https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/erry-2018/05/bebb16db569128/the_15_most_memorable_games_in.html
The 15 most memorable games in Timbers-Sounders rivalry history
Timbers beat Sounders in playoffs in inaugural season (August 12, 1975)
After compiling a 16-6 regular season record in their inaugural season in 1975, the Timbers went on to face the Sounders in the first round of the North American Soccer League playoffs. An incredible 31,000 fans crowded into Civic Stadium to watch the game. Portland and Seattle remained locked at 1-1 at the end of regulation, which sent the game to overtime. That's when Portland's Tony Betts headed in his iconic sudden-death, game-winning goal to give the Timbers a 2-1 victory. Portland went on to earn a spot in the Soccer Bowl before falling to the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
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https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2018/05/08/14/04/20180507-western-mass-pioneers-open-cup-2018
Lusitanos to Pioneers: Ludlow’s Enduring Passion
Youngsters begin arriving for practice at Lusitano Stadium in late afternoon. It’s spring and the weather’s starting to warm – the days are getting longer. Later, the lights go on and the Western Mass Pioneers take the field to get ready for their 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup opener against the Elm City Express on May 9.
A statue of Mozambique-born Eusebio da Silva Ferreira – the famed Black Pearl of Portuguese soccer who was known the world over as, simply, Eusebio – greets visitors at the stadium’s front gate. On the right is a barn-like concession area, also housing the Gremio Lusitano Wall of Fame with trophies reaching to the ceiling. Many check in with Western Mass general manager Greg Kolodziey, who played for the Lusitanos before the team became the Pioneers in 1998.
Soccer players have been coming here since 1922, when members of Gremio Lusitano, a culture and recreation club, lined out a dirt field on Winsor Street, across from the clubhouse. The club team competed against the Thistles, a local Scottish squad, and opposition from other New England mill towns. Soon, Gremio Lusitano FC was developing players for the U.S. National Team, advancing deep in both the U.S. Amateur Cup and National Challenge Cup, as the U.S. Open Cup used to be known (they are four-time quarterfinalists), and contending in the revamped American Soccer League.
In the 1940s and ‘50s, the stadium – then named Franklin Field, probably after nearby Franklin Street – attracted capacity crowds for matches, including several against top European teams like Everton FC. A crowd of 4,500 watched on when Lusitano played to a 3-3 draw with Jönköping FC of Sweden in 1951. At the time, Ludlow’s population was listed at just more than 8,000.
Whether fronted by the Gremio Lusitano teams of old or the current Western Mass Pioneers of PDL, Ludlow, Massachusetts, and its waves of Portuguese immigrants, have had a near century-long love affair with soccer. And it’s still going strong ahead of the 2018 U.S. Open Cup.
After the American Soccer League (ASL) folded its New England division in the 1950s, Gremio Lusitano’s team played in local leagues likes the Massachusetts & New Hampshire State Soccer Association, Connecticut Soccer League and the Luso-American Soccer Association. The club played host to friendlies with Sporting CP and other Portuguese clubs such as GD Chaves, SC Olhanense and CD Santa Clara, the visitors attracted by Lusitano Stadium, which the club calls the only soccer-specific stadium in New England.
During the 1970s, former Benfica superstar Eusebio arrived in Ludlow along with Humberto Coehlo and Antonio Simoes, all playing in the old North American Soccer League (NASL), for a friendly match against the Connecticut Bicentennials. Eusebio returned to Ludlow for a tribute in the early ‘90s. In 2016, two years after Eusebio’s death, Gillette Stadium had removed a statue of him – another copy stands in front of Estadio da Luz in Lisbon – and Gremio Lusitano came to the rescue.
Pereira, who set a Ludlow High School record with 50 goals in a season, might have been the first to follow a path from this club to the Ivy League to pro soccer (the latest would be New York City midfielder Thomas McNamara). “I was born in Portugal and came here when I was 12,” said Pereira, 64, who played at Brown University, then in the NASL and for the U.S. national team. “Fortunately, it was a very good soccer town and that made it easier for me to make friends. Ludlow is a good town to come to if you’re a soccer player.”
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http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/premium/fc-brownsville-announced-as-npsl-expansion-team/article_493dee5e-526d-11e8-9535-73289d9cb3e7.html
FC Brownsville announced as NPSL expansion team
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https://pagesix.com/2018/05/07/david-beckham-celebrates-43rd-birthday-with-pals-in-miami/
David Beckham celebrates 43rd birthday with pals in Miami
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http://www.tbo.com/news/business/economicdevelopment/Rick-Kriseman-and-St-Pete-EDC-head-to-San-Francisco-on-first-business-development-mission_168017478
Rick Kriseman and St. Pete EDC head to San Francisco on first business development mission
ST. PETERSBURG — For its first-ever business development trip, the Greater St. Petersburg Area Economic Development Corp. headed to San Francisco, the tech-business world’s pricey capital, with a pitch about another bay area where sticker shock is not so big an issue.
"San Francisco is a very, very cool place, but oftentimes it’s hard to live there because of the sheer size of it and the cost," said EDC president J.P. DuBuque, who booked the trip after talking with local San Francisco ex-pats about why they moved from there to here.
DuBuque and Mayor Rick Kriseman had a total of 11 meetings with seven companies from Wednesday to Friday morning of last week. Some are looking at expanding operations outside of California. One is thinking about a wholesale move.
"Our goal was to make sure that we were on their radar and to see if we could give them enough information to get them interested in looking into a little deeper at the possibility of us being that east coast hub for them," Kriseman said.
No names are being released, but the companies they visited occupy various corners of the tech landscape — software development, fintech and technology manufacture — from Sausalito on the north to San Jose on the south. They’re growing, with annual sales in the $10 million to $50 million range. Some are or have been on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private firms.
"Talent was the primary thing they were talking about," DuBuque said Monday. Some were thinking about new offices for engineers, others for sales and administrative services jobs. Several mentioned a need to expand data analytics operations.
That was encouraging, Kriseman said, because data analytics has been targeted by the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce’s "Grow Smarter" strategy and has become a fast-growing employment sector for the city. Of about 3,000 net new jobs created in St. Petersburg from 2016 to 2017, nearly half were at data analytics companies.
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https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2018/05/08/seven-san-francisco-tech-companies-on-the-hook-for.html
Seven San Francisco tech companies on the hook for St. Pete
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman and St. Pete Economic Development Corp. CEO J.P. DuBuque have returned from San Francisco, after going on a business development mission last week to woo seven companies to the city.
The companies, which the EDC would not name because they are official job creation prospects, would bring to St. Pete anywhere from 10 to 100 jobs each and are technology-based firms.
“Some of them are hot. As in, we need to do something yesterday,” DuBuque said. “Others are asking to plan a visit.”
If the EDC is successful in attracting any of the businesses, DuBuque said it could be anywhere from three months to more than a year to see it happen.
The seven prospects would likely all be eligible for tax rebates under the state’s Qualified Target Industry program, but that depends on how many jobs a company creates, the average wage for employees and whether the industry meets an area’s job targets.
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https://royalbluemersey.sbnation.com/2018/5/8/17332738/everton-transfer-rumours-wayne-rooney-dc-united-mls-dissatisfied-boyhood-club-news-latest
Everton star could be headed to the MLS
Rooney dissastisfied, pondering move to DC United
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https://247sports.com/Bolt/Manchester-United-Wayne-Rooney-in-serious-talks-to-join-DC-United-118080893
Wayne Rooney in 'serious talks' to join D.C. United, per report
Rooney would be considered a major coup for MLS.
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https://www.kvue.com/article/sports/public-invited-to-give-feedback-on-mls-stadium-proposal-in-austin/269-549899564
Public invited to give feedback on MLS stadium proposal in Austin
If you have thoughts on the possibility of MLS in Austin, you should share your feedback with city council.
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https://ussoccerplayers.com/2018/05/mls-mlb-the-nhl-and-the-expansion-game.html
MLS, MLB, the NHL, and the expansion game
US Soccer Players - MLS has had the expansion game mostly to itself since their decision to revamp the league by doubling the number of teams. The expansion era is happening in isolation, save for the NHL adding Las Vegas this season. It's been a long time since the other North American pro sports teams decided expansion was nice to talk about in theory, but not their immediate goal.
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http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/city-holding-major-league-soccer-open-meetings-to-get-input
City holding Major League Soccer open meetings to get input
Major League Soccer is looking to come to town but the big question is what do Austinites think? The city is holding a few open meetings to see what people want.
McKalla Place in northwest Austin is where the stadium could be built if a MLS team comes. The location was finally settled on after months of debate on where to build the stadium.
Ever since the announcement was made back in October that Austin could be getting the team there has been a lot of mixed feelings.
The people of Austin are invited to participate in open discussions about the chance of the stadium being built on publicly owned land.
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https://www.angelsonparade.com/2018/5/8/17332450/fernando-torres-talks-continue-mls-teams-chicago-fire-united-2026-bid-profit-arsenal-allegri-arteta
Angels Links: Fernando Torres talks to continue with several MLS teams interested
Chicago Fire representatives did travel to Madrid, but talks of his future may not end up including them.
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https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/17-18/rumour-mill/36618.html
Rooney in talks over MLS move
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https://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/EnglishPremiership/rooney-eyes-jump-to-mls-with-dc-united-report-20180508
Rooney eyes jump to MLS with DC United - report
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2774995-wayne-rooney-reportedly-in-advanced-talks-to-join-dc-united
Wayne Rooney Reportedly in 'Advanced Talks' to Join D.C. United
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/05/08/mls-wayne-rooney-dc-united-signing-bad-move/592634002/
Wayne Rooney is not the answer for MLS or D.C. United
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aivqldNng8o
Rowdies Rundown - Rowdies vs. Penn FC Preview
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Published on May 7, 2018
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Highlights - Tampa Bay Rowdies at Penn FC - May 4, 2018
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Published on May 4, 2018
HIGHLIGHTS presented by Tampa International Airport
Rowdies lose 3-0 on the road against Penn FC.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrHGAn7iNk
Rowdies Rundown - Rowdies vs Charleston Battery
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Published on May 1, 2018
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkoNf9t3BfU
Highlights - Tampa Bay Rowdies at Charleston Battery - 4-28-18
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Published on Apr 28, 2018
HIGHLIGHTS presented by Tampa International Airport - Rowdies lose a tough one in South Carolina, 1-0 to the Charleston Battery.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNWkW7B9pw&t=4s
HIGHLIGHTS - Tampa Bay Rowdies vs Real Monarchs - April 21, 2018
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Published on Apr 21, 2018
HIGHLIGHTS presented by Visit St. Pete/Clearwater - The Tampa Bay Rowdies defeated the Real Monarchs on Saturday night at Al Lang Stadium. Goals from Joe Cole and Georgi Hristov lifted the home team to the victory.
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https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/a-win-for-columbus-judge-makes-first-ruling-in-crew-sc-relocation-lawsuit/
A win for Columbus? Judge makes first ruling in Crew SC relocation lawsuit
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http://www.miami.com/miami-news/watch-david-beckham-learn-how-to-make-a-perfect-cup-of-cuban-coffee-while-in-miami-188980/
Watch David Beckham learn how to make a perfect cup of Cuban coffee while in Miami
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https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/08/los-angeles-new-soccer-stadium-provides-gold-standard-for-loons-allianz-field/
Los Angeles’ new soccer stadium provides gold standard for Loons’ Allianz Field
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https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/orlando-city-sc/orlando-city-atlanta-united-playoff-atmopshere/
Orlando City expects playoff atmosphere when Lions host rival Atlanta United
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https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/mls/everton-england-star-wayne-rooney-linked-to-major-league-soccer-switch-with-dc-united/news-story/7a2970a4839988288110c96df523546a
Everton, England star Wayne Rooney linked to Major League Soccer switch with D.C. United
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http://www.dispatch.com/sports/20180508/judge-agrees-to-90-day-pause-in-crew-sc-lawsuit
Judge agrees to 90-day pause in Crew SC lawsuit
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http://sport360.com/article/football/transfer-news/280809/wayne-rooney-headlines-our-rumour-mill-as-mls-side-d-c-united-enter-talks-with-everton-star
Wayne Rooney headlines our Rumour Mill as Everton star is linked with MLS
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https://www.statesman.com/sports/soccer/judge-meet-with-ohio-precourt-officials-seek-lawsuit-settlement/VolYz8MCZAEd5jZTbQohDP/
Judge to meet with Ohio, Precourt officials to seek lawsuit settlement
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https://communityimpact.com/austin/sports/2018/05/08/mls-city-of-austin-ramp-up-community-engagement-effort-to-analyze-mckalla-place-site/
MLS, city of Austin ramp up engagement effort to analyze McKalla Place site
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https://talksport.com/football/transfer-gossip-rooney-set-mls-switch-yaya-toure-wanted-premier-league-rivals-man-united
Transfer gossip: Rooney set for MLS switch, Yaya Toure wanted by Premier League rivals, Man United attempt to hijack Liverpool swoop
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