MLS & NASL This Weekend! Plus Euro 2012!

MLS MATCHES AND SCORES

WEEK 15

-Sat Jun 16
Philadelphia Union v DC United - 6pm CT on Galavision
Venue: PPL Park
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v Colorado Rapids - 6pm CT
Venue: BC Place
Houston Dynamo v FC Dallas - 6:30pm CT on ESPN2
Venue: BBVA Compass Stadium
Montreal Impact v Seattle Sounders FC - 6:30pm CT
Venue: Stade Saputo
New England Revolution v Columbus Crew - 6:30pm CT
Venue: Gillette Stadium
Sporting Kansas City v Toronto FC - 7:30pm CT
Venue: Livestrong Sporting Park
CD Chivas USA v Real Salt Lake - 9:30pm CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center
-Sun Jun 17
Chicago Fire SC v New York Red Bulls - 4pm CT on NBCSN
Venue: Toyota Park
LA Galaxy v Portland Timbers - 6pm CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center

MLS NEWS

What exactly went down in Philadelphia this week? Will we ever really have a clear picture as to why they fired head coach Peter Nowak? No, probably not. But here is a full run down:

Philadelphia Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz: "I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I know what good wine tastes like. When I sipped the wine recently, it didn't taste so good."

Local newspaper reports:
-Christopher Vito of the Delaware County Daily Times. (Includes video of press conference)
-Marc Narducci of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
-Kerith Gabriel of the Philadelphia Daily News.
-John Smallwood of the Philadelphia Daily News.
-Jack McCaffery of the Delaware County Daily Times.
-Video of press conference from the team. (But sadly the Q + A session is not included.)

John Hackworth was named the interim head coach.

Reports came from Scotland that Nowak has applied for the head coaches job at Hearts.
The actual reason behind the firing was not given, but we can quickly surmise that the fans had turned on the head coach for the last time and club management knew it was now or never to keep them on board.
The losing was bad enough, and shipping away of favorite players did not appear to be slowing down.

dN

In other news...

TFC will play their first game under new head coach Paul Mariner.

San Jose will be without goalkeeper Jon Busch who is serving a 1 game retroactive suspension for supposedly ripping a ball out of the hands of a sideline ball crew youth. There is no official video of the incident for us to look at.

Thierry Henry and Rafa Marquez will both miss the New York game due to injury.

Sporting Kansas City will host French champions Montpellier in a friendly on Jul 24! Pretty cool.

NASL SCOREBOARD

Matches and Scores:
-Sat Jun 16
Atlanta Silverbacks v Carolina RailHawks
Fort Lauderdale Strikers v FC Edmonton
Puerto Rico Islanders v San Antonio Scorpions
Minnesota Stars v Tampa Bay Rowdies

Watch online

Standings
20 Puerto Rico (+12)
19 San Antonio (+5)
17 Minnesota (+2)
13 Fort Lauderdale (-3)
12 Tampa Bay (-4)
11 Edmonton (0)
11 Carolina (-2)
8 Atlanta (-10)

EURO 2012

Round 3 of the Group Stage with all to play for! With only Ireland and Sweden eliminated so far.

All games to be played at 1:45pm CT

-Sat Jun 16
Greece v Russia
Czech Republic v Poland
-Sun Jun 17
Portugal v Netherlands
Denmark v Germany
-Mon Jun 18
Croatia v Spain
Italy v Ireland
-Tue Jun 19
Sweden v France
England v Ukraine