In need of help in central midfield following the knee injury to Designated Player summer signing Xavier Kouassi, who wasexpected to take over for unsigned Jermaine Jones, the New England Revolution swung a deal with the Vancouver Whitecaps for 24-year-old Ghanaian Gershon Koffie, a fixture for the ‘Capsin their five MLS seasons. “Gershon is a […]
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Report: News Revs DP signing Kouassi out 6-9 months
Ivorian midfielder Xavier Kouassi, acquired as a Designated Player to fill in the slot held by unsigned Jermaine Jones, was injured playing for his Swiss club Sion on Sunday, and the Swiss newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported he faces 6-9 months on the sidelineswith a knee injury.
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Lee Nguyen on how he parlayed longer offseason into national team success
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) In modern parlance, Lee Nguyen is trending in the right direction. By his own admission, theRevs midfielder is atoning for a lackluster showing a year ago during the training camp and friendlies that traditionally kick off the calendar for the U.S. national team. On Sunday, he played a crispand efficient 90 […]
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Revs' Heaps relishes competition and preaches consistency
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) The first game of an MLS preseason is barely a blip in a long, hard campaign, yet in his fifth season as NewEngland Revolution head coach, Jay Heaps is a man in transition. In the year he turns 40, Heaps has one MLS Cup appearance (in 2014) on his resume and […]
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January camp: Nguyen impresses Klinsmann
There is one week left in the first national team camp of the year, but one of the winners of the 2016 January camp has been Lee Nguyen.
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Revs plan for post-Jermaine Jones era
Until Monday, the New England Revolution was the only MLS club not to have a Designated Player under contract for the 2016 season. That changed when it acquired 26-year-old Ivorian XavierKouassi,who will join the Revs from Swiss club FC Sion upon the opening of the secondary transfer window in mid-July. They have not ruled out […]
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Peru coach to talk with Revs' Farrell
Peru national team coach Ricardo Gareca will tour the United States and Europe to talk with players of Peruvian descent in hopes of adding new players for the national team. Among them: NewEngland Revolution defender Andrew Farrell, who spent much of his youth in Peru, and Chicago Fire Homegrown player Collin Fernandez. Gareca will also […]
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New deal for Fagundez adds luster to record of Homegrown players
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) MLS and New England took a significant step a few days ago when attacker DiegoFagundez signed a new contract. Fagundez, 20, is the first Homegrown player signed by the Revs, and inked his deal in 2010, when he was 15. He signed an extension in 2013 and had twoyears left on his […]
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SA Positional Rankings: Whitecaps' Ousted leads keepers
The rapid expansion of MLS — nine teams since 2007 — hasn’t seemed to appreciably affect the general quality of the goalkeeping, a traditionally solid area that seems to be holding up as MLSreaches deeper and deeper into the player pool. There’s no superstar a la Tony Meola or Kasey Keller or Brad Friedel, and […]
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SA Positional Rankings: Borchers first at right centerback
No team reaches the MLS Cup final, let alone wins it, without a dominant centerback who forms a solid partnership with the player alongside him. Teams prefer to use the same duo as often aspossible, or swap out one of the two occasionally to form a three-man rotation. Occasionally a team can win by keeping […]