{"id":80951,"date":"2026-11-05T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/wooden-spoon-golden-boot-and-playoff-spots-what-to-watch-for-on-mls-decision-day\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:54:50","slug":"wooden-spoon-golden-boot-and-playoff-spots-what-to-watch-for-on-mls-decision-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/wooden-spoon-golden-boot-and-playoff-spots-what-to-watch-for-on-mls-decision-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Spoon, Golden Boot and playoff spots: what to watch for on MLS Decision Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The postseason is nearly upon us but there\u2019s plenty to still be decided as the end of the regular season approaches<\/p>\n<p>Just days after millions of Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections, we will soon arrive at the second-most meaningful decider in US society: Major League Soccer\u2019s Decision Day<em>.<\/em> With eight 4pm ET kickoffs on the east coast and another seven games kicking off hours later out west on Saturday, there\u2019s still plenty to play for at the end of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an extract from Soccer Desk, a newsletter from the Guardian US. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jul\/20\/sign-up-for-soccer-with-jonathan-wilson-his-free-weekly-newsletter-on-european-soccer?utm_term=68ff7d8f6c73dffc08f382888be1de2a&amp;utm_campaign=SoccerwithJonathanWilson&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=soccerwithjonathanwilson_email\">Subscribe for free here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/nov\/05\/mls-decision-day-storylines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The postseason is nearly upon us but there\u2019s plenty to still be decided as the end of the regular season approaches Just days after millions of Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections, we will soon arrive at the second-most meaningful decider in US society: Major League Soccer\u2019s Decision Day. With eight 4pm ET &#8230; <a title=\"Wooden Spoon, Golden Boot and playoff spots: what to watch for on MLS Decision Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/wooden-spoon-golden-boot-and-playoff-spots-what-to-watch-for-on-mls-decision-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wooden Spoon, Golden Boot and playoff spots: what to watch for on MLS Decision Day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}