Soccer Blogs Posts Tagged Santino Quaranta

VIDEO: DC United Pranksters

2008-11-20T10:00:00+00:00

Courtesy of Behind The Badge...

"Hahaha, 'Tino! You've been p*nked!"

Prank you very much

2008-11-19T15:52:50+00:00

On Monday, we showed you the video that asked the players who the best prankster on the team was. Today, we bring you one of the best pranks of 2008 - in photo essay form. Though numerous players play pranks on their teammates throughout the course of a season, this year, a particular prank war developed between Marc Burch and Santino Quaranta.

Photo(s) of the Day: Awards Reception

2008-11-03T17:01:50+00:00

Last Thursday, we held the Fifth Annual United Awards Reception at the very sexy Atlas Theater. The evening's event brought in more than $30,000 for United for D.C., the team's non-profit arm. In case you didn't follower our live Twittering of the event, here were the winners:

Humanitarian of the Year: Devon McTavishGoal of the Year: Marcelo Gallardo's April 26 strikeBudweiser Golden Boot: Luciano EmilioDefender of the Year: Clyde SimmsCoaches Award: Santino QuarantaFans' Choice: Santino QuarantaVolkswagen MVP: Jaime Moreno You can see a ton of photos from the night on the Video & Pics page.

He's back [as if you didn't know that]

2008-10-30T22:13:19+00:00

Santino Quaranta had the best season of his professional career this year. He set career highs in games played (27), started (23) and minutes played (1,963). He also tied his career high in goals with five.

His impressive output comes on the heels of a public omission to past drug addiction and a 2007 season split between the Red Bulls in Galaxy in which he played a total of just 265 minutes.

VIDEO: Best Dressed DC United Player

2008-10-21T18:38:00+00:00

Something for the ladies courtesy of our friends at BehindTheBadge.com

Down to the wire

2008-10-20T01:35:36+00:00

Our season has come down to this: cheering for Chicago and New England. Makes you wonder what you're doing with your life, doesn't it? Now, as I've stated before in posts and in comments, I'm of two minds on what I'd prefer to occur this week. Do we, A) eek into the playoffs, lose [...]

Award 5: The Grosy

2008-09-30T22:43:00+00:00

By definition, the Grosy Award goes to the player with the most cajones. In general, the nominees for this award are players who aren't afraid to play through injury and leave it all on the field. The award's namesake Josh Gros was famous for his work rate, and his career with DC United has seemingly ended way too soon, thanks to the numerous concussions he'd received throughout his time here.

DCU @ FC Dallas: Starting lineup

2008-09-28T18:59:55+00:00

Coming to you live from Dallas, er, Frisco... actually, I'm in D.C. and my esteemed colleague, Boris Flores, is at Pizza Hut Park today. Regardless, here's the starting lineup the coaches have decided on today.

Louis Crayton; Bryan Namoff, Gonzalo Peralta, Devon McTavish, Ivan Guerrero; Fred, Clyde Simms, Santino Quaranta, Boyzzz Khumalo; Jaime Moreno, Luciano Emilio.

DCU @ Marathon: Starting lineups

2008-09-25T02:00:43+00:00

The bad news is that Santino Quaranta will not be dressing tonight. The 23-year old suffered some pretty deep bruises on his ankle and shin Saturday night in LA and will be held out this evening. Bummer.

The good news is that the guys are all feeling pretty positive and will be coming out in a slightly more defensive-oriented posture tonight, running at type of 4-4-1-1.

Continuing the downward spiral

2008-09-22T02:38:00+00:00

As frustrating as it was to watch this team on a roller coaster ride that had its share of ups and downs the past few months, I would trade the past three weeks for that roller coaster. I'm not going to argue that we deserved to win this match, because clearly we didn't, but it sure made it hard for us to have a chance when we suffered from the worst display of officiating that we've seen all year.

The aftermath: Quaranta

2008-09-21T06:41:00+00:00

Santino Quaranta was actually one to stick up for the referees. Well, he didn't exactly say that referee Terry Vaughn's terrible call was correct but he tried to talk about both sides of the issue.

Here's audio of my little chat with Santino.

He was actually a bit disconsolate, but it was mostly to do with his ankle.

DCU @ LA: Starting lineups

2008-09-21T03:03:08+00:00

We're about an hour from kickoff and starting lineups have been named. Here's United's:

Louis Crayton; Bryan Namoff, Devon McTavish, Marc Burch, Gonzalo Martinez; Fred, Clyde Simms, Santino Quaranta, Ivan Guerrero; Boyzzz Khumalo, Luciano Emilio.

And here's the 4-42:

--------------Emilio------------Khumalo-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Quaranta----------------------Guerrero--------------------------------------Fred-----------------------Simms------------------------Martinez-----------------------------------Namoff-------------Burch---------McTavish-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Crayton-----------------------

D.C. United (10-11-3) at the Galaxy (6-10-8)

2008-09-21T02:25:57+00:00

First off, my thoughts are with Palos Verdes Peninsula resident Bill Mason this evening, a long-time AYSO referee and a score board operator for the Galaxy, who I discovered tonight had a stroke last Sunday and is in intensive care at Torrance Memorial Hospital. Bill has struggled with ill health for some time and certainly didn't need this, so let's hope he's back in the press box soon.

Debriefing for Match 13.D.01: Deportivo Saprissa

2008-09-17T14:19:00+00:00

D.C. United 0 : 2 Saprissa
Six Word Novel Recap

Pity those sent out to fail.

Media, Traditional and OtherwiseThe Washington Times, John Haydon: "Undermanned because of injuries and playing with only 10 men for 50 minutes, D.C. United fell 2-0 to Costa Rican champion Deportivo Saprissa at RFK Stadium on Tuesday night.

DCU vs. Saprissa: Starting lineups

2008-09-17T00:00:58+00:00

And here.. we... go..

Zach Wells; Bryan Namoff, Devon McTavish, Marc Burch, Gonzalo Martinez; Boyzzz Khumalo, Clyde Simms, Santino Quaranta, Craig Thompson; Luciano Emilio, Ryan Cordeiro

Bench: Louis Crayton, Rod Dyachenko, Francis Doe, Quavas Kirk, Jaime Moreno, Fred, Greg Janicki

And here's what the 4-4-2 will look like:

-----------Cordeiro------------Emilio------------- --------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------Quaranta----------------------- Thompson------------------------------Khumalo ----------------------Simms------------------------- Martinez-----------------------------------Namoff -------------Burch---------McTavish------------- -------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------Wells--------------------------

DCU vs. Saprissa: Starting lineups

2008-09-16T23:59:11+00:00

And here.. we... go..

Zach Wells; Bryan Namoff, Devon McTavish, Marc Burch, Gonzalo Martinez; Boyzzz Khumalo, Clyde Simms, Santino Quaranta, Craig Thompson; Luciano Emilio, Ryan Cordeiro

Bench: Louis Crayton, Rod Dyachenko, Francis Doe, Quavas Kirk, Jaime Moreno, Fred, Greg Janicki

And here's what the 4-4-2 will look like:

-----------Cordeiro------------Emilio-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Quaranta-----------------------Thompson------------------------------Khumalo----------------------Simms-------------------------Martinez-----------------------------------Namoff-------------Burch---------McTavish--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wells--------------------------

2 Week MLS Recap

2008-09-16T18:51:00+00:00

Being busy here at Tech I haven't had an opportunity to recap on the MLS matches I caught. However, here is what I have seen since the last time i posted.

DC United 1-2 San Jose Earthquakes
The only match I got to see two weeks ago was DC United travel to the west coast to take on the Quakes of San Jose.

Tuesday: Champions League(s), WPS, Dynamo return

2008-09-16T13:09:00+00:00

My oh my, what a busy day. Here's what we have, with a few comments from MLS folks mixed in (home team listed first, all times ET):

WPS: The women's league is announcing its first allocations at 12:30 p.m. on several platforms. When a one-time Web guru is the commissioner, you're going to get the full new-media treatment.

Feeling Happy About Various Objects News

2008-09-15T21:33:00+00:00

I think many of us get really bored when ESPN feed us a steady Champions League diet of Manchester United & Chelsea every round. But at least this week they are taking on two opponents who are very worth taking a look at. Villarreal (sadly without Jozy Altidore who is not on their group stage roster) and Bordeaux with Loren Blanc at the helm playing really great looking football.

I guess the better team doesn't always win

2008-09-14T04:20:00+00:00

A tie at home against a lesser Western Conference opponent certainly should feel like a loss. Somehow for me though, this one doesn't. Maybe it's because we outplayed Dallas, to the point where I think we really deserved the win. This felt like it should have ended at 2-1. Oh well. I guess we'll just have to steal back those extra two points when we play them again on the road in two weeks.

MLS game #24: DCU 2 - FCD 2

2008-09-14T03:22:42+00:00

A late goal from Andre Rocha brought Dallas even with 11 minutes to go - after Santino Quaranta put United up by one in the 69th minute - and the final whistle saw a 2-2 draw. Dropping two points is made doubly frustrating by the fact that the Red Bulls topped Real Salt Lake 2-1 at Giants Stadium to leapfrog the Black-and-Red in the standings.

DCU vs. FCD: Starting lineups

2008-09-13T23:29:12+00:00

We're about an hour from kick-off and Tom Soehn has named his starters for this evening's match. Most notable are Boyzzz Khumalo getting the start up top with Jaime Moreno and Quavas Kirk getting his first League start at right mid. Here's the full squad:

Louis Crayton; Bryan Namoff, Devon McTavish, Marc Burch, Gonzalo Martinez; Quavas Kirk, Clyde Simms, Santino Quaranta, Ivan Guerrero; Boyzzz Khumalo, Jaime Moreno.

Photo(s) of the day: Reading is fun!

2008-09-11T19:10:33+00:00

D.C. United players love to read. The shots above are from a recent photo shoot conducted at RFK Stadium for United Reads, one of the signature programs of United for D.C. - the club's non-profit arm. The photos are going to be used for posters, flyers and the like to encourage reading at D.

Where is the U.S talent going to come from?

2008-09-10T04:02:00+00:00

I just wanted to include a link and comment on this article by Kartik Krishnaiyer on the Major League Soccer Talk blog about Sven Goran Eriksson's early success with the Mexican national team and how the U.S. National Team could learn from that. I essentially agree that Eriksson has done a good job with Mexico and that I too was somewhat skeptical about this appointment when it was made.

Funny Monday morning title goes here

2008-09-08T15:33:37+00:00

Most blogs have some sort of catch-all title for posts - often used on Mondays - that don't have any specific focus: 'Monday musings,' 'Quick hits,' 'Morning roundup,' 'Morning kickaround' etc. We don't have one of a title of that nature and I'm not sure I'm creative enough to come up with something different in this saturated market.

X Gs

2008-09-08T14:08:00+00:00

The Galaxy has always had a history of former players doing damage in the league. Before, I couldn't figure out if it was bad scouting that led to the release of so many players that did well elsewhere or perhaps just the natural consequence of trades, or maybe just roster limitations that did not allow the Galaxy to keep all of their players.

I think we all saw this coming

2008-09-07T04:03:00+00:00

In a match where we were missing Emilio, Moreno, Namoff, Fred, Vide, and Peralta, a loss wasn't necessarily surprising. I guess the bright side is that we escaped without any more injuries! Also, I saw tonight that we've got some young players with a lot of heart, and that's got to count for something, even if it didn't earn us any points.

DCU @ San Jose: Starting lineups

2008-09-06T19:31:47+00:00

No Namoff. No Peralta. No Olsen. No Fred. No Moreno. No Emilio. No matter.

Tom Soehn has named his starting lineup for tonight's match in San Jose. These are the men charged with bringing a result back to the Nation's Capital:

Louis Crayton; Gonzalo Martinez, Devon McTavish, Marc Burch, Mike Zaher; Santino Quaranta, Clyde Simms, Rod Dyachenko, Marcelo Gallardo, Ivan Guerrero; and Francis Doe.

DC United Hoist US Open Cup

2008-09-04T20:34:00+00:00

D.C. United withstood a strong challenge from the Charleston Battery on Wednesday night at RFK Stadium to claim the U.S. Open Cup by a score of 2-1, the second time in history that the club from the nation's capital has lifted the Dewar Trophy, having also won in 1996.

It didn't take long for the home side to pull ahead, with last year's MLS MVP Luciano Emilio striking just four minutes into the match.

Video: Scenes of a championship

2008-09-04T06:47:15+00:00

Here is your first moving picture taste of the post-game festivities following United's win over the Battery. Comments from Tom Soehn, Bryan Namoff, Clyde Simms, Louis Crayton and Santino Quaranta on the win and some unbelievable footage from the field celebration. We'll hit you with a full-on Access United tomorrow, but we didn't want you to wake up Thursday morning without something to enjoy.