Out for the first three games of the MLS season with a thigh injury, Kaka had an instant impact on Orlando City, assisting on two goals in the first 32 minutes and scoring the third goal in a4-1 demolition of defending champion Portland. “I don’t have the words to say how happy I am today,” […]
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MLS Countdown: Orlando City signs 'the Beast'
Orlando City has added to its Brazilian contingent to take some pressure off its young Canadian starlet. Attacker Julio Baptista, formerly of Arsenal, Real Madrid, Roma, and Sevilla,has joined the Lions as a Discovery Signing. Like teammate Kaka, he is a graduate of the Sao Paulo development program who has scored 163 goals playing 526 […]
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Molino's return brightens the outlook in Orlando
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) What’s the best storyline attached to Orlando City’s visit to Yankee Stadium for a Friday nightbattle with its 2015 expansion partner, New York City FC? There are some good ones, as listed below. Yet perhaps the most compelling will be the next game played by attacker KevinMolino, a two-time USL Player […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Change at the top
You want parity? MLS has it. After just two rounds of play, only three teams are 2-0-0 and four of last year’s eight quarterfinalists — the Red Bulls, Columbus, Vancouver, and Seattle –are 0-8-0 combined. Montreal followed up with its opening-weekend victory in Vancouver by thrashing the Red Bulls, 3-0, at the Olympic Stadium to […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Champs start season on top
The defending MLS Cup winner, Portland, as well as the Western Conference regular-season winner, FC Dallas, started the season strongly enough to take the top spots in Soccer America’s Power Rankings. A road win by Toronto FC as it embarks on an eight-game road trip to start the season and a D.C. demolition by the […]
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Crowd Count: Orlando City crowd fifth highest in world
Orlando City led all MLS clubs with a crowd of 60,147 for its 2016 MLS opener against Real Salt Lake at the Citrus Bowl. It was the fifth highest crowd in the world over the weekend. MLS averaged26,152 fans for 10 games on Sunday. That put MLS sixth in the world in average attendance over […]
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Nocerino headed to Orlando after MLS settlement
AC Milan midfielder Antonio Nocerino, who first seemed to be headed to D.C. United, will instead join Orlando City after the MLS clubs settled their claims to his rights. The Lions sentTargeted Allocation Money and General Allocation Money to United to pry away its Discovery rights. D.C. United had a Discovery claim to Nocerino that […]
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MLS Preseason: Results and schedules
Gyasi Zardes scored to give the LA Galaxy a 1-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes 1-0 in a preseason friendly that drew nearly 7,500 fans at Las Vegas’ Cashman Field. Thegame marked the Galaxy debut of Dutch midfielder Nigel de Jong and came just 11 days before the Galaxy faces Santos of Mexico in […]
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What They're Saying: Mechack Jerome
“I did it better than Kaka tonight.” — Jacksonville Armada defender Mechack Jerome, who did one better than Brazilian great, scoring from 30 yards on a free kick afterKaka had scored from 25 yards for Orlando City in a friendly won by the Armada, 2-1, on — you guessed it — another free kick, scored […]
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MLS player tracker with complete rosters (Jan. 27)
1218mls rosters The Houston Dynamo added a pair of 30-year-old Spaniards, central defender Agus(Albacete) and midfielder David Rocha (Gimnastic de Tarragona), from Spain’s Segunda Division. Agus spent most of his career in the second levelof Spanish with short stops in La Liga (seven games for Albacete at the age of 20) and Turkey’s Super Lig […]