By Paul Kennedy Jurgen Klinsmann is not your conventional coach. He had Buddha statues atBayern Munich when he became coach there, and added yoga and language classes for players. More recently, he flew himself to the U.S. national team January training camp by helicopter –it allowed him to spend the evening with his family at […]
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MLS Preview: Revs revamp after rough first season for Heaps
By Ridge Mahoney When he lost his debut as a head coach to San Jose in the 2012 season opener, Jay Heaps had to admit that even though “I was arookie out there,” the loss really bothered him. “Unfortunately all I’ll remember is that there’s a big ‘L’ next to it,” he said at the […]
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Tierney injury Heaps on Revs' preseason pain
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] New England coach Jay Heaps had good reason to be in a foul mood following Wednesday’s game againstSeattle at the Desert Diamond Cup in Tucson. The Revs’ preseason has not gone well. Their arrival in Arizona was delayed by two days because of Nemo. Five potential starters missed thegame with injuries or illness. […]
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Portland plots next move
[MLS 2013 COUNTDOWN] The New York Red Bulls continued the process of rebuilding their team with the acquisition of versatile midfielder Eric Alexander from the Portland Timbers in exchange for allocation money. Just what the Timbers were planning on using the allocation money for immediately became amatter of speculation as owner Merritt Paulson tweeted that […]
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Rapids' Castrillon requires knee surgery
[MLS 2013 COUNTDOWN] The Colorado Rapids’ injury problems in midfield mounted as midfielder Jaime Castrillon, one ofMLS’s top Colombian imports of 2012, will require knee surgery and be out indefinitely. The loss of Castrillon, the club’s leading scorer with with eight goals in 2012, follows that of Argentineplaymaker Martin Rivero, who broke his foot in […]
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Louisville pipeline delivers 'Peruvian product'
[MLS SUPERDRAFT] No. 1 pick Andrew Farrell, the son of missionaries who spent most of his childhood in Peru, follows in the footsteps of formerUniversity of Louisville teammates Austin Berry and Nick DeLeon, the MLS’s top rookies last season. None of the three was a youth national team player or highlyrecruited out of high school. […]
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New England acquires No. 1 pick from Toronto
[MLS SUPERDRAFT COUNTDOWN] The New England Revolution landed the No. 1 pick in the MLS SuperDraft when it acquired the top spot from Toronto FC for its No. 4pick and allocation money. Toronto FC now holds the No. 3 and No. 4 picks. Vancouver (No. 5 and No. 10) and Colorado (No. 6) were both […]
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Colorado lands Ecuador stalwart Calderon
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] Colorado, Columbus and New England, all teams that missed out on the 2012 MLS playoffs, looked to improve their backlines with the signing ofdefenders. The big name is 26-year-old Ecuador national team defender Diego Calderon the Rapids acquired from Liga de Quito. Calderon won Ecuador’sSerie A championship with Liga de Quito in 2007 […]
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Parkhurst quietly takes another step up
By Ridge Mahoney There wasn’t lot of buzz generated by news this week that former New England defender Michael Parkhursthad left Danish club FC Nordsjaelland for Augsburg of the German Bundesliga, and that’s a shame. For Parkhurst, who earned All-America honors at Wake Forest before steppingstraight into a New England team that played in three […]
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Feilhaber 'hyped' about new home
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] After one season in MLS, Benny Feilhaber is on the move, joining Eastern Conference champion SportingKansas City from the New England Revolution, which finished ninth in the Eastern Conference. With a chance to start in place of the soon-to-be-departed RogerEspinoza in the SKC midfield, Feilhaber was certainly pleased with the change in scenery. […]