Forget Sunday's defensive lapses-- Vieira & Co. are highly confident heading into this weekend's home opener.
Patrick Vieira is undefeated as a senior-level head coach. But the New York City FC gaffer isn't perfect.
Yes, for everything he's got going for him -- and it's a lot -- he continues to proliferate a truly odious soccer malediction:
"The MLS."
For those inside Major League Soccer's bubble, "The MLS," as a phrase, is considered a tell, the kind that would seem to out the speaker as some kind of blathering dilettante. Indeed, nobody awash in savvy would ever refer to the league as "The Major League Soccer.