St. Louis City exercised its option to lock in 22-year-old Brazilian midfielder Celio Pompeu, who played 24 games for St. Louis City 2 last season in MLS Next Pro. * * * * * * * * * * St. Louis City SC, which in 2023 will make MLS a 29-team league, opened its $458 […]
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St. Louis City SC expands academy with seven new hires
St. Louis City SC announced seven new academy hires ahead of its second season in MLS Next The MLS club that begins play in 2023 added a U-14 team and a U-15 team that will play in MLS Next and a U-21 team that will compete in the UPSL. Both of St. Louis’ academy teams […]
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South African Bradley Carnell named St. Louis City's first head coach
Bradley Carnell‘s arrival as head coach of 2023 MLS expansion club St. Louis City reunites him with Lutz Pfannenstiel, the club’s German sporting director who served as an instructor to Carnell while he was getting licensed at the German federation’s coaching school in Hennef. “For me, knowing Bradley as a player in Germany, as a […]
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Lutz Pfannenstiel: St. Louis soccer's new boss wrote a unique book about the global game
I had my late summer reading lined up. On deck were the newest from Ben Elton, Andrea Camilleri” But I won’t deny I read it in a couple sittings, and there was more to it than the sex and drugs. Indeed, sports literatureis a wide-ranging genre. Perhaps the best way for me to relay my […]
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Watch: A mini-documentary about the German globetrotter who will guide St. Louis City SC
A 4-minute CNN biopic from 2015 on Lutz Pfannenstiel, St. Louis City SC’s hire as sporting director, recounts his playing career with 25 different teams in 13 countries over 21 seasons.
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]