8.5.15
ASN Morning Read: New Arrivals and Departures
Major League Soccer introduces a major name. No, this is not a repeat Morning Read. The United States women's national team gets close to re-signing their World Cup-winning coach. Mix and Legos.
- Gio dos:
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Ambition: "Our goal every year is to win a championship. I think that this – not this single thing [with Dos Santos], but the team that we're building—we want to win everything that there is out there. I think MLS Cup is one part of that, but we're aiming for something bigger. We want to be the first [MLS] club to win Champions League. We want to set the standard for MLS, like we've done so many times before."
- Werder. Bremen. Or, if it's in The New York Times it must be true.
- This seems like a smart decision:
Spoke to Jill Ellis today. Said she was finalizing new contract "very soon."
— Michelle Kaufman (@kaufsports) August 5, 2015 - The Seattle Sounders are changing the analytics world: It isn’t often that your crusty great uncle sitting around a Thanksgiving dinner table and a computer scientist hunched over a spreadsheet share a common viewpoint, but here it goes: There isn’t enough scoring in soccer. Soccer statistics, as sports data goes, are still in their prehistoric period, the time before its version of OPS. There are so few scoring plays that it has proved difficult to tease out the winning moments, to find a formula in determining the difference between title-winners and also-rans.
- Here's Lego Mix Diskerud and real Mix Diskerud meeting for the first time:
Meeting Lego-me for the very first time was exciting. Top guy???? Thanks @OyoSports pic.twitter.com/CW3nJWThsC
— Mix Diskerud (@MixDiskerud) August 4, 2015
