[MLS] For the past two seasons, Houston coach Dominic Kinnear has been trying to stabilize the middle of his back line,and on Wednesday the team announced an acquisition to shore up that position. Defender Jermaine Taylor has joined the Dynamo from Jamaican club St.George’s. He’s one of five Jamaicans who have been training with Houston […]
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South Texas Shootout turns testy
[MLS] The South Texas Shootout between Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas drew a near sellout crowd of 5,432 at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, but the matchturned ugly in the first when FC Dallas defender Jair Benitez spat at Houston’s Geoff Cameron. Following Houston’s 4-0win, Dynamo players accused the Colombian of being one of the […]
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A stadium of their own
[REACTION] AEG President and CEO Tim Leiweke, who attended a ground-breaking ceremony Saturday for a new 22,000-seatsoccer stadium near downtown Houston that MLS’s Houston Dynamo will occupy sometime next year, says the MLS club finally will have a stadium worthy of its success on the field. AEG movedthe team from San Jose five years ago […]
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Finally, four-time champ gets a field of its own
By Ridge Mahoney It’s taken more than a dozen years and four championships for San Jose/Houston, one of the most successful MLS teams competitively and leastappreciated politically, to get a viable stadium project underway. A ceremonial ground-breaking will be held Saturday, with construction to start soon afterward in an attempt to completethe 22,000-seat facility in […]
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How to redress conference confusion
By Ridge Mahoney The shuttling of Houston from the Western Conference to the East doesn’t appear terribly significant at first glance, at least to those fans andobservers not looking one step ahead. A balanced schedule will match up Houston twice, once at home and once away, with each of the 17 league opponents irrespective of […]
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Dynamo moved east, at least for now
[MLS] The Houston Dynamo will move to the Eastern Conference in 2011 as the solution to MLS’s conference realignment dictated by the addition of two teams fromthe Pacific Northwest, the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps. MLS now has two conferences of nine teams each, and the Dynamo was the easternmost club in the Western Conferencebefore […]
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Cameron bound for training stint at Nottingham Forest
[MLS] In addition to spending some time at the family home near Boston during the holidays, Houston Dynamo midfielder GeoffCameron is getting ready to visit another cold-weather locale — Nottingham, England. “It’s not a trial or anything like that, so I can just go over there and train andget a pretty good experience,” he says […]
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Freeman back home after two years in Norway
[MLS] One of those players who got away to Europe has come home. Texas native Hunter Freeman, who left MLS two years agoto sign with Norwegian club IK Start, has joined the Houston Dynamo’s rebuilding effort. “Not just being back in the U.S., but being back in my home state, it feels goodalready,” said Freeman […]
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Dynamo holds on to pair of veterans
[MLS] The day before four of its players would be eligible for selection in Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Draft, the Dynamo signed two of its veterans to newcontract. Midfielder Corey Ashe, whose contract had expired, and defender Eddie Robinson, whose option for 2011 wasn’t picked up, have reachedagreements to stay with the team. Contract […]
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New Houston shirt deal worth $12.7 million
[MLS] The new Houston Dynamo jerseys to be unveiled Tuesday at a press conference will have “Greenstar” emblazoned across the front. According to a story in theHouston Chronicle, a five-year jersey sponsorship deal worth $12.7 million has been brokered by the team and GreenstarRecycling, a waste management and recycling company based in Ireland that runs […]