“Right now, I don’t know what I don’t know. The first lesson is to learn what I don’t know. The second is to start attacking those things and really improve upon them.” — New Real Salt Lake technical director Craig Waibel, who was just a year ago an assistant coach at his alma mater, the […]
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MLS Positional Rankings: Rimando tops the list of best keepers
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) The goalkeeping position is ratherstable in MLS; a few teams have proven veterans who are entrenched, and several others have gone with younger players through good times and bad. Not many teams change keepers often, though some shakytimes in the Colorado goal this year had fans scratching their heads. Montreal, too, […]
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Landon Donovan runs wild
[MLS PLAYOFFS] Just when it looked like Landon Donovan might be playing the last game of his career, he added to his legendwith the greatest individual performance in the history of the MLS playoffs, scoring three goals and and adding an assist to lead the LA Galaxy into the Western Conference finals with a 5-0 winover […]
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RSL can end Galaxy's season and Donovan's career
[MLS PLAYOFFS] More often than not in recent seasons the LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake have squared off in the playoffs, and the fourth such occurrence in thepast six years has them at 0-0 heading into the second leg. Los Angeles has the home-field advantage for the encounter Sunday (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes) […]
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RSL aims to stock Real Monarchs with Homegrown talent
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] Real Salt Lake confirmed that it will field a reserve team — Real Monarchs SLC — during the 2015 USL PRO season. It will be at least one of fourMLS-operated clubs in the league along with LA Galaxy II, Sounders 2 and Timbers 2. The Utah State Fairpark recently approved RSL’s proposal to […]
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A double nutmeg from Luis Gil
[VIDEO PICK: Skills] Real Salt Lake’s 20-year-old midfielder Luis Gil nutmegged Dan Gargan and Omar Gonzalez inquick succession during Saturday’s scoreless tie with the Los Angeles Galaxy — utilizing a back-heel spin move to get things going.
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Penedo rescues Galaxy against Real Salt Lake
[MLS PLAYOFFS] Away goal or no away goal, the LA Galaxy will be very happy with its scoreless draw at Real Salt Lake for which it had Panamanian keeper Jaime Penedo largely to thank. It will feel confident it can beat RSL at StubHub Center in the second leg next Sunday. The Galaxy managed only […]
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Familiar Western foes face off once again
[MLS PLAYOFF PREVIEW] Only once in the past five seasons has there been an MLS Cup without either Los Angeles or Real Salt Lake — they actually met in the2009 title game when the playoff format permitted such an occurrence — and which of them will survive to make at run at this year’s title game […]
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Real Salt Lake angling for highest possible finish
[MLS: Week 33] The concept of a “bogey” team – a foe that no matter how weak always plays tough against a certain opponent – can beexaggerated, yet Real Salt Lake is clearly confronted by just such a problem Wednesday in its regular-season finale. STAVING OFF THE SWEEP. It’s been abizarre season in many ways […]
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Timbers' season of home frustration continues
[MLS: Friday] The atmosphere at Portland’s Providence Park is second to none inMLS, but the Timbers’ home produced nothing but frustration for them and their fans in 2014. Their 0-0 tie with Real Salt Lake in their home finale dealt a potentially fatal blow to their playoffhopes. It also left the Timbers with just five […]