I tried to look up who actually played so far for their national sides, and here is what I found:

This is consistent with other hair pull calls this season. The camera didn't really catch this well enough to see it clearly, but it couldn't have come at a worse time for them. I would have loved to see a ref cam POV since it happened directly in front of him.

If nothing else, it is at least encouraging to see the club willing to invest. We have lots of special tools at our disposal as an expansion side that we have been putting to good use. Most recently we got Schupansky from Gotham by utilizing our special allocation money, and she has brought a whole new dimension to the Boston attack.

Should work now!

Editing a user note is currently done via the user's profile page (in the More dropdown). I just tagged you as "Photon Dev" and now whenever I see your username, that will be diplayed alongside. So, now I see this in this community:

Currently, user notes are not exposed to the api (there is a codeberg issue for this iirc) and they don't offer a way to customize the colors (I don't think there is a codeberg issue for this one). You could use custom css to style user notes since they have the css class of user_flair.

Some good looking things in here to help incentivize teams to develop young talent:

After two years and over 200 hours of qualifying oversight -- the exact number of hours varies by age and situation, sources said -- a team can sign the player and receive significant salary cap relief as a reward for developing the player.

Also, developing a young player can be beneficial even if you don't sign them yourself:

If an NWSL team develops a player under the PDR mechanism but she signs with a different team inside the league, the NWSL team that oversaw her development would still be rewarded with salary cap relief (to the tune of around half that of signing her, but also varying, sources said).

This helps avoid some of the problems seen in previous youth development programs:

Prior to the new CBA, players had limited agency and their rights were a free-for-all due to the NWSL's antiquated "discovery" system that allowed teams to "claim" players who they had not previously engaged to sign.

In the early years, those discovery rights became assets for trades that would, at times, block signings by opponents. Teams would also hold onto "NWSL rights" while players were signed with teams abroad.

I was there! The beginning of that match was wild - 3 goals in the first 10 minutes. I can't decide whether I was happy or sad that I decided against waiting in line for a drink before heading to my seat. I would have missed that opening.

The frustrating thing about the Legacy lately is that our game has improved tremendously. We actually looked pretty good for most of the minutes of the match in my opinion. However, some bad mistakes/turnovers combined with some clinical finishing by Portland meant that we were always chasing the game from a pretty big deficit.

I think that if we continue to improve playing out of the defensive third to avoid the occasional costly turnover, we could make a decent run of a season in the coming years. I am not sure if that means signings in the future or some tactical/formation tweaks, but I feel like we are almost there.

On a non-football note, it was pride night at the game and there was a wedding on the field during the half! Congrats to the happy couple! Apparently they are fans that have come to every home game this season all the way from St. George, ME. That is a ~4 hour drive, so that is some true dedication!

When you score a brace in under 90 seconds, then you get your picture on the graphic...

Piefed gets pre-populated with some of the most common languages on the fediverse, but others are added as content is received in them. A mature instance like piefed.social probably had a pretty complete list, but it wouldn't surprise me if others don't have all the languages yet.

FWIW, even as a feddit.online admin, I don't see any comments on that post and it is showing two in the post teaser.

I see now. I will try to take a look into the code and see what could be the issue.

I didn't get a chance to watch this one as it happened, but the highlights were a trip. That miss at 60' hurts. Pull level at that point and the whole game changes.

Also...that backheel goal (79') was gorgeous.

Alright, you sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I learned something about PieFed today because of it. Apparently, the downvote button isn't shown for a number of reasons, but in your case the reason it isn't shown is because users with a total "reputation" (upvotes received - downvotes received) that is too low lose the ability to downvote. Your reputation is currently too low for the downvote button right now.

Reputation as a metric is intentionally something that a user is unable to see. That is reserved for admins to help identify potentially toxic users. My guess as for the intention of a feature like this is to limit the spread of negative influence that a (potentially) toxic user can cause from extensive downvoting.

As far as I can tell, the only other feature that you are locked out of with a low reputation like this is the ability to send private messages (definitely a spam/toxicity measure). Other than that, your account is fully featured.

I agree it is hard to make a convincing case against Sanchez...but I do want to give credit to Banda for managing to keep the Golden Boot race competitive despite being on an Orlando team that has been unsteady. Her goals/appearance are even higher this season compared to her MVP 2024 season.

I actually really like the crest, but Atlanta City FC feels a bit uninspired and it creates a second team in the league with ACFC initials.

As a side note, I tried to link the news release from the team's website, but the link is currently broken. The "Read Now" button doesn't link anywhere.

I had the chance to watch this game live and Boston looked pretty good; at least much better than their recent record would indicate.

The midfield did a great job of controlling the game and shutting down some of the most threatening Utah players. I have become a huge fan of the Karich-Caño pair, and they will be key going forward in this possession-heavy style that Boston wants to play.

The main vulnerability Boston has had recently is really poor turnovers in their own defensive third trying to build from the back. We still managed to do a bit of that this game, but it was better. Also, we were a bit lucky that Utah wasn't able to capitalize on it as much as some of our recent opponents. I was overall impressed with the defense compared to their recent performances, so hopefully things are starting to tighten up back there.

On the attacking front, Boston was playing a touch more direct than I have seen them do recently, and it was working pretty well. Schupansky has been a great addition and Hernandez has been able to provide some support from the back line to help provide service from either side along with BSG. I think Boston is still missing a clinical finisher though. Aisatta has been doing her best, but I just don't think she is the threat that Boston needs up front. The solution was supposed to be Guti, but she has struggled to come into her own this season.

What options are you looking for? Controlling what downvotes to accept is not done at an individual level, it is either done instance-wide (blahaj disables downvotes for example), or at a community level by the community mods. This is the list of options that is available to them for their community:

On the topic of NWSL benefiting from World Cup viewership, I can at least offer my anecdotal story. I have been a long-time fan of the sport and watched tons of (mostly) La Liga back when I was in grad school (early 2010's). However, since then, I haven't had much time/access to watch.

I picked up a YouTube TV sub to watch the world cup and decided to just stick with it for now. Originally, my intention was to keep up with the Revs/MLS, but found that the NWSL is actually way more available to watch compared to the MLS since I don't have an Apple TV subscription as well.

Keeping tabs on this game via notifications on my phone was a bit of a roller coaster. By the end I kind of wanted Portland to pull one back so that we ended in a mirror of the 4-3 game where Portland won on the road against Boston. I am going to try to catch the replay in the next couple days to write up my notes.

I think the key thing that the league should take from this game though is that you can't expect to out After Dark this Boston team. Our first season has been full of wacky games and lots and lots of cards. Playing After Dark is playing right into our hands.

rumble.com is a banned domain but is unbannable if you want. It looks like it is part of the list that is imported at instance creation. I don't know the first thing about rumble as a site, but that is why the post isn't working.