A year ago, a meeting between FC Dallas and the Portland Timbers didn't carry much weight in the MLS hierarchy. But when those clubs meet Saturday, they'll do so as Western Conference front-runners.
Such is the parity-driven nature of MLS, which saw both teams retool in the offseason to great success.
Schellas Hyndman has been coaching soccer for so long that he definitely knows what a huge physical and mental toll the beautiful game can often take from those who are tasked with teaching it to their players.
When Chivas USA cut loose first-year head coach Chelis last month, the former SMU coach was saddened to see someone he respected, regarded as colorful and good for Major League Soccer to be out in SoCal.
Frank Yallop, the 2012 Coach of the Year in MLS, has "mutually agreed" to leave the San Jose Earthquakes after an unexpected poor start to the season. Designated player Chris Wondolowski told the Mercury News that he felt "disgusted" and [...]
Things just haven't been sunny in San Jose this season. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
Woah. I did not see this coming this quickly.
The San Jose Earthquakes and head coach Frank Yallop announced today that they have mutually agreed to part ways. Assistant coach Mark Watson has been named the interim head coach for the remainder of the 2013 season.
The game was about the way we thought it would be. We played a very difficult team, a team that's playing its best soccer right now, ateam that's recovered from injuries, and are a very strong, physical team.
Both sides will but forward significantly weakened teams from the Ideal XIs that a coach prefers. Seattle Sounders coach Sigi Schmid has dealt with the injuries a bit longer so his reduced team has a bit more experience than Frank Yallop's reduced San Jose Earthquakes.
The South Bay side still has decent talent though.
The Western Conference lost quite a few of its star players this off-season -- including David Beckham, Fredy Montero, Fabian Espindola, and Brek Shea. In their places come a great number of young players who have yet to make names for themselves, plus a few old guys in the twilights of their careers.
San Jose Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop won the MLS Coach of the Year for the second time in his career. After finishing 14th overall last year, the 48-year-old Canadian led the Earthquakes to the Supporters' Shield for the second [...]
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All season long, the San Jose Earthquakes had developed a flair for the dramatic.
Eight times in the regular season the Quakes had found the back net in stoppage times to rescue points for the Quakes on its way to capturing the Supporters Shield, and number nine was the first of the playoffs for the Quakes, as Victor Bernardez's free kick goal in the 94th minute of stoppage gave the Quakes a 1-0 win in the first leg of its Western Conference semifinal series against the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Some years it can be really difficult to settle on one head coach to consider the clear-cut choice for MLS Coach of the Year, but 2012 was not one of those years.
After guiding the San Jose Earthquakes to one of the most impressive and surprising seasons in MLS history, Frank Yallop stood head and shoulders above his peers.
Seattle Sounders slim chance at winning the Supporter's Shield was crushed Saturday evening in Seattle when the San Jose Earthquakes put on an offensive display that shows that they truly belong at the top of the MLS Table. The two sides have been building some bad blood recently, a couple of close matches, a couple of physical altercations, the same mutually exclusive prize in an unbalanced schedule and you've got a budding rivalry.
SAN JOSE, Calif. On Saturday night, Mehdi Ballouchy made his first commence for the San Jose Earthquakes in his unexampled team's 2-0 romp against Chivas USA. And it looks as though it might not be the Moroccan's last appearance in Frank Yallop's starting lineup. Read More
I was ready to let Saturday go. I really was. The breaks are the breaks. Head referee Chris
Penso called for 5 minutes of extra time in this past weekend's Chicago Fire vs. San Jose
Earthquakes game but Chris Lenhart was able to score a goal in the 98th minute of play anyway. I'm
sure somewhere down the line the Chicago Fire will benefit from a time keeping error (perhaps this
was even cosmic payback for a mistake in the past).
Midfielder Mehdi Ballouchy is now a member of the San Jose Earthquakes, the club announced on
Monday. San Jose sent a 2013 international spot and a 2013 conditional draft pick to New York for
Ballouchy. "I've admired his play over the seven years he's been in the league," Earthquakes coach
Frank Yallop said.
Last year San Jose Earthquakes physically beat up and outworked a Fire team that could ill
afford a loss. It was one of those very questionable losses that you could see coming a mile away.
For whatever reason Frank Klopas deployed an odd lineup. Some of this was due to suspensions (Sega
was suspended for last year's game in San Jose as well) but others were coaching decisions.
You know Brek [Shea] usually takes them, so does David Ferreira and Daniel Hernandez has taken
them. But for us at the moment after subbing Shea and Ferreira off, it was, ‘Who can take it?' We
had three guys in mind and looking back on it, I probably should have gone with one of the other
two. - Schellas Hyndman
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The Official Podcast of MLSReserves.com. In this episode Luke is joined by a man behind one of the
most unique forms of grassroots soccer growth: Dan Wiersema of TheFreeBeerMovement.com. Dan talks
about the goals of the movement and the success they've already enjoyed. In the second half of the
show San Jose's Frank Yallop lends his time to discuss the Earthquakes, MLS All-Stars and the
Canadian national team.
The MLS returns to action this evening, now that the FIFA-mandated international break has
mostly passed. The European Championships continue, but nearly every other international
competition has wrapped up this past week. So that means we're back to MLS soccer. All but one of
the Western Conference teams will be in action this weekend, with the San Jose Earthquakes waiting
until Wednesday to get their restart.
DC United, riding their first winning streak since 2009 thanks to Maicon Santos (left), will likely
need some luck to stretch that streak into a third win in a row against the Earthquakes Tomorrow
night in San Jose. SJ has ...
By all accounts, Steven Lenhart is a laid-back and mellow person off the field. Someone who
enjoys surfing and is considered quiet by most who know him.
On the field, the San Jose Earthquakes forward is something else entirely.
Lenhart has fashioned a well-earned reputation as a bad boy, a villain, the kind of player who
spends as much time getting under his opponent's skin as he does actually playing the game.
With a road game in Seattle followed by the first of three grudge matches against the Red Bulls,
Saturday's home game against the depleted West Conference leading San Jose Earthquakes should have
been a chance for the Union to jump on their weakened guests and claim their third consecutive
victory.
(This recap will be short for the time being due to time constraints
- read going to the Flyers playoff game - but will be updated later.)
Gabriel Gomez's team leading third goal of the season was not enough to keep the Philadelphia
Union from dropping three points, as the home team gave up two late goals to lose to the San Jose
Earthquakes 2-1.
Union's Nowak waiting for league's verdict on suspension - delcotimes.com
"I don't want to really go into details before the situation (arrives) with the verdict," Nowak
said Wednesday during his weekly meeting with the media. "We want to see what happens. Going into
details won't change that.
Union top Reading in friendly. USA prepares for Panama after big win in Jamaica. Harrisburg falls to Colorado Reserves. Reading and Ocean City win in league play. More news.
Now that this is Schellas Hyndman's fifth full season at the helm of FC Dallas, it's time to look at where he ranks in terms of the longest-tenured coaches in Major League Soccer. So, here's the breakdown of the top five.
Major League Soccer oftentimes feels like a crapshoot. How else can you explain the San Jose Earthquakes finishing seventh in the Western Conference last year and winning the Supporters' Shield this year or a fifth seed meeting a fourth seed [...]
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Time to pay the piper... Scoring: 4 and a half points. Wow, that's brutal. Worst ever. Didn't see the insane SJ season coming, but did anyone? George john is gonna get me 5 and a half, come on Geroge!
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As Major League Soccer continues with their awards program, MLS named San Jose's Frank Yallop as 2012 Coach of the Year. Yallop's team won the Supporters' Shield, exiting the playoffs in the Western Conference semifinals. Yallop received the majority of the club, media, and players votes. "This is a great individual honor," Yallop said in a press statement.
I've got nothing this week. Cascadian win? Zakuani's return? Mario Martinez? I covered all of
that last weekend. So this opener is a little lackluster. Sorry. I'll be better next time.
Top Drawer Soccer has some excellent coverage on the college players looking to enter MLS over
the next few years.
Check out PSP's match report, which also contains a number of illuminating quotes from the
coaches and players.
John Hackworth said after the game, "It was really tough loss to lose a game like that in injury
time after fighting so hard to come back and equalizing.
RSL and TFC hope to end some winless runs this weekend. (Getty Images)
Midweek games here in Dallas never cease to amazing me at how much it breaks up my week. Normal
weeks have me doing the same old thing but a game smack dap in the middle of the week is a nice
break.
Last night's RSL-FC Dallas game was a good one to get the new week started in Major League
Soccer too.
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Carroll, McInerney and Okugo show up on end of the season best lists at Soccer America and SBI. Philly Mag says Sons of Ben one of the best things in the city. How to market new women's league. Champions League/Europa League merger? More.
The defense will need to do this to 2012 MVP Wondolowski After a week of the Rapids are back in action at the Dick tomorrow, facing San Jose. The Earthquakes also had last weekend off, and took the down time as an opportunity for the team and coach Frank Yallop to go their separate ways. So Colorado will be facing a team under new management, with this being Mark Watson's first game in charge.
The BMO Field of Suffolk For someone who exploits many a word on this site to bemoan the extreme weather conditions and rickety tin-can architecture that constitutes a BMO Field fixture, the irony of my away day was not lost. As the Easter Weekend wind and sleet whipped off of the nearby North Sea coast, I stifled chattering teeth long enough to allow a wry smile in the realization of what I had stumbled upon.
With Daniel [Hernandez] picking up injuries, you're looking for someone who can be the next
captain. When you think about it, you could give it to David Ferreira, you could give it to Kevin
Hartman, who just played in his 400th game or you can give it to Andrew Jacobson. - Schellas
Hyndman
