[MLS TRANSACTIONS] The Columbus Crew will sign 17-year-old midfielder Ben Swanson to a Homegrown Player contract onThursday. The signing deadline for the 2014 season has passed, so Swanson will be added to the Crew roster for the 2015 MLS season. He is the youngest of the 10 Homegrown players the Crew has eversigned. Other Homegrown […]
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MLS Releases Six-Part Donovan Series
MLSSoccer.com is honoring retiring LA Galaxy forward Landon Donovan with a six-part mini-documentary series, “Landon Donovan: LegenD.” The series, produced alongside Copper PotPictures, shows highlights from Donovan’s record-breaking career, with one episode appearing each day ahead of his final regular-season home game against the Seattle Sounders thisSunday. Incidentally, Copper Pot Pictures previously produced the soccer […]
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New name, new badge, new local push for Crew
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The Columbus Crew will have a new name — Columbus Crew Soccer Club — and new badge for the 2015 season, unveiled Thursday at an event in downtownColumbus. Investor-operator and chairman Anthony Precourt, who bought the club in 2013 from the Hunt Sports Group, revealed the club’s newbadge at a ceremony alongside Columbus […]
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Crew grabs Kamara on the rebound
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] The Columbus Crew has used its top slot in the allocation rankings to claim attacker Kei Kamara, an MLS veteran who was released byMiddlesbrough in late August. His stay in England lasted only a year; he’d joined the English club for a transfer fee reported to be $1.5 million and signed a two-year […]
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Playoffs hinge on Cascadia clash; more drama looms in East
[MLS: Three Games to Watch] Another edition of the Northwest head-knockers takes place in Portland, and more drama looms in a tightly bunched EasternConference. Only Seattle has mathematically clinched but several other teams are on the brink of nailing down their postseason slots heading into Week 28 of the regular season. MLS SCHEDULE, Week 28: Friday, September […]
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Crew defender Gonzalez completes move to Palermo
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] After just 17 games — all starts — the Columbus Crew transferred Costa Rican defender Giancarlo Gonzalezto Palermo of the Italian Serie A. Details of the deal were not disclosed but it is believed to be one of the most lucrative transfer deals an MLS club has ever conducted. The Crew signedGonzalez from […]
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Detroit Pistons exec Loughnane named Crew president
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The Columbus Crew hired veteran sports industry executive Andy Loughnane, most recently with the NBA’sDetroit Pistons, as the club’s president of business operations. Crew president Mark McCullers offered his resignation after 15 years with the club inMay. The changes follow the sale of the club a little more than a year ago to […]
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Union wins at New England in Curtin's league debut
[MLS: Week 16] A pair of goals from Frenchman Sebastien Le Toux and a rocket fromDanny Cruz gave the Philadelphia Union a 3-1 win at the New England Revolution in interim manager Jim Curtin‘s firstleague game since taking over for John Hackworth. The Union, who moved to within one point of the red zone in […]
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New England ends Rhinos' run in fifth round
[U.S. OPEN CUP] Saer Sene and Kelyn Rowescored first-half goals to lead the New England Revolution to a 2-1 win over the Rochester Rhinos, the last remaining team from USL PRO in the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Six MLS teams, plus theNASL’s Atlanta Silverbacks and Carolina RailHawks, will compete in the quarterfinals in […]
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Three MLS games to watch
[PREVIEW: Week 13] The top two teams in MLS, the Seattle Sounders and unbeaten Real Salt Lake, square off Saturday in Seattle. RSL will set a record for thebest start in MLS history with a win or tie. There’s also an Eastern Conference rematch in Toronto, and the Cascadia Cup series resumes in Portland. SEATTLE-REAL SALT […]