New England Revolution has taken part in several international competitions. New England Revolution is an American soccer club based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which has competed in Major League Soccer (MLS) since the league's first season in 1996. The club has taken part five times in the CONCACAF Champions Cup; they have reached the quarterfinals on three occasions. In 2008, they lost to Joe Public F.C., marking the first time an MLS side had lost to a Caribbean one. In 2022, they lost to Pumas UNAM in a penalty shootout after winning the first leg 3–0. From 2008 to 2010, the club participated in the SuperLiga, an annual competition between MLS and Liga MX (the first-division Mexican league). They won the 2008 edition of the tournament, winning the final against the Houston Dynamo. The club also reached the final of the 2010 SuperLiga, which they lost to Atlético Morelia. Since 2023, they have participated in the Leagues Cup, another annual tournament between the two leagues. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Revolution_in_international_competition> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1536: The oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas, the Colegio de Santa Cruz, was founded in Tlatelolco, Mexico City. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio_de_Santa_Cruz_de_Tlatelolco> 1907: Italian educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing a philosophy of education that now bears her name. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori> 1941: During his State of the Union address, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms (composite poster depicted) as fundamental freedoms that all people ought to enjoy. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms> 1972: A brawl broke out between players, fans, and police officers during an ice hockey game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the St. Louis Blues in Philadelphia. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Blues%E2%80%93Philadelphia_Flyers_brawl> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: Free City of Tri-Insula: 1. (historical) A proposed city-state comprising Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island, put forward on January 6th, 1861, by the mayor of New York City, Fernando Wood, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War. 2. About Word of the Day 3. Nominate a word 4. Leave feedback <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Tri-Insula> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: The biblical view is not just apolitical but antipolitical in the sense that it refuses to confer any value on political power, or in the sense that it regards political power as idolatrous, inevitably entailing idolatry. Christianity offers no justification for political power; on the contrary, it radically questions it. --Jacques Ellul <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
