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Thank you. Welcome to Allocation Disorder, the final episode of 2021.

I am Sam Stascold, joined this week by Felipe Cardenas. Felipe, thanks for joining me, man. Happy to be here, yeah. Happy you're here to help send off the year that was. We're going to talk a little bit about MLS Cup, about NYCFC, their victory over Portland. We're going to talk a little bit about the state of both clubs.

We're going to kind of go on a tour of Major League Soccer.

Philippe and I teamed up for a piece.

They ran on the athletic on Wednesday.

They touched on a lot of different things happening around the league,

including LASC's coaching search,

various potential free agent deals, some developments in Houston.

We're going to talk about Charlotte, their inaugural roster build, starting to come together a little bit.

We have some thoughts there, and we'll get to a few of your questions at the end.

But Felipe, let's just dive right in, man.

Let's do it.

MLS Cup.

I was in Portland at Providence Park.

You were watching from afar.

NYCFC obviously outlasted the timbers on penalties after a remarkably dramatic finish where Felipe Amora scored with five seconds left.

If you're listening to the show, you know all about it. I don't need to recap it for you. But I'm curious what your impressions were because when you're at a game, sometimes you get caught up in the atmosphere a little bit. That may have happened to me on Saturday. The atmosphere was one that was worth getting caught up in, by the way. But I'm curious what your impressions of the match were from afar, watching from home.

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