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Yahoo
28-02-2025
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🎥 Leagues Cup reveal nominees for best save, assist, goal and celebration
The Leagues Cup brought fans plenty of drama in 2024, and it's time to relive all the best moments. Here are the nominees for the year's best save, assist, goal and celebration. It's Awards Season 🤩Time to vote for your #LeaguesCup2024 favorites 🤩First in the list 🥁#BestSaves — Leagues Cup (@LeaguesCup) February 26, 2025 Goalkeepers often don't get enough credit for their heroics, but here are four names who stood out between the sticks. The nominees include Dayne St. Clair (Minnesota United FC), Luis Malagon (Club América), Zack Steffen (Colorado Rapids) and Kevin Mier (Cruz Azul). Duelo de Mateos, de asistencia de un portero, de #ClásicoTapatío, de rematch de la final de #LeaguesCup2024... 🤯With you, the #BestAssist nominees 🫶⚽️ — Leagues Cup (@LeaguesCup) February 27, 2025 Scorers have their names on the scoresheet, but the players who help create chances out of nothing pull a lot of weight on the pitch. Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris (LAFC), defender Mateo Chávez (Chivas), midfielder Mateo Garcia (Atlas) and midfielder Mo Farsi (Columbus Crew) are all up for best assist of 2024. And last but not least, our #BestGoal nominees ⚽️😎This is art 🖌️ — Leagues Cup (@LeaguesCup) February 27, 2025 As perhaps the most significant honour up for grabs, here are the best goals from the 2024 Leagues Cup. Alan Medina (Club Leon), Matias Rojas (Inter Miami), Nelson Palacio (Real Salt Lake) and Paulinho (Toluca) all made the list. Nothing like the emotion after scoring a golazo ⚽️Y estas celebraciones llevaron el momento en #LeaguesCup2024 al siguiente nivel 🤩 — Leagues Cup (@LeaguesCup) February 27, 2025 And a nice surprise addition sees the Leagues Cup also send a nod to some of the best celebrations. Avilés Hurtado (FC Juarez), Diego Fagúndez (LA Galaxy), Juan Pablo Vigón (Club Tigres) and Sergio Santos (FC Cincinnati) all pulled out the moves on the pitch. Who should be the winner for each award? Let us know in the comments below. Feature image credit: © John Hefti-Imagn Images
Yahoo
04-02-2025
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🖐️ underrated MLS transfers so far this winter window
This MLS transfer window has been a doozy, with the league-record fee being broken on multiple occasions, plus a number of teams flexing their financial muscle to rebuild their squads ahead of the new season. Putting the big-money deals to the side for the time being however, let's take a look at a few of the most underrated transfers of the winter so far. 📸 Katie Stratman-Imagn Images The Shakhtar Donetsk striker has found a new home in MLS after a short stint with FC Cincinnati, and Portland seems to be a perfect landing spot for him. Kelsy showed flashes of brilliance for Cincinnati, scoring six goals in 25 matches for the Eastern Conference club, but he joins a Portland attacking force primed and ready for forward competition. KEVIN. to the show, kid. Breakthrough for @fccincinnati! — Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 12, 2024 The trio of Evander, Jonathan Rodríguez, and Felipe Mora combined for 45 goals between them in the 2024 season, and fresh blood in the form of 20-year-old Kelsy is the perfect dose of competition for their veteran attacking stars. Depth has long been an issue for the Timbers, but having a burgeoning star ready to come off the bench or slide into the starting rotation gives Phil Neville a new set of options up front. 📸 Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images The Rapids have become the kings of making shrewd moves within MLS, rarely loosening the purse-strings for players from foreign leagues, and they've done well once again to wrap up the signing of Awaziem this winter. The 28-year-old is a fully-fledged Nigeria international and has experience at a handful of top-tier leagues in Europe. The Rapids were in need of a defensive overhaul after an impressive 2024 campaign under Chris Armas, qualifying the the playoffs and playing some attractive stuff in the process. With Cincinnati finding themselves with too many senior center-backs on their hands heading into 2025, Colorado did well to pounce and bring the Nigerian (and his Cincinnati teammate Ian Murphy) in for just $1m in allocation money. 📸 Robert Edwards-Imagn Images It's not often the free-agent signing of an in-prime striker goes under the radar, but with the star-studded transfers of this winter Jeremy Ebobisse's move to LAFC turned out to do just that. The former San Jose Earthquake forward has bagged 60 goals in his MLS career, plus a healthy 18 assists. His best campaign came in 2022 when he averaged a goal every 180 minutes for San Jose, but those numbers must come with the asterisk that the Earthquakes were categorically woeful throughout the majority of his three-season stint there. What a ball from Cristian Espinoza 👌Perfect header from Jeremy Ebobisse 💥@SJEarthquakes open the scoring against Chivas. #LeaguesCup2024 — Major League Soccer (@MLS) July 28, 2024 His move to LAFC has the hallmarks of a perfect transfer, particularly now that Mateusz Bogusz has departed for Mexico. If Ebobisse can rediscover his shooting boots in an LAFC team where he will be surrounded by much better talent, there is no reason to say he can't compete with Olivier Giroud for the starting spot. 📸 David Kirouac-Imagn Images It was always going to be tough to replace the departing John Tolkin this winter for the New York Red Bulls, but they have potentially struck gold with the free signing of Raheem Edwards. Edwards has shown the ability to be comfortable inverting into midfield from full-back, playing in a back-five as a wing-back, or playing the natural role of an end-to-end left-back in a classic back-four. Signing a player like Raheem Edwards is how Red Bull should use MLS free agency. In 177 career MLS matches, Edwards has eight goals and 28 only will he be a useful player, but he will also be a good mentor for the younger fullbacks in the organization. #RBNY — Daniel Rebain 🇺🇲🇵🇱 (@pvtmcbain) January 30, 2025 In a Red Bull system that prides itself of innovative tactics and versatility throughout it's squad, the signing of the former LA Galaxy and CF Montréal man may have been a truly shrewd one considering their potential budget restrictions. 📸 Anne-Marie Sorvin-Imagn Images Williamson is one of American soccer's more frustrating stories. The midfielder showed bags of potential after breaking onto the scene with the Timbers during the 2020 campaign, but after suffering consecutive major knee injuries his rise to prominence was thoroughly derailed. Despite the setbacks, Williamson has found his way back onto the pitch year after year and showed signs of being a truly elegant midfielder when he could stay fit for extended periods of time. Welcome back, Eryk Williamson! 🤩📺 #MLSSeasonPass: — Major League Soccer (@MLS) February 25, 2024 With a new lease on life in Charlotte and platform to rack up more minutes, Williamson should be chomping at the bit to show why he was in serious consideration for a USMNT call-up before his injury issues. 📸 Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images
