Real Salt Lake

[LiveCoug]

I freaking love doing that to Colorado!!!! Last minute goals against the Crapids are just common place! I love it!

[Portland Ute]

Ray-ALL

Roll your "r" sir!

[Portland Ute]

I love soccer. I love RSL. But I cannot do the whole British talk.

RSL WINS not win. Robbie Findley is fast, he doesn't have great pace. The team plays on a field, not a pitch.

Rant over.



Great game last night. If RSL gets just one goal @ Saprissa, that should pretty much do it as Saprissa would then need to score 4 to advance. Even still, I like our chances.

I couldn't agree more. The use of all the Brit terms in place of equivalent, more familiar terms is nauseating and sounds very affected. I grew up playing "soccer", still play it, love it...but part of what annoys me about American soccer is the forced use of all the brit terms like "pitch", "boots", "pace","kits", etc. I also don't enjoy the screwy use of the plural/singular as you rightly pointed out.

[Portland Ute]

The commandeering of Euro soccer names for the MLS teams is ridiculous.

Real, Sporting, United, FC. The wannabe Euro bullshit just drives some people away.

I don't mind the "United" or "FC" or even sporting. Those are descriptors. Athletic Club or AC is great, too. In fact, think of the Oakland Athletics? Really is it all that different?

The most ridiculous and inexplicable use is "Real". Really? Did you REALLY get a "charter" from the Monarch? Are you really Royal? So, so, so, so....sooooo stupid.

Stinking ridiculous and I hope as this club grows that it eventually drops the idiotic "Real" tag.

I suppose if I knew nothing of La Liga and Spain, it wouldn't bother me so much.

[Portland Ute]

This run in the Champions League has gotten my attention.

I'm sure I'll be viewed as a bandwagoner, but I'm not. I was skeptical about the product. I believed it was a tempest in a teapot. However, Salt Lake (I still refuse to attach the absurd Real title to a startup team outside of Spain with no connection to the Spanish crown) has shown they can play on an international stage.

I'm impressed.

I'm genuinely interested in the upcoming showdown with Monterrey and, hopefully, an appearance of SL in the Club World Cup. It will be fun to see an MLS team against giants of the world. Even moreso a team from my home state and town.

It is stuff like this that builds lasting fan bases, wins respect of soccer fans locally and world wide and creates some genuine interest.

I dream that someday an MLS team can compete in the Club World Cup and go toe to toe with and beat the giants of soccer.

[BoylenOver]

RSL are magic. They looked content to earn the draw most of the match, but awesome effort there at the end.

Also, brrrrrrr.

[LiveCoug]

RSL is magic. They looked content to earn the draw most of the game, but awesome effort there at the end.

Also, brrrrrrr.

Fixed.

[BoylenOver]

Fixed.

The more you guys complain, the more I'm going to do it. Now I think it's funny.

[LiveCoug]

The more you guys complain, the more I'm going to do it. Now I think it's funny.

I WILL cut you.

[il Padrino Ute]

I don't mind the "United" or "FC" or even sporting. Those are descriptors. Athletic Club or AC is great, too. In fact, think of the Oakland Athletics? Really is it all that different?

The most ridiculous and inexplicable use is "Real". Really? Did you REALLY get a "charter" from the Monarch? Are you really Royal? So, so, so, so....sooooo stupid.

Stinking ridiculous and I hope as this club grows that it eventually drops the idiotic "Real" tag.

I suppose if I knew nothing of La Liga and Spain, it wouldn't bother me so much.

Does it not matter to you that Real Madrid has no problem with Real Salt Lake? Both clubs have partnered and will establish an academy of soccer for the development of younger players. It will include housing and academics.

[Portland Ute]

Does it not matter to you that Real Madrid has no problem with Real Salt Lake? Both clubs have partnered and will establish an academy of soccer for the development of younger players. It will include housing and academics.

I will believe it when I see it. RSL and REAL Madrid were supposed to play every 2 years in SLC. They've played ONCE in 2006. Alll the fluff about a close relationship are mostly just that: Fluff. The matches haven't been played and what has been done to develop younger players? NADA.

Also, this relationship basically just establishes RSL as REAL Madrid's bitch. I'd just as soon they grow their image without the name. So, no...it doesn't change my opinion at all. The relationship could exist without the nonsensical name.

The name is ridiculous. I have a difficult time watching the boys strap on their boots, throw on their kits, hit the pitch and, with their best pace, win a match in the name of the Monarcy of Spain.

[BigFatMeanie]

This run in the Champions League has gotten my attention.

I'm sure I'll be viewed as a bandwagoner, but I'm not. I was skeptical about the product. I believed it was a tempest in a teapot. However, Salt Lake (I still refuse to attach the absurd Real title to a startup team outside of Spain with no connection to the Spanish crown) has shown they can play on an international stage.

I'm impressed.

I'm genuinely interested in the upcoming showdown with Monterrey and, hopefully, an appearance of SL in the Club World Cup. It will be fun to see an MLS team against giants of the world. Even moreso a team from my home state and town.

It is stuff like this that builds lasting fan bases, wins respect of soccer fans locally and world wide and creates some genuine interest.

I dream that someday an MLS team can compete in the Club World Cup and go toe to toe with and beat the giants of soccer.

The screwy thing about the Champions League and the League World Cup is that 2011's team is playing based on 2009's results.

[Portland Ute]

The screwy thing about the Champions League and the League World Cup is that 2011's team is playing based on 2009's results.

I know....that's the way it's always been.

There's really no way to change that unless you have "reunion" teams and bring back the players that were on the rosters during the seasons in which they qualified. That would be a mess.

[snowcat]

Bought my tickets for the second leg of the Champions league final. I am stoked.

[BoylenOver]

Bought my tickets for the second leg of the Champions league final. I am stoked.

Are you a STH, or are they available to the public at large now?

I'm getting really excited for tomorrow night. If we can come back for the 2nd leg down a goal or better, I really like our chances.