How much does the LA Galaxy like Robbie Keane? The 2014 MLS MVP signed his third extension since joining the league in 2011. A national team recall, maybe, is in storefor DaMarcus Beasley, one of six Houston Dynamo players named to Gold Cup provisional rosters. Crew SC defender Emanuel Pogatetz has made up with his coach after […]
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Grana leaves Crew, NYCFC waives Mendoza
Good right backs don’t grow on trees, so the news that Hernan Grana will leave MLS and return to his native Argentina came as a surprise. Grana, 30, played seven games for theColumbus Crew after signing as a Discovery Player. He came to MLS last winter after playing for many clubs in Argentina, including a […]
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MLS: Week 6 Results & Standings
The Vancouver Whitecaps matched a pair of Kei Kamara goals to earn a 2-2 tie with the Columbus Crew on Wednesday night. OctavioRivero scored his league-high fifth goal in six games and Darren Mattocks had the second equalizer with his first goal of the season. The point was thefirst the Crew has ever earned in […]
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MLS Week 6: Crew schedule is 'ridiculous'
How’s this for a schedule? Columbus has had byes two of the last three weeks — and played the week most clubs around the world were off for national team action. Now, it is off for an unprecedentedMLS road trip. It plays a game at Vancouver on Wednesday and turns around and plays at New […]
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Crew extends Berhalter's contract through 2017
Columbus Crew SC extended the contract of sporting director and head coach Gregg Berhalter through the 2017 Major League Soccer season. Berhalter, who joinedthe Crew for the 2014 season, had a three-year contract and an option for the fourth that the Crew picked up. Berhalter, who had coached in Sweden after finishing up his playing […]
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MLS Week 2: Tchani suspended for Crew home opener
Columbus Crew SC midfielder Tony Tchani was suspended one game and fined for his challenge on Dynamo midfielder LeonelMiranda in last Saturday’s 1-0 Dynamo victory. He’ll miss Saturday’s Crew home opener against Toronto FC. Colorado Rapids defender JamesRiley was suspended and one game and fined for serious foul play involving an incident with Philadelphia […]
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Crew Stadium gets a name 16 years later
MLS’s oldest soccer-specific stadium finally has a name of its own. Columbus Crew SC has partnered with Spanish insurance company Mapfre to see Crew Stadium, which opened in 1999, be named MapfreStadium. Mapfre Insurance will also become the presenting sponsor of Crew SC’s community program, Give Forward, as well as the club’s official auto, life […]
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MLS Trade Central: Sporting KC gets De Jong
Sporting Kansas City signed Canadian international Marcel de Jong after successful trial at left back at the Desert Diamond Classic. The 28-year-old de Jong hasspent the last 10 seasons in the Netherlands and Germany, mostly recently at Augsburg. MLS: Projected opening day lineups OUT: M Brian Mullan (retired) M Davy Armstrong (option declined) F Edson […]
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2015 MLS Preseason Action
FC Dallas and D.C. United moved into Sunday’s final at the ATX Pro Challenge in Austin, Texas, with wins on Friday. Week 3 Results: SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 14 Houston, TX | Houston 4 Houston Dynamo U-18s 0. Chandler Hoffman was twice set up for goals by Memo Rodriguez, while AJ Cochran and Jason Johnson added goals […]
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What They're Saying: Jamaican agent Romel Wallen
“We were always going to get here. They don’t want to open the floodgates, but relations with smaller entities must be maintained, I think. It does come across as them taking advantage of smallerentities in the region.” — Jamaica-based agent Romel Wallen on Portmore United FC’s demand that MLS pay $7,500 in training compensation forColumbus […]