What: Union at FC Dallas
When: 8:30pm ET
Where: Dallas
TV:
It's hard to believe the Union have time to play soccer with all this drama going on, but the
team is on its way to Dallas with an eye towards breaking a three game losing streak.
Photo: Daniel Gajdamowicz
All-time record: 1–2–1
At PPL Park/The Linc: 1–0–1
At FC Dallas Stadium/Pizza Hut Park: 0–2–0
Goals for: 4
Goals against: 8
Did you know.
The Seattle Sounders have deservedly risen to the top most of the power rankings floating around
the MLS media world after winning 3 games in 8 days, but with that honor comes the significant
caveat that 6 of their 8 games (and all but one of their wins) have come at home. And their two
road games were at D.
The Montreal Impact appear to be closing in on their big-name acquisition.
According to numerous reports out of Canada and Italy, the Impact are on the verge of signing
Bologna striker Marco Di Vaio through the 2013 MLS season. Di Vaio, who will be 36 in July, is
reportedly holding a press conference on Friday to announce his future intentions.
Now that the Brian Ching saga is over and done with we can now look back on what the Montreal
Impact probably should have done instead of playing the hardball game with Ching and the Houston
Dynamo.
Obviously getting just a conditional draft pick* isn't bad but for the most part it wasn't what
Montreal and their fans would have expected in return for a player like Ching.
Pardon my French.
With less than a day until the Montreal Impact make their selections in the Major League Soccer
Expansion Draft, the predictions on who will be packing their bags for Quebec are coming from all
over so I thought I would toss my hat into the ring.
As the quality on MLS rosters continues to grow year after year, the league's new teams find
themselves with a wealth of options from which to build their team.
The Sporting KC reserves, the Swope Park Rangers, fell to FC Dallas in reserve team action today
2-1 down in Dallas. From reports KC had a good run of play today controlling large portions of the
game, but couldn't capitalize on the chances. Dallas grabbed two goals in the first 16 minutes
through Ruben Luna and Bobby Warshaw.
Houston Dynamo (10-9-12) vs. FC Dallas (13-10-7) September 24, 2011 -- Pizza Hut Park, Frisco TX
Attendance: 10,849
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Geoff Cameron 5 (Brad Davis 14) 87
Houston Dynamo -- Tally Hall, Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Geoff Cameron, Corey Ashe,
Adam Moffat, Luiz Camargo, Brad Davis, Danny Cruz (Je-Vaughn Watson 58), Brian Ching (Carlo Costly
78), Calen Carr (Colin Clark 64).
Finding minutes on a team as stacked as FC Dallas can't be easy for a rookie, so when Bobby
Warshaw gets a chance to step on the field for the reigning Western Conference champions, he has to
take full advantage.
Warshaw did just that on Saturday, coming off the bench to score a dramatic stoppage-time
game-winning goal to help FC Dallas complete an inspired comeback in a 3-2 victory against Sporting
Kansas City.
Photo by ISIPhotos.com
When Omar Bravo finished off a Teal Bunbury pass to give Sporting Kansas City a 2-0 lead on FC
Dallas in the 68th minute on Saturday night, the match-up of top MLS clubs looked to be over. The
home team was leading, the visitors were feeling the grind of a busy week, and it would have been
easy for Dallas to look ahead to Tuesday's U.
Photo: Nicolae Stoian
Union
Peter Nowak on Saturday's crucial match in Columbus: "I think Columbus will be one of those
games that [a challenge] will come our way and we have to grab one point or three points and have
to make the best of it."
Danny Califf calls the match "a six pointer," adding, "It's the most important game of the
season so far.
The Rio Tinto hosted a clash of two of the three best in the Western Conference on Saturday night.
Dallas came in winners of three in a row while Real had not been beaten in five.
Salt Lake's StrategyJason Kreis started with his usual 4-4-2 diamond formation. The only surprise was Luis Gil starting
as Alvaro Saborio's strike partner instead of Fabian Espindola.
By CALEB SONNELAND
Real Salt Lake is back to its winning ways after it ousted a red-hot FC Dallas 2-0 on Saturday
thanks to second-half strikes from Andy Williams and Fabian Espindola.
The deadlock was broken almost immediately after halftime when Kevin Hartman couldn't hold onto
an Andy Williams free kick when the keeper got behind the ball but couldn't hold onto it as it
trickled across the line to earn the hosts a 1-0 lead.
Photo by Jose L. Argueta/ISIphotos.com
In what was one of the best weeks of the season for Major League Soccer rookies, one of the
least-heralded first-year players stood out the most.
D.C. United's Blake Brettschneider, a second-round MLS Supplemental Draft pick out of the
University of South Carolina, delivered two assists in the club's 3-2 victory at Portland, playing
a major role in making D.
Our beloved Red Stripes fell last night in Monterrey, Mexico to the UANL Tigres in the first
round of what could be the annual Rio Grande Plate. FCD took on Tigres a couple of years back in
a home-away set that drew thousands of fans to PHP. The game wasn't televised, and the only real
way to follow it other than the FCD Twitter was in Spanish on 1270AM.
Buzz Carrick over at 3rd Degree has been doing a pretty good job at keeping up with the current
rosters for FCD. So...I thought I'd give you a heads up as well. With the latest news that FCD
has let go of Maykel Galindo and Charlie Campbell, the updated rosters look something like
this:
Senior Roster (18 to 20)
MLS rosters are expanding to 30.
David Ferreira / Photo by Harlan Bowling
FCD took on Houston Baptist in a scrimmage yesterday, and while most of the game was
overshadowed by the breaking news of Heath Pearce's departure, there were still quite a few talking
points from the match itself. The match ended up 4-1 in Dallas' favor.
David Ferreira / Photo by Harlan Bowling
FCD took on Houston Baptist in a scrimmage yesterday, and while most of the game was
overshadowed by the breaking news of Heath Pearce's departure, there were still quite a few talking
points from the match itself. The match ended up 4-1 in Dallas' favor.
By ADAM SERRANO
One win away.
That is how close FC Dallas came winning the franchise's first MLS Cup in 2010. Fresh off its
crushing defeat to the Colorado Rapids in the final, FCD is ready to make a return run to the
championship in 2011.
It seems most years before this one, the MLS Superdraft was something of an event for FC Dallas,
because we were usually looking at a pretty good pick close to the start of the draft. And while
that may have been a good thing on draft day, I wouldn't have traded our run last year to get
stronger picks this year.
It seems most years before this one, the MLS Superdraft was something of an event for FC Dallas,
because we were usually looking at a pretty good pick close to the start of the draft. And while
that may have been a good thing on draft day, I wouldn't have traded our run last year to get
stronger picks this year.
STARTERS
The USA has confirmed 2 more friendly matches - Sat Mar 26 v Argentina in the Meadowlands, and Tue
Mar 29 v Paraguay in Nashville.
dN
The word around town is that Kenny Cooper been released by his club in Germany freeing him up to
sign with Portland.
MLSSoccer.com's Full List - be sure to check out their site for full explanation of all trades
and notes.
Round 1
Pick Club Player's Name
Position School/Previous Club 1 Omar Salgado* F US U-20 National
Team 2 Darlington Nagbe* M University of Akron 3 Perry Kitchen* M University of Akron/US U-20s 4
Zarek Valentin* D University of Akron/US U-20s 5 Zac MacMath* GK University of Maryland/US U-20s 6
AJ Soares D University of California 7 Kofi Sarkodie* D University of Akron 8
(from TOR) Michael Nanchoff* M University of Akron 9 Jalil Anibaba D University of North Carolina
10 CJ Sapong F James Madison University 11
(from SEA1, POR2) Will Bruin* F Indiana University 12 Rich Balchan D Indiana University 13 Corey
Hertzog* F Penn State University 14
(from RSL3) Victor Estupinan F LDU Quito (Ecuador) 15
(from SJ 4) Justin Meram F University of Michigan 16 Paolo Cardozo M Quilmes (Argentina) 17 Bobby
Warshaw D Stanford University 18 Eddie Ababio D University of North Carolina
Rounds 2 & 3 after the break.
MLS SUPERDRAFT
Here are the picks from Round 1:
1 Vancounver Whitecaps FC - Omar Salgado - left sided forward
2 Portland Timbers - Darlington Nagbe - holding forward
3 DC Untied - Perry Kitchen - defensive midfielder/centerback
4 CD Chivas USA - Zarek Valentin - right fullback
5 Philadelphia Union - Zac MacMath - goalkeeper
6 New England Revolution - AJ Soares - centerback
7 Houston Dynamo - Kofi Sarkodi - right fullback
8 Vancouver Whitecaps FC - Michael Nanchoff - outside midfielder
9 Chicago Fire SC - Jalil Anibaba - centerback
10 Sporting Kansas City - CJ Sapong - holding forward
11 Houston Dynamo - Will Bruin - forward
12 Columbus Crew - Rich Balchan - defensive midfielder/centerback/fullback
13 New York Red Bulls - Corey Hertzog - forward
14 CD Chivas USA - Victor Estupinan - forward (Liga de Quito - Ecuador)
15 Columbus Crew - Justin Meram - forward
16 LA Galaxy - Paolo Cardozo - attacking midfield (Quilmes - Argentina)
17 FC Dallas - Bobby Warshaw - central midfield
18 Colorado Rapids - Eddie Ababio - right fullback
The 2011 MLS Draft is set to kick off shortly and if you were wondering who the best players
available were at each position, let us give you a guide.
Here is a rundown of the top players available by position. We'll be tweaking the board as we
get closer to the start of the draft, but be sure to make this your place to see who is
available.
The 2011 MLS Draft is less than 12 hours away, but it's never too late to project every single
pick in the draft.
It took us some time, and plenty of travel, but we've come up with a full 54-player draft. Every
team, every pick, every player.
No, we don't actually think we'll be right on all 54, or even most, but this Mock Draft should
help give you a sense of how players are rated heading into Thursday's Draft.
Photo courtesy of Stanford Media Relations
BY ADAM SERRANO
Versatility is the name of the game for Stanford's Bobby Warshaw.
Listed as a defender, Warshaw displays the positional diversity that can be golden in a league
like Major League Soccer.
