2011 MLS

Well Vasco is back. I have been away for awhile, health issues. Well the MLS season is over and the best team money can buy in MLS won the whole darn thing. The Cup and the shield, congrats to Bruce and the gang on their victory.
Lets recap some of the 2011 season. We saw two new MLS teams, that came up from USL, Portland which started slow and came on strong, and almost made the playoffs, and Vancouver that came on weak, and got worse. There are some good signs though for the future. The Expansion draft is soon for another USL team coming into the league in Montreal.
We saw Sporting KC, start weak, and open their stadium and win the conference regular season. We saw a DC United make a comeback and fall short behind the heart and soul of DC united in Benny. Houston come on strong at the end, only to fall short in the championship game. Seattle showed that a team can compete on several different front, bring home the US Open cup once again. Real Salt Lake showed that MLS can compete with Mexico, until the end. Dallas showed once again that a college coach can make a huge difference in MLS. LA once again spent lots of cash, and this time actually won the whole darn thing.
Once again MLS had a good season, advanced the league once again, Sweet 16 was good to the American soccer fan. Year 17 is about 100 days away, with some huge issues on the horizon, stadium issues in DC. Can Montreal compete, world cup qualifying and how will that affect MLS. New playoff structure once again. Working towards the end of the single structure.