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FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Male Player
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Male PlayerAs 2016 comes to a close, FiftyFive.One is honoring the best Minnesota soccer players. This week, we’ll release the shortlist of nominees across six categories. Readers can vote for their favorites with the winners announced next week. To wrap up our voting, we look to the older players that represented Minnesota this past year in MLS…
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FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Young Male Player U-23
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Young Male Player U-23As 2016 comes to a close, FiftyFive.One is honoring the best Minnesota soccer players. This week, we’ll release the shortlist of nominees across six categories. Readers can vote for their favorites with the winners announced next week. Today we look at Minnesota’s young guns. These guys are playing in different parts of the world and…
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FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Minneapolis City Nominees
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Minneapolis City NomineesAs 2016 comes to a close, FiftyFive.One is honoring the best Minnesota soccer players. This week, we’ll release the shortlist of nominees across six categories. Readers can vote for their favorites with the winners announced next week. Minneapolis City’s first season ended one place in the Premier League West Division standings short of its preseason…
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FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: MNUFC Nominees
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: MNUFC NomineesAs 2016 comes to a close, FiftyFive.One is honoring the best Minnesota soccer players. This week, we’ll release the shortlist of nominees across six categories. Readers can vote for their favorites with the winners announced next week. Minnesota came into the 2016 NASL season as heavy favorites to make some noise. A flurry of injuries and…
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FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Gopher Nominees
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: FiftyFive.One Best of 2016: Gopher NomineesAs 2016 comes to a close, FiftyFive.One is honoring the best Minnesota soccer players. This week, we’ll release the shortlist of nominees across six categories. Readers can vote for their favorites with the winners announced next week. The Gophers had a storied season, winning both the season and tournament titles for the Big Ten Conference. The…
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Who’s Next For MLS Expansion?
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: Who’s Next For MLS Expansion?Ten cities, four* spots, same old considerations? A little over one year ago, I wrote about the developing race for the 25th through 28th spots in MLS. What unexpectedly followed was a year in which the expansion process was set to a slow burn. The monthly expansion updates that we’d come to expect diminished, and…
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Scouting the Scouting Trip: Potential Minnesota United Targets in Costa Rica
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: Scouting the Scouting Trip: Potential Minnesota United Targets in Costa RicaAs Minnesota United continue to build their roster, the club sent Director of Player Personnel Amos Magee, General Manager Manny Lagos, and Head Coach Adrian Heath on scouting trips to Latin and South America. As Wes Burdine did during Manny Lagos’ trip to Norway and Sweden this past summer, we’ve done some scouting of a few…
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The Future Is Now: Grading the Expansion Draft
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: The Future Is Now: Grading the Expansion DraftOn Tuesday, Minnesota United took part in the Expansion Draft with Atlanta United. In a draft that matched very few people’s predictions, both teams came out with five new additions to their roster. FiftyFive.One’s Jeff Rueter and Alex Schieferdecker look at the hauls. Jeff: Hey Alex! I think I’ve finally caught my breath from the Expansion…
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The FiftyFive.One Mock Expansion Draft
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: The FiftyFive.One Mock Expansion DraftOn Tuesday’s episode of the FiftyFive.One Podcast, we completed our version of a mock MLS Expansion Draft between Minnesota and Atlanta. Jake Rueter picked for Minnesota United, while Alex Schieferdecker played the Atlanta United role. With Jeff Rueter acting as a moderator and live reactor (they didn’t tell me their picks in advance), we have…
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Gopher Goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs Uses Father’s Memory as Motivation
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: Gopher Goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs Uses Father’s Memory as MotivationGophers Digital Productions has recently released a brief but excellent video on senior goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs. The Faces of Fearless series speaks to Hobbs about the tragic loss of her father at 8 years old and how her hero’s death didn’t fully affect her until she was in her sophomore year of college. Hobbs has used…
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Looking Back: Expansion Teams and the MLS SuperDraft
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: Looking Back: Expansion Teams and the MLS SuperDraftSince 2007, nine teams have joined MLS and taken part in the MLS SuperDraft in their first year. Each team has had a slightly different approach to the draft. Minnesota has the first pick in the upcoming SuperDraft, so which team should the club model its approach after? The 2017 SuperDraft, taking place on January 13,…
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What Does the Demise of the NASL Mean for Refereeing in the US?
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: What Does the Demise of the NASL Mean for Refereeing in the US?Before I start, I want to point out that there’s a decent chance that headline may generate the least number of clicks in FiftyFive.One history. Somehow, I picture the average soccer fan seeing this headline and thinking, “Why should I care? I don’t want to read 2,200 words on officiating in a soccer league that likely…
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What Happened to the TOA’s Original NASL Founders
Categories: The AngleContinue Reading: What Happened to the TOA’s Original NASL FoundersOn Tuesday, US Soccer released a statement saying they postponed a decision for 7-10 days on the NASL/USL sanctioning of the second division. The current NASL crisis (where teams are hemorrhaging money) has brought up the discussion of what the original NASL was attempting with the Team Owners Association (TOA). Those TOA members started breaking away…