1218mls rosters The Chicago Fire added another defender when it announced the acquisition of 20-year-old outsideback Rodrigo, who played for Brazil at the 2015 Under-20 World Cup, on loan for the 2016 season from Brazilian club Coritiba. Brazil reached the final, where it fell to Serbia,coached by new Fire head coach Veljko Paunovic. “I saw […]
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Return of Movsisyan reconnects Real Salt Lake with its rise to success
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) As a symbol of the past as well as the future, Yura Movsisyan fits perfectly into the persona of RealSalt Lake. More than six years after helping RSL win its first and only league title in 2009, Movsisyan returns as the team is undergoing a metamorphosis. The changeover in head coaches […]
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What They're Saying: Dell Loy Hansen
“I like to call it, ‘The Harvard of training academies’ is what we’re going to present it as.” — Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen on his plans to build a training facility andacademy in the Salt Lake City area, setting aside plans to build a second stadium for RSL’s Real Monarchs USL team, […]
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MLS player tracker with complete rosters (Jan. 15-17)
Armenian international Yura Movsisyan is returning to MLS as a Designated Player with Real Salt Lake with which he won MLS Cup 2009 in his last appearance before moving to Europe. The 28-year-old striker arrives on loan from Spartak Moscow in the Russian Premier League. Movsisyan played for Randers FC in Denmark and FC Krasnodar […]
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Omar Holness gets to play in the league of his idols
Omar Holness, Real Salt Lake’s first pick at the 2016 SuperDraft, discovered MLS while growing up in Jamaica watching the U.S. national team and wondering, “Where are allthese great players coming from?” On TV, he watched mostly the English Premier League and admired above all Steven Gerrard, the Liverpool star who joined the Los AngelesGalaxy […]
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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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MLS player tracker with complete rosters (Dec. 29)
Looking to boost their attack that sputtered at the end of the 2015 season, the Vancouver Whitecaps signed Japanese striker Masato Kudo to a multi-year contract following a free transfer fromthe J-League’s Kashiwa Reysol. Kudo, 25, is Kashiwa Reysol’s career scoring leader with 92 goals in 260 appearances. “Masato has a very good goalscoring record […]
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Luis Gil joins Mexican-American exodus to Liga MX
Luis Gil became the latest Mexican-American to leave MLS, signing on a free transfer with Queretaro from Real Salt Lake. His move after six years in MLS with RSL followed the transfers ofJorge Villafana from Portland to Santos and Omar Gonzalez from the LA Galaxy to Pacha. MLS fans could see both Gil and Villafana in […]
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MLS: RSL's Schuler, Gil and Silva are out of contract
Real Salt Lake re-signed defender Jamison Olave and exercised the 2016 contract options on seven players, putting the club’s roster at 21 players. It did not pick up the options on fourplayers, and three players — defender Chris Schuler and midfielders Luis Gil and Luis Silva — are currently out of contract for the 2016 […]
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Re-signed Morales 'encompasses everything' about RSL
Javier Morales, first signed with Real Salt Lake in 2007, will return for a 10th MLS season. RSL club has re-signed the 35-year-old Argentine, the club’sall-time assist leader, on a multi-year contract extension. He finished the 2015 season with team-leading totals with eight goals and 12 assists. In the last three seasons, he has 25goals […]