Still have over 6 weeks until DC United's season opener, even though they've been training for three weeks already! Fortunately they're in the CONCACAF Cup (a tournament for top clubs in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean), so they play a couple of games for that in March. I feel sorry for the fans of clubs that don't have a meaningful game until April 2.
United still intends to add a couple of players to the team over the next few weeks, even though it gets dangerously close to the CONCACAF games (March 9 & 16) -- in the offseason the team lost a couple of top players, in particular their captain, and have made no significant additions. I feel good about the team, but I also feel that we sat still while a lot of teams in the league made significant improvements.
It's weird -- in both soccer and baseball, my team won the championship, and yet, rather than still savoring those championships just a few months after their respective seasons ended, I'm already chomping at the bit ready for the next year to get under way (much more eager for soccer than baseball -- baseball is for boxscores and rotisserie, soccer is for watching).
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