Some Soccer News for Feb 1, 2017
du Nord, February 1, 2017
It's Day 32 of 2017. Apparently the group who made a bid yesterday to bring MLS to Sacramento CA did NOT include the ownership of current USL team Sacramento Republic - must to the shocking surprise of the Sacramento Republic! Club Statement on MLS application: pic.twitter.com/dStWnJjpnl — Republic FC (@SacRepublicFC) February 1, 2017 Look, unless the people who placed the bid strung the Republic along with a phony application to MLS, then the people running the Republic are pretty damn stupid, and can't really claim they didn't see this coming. On the other hand, devious bastards are everywhere. dN I was curious about the MLS teams followings on social media. So I ran the numbers. Twitter Followers (thousand): 343 LA Galaxy 342 Seattle 327 Orlando 295 New York City 286 Vancouver 284 Houston 279 Toronto 268 Kansas City 262 Montreal 219 Portland 191 Atlanta 176 New York Red Bull 171 San Jose 130 Columbus 121 Dallas 116 Salt Lake 113 DC 111 Chicago 101 Philadelphia 84 New England 78 Colorado 64 LA FC 44 Minnes