632     106   2007   12,473   -5.21%   4   15,377   -2.15%   15,043   2.81%   107   2008   14,475   16.05%   5   16,518   7.42%   17,245   14.63%   111   2009   16,142  […]

The Week 15 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 15 117 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   15,853     12   14,761     14,721     100   2007   14,650   -7.59%   6   14,948   1.26%   15,143   2.87%   103   2008   18,529   26.48%   6   16,629   11.25%   17,375   14.74%   106   2009   19,285  […]

The Week 14 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 14 109 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   10,494     7   14,917     14,602     88   2007   15,376   46.52%   12   14,905   -0.08%   15,174   3.91%   97   2008   17,581   14.35%   7   16,407   10.08%   17,306   14.05%   100   2009   16,192  […]

The Week 13 numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Week 13 101 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 13,440 9 14,768 14,924 81 2007 11,574 -13.88% 6 15,144 2.55% 15,059 0.90% 85 2008 17,594 52.01% 9 16,339 7.89% 17,285 14.78% 93 2009 16,634 -5.46% 8 15,024 -8.05% 15,082 -12.74% […]

As MLS heads into the World Cup hiatus(play resumes June 25), the Week 12 numbers look like this...   5 year comparison   Week 12 93 GP YTD   Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP  2006   12,309     5   15,047     15,169     72   2007   13,600   10.48%   7   15,049   0.01%   15,324   1.02%   79  […]