The Red Bulls wrapped up their season at home but seven days earlier than they wanted, yet for once the bitter disappointment at stumbling short of an MLS Cup final appearance didn’t feelinevitable. New York won its second Supporters’ Shield in three years, led the league with 62 goals, and captured several prestigious individual awards: […]
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What They're Saying: Kei Kamara
“There was part of me saying, there’s no way they can get two goals in the last two minutes of the game. I don’t know how I ended up in the back there for that last ball that hit thepost. I tried for my leg to not turn spaghetti on me and kick it into […]
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Red Bulls-Crew SC Takeaways: Columbus holds on, barely
A 2-0 lead from the first leg proved to be just enough for Columbus to capture the Eastern Conference title despite losing the second leg, 1-0, at Red Bull Arena Sunday. The Red Bulls couldn’tbreak through until the third minute of stoppage time, when substitute Anatole Abang headed in from close range. They nearly equalized […]
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Breaking down Sunday's Red Bulls-Crew MLS playoff game
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Nine times this season the Red Bulls have won a regular-season game that will be good enoughto win the Eastern Conference finals outright or send the series to extra time. A win by three goals will suffice and a 2-0 score at the end of 90 minutes triggers an additional half-hour. […]
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What They're Saying: Kei Kamara
“For me, the U.S. is a land of opportunities. They say that, but it’s not just written, it’s really true. To lend a hand to people that are suffering and struggling, it’s thebest thing you can ever do.” — Columbus Crew star Kei Kamara, on the American dream that he’s lived thanks to being admitted […]
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Breaking down Sunday's Crew-Red Bulls MLS playoff game
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Things are bubbling up nicely for the Columbus-Red BullsEastern Conference finals. Both games are sellouts. Official word came on Thursday. Crew SC announced that its home game Sunday at MAPFRE Stadium, thecapacity of which has been increased by the addition of bleacher seating and selling of standing-room only tickets, will break […]
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Columbus adds seats for Sunday's MLS playoff game
Columbus Crew SC will expand MAPFRE Stadium’s capacity for Sunday’s match against the New York Red Bulls in the first leg of the Eastern Conference championship. As of Monday afternoon,all lower-level seats were sold out, so the Crew is adding temporary general-admission bleacher seating on the north side of the stadium. The Crew added that […]
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T&T-USA: Three things to look for in Port of Spain
So, now it gets serious. Seldom in the past two decades has the second game of a World Cup qualifying semifinal round caused most consternation among U.S. fans, but anxiety levels are somewhathigh heading into the match Tuesday against Trinidad & Tobago in Port of Spain (6:30 pm. ET, BeIN Sports, NBC Universo). Both teams […]
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MLS's big spenders and misers, who came out better?
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) So who had money on the two faces of the MLS playoffs, coming out of theconference semifinals, being 20-year-old Mexican-American goalkeeper Jesse Gonzalez and Generation adidas signing WalkerZimmerman? Gonzalez, who didn’t play his first MLS game until three months ago, stopped two penalty kicks as FC Dallas knocked off the Seattle […]
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Columbus-Montreal Takeaways: Redemption for Kamara
Columbus won its first playoff series since capturing its only MLS Cup title in 2008 by beating Montreal, 3-1, in extra time to take the Eastern Conference semifinals on aggregate, 4-3. Kei Kamara, who tied for the league lead for goals in the regular season with 22, netted the first and last goals for Crew […]