By Ridge Mahoney Like fellow 30-somethings Chris Wondolowski and Kyle Beckerman, it took Brad Davis a long time to be taken seriously as a nationalteam player. In this case, ‘”seriously” means a candidate to play in a World Cup, and the saga of Davis might be the most dramatic. One can’t say his national team […]
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Timbers' refrain: 'We're getting closer'
[MLS: Week 8] On a humid afternoon in Houston, both Houston and Portland looked for the positives of a 1-1 tie, though the reality is both last year’s conferencerunners-up are struggling. The draw left the Dynamo with a win in six games since opening with two victories. That’s better than the Timbers, whose eight-game winless […]
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Eastern wild cards in 2013 are off to slow starts
By Ridge Mahoney Six months after meeting in the wild-card round of the 2014 playoffs, Houston and Montreal are looking for answers after suffering 4-0 defeats. Byfalling to the Red Bulls by that score Wednesday night, the Dynamo labored through a fifth consecutive match without winning. It has struggled through tough times before, yet it […]
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Red Bulls and Dynamo struggle to rediscover 2013 form
[MLS: Week 8] A week after finally picking up its first win, the New York Red Bulls are back in action on Wednesday against Houston, another team off to slow startin 2014. Both teams are searching to rediscover the form that produced one of 2013’s best playoff series won by the Dynamo over New York, […]
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Houston launches independent under-23 team
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The Houston Dynamo became the 11th MLS club to add an under-23 program to bridge the gap between its academy and the first team. The squad will becomprised of former and current Dynamo Academy players as well as players identified through tryouts and play a two-month season that runs from mid-May through mid-July […]
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What's new for Year 2?
[NWSL: Preview] The NWSL is a novelty as far as women’s pro leagues go. Unlike WUSA or WPS, the outlook for the NWSL looks brighter in Year 2 than in Year 1. Alleight founding clubs return and are joined by the Houston Dash, the second club to be launched by an MLS club. There has […]
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Will Bruin starts off MLS season in style
By Ridge Mahoney Let others cite his opening-day performance as evidence that Will Bruin has cast off the demons that haunted him last year. Bruin didn’t need a spectacular game against the Revs to restore his goal mojo. Said mindset never evaporated even if the goals dried up for a while. During the tough times, […]
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Houston Telemundo affiliate to carry Dynamo games
[SOCCER ON THE AIR] KTMD-TV Telemundo Houston will broadcast seven MLS games as the Houston Dynamo’s official Spanish-language TV partner in 2014. KTMD-TV will broadcast the Dynamo games on delay on Saturdays from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. after Telemundo’s popular national sports show, “Titulares Telemundo.” (Schedule) “This is an amazing development for […]
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PREVIEW: Redesigned Dynamo looks formidable again
[MLS 2014: Eastern Conference] Since winning back-to-back MLS Cups in 2006 and 2007, Houston has twice gone back to the final game without winning it. Losses tothe Galaxy in the 2011 and 2012 championship games preceded last year’s tumble to eventual champion Sporting Kansas City. That impressive track record and its conquest ofSupporters’ Shield winner […]
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Marco Pappa is back
[MLS 2014 COUNTDOWN] After an unsuccessful stint at Dutch club Heerenveen, Marco Pappa is back in MLS. He’ll be allocatedon Friday morning to the highest club in the current allocation order that picks him. He played parts of five seasons with the Chicago Fire before being transferred to Heerenveen inAugust 2012. The transfer severed the […]