Last weekend marked the first time that teams from the East and West met in the Bundesliga as Hertha Berlin made the short trip to newly-promoted Union Berlin.
Outside The Box
A look around the happenings of interest, oddities, and other weirdness from the world of soccer.
Outside the Box: Smalling, Selfies, and subs
MLS Cup is going to be Seattle and Toronto for the third time in four years, and hopefully it will be better than the last…
Outside the Box: Pay days and blows to the head
What a week! FC Dallas go to Seattle in a playoff game everyone really wrote off. Despite a hell of a fightback, a couple of sloppy goals consign the Huntsmen to a 4-3 loss in extra time. North Texas SC did leave local soccer fans delighted as they won the USL League One final 1-0 over John Harkes’ Greenville Triumph. NTX Rayados also did what they do best and beat Innocentes FC 7-0 in the US Open Cup qualifiers. If you’re not watching some level of live local soccer, you’re just doing it wrong!
Outside the Box: Shoes, helmet, rouge – Got everything
The GOAT bagged himself a sixth Golden Shoe this morning, the European goalscoring title, breaking his own record of five and becoming the only person…