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Season Review: MLS 2016 Round-up

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Season Review: MLS 2016 Round-up With one final swoosh of Roman Torres’ right foot from the penalty spot the 2016 MLS season was concluded. The Seattle Sounders are MLS Cup champions for the first time and the shutters have been brought down on what was a compelling campaign.It’s now time to reflect on the past 12 month...

Form Guide: Toronto looking the real deal beyond Giovinco's genius

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Form Guide: Toronto looking the real deal beyond Giovinco's genius There’s a certain stigma attached to Toronto FC. Renowned as North America’s most tediously tragic club, failing to deliver on big objectives and big promises time and time again, the Canadians were MLS’s easiest of easy targets. Until this season that is.Greg Vanney led TFC to the...

League Focus: Five Questions Ahead of MLS 2016

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League Focus: Five Questions Ahead of MLS 2016 Three months will have passed since the 2015 MLS Cup final when the 2016 Major League Soccer campaign kicks off on Sunday, and plenty has happened in that time. North America’s top flight is set for another compelling season.There have been managerial changes, big-name transfers and a number o...

Player Focus: Strong Start at Toronto Suggests Giovinco Worth Record Salary

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Player Focus: Strong Start at Toronto Suggests Giovinco Worth Record Salary Toronto FC are undoubtedly Major League Soccer’s most tedious team. Regardless of the cash that has been splurged by the Canadians in recent years, the franchise flops season after season and has become the common target of North American football’s derision. The appointment of Tim Leiwe...

League Focus: MLS 2015 Preview - 6 Signings to Watch

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League Focus: MLS 2015 Preview - 6 Signings to Watch And so Major League Soccer 3.0 is upon us. If the arrival of David Beckham marked the second phase of soccer’s development in the United States, then the new season of North America’s top-flight signals the third. Orlando City and New York City FC will play their inaugural seasons in 201...

Player Focus: An Alternative Look at Europe's Most Creative Players

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Player Focus: An Alternative Look at Europe's Most Creative Players It's fair to say that when you think of Europe's most creative players your mind tends to wander towards Spain's plethora of midfield talent. Indeed, in Europe's top 5 leagues last season it was Man City's David Silva who picked up the most key passes per game (3.3) and Barcelona's Andres Iniesta wh...

Player Focus: The Best Of Sebastian Giovinco Is Yet To Come

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Player Focus: The Best Of Sebastian Giovinco Is Yet To Come “What a waste!” screamed the front page of Sunday’s Tuttosport, the Turin based sports daily bemoaning the fact an utterly dominant Juventus – the league’s leading scorers – had failed to find a single goal against Lazio the previous evening. La Gazzetta dello Spo...

League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers

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League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers The start of the new Serie A season is almost upon us, with Italy’s top flight set to return to action this coming weekend. In a summer transfer window which has seen six of the previous campaign's top twenty performers (according to our own WhoScored.com ranking system) changing clubs, we dec...

Accurate and Prolific: Europe's Top Crossers

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Accurate and Prolific: Europe's Top Crossers WhoScored has decided to scour its plentiful statistics to ascertain the best crossers in Europe based on the accuracy of those who are most prolific across the top 5 leagues. Only 9 players made the grade in our search, filtering out all of those who haven't attempted at least 2 crosses per game an...

Giovinco & Torje Among Small Players with Big Futures

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Giovinco & Torje Among Small Players with Big Futures As Barcelona are currently and continually proving, size doesn’t matter. After a number of years where seemingly every club was packing their squad with imposing physical players, the game has changed to the extent where smaller [insert own use of ‘diminutive’ here] players are ver...