Top-ranked FC Dallas shook off the disappointment of elimination from the Concacaf Champions League by beating Minnesota United, 2-0, and big wins for Portland, Sporting Kansas City, and Orlando Citymoved them into the top four of Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. Losses sent New York City FC, Columbus, and Colorado tumbling in the other direction. […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Crew SC and Dynamo move up
With FC Dallas idle because of its Concacaf Champions League commitments, Columbus and Houston continued their winning ways to ascend the Power Rankings into second and fifth, respectively. At the other end of the rankings, three teams — D.C. United, Vancouver, and Minnesota United — won their first games of the season to rise of […]
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MLS Talking Points: Dynamo has Cubo's back
Erick Torres didn’t score in his first two seasons with the Houston Dynamo and was shipped off on loan to Mexico’s Cruz Azul for the latter part of 2016. Back in Houston andreunited with Wilmer Cabrera, his coach at Chivas USA, “Cubo” cannot be stopped. The first hat trick of his career gave Houston a […]
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MLS Weekend: Three Games to Watch
After just two rounds of the 2017 season, three teams are already looking a lot better than they did last year, and all three face road tests this weekend that can validate their apparentupgrades. The Fire plays at Atlanta after posting a win and tie in its first two games, and the Dynamo and Quakes take […]
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Hex Files: Honduras calls up five MLS players
Honduras, which the USA hosts in a must-win World Cup 2018 qualifier on March 24, has called up five MLS players, including first-year players Romell Quioto and Alberth Elis, who bothscored for the Houston Dynamo in its win on Saturday. Indeed, the Catrachos could field a front six comprised entirely of current and former MLS […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Red Bulls' rally takes them to top
A spectacular opening weekend to the 22nd MLS season featured a sellout crowd of more than 55,000 in Atlanta, where the Red Bulls came back from a 1-0 deficit to disappoint the huge crowd. FC Dallas moved into second place with a calm, composed defeat of the Galaxy at StubHub Center, and Portland rattled in […]
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Sneak Peek: Cabrera and Cubo reunited in Houston
No returning MLS team has made more changes than Houston. The Dynamo, last in the Western Conference with just seven wins in 34 games a year ago, has brought in former Chivas USA coachWilmer Cabrera from its USL farm team, Rio Grande Valley FC, as its new head coach. He will likely start six new […]
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MLS Preseason: Revs encouraged by Kouassi's brief debut
A long, long wait for Xavier Kouassi ended Wednesday when he started and played 17 minutes for New England in its Desert Diamond Cup opener against Houston. Not since suffering atorn ACL in his right knee during his final game for SC Sion more than a year ago had he suited up for the Revs. […]
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MLS Moves: Davis to retire as Dynamo player
He finished his career last year with Sporting Kansas City, but Brad Davis will come back for one final day as a Dynamo player. A long stint with Houston hasprompted Davis and the team to arrange a special retirement. Davis will sign a one-day contract Thursday that will allow him to retire as a member […]
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Major merger in Houston youth soccer
Youth club Texas Rush SC, which was founded in 2005 and is based 30 miles north of downtown Houston, is partnering with the MLS’s Houston Dynamo and the NWSL’s Houston Dash — two proclubs with the same ownership — and Space City FC. “We are delighted to partner with a successful professional organization like the […]