Midseason Designated Player signing Gonzalo Veron hardly figured in the New York Red Bulls’ run to their second Supporters’ Shield in three years, but he enjoyed a great preseason,culminating with a hat trick against the Jacksonville Armada. He picked up a hamstring injury in the game, though, putting him out of Sunday’s opener against Toronto FC. […]
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Boca fires Arruabarrena, Barros Schelotto is favorite to take over
Argentine champion Boca Juniors fired head coach Rodolfo Arruabarrena after Sunday’s 1-0 loss to Racing Club left it with just seven points in its first five games. The move comes threedays before Boca meets Racing again in the Copa Libertadores and six days before the “Superclasico” at River Plate. The front-runner to take over as […]
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Video Pick: Crew reads mean tweets on new uniforms
After unveiling its new uniforms, the Columbus Crew faced enough social media backlash to enlist players Michael Parkhurst, Wil Trapp, Justin Meram, Ethan Finlay and GastonSauro to read mean tweets about the new design.
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Schelotto forced to quit as Palermo coach
Former Columbus Crew star Guillermo Barros Schelotto was forced to quit as Palermo head coach after only one month because he did not have the right coaching credentials. Palermo learned onWednesday that UEFA would not recognize the Argentine’s credentials. Palermo named youth team coach Giovanni Bosi as the replacement.
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MLS player tracker with complete rosters (Feb. 8)
1218mls rosters Columbus Crew SC waived former U.S. U-20 Romain Gall and Jamaican center back SergioCampbell. Gall led the USA in scoring in Under-20 World Cup finals but wasn’t picked to the final roster. The French-bred winger played three games for the Crew in 2014 but didn’t play in 2015.The signing of Ola Kamara, Emil […]
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MLS player tracker with complete rosters (Feb. 4)
1218mls rosters Columbus Crew SC now has Ola Kamara to go along with Kei Kamara. The 26-year-oldOla Kamara was acquired from Austria Vienna after spending last season on loan to Norway’s Molde, where he scored 14 goals in 29 games. He is a Sierra Leone refugee, like Kei Kamara, and grew upin Oslo. “We have […]
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MLS player tracker with complete rosters (Feb. 3)
1218mls rosters The Chicago Fire added another defender when it announced the acquisition of 20-year-old outsideback Rodrigo, who played for Brazil at the 2015 Under-20 World Cup, on loan for the 2016 season from Brazilian club Coritiba. Brazil reached the final, where it fell to Serbia,coached by new Fire head coach Veljko Paunovic. “I saw […]
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Crazy December is typical of soccer's fast pace
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) If it seems that the soccer world is spinning faster than ever, that’s because it is. Just thinkabout what has happened in the month since Portland beat Columbus in the 2015 MLS Cup final, and we won’t include the announcements of Targeted Allocation Money and other league mattersannounced prior to or […]
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SA Positional Rankings: Francis is elite of MLS left backs
The trend of MLS teams relying on converted midfielders to fill the troublesome left-back position continued in 2015. New England shifted Chris Tierney to the back line years ago,the Galaxy followed suit with Robbie Rogers last year, as did the Dynamo — and the U.S. national team — with DaMarcus Beasley. After playing several positions […]
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SA Positional Rankings: Borchers first at right centerback
No team reaches the MLS Cup final, let alone wins it, without a dominant centerback who forms a solid partnership with the player alongside him. Teams prefer to use the same duo as often aspossible, or swap out one of the two occasionally to form a three-man rotation. Occasionally a team can win by keeping […]