FC Dallas win the Supporters’ Shield
It didn’t turn out to be a particularly difficult task today in clinching the Shield for FC Dallas, as Colorado failed to beat Houston at home and the Galaxy — with nothing to play for — relented to a 0-0 draw. But it’s a deserved trophy for a team that has shown the rest of the league how to win.
How many other MLS teams use their young talent as well as FC Dallas does? Toronto FC and the New York Red Bulls do a pretty good job of it, but if you look at the ages of their top performers (Sacha Kljestan and Bradley Wright-Phillips are 31, while Sebastian Giovinco and Michael Bradley are 29), it shows just how impressive FC Dallas’s run is.