Soccer Blogs Posts Tagged New York Red Bulls

Travel Day

2008-11-21T13:23:04+00:00

Good Morning,

It is 8am New York time, and my flight is set for 11:30 a.m. today.

I will be in LA by 4:30 West Coast time.

Tickets? Glad you asked.

I will be running back and forth through two sections - 117, which is ESC country, and 131 row H which has an amazing view.

MLS Playoff Prattle - The Crystal Ball

2008-11-21T04:29:00+00:00

So have we decided yet? Who's going to be holding the new-look MLS Cup come Sunday evening? Hard Hats or Crimson Cows? Let me present what I've seen in the grips of a fever dream . . . The first half opens slowly, with the Mouse's cameras spending most of the time panning the crowd for random celebrity sightings.

Houston becomes Crew fans for MLS Cup

2008-11-20T21:25:55+00:00

It seems that Houston Dynamo fans will likely be cheering for the Columbus Crew to defeat New York Red Bulls on Sunday in the MLS Cup. The Red Bulls did knock Houston out of the playoffs, but that is not the reason for the Crew support in Houston.

The CONCACAF Champions League announced the teams qualifying for the tournament next year.

Mission Accomplished: I Am Going To L.A.

2008-11-20T17:39:15+00:00

November 23rd rocks.

The Red Bulls have made an inprobable run to this years championship, which culminates this Sunday out of Los Angeles.

And I will be there.

Awesome.

Icing on the cake? I will be covering the supporters summit, featuring a quick q and a with Don Garber amongst the leagues most rabid fans.

Matt Jansen Attempts A Last Hurrah

2008-11-20T00:22:17+00:00

Football is littered with players whose careers have been curtailed before their time, sometimes through off field excesses, sometimes by the wear and tear of top level football, but Matt Jansen is certainly one of those players who certainly had more than a bit of bad luck push him to the periphery of the game.

MLS Cup Preview - Columbus versus New York

2008-11-19T19:48:10+00:00

The MLS Cup this weekend matches features the Columbus Crew, the best team during the MLS regular season, against the New York Red Bulls, the Cinderella team in the playoffs. Buy MLS Cup Tickets This game promises to be open and entertaining with two of the best players in the league going head-to-head.

You Write the Caption: Best of the Wolyniec/Thriller entries

2008-11-19T16:34:09+00:00

Just when you thought I forgot about the John Wolyniec edition of You Write the Caption, here it is.

With Wolyniec and the Red Bulls preparing to play in MLS Cup this weekend, what better time than to take a look at the very best caption submissions for the above photo, which caught Wolyniec celebrating his goal in the Red Bulls 3-0 playoff win against Houston.

All The Bull: The Cup, Vote for RB Fans, Mission Update

2008-11-19T16:13:50+00:00

There is alot of stuff going on this week, so lets get at it:

- There are now over 200 Red Bull supporters traveling out to Los Angeles, California to catch this historic game. ESC will be alive and kicking, along with Raging Bull Nation, and the rest of the RB supporters.

MLS Goal of the Year rivalry

2008-11-18T22:30:51+00:00

The voting for MLS goal of the year is down to 5 finalists. That list of the 5 finalists does not contain the clear winner in my mind which was Gallardo's full volley from an impossible (well at least tough) angle. That is a different story though.

The KC Wizards official blog has asked readers to vote for anyone other than NYRB goalkeeper Danny Cepero's goal.

Different paths to MLS Cup

2008-11-18T19:59:03+00:00

So the New York Red Bulls made it to MLS Cup. I was wrong. Alexi Lalas was wrong. He has consequences to pay. People should expect me to be wrong. I was so sure RSL was gonna beat the Red Bulls, I'm glad I didn't agree to do anything in case of a Red Bulls victory. Lalas now has to shotgun a can of Red Bull before MLS Cup.

MLS Cup 2008: Red Bulls, Crew make opening remarks

2008-11-18T04:34:45+00:00

It isn't quite like Super Bowl hype, but the long week of MLS Cup talk started on Monday with a pair of media conference calls featuring the coaches and a select player from both the New York Red Bulls and Columbus Crew.

On the Red Bulls side was Juan Carlos Osorio and wunderkind Danny Cepero, while the Crew was represented by Sigi the Scarf and the ageless wonder, Frankie Hejduk.

Video: 2008 MLS Playoff Highlights - The Conference Finals

2008-11-17T15:21:12+00:00

...and then there were two. New York Red Bulls 1 - Real Salt Lake 0 One-time Dutch international, Dave van den Bergh scored midway through the first half as the fourth-seeded New York Red Bulls got a few fortunate bounces as they clinched their first-ever appearance in the MLS Cup with a 1-0 victory over third-seeded Real [.

PT 1: Mission Impossible - Los Angeles

2008-11-17T15:17:52+00:00

Good Evening Dave Martinez,

The New York Red Bulls have won the Western Conference Championship. All year, you have followed their exploits, interviewed the usual suspects, and speculated on their playoff hopes. All questions have been answered, and now its time for the final phase of this project to go into motion.

The 2008 MLS Season Review

2008-11-17T09:40:36+00:00

When the Columbus Crew won the 2008 MLS Supporters Shield (the award given to a club with the highest point total in the regular season) and subsequently their coach Sigi Schmid won the MLS Coach of the Year award, it eloquently summarized the very odd and unusual MLS season. For starters, the Crew didn't even make [.

MLS Cup Final Preview

2008-11-17T03:39:00+00:00

Hey all, this is my first post as a contributor here on Soccer City FC. Let me know what you think.
- Thomas

The MLS Cup final is set to become one of the most exciting matches of the season. There's only one way to really explain what will happen on Sunday: expect the unexpected.

The match will feature the Columbus Crew against the New York Red Bulls.

The Offside’s Awards for the “Western” Conference Final

2008-11-16T21:55:33+00:00

Once again, we are here to ignore the obvious and give the players, teams and advertisers the awards they really deserve: The "Sarah Palin Commemorative Award for Excellence in Geography" to: MLS Um...guys? New York is on the right coast. If you check your map legends, I believe you might find that Right = [.

Two Former Wizards in MLS Cup

2008-11-16T20:28:00+00:00

Two former Wizards will meet on the field next Sunday in the MLS Cup final. Thursday night in Columbus, Will Hesmer helped Columbus to a 2-1 win over the Chicago Fire, advancing to their first MLS Cup. On Saturday, their opponent was decided, as the New York Red Bulls, beat Salt Lake 1-0 to advance to mee the Crew next weekend in LA.

WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS! OF COURSE!

2008-11-16T20:20:07+00:00

13 years.

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Ownership changes.

Name Changes.

Cursed playoff history.

Stadium Issues.

Disrespect.

You name it, this franchise has gone through it.

And it took a goal post to change our fortunes. Four times.

For one magical night, the stench of disappointment was swept away by the sweet smell of victory.

Match Reaction - Western Conference Final

2008-11-16T15:12:00+00:00

It's a funny old game isn't it? The first time the Red Bulls had their playoff lives in their hands, they got absolutely slaughtered by Chicago and had to meekly back their way into the playoffs courtesy of DC United's inability to hit anything but woodwork in their season finale. But since giving up five to the Fire, the Bulls have conceded just one goal in their last three matches, depending

Red Bulls Stun Real Salt Lake

2008-11-16T14:48:07+00:00

The New York Red Bulls improbable playoff journey continued Saturday whehn they beat RSL 1-0 to qualify for the MLS Cup against Columbus. Buy MLS Cup Tickets Dave van den Bergh got the goal midway through the first half that earned the Red Bulls their first-ever appearance in the MLS Cup but the story of this [.

The Gliddens and the Red Bulls

2008-11-16T05:04:58+00:00

That was an incredible Western Conference final, and it was a prototype of several other Conference finals -- underdog team scores goal early in the match, and absorbs wave after wave of pressure (with not a small amount of luck) to finish the winner. So it was with the New York Red Bulls, who rode a Van den Burgh goal and survived three goalframe strikes by RSL players to earn their first trip to an MLS Cup Final.

Friends on opposite sides

2008-11-14T17:23:57+00:00

Photos by ISIphotos.com

When you consider all the scenarios that had to fall into place in order for Real Salt Lake and the New York Red Bulls to meet in the Western Conference final this Saturday, you have to chalk it up to fate.

How They Stack Up: RBNY @ RSL - Western Conference Final

2008-11-14T15:37:08+00:00

While most of Red Bull Nation is just starting to realize they aren't dreaming, the Red Bulls find themselves less than 48 hours away from the final judgment. It's sink or swim at Rio Tinto Stadium as the Bulls take on RSL in Utah for the Western Conference Championship.

This match will be unique in the sense that both teams symbolize a Cinderella story, much like Columbus in the *ahem* East.

Crew advance to first MLS Cup

2008-11-14T05:28:43+00:00

The Columbus Crew had to overcome a 1-0 halftime defecit to beat the Chicago Fire 2-1 in the Eastern Conference final. The Fire looked pretty good throughout most of the first half. At halftime Alexi Lalas didn't understand what was going on with the Crew. He had predicted them to win the game.

The MLS Conference Finals. Or Cup Semifinals. Or Whatever.

2008-11-13T20:30:57+00:00

First off, why don't we just dispense with the absurdity right now and call these games what they are: The MLS Cup Semifinals. That's as oppposed to their official title, the Conference Finals. Which they're really not. MLS altered the rules last year so that the top three (not four) teams from each [.

Woly Does Thriller

2008-11-13T13:38:08+00:00

This one is for CUCS.

Enjoy.

(PS: Notice how the spanish announcers pronounce Wolys name perfectly - while every English speaking announcer outside of NY calls him WALL KNEE ACK)

Dumb Luck: Why Juan Carlos Osorio Will End New York’s Season

2008-11-13T10:36:14+00:00

Juan Carlos Osorio, coach of the New York Red Bulls, is a lucky, lucky man. This past Saturday, his side pulled off one of the greatest upsets in MLS playoff history, defeating the two-time defending champions Houston Dynamo 3-0 at Robertson Stadium in Houston. Osorio fielded an unchanged side from the first leg, which ended [.

EL CAPITANO JUAN PABLO ON FOX FOOTBALL FONE-IN TONITE!

2008-11-10T23:16:12+00:00

Ladies and gents,

Tune into Fox Football Fone-In tonight at 8pm. Our capitano supremo is gracing the studios to fill us in on the greatest upset of the playoffs this season.

FOX SOCCER CHANNEL
8PM
BE THERE.

Video: 2008 MLS Playoff Highlights - The Conference Semi-Finals Part Deux

2008-11-10T21:42:06+00:00

Match reports from Yahoo! soccer (http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/morenews). Columbus Crew 2, Kansas City Wizards 0 Brad Evans and Robbie Rogers scored to give the Columbus Crew a 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Wizards on Saturday night and a place in the MLS Cup semifinals. The teams tied 1-1 in the first leg of the two-game quarterfinal match Nov.

You Write the Caption: John Wolyniec edition

2008-11-10T18:34:27+00:00

Good afternoon all. It is time for a special MLS playoff edition of You Write the Caption. I know I haven't gotten around to picking the Top 10 captions from the Freddie Ljungberg edition of YWTC but I promise to have that up this week.

The new You Write the Caption comes courtesy of Red Bulls striker John Wolyniec, who scored his first goal of 2008 in dramatic fashion, to help seal his team's 3-0 upset win against Houston.