MLS secure Adidas to improved sponsorship deal
MLS Major League Soccer ( MLS ) and Adidas have signed an eight-year sponsorship deal which will go into effect from 2011, reports euFootball.BIZ This new deal replaces an earlier 10-year deal of $150 million which started in 2005. An anonymous source said that the new arrangement is worth over $200 million. Adidas America president Patrik Nilsson said, "Both of us are feeling really good about ...

MLS Standoff
With the final third of the season in the cross hairs, MLS sides are working to keep their focus to make the final push and Soccer 365's Julian Kersh looks how players and teams are reacting in his weekly MLS Standoff column.

Timbers reveal MLS jersey sponsor: Alaska Airlines
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? When the Portland Timbers join Major league Soccer next season, their jerseys will be sponsored by Alaska Airlines. The Timbers announced the new title sponsor for their MLS kits on Thursday at Portland International Airport . Terms of the multiyear deal were not revealed.

MLS teams need to play up designated players
Since MLS revamped the designated player rule in April, general managers have gone on quite the shopping spree.

MLS to feel the effects of national teams
As the U.S. season comes to a crucial juncture, several players will leave their league clubs to join national squads for international games in the first week of September. Just when Major League Soccer is approaching the crucial part of the season, with every point important as the 16 teams scramble to be among the eight that will make the playoffs, along come the national teams.

Timbers Announce Alaska Airlines as Official Jersey Sponsor and Airline of MLS Club
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Major League Soccer (MLS) Portland Timbers and Alaska Airlines today announced that Alaska Airlines is the team's official airline.

Whitecaps FC Name Thordarson Inaugural MLS Head Coach
VANCOUVER, BC - Vancouver Whitecaps FC took an important step in shaping the identity of their Major League Soccer (MLS) team today, as the club announced Teitur Thordarson as the team's inaugural head coach when it begins play as the 17th team in MLS in March 2011. Per club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.

Philadelphia Soccer Fans Finally Finding Their Niche
Why waste your time and money building a soccer specific stadium near Philadelphia? Professional soccer never has and never will survive in an area where the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia Phillies are king. No, but it can certainly co-exist. For as long as I have lived here in the Delaware Valley, that has always been the mantra: soccer sucks and no one cares. News Flash! People do care ...

Soccer is more than just a sport
It?s time to accept soccer as a sport, America. No more excuses. re made about the future of soccer in the United States. And every four years Americans make the same excuses about why they won?t let soccer rise to the next level. Maybe it goes back to the Revolutionary War, and America didn?t want to [...]

Tobias Lopez: Development of home-grown players the way forward for MLS
The youth club soccer system in the United States far too often manifests itself as a dastardly collection of money-grubbing coaches concerned only in convincing affluent parents that they are worthy of their ridiculous salaries.

The MLS Million Dollar Challenge (Part Two): Picking the Team
So the challenge was simple enough: Pick an MLS starting eleven that which has a total 2010 Guaranteed Compensation under $1,000,000. The results were simple enough too. A pretty good team, I?d say. (Review it here .) But as it turns out, the process of choosing the team and some insights about the league that came from it are probably what was the most interesting. So, let?s look at how the ...

Timbers reveal MLS jersey sponsor: Alaska Airlines
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? When the Portland Timbers join Major league Soccer next season, their jerseys will be sponsored by Alaska Airlines.

Hartman MLS Player of Month
Major League Soccer and the North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) today announced that FC Dallas goalkeeper Kevin Hartman was voted Major League Soccer?s Player of the Month for August.

MLS Vancouver Whitecaps franchise expected to retain Teitur Thordarson as head coach
The Vancouver Whitecaps have scheduled a news conference for Thursday where they are expected to announce the appointment of current coach Teitur Thordarson as their choice to lead the team in their inaugural Major League Soccer season next year.

Kick Off: Controversy in DC, Riise targeting MLS
On a Wednesday that featured four matches involving MLS teams, three of which were single-elimination matches, the night was not short on drama and controversy.

Whitecaps trying to win now while looking ahead to MLS
The Vancouver Whitecaps are focused on winning a championship this season while trying to build a team for the move to Major League Soccer next year.

Timbers announce Alaska Airlines as sponsor for MLS jerseys
Timbers announce airline will sponsor team's MLS jersey; uniforms to be be unveiled in December.

MLS and adidas Extend Partnership
adidas and Major League Soccer today announced an extension to their strategic partnership agreement aimed at further elevating soccer in the United States and developing opportunities for young players. The partnership extends adidas? position as the official athletic sponsor and product supplier for the MLS through 2018.

Whitecaps retain Teitur Thordarson as head coach for MLS team in 2011
The Vancouver Whitecaps have made it official ? Teitur Thordarson will stay on to be their Major League Soccer head coach next season.

Whitecaps choose Thordarson to lead them into MLS
Teitur Thordarson will continue to coach the Vancouver Whitecaps when they move to Major League Soccer next season.