Oct 13, 2008
Top Secret: USL-1 Championship
The USL-1 championship game between Vancouver Whitecaps and the Puerto Rico Islanders I mentioned in the last post is taking place tonight.
But shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone, we don't want the secret to get out.
At least that's how it seems, since I don't have Fox Soccer Channel, where it's being televised. Other outlets one might use to follow the game, such as a match-tracker on soccernet.com, are nowhere to be found. Even the USLSoccer website doesn't make a big deal of the game, placing their pregame write-up as the 2nd of 9 rotating stories on the home page. And no match-tracker there, either.
I've seen — and participated in — various debates about whether USL-1 and MLS are equivalent, or competitors, etc. With the former's better performance in the CONCACAF Champions League so far, it might make you wonder. Then again, when the final championship game of the top tier of the league registers as less than a blip anywhere but one cable-only TV channel, maybe there's not much to argue there, after all.
Update: Whitecaps win the championship, 2-1.
But shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone, we don't want the secret to get out.
At least that's how it seems, since I don't have Fox Soccer Channel, where it's being televised. Other outlets one might use to follow the game, such as a match-tracker on soccernet.com, are nowhere to be found. Even the USLSoccer website doesn't make a big deal of the game, placing their pregame write-up as the 2nd of 9 rotating stories on the home page. And no match-tracker there, either.
I've seen — and participated in — various debates about whether USL-1 and MLS are equivalent, or competitors, etc. With the former's better performance in the CONCACAF Champions League so far, it might make you wonder. Then again, when the final championship game of the top tier of the league registers as less than a blip anywhere but one cable-only TV channel, maybe there's not much to argue there, after all.
Update: Whitecaps win the championship, 2-1.
// posted by Chris @ 6:47 AM 
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