Allocation Disorder: Examining the Super League’s (theoretical) model in light of MLS’s structure, what the ESL drama means for MLS, takeaways from Week 1, and much more
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🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Allocation Disorder, Paul and Sam sift through this week's Super League drama, but from an American soccer & Major League Soccer perspective. How similar is MLS's structure to the Super League's proposed structure? And what does all of this Super League talk mean for MLS? Then, after the Super League discussion, it's on to takeaways from MLS's opening weekend!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam. He is Paul. |
| 0:21.6 | We are coming to you on the back of one of the most crazy weeks that I can remember in the world of soccer in quite some time. |
| 0:29.4 | We don't have a nostalgic 90s snack for you, but I do have a nostalgic 2000 soccer tournament. |
| 0:36.7 | Not the Super League, Paul. Superliga. You remember that thing? Of course I do. I grew up with DC United fan. Of course I know the Superliga. Yeah, but this wasn't like your childhood, old man. Yeah, but still, DC United was a regular of the Superliga. Did you ever cover Super League? For those who don't know, Super Leaguea was the original |
| 0:55.3 | League's Cup between MLS and League MX. |
| 0:59.2 | It was just like, what, two-week tournament, essentially, |
| 1:03.1 | at one site most of the time or two sites in North America. |
| 1:07.2 | It changed around a little bit. |
| 1:08.1 | Actually, the Super League was, like, definitely way after my, like, fandom years. I was a little bit. Actually, the Super League was like definitely way after my like fandom years. |
| 1:12.9 | I was a professional journalist for all four years. |
| 1:16.1 | I covered the Super League. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | So like, you know, anyway, it was a weird little tournament. |
| 1:21.5 | There was a million dollar cash prize for the winner that they would carry around in a suitcase at some of these tournaments. |
| 1:29.1 | So the stakes were kind of cool. |
| 1:30.8 | DC United wasn't even in the Super League. |
| 1:32.8 | They never played in the Super League. |
| 1:34.4 | You're just making stuff up. |
| 1:35.5 | I was thinking of the Intercontinental Championship. |
| 1:37.7 | That's what I was thinking. |
| 1:38.5 | How dare you? |
| 1:40.9 | So yeah, the Super League, the original Leagues Cup, the original Super League, and that, of course, |
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