{"id":305618,"date":"2025-11-20T07:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/asas-end-of-year-mls-awards-ballot-american-soccer-analysis\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:13:20","slug":"asas-end-of-year-mls-awards-ballot-american-soccer-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=305618","title":{"rendered":"ASA&#8217;s End of Year MLS Awards Ballot \u2014 American Soccer Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5352fb7ce4b0bf79997bfc81\/1761028808510-6W42AA8EP86L4KO14ESY\/lineup-builder.png?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Our vote went to Diego Luna. If someone with his swag on the pitch can have mental health struggles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/diego-luna-mls-real-salt-lake-soccer\" target=\"_blank\">and be open about them<\/a>, we all can. Reach out to your friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It can often be difficult to fit positions (particularly to make a functional midfield, or correctly sided fullbacks), not this year. It all came together quite nicely. Presenting, your MLS Best XI as determined by net g+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Our ballot goes to <strong>Jesper S\u00f8rensen<\/strong> of the Vancouver Whitecaps, the league leaders in g+ difference. Bar a blip in the middle of the season, the Whitecaps have waxed virtually everybody en route to another Canadian Championship, a CCL final. Along that route, they sold their best midfielder, their first five centerbacks on the depth chart are out for long periods of time, at the same time. And by the way, Ryan Gauld didn\u2019t play all year. Ralph Priso was like two midfielder ranks out of making the g+ Best XI. Ralph Priso! S\u00f8rensen deserves this award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our vote went to Diego Luna. If someone with his swag on the pitch can have mental health struggles, and be open about them, we all can. Reach out to your friends. It can often be difficult to fit positions (particularly to make a functional midfield, or correctly sided fullbacks), not this year. It all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[204,10990,136610,7271,20345,32185,2524,629],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-305618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american","tag-analysis","tag-asas","tag-awards","tag-ballot","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-year"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ASA&#039;s End of Year MLS Awards Ballot \u2014 American Soccer Analysis - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=305618\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASA&#039;s End of Year MLS Awards Ballot \u2014 American Soccer Analysis - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our vote went to Diego Luna. 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