Eagles welcome Cincinnati Sirens to Columbus in PASL opener
The Eagles kick off 2021.
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The Columbus Eagles are set to take the field for the first time in over a year, as the team takes part in the Premier Arena Soccer League. This game may look different to fans of the beautiful game, but Massive Report has a list of a few differences between indoor and outdoor soccer rules.
After the COVID-19 pandemic, the Eagles will play a different winter schedule, taking part in the PASL for the first time. This is due to normal collegiate exhibition opponents playing their collegiate season starting this spring.
Lion Links: 1/7/21
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Happy Thursday, Lionesses and Lions. As always, I hope you overcame your hump day with ease. As usual, there has been a fair amount of happenings occurring within the soccer-sphere so let’s get right into the links.
Exploria Stadium to Host USWNT Friendlies; Harris, Krieger Called Up
Exploria Stadium is set to host some national team soccer once again with the USWNT scheduled to play against Colombia in Orlando twice. The two fixtures in the City Beautiful will be held just four days apart from each other.
“Both games will be against Colombia when the USWNT’s January camp takes place in Orlando, with matches taking place on Jan. 18 (7 p.m. on FS1) and Jan. 22 (7 p.m. on ESPN2). Spectators will be permitted but tickets will be limited to no more than 4,000 fans for these matches.”
Columbus Dispatch-USA TODAY NETWORK
It is fitting that the 2020 version of MLS Cup is a mix of the familiar and completely bizarre. The familiarity comes from the teams the Seattle Sounders, a perennial contender, and an MLS original in the form of the Columbus Crew and the setting. Mapfre Stadium, opened as Crew Stadium in 1999 and home of some remarkable moments in American soccer, will be replaced by a downtown stadium next year.
The bizarre? The biggest game in American men’s soccer will be attended by no more than 1,500 people. MLS Cup has never been played this late in the year, or after this short of a regular season. Covid-19 has deprived the Crew of two major starters in Darlington Nagbe and Pedro Santos, and it’s the reason everything about this feels so odd.
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