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Tournament Focus: Your Guide to the 2015 MLS Playoffs

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Tournament Focus: Your Guide to the 2015 MLS Playoffs The lineup has been finalised, the draws have been made and the 2015 MLS playoffs are set. After a gruelling regular season, the North American top-flight kicks into overdrive for the next few weeks as the trophies and honours that really matter are handed out. It’s time to start plotting your...

League Focus: The Race to Secure MLS Playoff Spots This Weekend

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League Focus: The Race to Secure MLS Playoff Spots This Weekend It’s getting to that stage of the season. Every side in MLS bar one (the Portland Timbers) has played 31 league games, meaning that by and large those sides on the brink of the playoffs have three games to make or break their year.Of course, some have already sealed their post-season fate. The...

Team Focus: Team Spirit Sending Sporting KC Towards Further MLS Glory

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Team Focus: Team Spirit Sending Sporting KC Towards Further MLS Glory There was something ominous about Sporting Kansas City’s 2-1 win over Toronto FC last week. Peter Vermes' men went a goal down, and then a man down, before emerging winners away from home.It was reflective of the kind of spirit and resolution that won Sporting KC the MLS Cup last year. They fe...

Match Focus: The MLS Cup Final - A Statistical Preview

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Match Focus: The MLS Cup Final - A Statistical Preview After two years of dominance by the glamorous and free-spending Los Angeles Galaxy, the MLS Cup final will this season feature two of the league’s best-run clubs, Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake.While it is hardly a Cascadia rivalry there is some competition between the two sides, givi...

Player Focus: Can Graham Zusi Inspire Sporting KC to MLS Glory?

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Player Focus: Can Graham Zusi Inspire Sporting KC to MLS Glory? There’s been some turnaround at Sporting Kansas City. Just three years ago the Kansas City Wizards were in danger of dropping out of MLS altogether, with the club underperforming as a whole. Poor crowds and poor form on the field meant relocation was discussed but instead Sporting KC was born....

League Focus: MLS Eastern Conference Title Contenders Compared

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League Focus: MLS Eastern Conference Title Contenders Compared Major League Soccer is notoriously difficult to predict and this season has proved no different.While only six points separate the top five in the West the Seattle Sounders, Real Salt Lake and the Los Angeles Galaxy have distinguished themselves as clear favourites for the regular season title. No s...

Team Focus: Will Sporting KC Miss Kei Kamara?

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Team Focus: Will Sporting KC Miss Kei Kamara? As pacesetters for the Eastern Conference title Sporting Kansas City had no intention of selling Kei Kamara.But just as has been proved across the spectrum of the summer transfer window – with moves for Gareth Bale, Mesut Ozil and Marouane Fellaini – everyone has a price. For Sporting KC...