Major Link Soccer: MLS faces important homegrown precedent

MLS

MLS may be forced to set a Homegrown standard precedent by NYCFC's claim on Wake Forest freshman Jack Harrison; the club is citing his three years of play with youth affiliate Manhattan Soccer Club.

Following slowed contract negotiations between New England and Jermaine Jones, former Revs coach Steve Nichols expressed his doubt that Jones returns to the club at all, especially after the USMNT midfielder took to social media last week to voice his displeasure at the club's early offers.

Former D.C. United midfielder Clyde Simms seems to have come through his kidney transplant pretty well, with an incredible story on the road to finding a compatible donor.

Pre-Sounders MLS viewers will remember Marco Etcheverry as one of the league's premier players in the 90s. For his contribution to DC United's early dynasty, Etcheverry is getting a place in the DC Sports Hall of Fame.

About five years too late, 2010 World Cup star and long-time Sounders transfer rumor Diego Forlan has expressed interest in playing in MLS.

A trio of Revolution players spent the last three weeks training with Sporting CP in Portugal: Zachary Harivaux, Donnie Smith, and former Sounders HGP Sean Okoli.

World

Like an old and withered Light Yagami, the curtain obscuring Sepp Blatter's corrupt leadership of FIFA has fallen to reveal the horrible truth. Sentenced by an ethics committee of his own creation, Blatter was slapped with an eight-year ban, effectively ending his involvement with organized soccer. Now is as good a time as any to look back at the monster he created, and how it all caved on him.

Political dissent isn't protected under the law in Vietnam but gathering to play soccer is, and a growing movement is pushing these boundaries.

One Brazilian managed to convert the goal that results in the most fails in the FIFA video game: