A significant portion of the proceeds ($10 per scarf) from all pre-orders this week of the new Pitch Invasion bar scarf will be donated to benefit the Operation Pitch Invasion charity in Portland, Oregon. Here's why...

When supporters of the Portland Timbers, organized by the 107ist Trust and Timbers Army, announced in 2011 that they were launching a new charity called Operation Pitch Invasion to support the growth of the game at the grassroots level in Portland, Pitch Invasion's interest was piqued by more than just the Doppelgänger.

By FRANCO PANIZO

LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. -- Most of the players called into the U.S. Under-23 men's national team camp that ply their trade in a league other than MLS have yet to break into their team's rotation.

That's not the case for Joe Corona.

At 21, Corona is a regular in Club Tijuana's gameday rosters.

NORFOLK SHARX STILL HUNGRY FOR FIRST WIN Drop home match to Missouri 15-4
Norfolk, Virginia – The Norfolk SharX looked threatening in the first half of Saturday night's game against Missouri at Norfolk Scope Arena but were only able to capitalize once for two points during the first two periods.

(All translation help from @barbcvphilly)

A Costa Rican news outlet, Teletica Deportes, is reporting that Deportivo Saprissa will play the Philadelphia Union in a summer friendly during the 2012 MLS season. Deportes says that the Union areed to play Saprissa as part of the two teams' transfer that ended with striker Josue Martinez joining Philadelpia.

That's one delicious seat cushionBienvenue la "401 Derby"! With the new improved Stade Saputo (aka L'Emporium de Fromage) under construction and the bones of the squad starting to come together via the MLS Expansion Draft, TFC's natural rival, Montreal Impact, are inching towards life in the big leagues.

Aggregate scoring are foreign words to U.S. sports fans. Generally speaking, they have no idea what it means and its existence is one more distance marker between them and Soccer.
A win in the first game has no bearing on the outcome of which team moves forward to the next round of the playoffs.

Mauro Rosales could make his long-awaited return to the field on Saturday when the Seattle Sounders take on the San Jose Earthquakes. Coach Sigi Schmid announced on Friday that Rosales would at least be in the gameday 18. But it wasn't all good news as he also noted that defender Jeff Parke has not yet been cleared after suffering a concussion last week.

By the time Keane and Arena finished the post-game presser, the visitor's locker room was almost all devoid of Earthquake players. That wasn't too surprising, because in general, the losing team clears out quickly.
The lovely Mrs. Keane was in the hallway to have a quick word with her goalscoring hubby.

By the time Keane and Arena finished the post-game presser, the visitor's locker room was almost all devoid of Earthquake players. That wasn't too surprising, because in general, the losing team clears out quickly.
The lovely Mrs. Keane was in the hallway to have a quick word with her goalscoring hubby.

Daniel Robertson, of SB Nation's FC Dallas blog Big D Soccer, and I discussed tonight's Dallas-Philadelphia Union game. We differed on score, player of the game and a lot of other things, but we seemed to agree on Andrew Jacobson. Odd.

Big D: Going be an interesting match. If I remember right, Fabian Castillo absolutely murdered the Union earlier this year in 'frisco.

As you may have realized, there are a lot more readers interacting on our forums lately. That's no mistake. From this point a year ago, this site has seen traffic triple. In that time, we've added a lot features, many of which I imagine go unnoticed.

With these two things in mind -- and this being a slow weekend -- we felt it might be a good time to both go over some of the ground-rules here, as well as explain some of the site's features:

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As Friday beckons, the Philadelphia Union and the Sons of Ben continue to promote their charity match at PPL Park. The two sides held a press conference to bring more attention to the first annual River Cup, which will help provide funding for local youth club Chester City United.

Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz and Sons of Ben President Matt Ansbro sat at a table and went over the details of the game, before delving into some light hearted back-and-forth smack talk.

This story will be a trial for a possible weekly piece asking for your opinions on a certain subject. The Brotherly Game will present the facts and link to any tBG articles involving the question posed during any given week. We will then publish a follow up story within the next couple of days with your answers.

Michael Tetteh has shown glimpses of being a special player, but has yet to appear in a MLS game for the Seattle Sounders. Now, he's being loaned to Orlando City of third-division USL-Pro until July 10. The Sounders can recall him at any point. The move does not free up a roster spot or any salary-cap space.

The Sons of Ben announced on Friday that co-founder Brian James has stepped down as president of the Philadelphia Union supporters group.

Matt Ansboro, the vice-president under James, will take over as president of the supporters group. Gameday capo Core Furlan will be the new vice-president.

Giornata 38, despite being the last gameday of the 2010-2011 season, was as fascinating as ever. 10 games, 37 goals, 1 red card, 2 penalties scored, and 2 own goals demonstrated that Serie A went out with a bang. Here are six things that the last matchday of the season taught us. The Old Lady wants a young coach Ahead of Juventus' final game against Napoli, Sporting Director Giuseppe Marotta.

Just another day in calcio- schedule changes, loving coaches, and new ideas.

1.Inter are so impressed with Leonardo that general manager Ernesto Paolillo believes he will be at the club for a long time to come:

Leonardo will be the Coach of the future. He came to us for a long-term project and we want to introduce more young players.

This is a metaphor for the Super Bowl. Steelers get eye-poked. Packers win!You may or may not have known this, but USMNT and recently returned to Major League Soccer (for the Vancouver Whitecaps) defender Jay DeMerit is one of the coolest people on the Twitter-box.
I know, you're telling yourself.