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The USL Championship season may have ended in November but teams have already started moving to make sure they improve in 2024. This series will look at the moves teams have made and what gaps still need to be addressed as they take this offseason to build a Championship-caliber squad. This week, we look at Detroit City, Memphis 901, New Mexico United, Miami FC, returners North Carolina FC and newcomers Rhode Island FC.
by Phil Baki
Read MoreThe final weekend of 2023 brought so many highlight moments from the Major Arena Soccer League. Geo walks you through all the action from the weekend that was in the MASL.
by Geo Monterroso
Read MoreOne of our favorite times of the year is when new clubs, with great logos and big dreams, pops onto the scene to get us hyped for the next season. To kick off the new year, Protagonist regular, Rich Schenck, was able to hunt down the story of the Ypsi Yetis!
Read MoreWhen the fan voting ended, there was no question which team deserved the title of Protagonist Soccer Club of the Year. Tulsa Athletic was widely supported and overwhelmingly won the vote. The NPSL champion and furthest achieving amateur club in the US Open Cup added another trophy to its impressive haul from this year.
by Dan Vaughn
Read MoreThe outdoor leagues are either over for the season or taking a break this week, so your favorite Protagonist contributors have decided to get totally stuck into indoor soccer! This week we take a look at a handful of games from MASL and a couple from Major League Indoor Soccer too, as their season is just getting underway.
by Protagonist Staff
Read MoreHere at Protagonist we love to get stuck into teams and leagues we’ve never heard of before and when we recently discovered the MASL (A professional arena league hiding from us in plain site which plays in front of thousands and thousands of fans) we were instantly in love and wanted to know more
by Joshua Duder
Read MoreThe USL Championship season may have ended in November but teams have already started moving to make sure they improve in 2024. This series will look at the moves teams have made and what gaps still need to be addressed as they take this offseason to build a Championship-caliber squad. This is part three of the series.
by Phil Baki
Read MoreWeek 5 in the MASL was a short one due to the holiday, but we’ve got a double dip into the matches of the week.
by Geo Monterroso
Read MoreEvery year we nominate five clubs for Protagonist Soccer Club of the Year. Our readers vote on who deserves the award. So let’s celebrate an amazing year of lower league soccer by highlighting four tremendous clubs who deserve your vote. Here’s the fourth and final nominee, Flower City Union.
by Dan Vaughn
Read MoreEvery year we nominate five clubs for Protagonist Soccer Club of the Year. Our readers vote on who deserves the award. So let’s celebrate an amazing year of lower league soccer by highlighting four tremendous clubs who deserve your vote. Here’s the third nominee, Sacramento Republic.
by Dan Vaughn
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