Olympic Lyonnais picked her up in July--she's a goalkeeper. Nice kid, phenomenal soccer player.

... it suggests that the American consumer, benefitting from an improved domestic league and access to cable broadcasts of top European leagues, declines to watch meaningless games mostly rostered with substitutes. I have been avoiding going to those games for over a decade for just that reason. I did attend Sounders/Dortmund this year because I had a free ticket into one of the luxury boxes.

One at Soldier Field (Bayern/AC Milan) and the recent one at ND.

For the most part, both matches featured star players - I don't have an issue with the South Americans and Africans being left out of the Liverpool squad, as it was a perfectly valid reason.

They are definitely overpriced and it doesn't look like anything more than a cash grab.

where they play. I may be wrong, but it appears they, more often than not, go to the same cities/stadiums.

Why don't they come to Atlanta? I couldn't care less about MLS, but ATL is rabid mad about ATL United, and Mercedes Benz Stadium is probably one of the best stadiums (better than NRG), synthetic pitch aside.

I'd pay top dollars just to see Manchester United no matter who they trot out there (heck, I flew to Houston two years ago just to see them), but I wouldn't continue doing so unless they play their stars or new transfers.

And the atmosphere is not good at all. I'd rather save the ticket money for a flight to Europe