Four players were selected in Stage 2 of the MLS Re-Entry Draft in a conference call conducted Thursday. The teams claiming players were Houston (Leonardo, defender), Columbus(Josh Williams, defender), San Jose (Olmes Garcia, forward), and Sporting Kansas City (Andrew Dykstra, goalkeeper). The total is the second-lowest in the seven-year historyof the Re-Entry Draft, though an […]
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MLS Moves: Crognale signs Homegrown contract with Crew
After four stellar collegiate seasons at Maryland, defender Alex Crognale has signed a pro contract with his local team. Columbus announced Tuesday it had signed Crognale, 22, as aHomegrown Player. The native of Ghanna, Ohio, played 73 games and scored 11 goals for the Terrapins the past four seasons and last month was named a […]
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MLS: Berhalter says Crew defender Sauro will sit out 2017
The back line in Columbus will look a lot different next season. Crew SC head coach Greg Berhalter said Tuesday centerback Gaston Sauro will undergo multiple knee surgeriesnext year and not play competitive soccer. Injuries limited Sauro to just 13 appearances during the 2016 season. He debuted for Columbus in August, 2015, and after suffering […]
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MLS Moves: Atlanta brings Bloom back home
It ended up making a lot of sense. Atlanta United wheeled and dealt in the aftermath of the Expansion Draft, trading its first pick, outside back Danny Toia, to Orlando City afterclaiming him from Montreal, and using another trade – Clint Irwin back to Toronto FC – to get right back Mark Bloom, a Georgia […]
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MLS Moves: Crew's ironmen not contracted for 2017
Two starters from Columbus Crew’s SC 2015 MLS Cup runner-up team aren’t currently on the 2017 roster: goalkeeper Steve Clark (option declined) and defender Michael Parkhurst (out ofcontract). Clark and Parkhurst both started 100 of 102 regular-season games over the last three seasons. “With both of those players, the situation is still up in the […]
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MLS Moves: Crew's Higuain, Meram and Trapp will return
Columbus Crew SC exercised the contract options on Designated Player and midfielder Federico Higuain and midfielders Justin Meram and Wil Trapp, who have combined for 370 matchesplayed in MLS. Higuain, Meram and Trapp have combined for 64 goals and 70 assists for Crew SC. The midfielders have earned three club MVP awards in the last […]
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Americans' sporadic performance mars a great night for soccer
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) A great game took place at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus Friday night. By “great” I meanexciting, dramatic, passionate, compelling, a match full of hard tackles and slick passes and rife with harrowing, end-to-end attacks and balls pinging off bodies on the goal’s doorstep as wellas the woodwork. Action flowed back and […]
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MLS Moves: Roster makeover is imminent for Crew SC
As a mid-market team that plummeted from MLS Cup finalist also-ran in just one season, Columbus Crew SC — like any business in a competitive industry — is balancing risk versus reward. The same fate befell 2015 champion Portland, which has retained its head coach and promised to invoke necessary changes in its roster. Unlike […]
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What They're Saying: Anthony Precourt
“Our facility is 17 years old, and the high-water mark in MLS keeps going up every year, with Orlando and Atlanta coming online next year having new facilities and probably Minnesota the yearafter and LAFC probably in 2018,” — Columbus Crew owner Anthony Precourt on what he calls the need “to keep up with the […]
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MLS conference semifinals: Our predictions
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Quick turnarounds are not uncommon during the regular season, andthe four Knockout-Round survivors play again on short rest when they host conference semifinals on Sunday. Montreal, the only lower seed to advance, heads home to Stade Saputo to play theRed Bulls. The other three winners, after prevailing at home, stay put […]