WVHooligan 18 November @ 02:11 PM EST
Houston had another strong season behind Brian Ching. (Getty Images)
Dominic Kinnear teams always compete, always and the 2009 edition of the Houston Dynamo looked
very similar to the ones we've seen win league titles over the last few years. Even though the
Dynamo lost their big star in the midfield in a trade to Toronto before the season started everyone
knew this team would still compete.
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The team continues to undergo it's offseason makeover. Leo Krupnik, formerly of
Maccabi Haifa, has just signed on with Maccabi Netanya for an undisclosed sum. He appeared in only
three games, starting in two.
If you are keeping score at home, that is now 9 players that started 2009 with the Bulls, who
now find themselves elsewhere.
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WVHooligan 17 November @ 09:03 AM EST
Houston has plenty of guys worth protecting here. (Getty Images)
Today we move another day closer to the 2009 expansion draft. Now we turn our focus to the
Houston Dynamo.
The Dynamo are a tough team to figure out due to the number of quality players that are both
young and old.
Protected Available Exempt Corey Ashe Wade Barrett Danny Cruz Bobby Boswell Mike Chabala Geoff
Cameron Ryan Cochrane Brian Ching Tyler Deric Ricardo Clark Tally Hall Brad Davis John Michael
Hayden Andrew Hainault Richard Mulrooney Stuart Holden Dominic Oduro Luis Angel Landin Pat Onstad
Brian Mullan Abe Thompson Eddie Robinson Erik Ustruck Craig Waibel Cam Weaver
Either way they stand to lose a good player this year.
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And those words are: Western Conference Champions!
In another step in the worst-to-first journey that MLS Coach of the Year Bruce
Arena has taken the team on, the Los Angeles Galaxy turned away a stiff challenge from the
Houston Dynamo in 30 minutes of extra time with a 2-0 scoreline.
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The Western Conference Finals was a long, hard slog between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the
Houston Dynamo. With an 8:30 starting time to accommodate ESPN2's college football schedule, two
blackouts that interrupted play in each half, and a half hour of overtime, the Galaxy did not
trudge off the pitch with their Western Conference trophy until almost midnight.
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WVHooligan 13 November @ 02:48 PM EST
Tonight starts the conference finals in the 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs. We all know the pairings
going into the conference finals and for the most part we know who the league and ESPN are hoping
to see in the MLS Cup.
We have our favorites and we certainly have our underdog. These next two games will put either a
really high profile match in MLS Cup 2009 or one that sees a couple of western conference clubs
battling it out like last year's two eastern conference teams did in LA.
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The Major League Soccer season heads down the final turn this weekend, and with just three games
remaining, the stakes are high. Friday night at the Home Depot Center, the Los Angeles Galaxy host
the Houston Dynamo with a trip to Seattle and a spot in the MLS Cup final on the line.
It's a tale of two clubs over the past four-five seasons: one has been a proven winner, and is
in search of their third cup in the past four years.
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This match promises to be a dogfight. The season series between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the
Houston Dynamo featured exactly one goal and a lot of physical defending. If that sounds a lot like
what Chivas and the Galaxy went through for the bulk of their five games this season, its not
coincidence.
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Soccerblog 09 November @ 09:45 AM EST
Pat Onstad deserves a medal. Keeping two own goals out. The second one was a sequence of goal
line saves in the 42nd minute as Freddie Ljungberg's free kick was helped along by Ricardo Clark
with Onstad backpedaling to parry it out before it crossed the goal line and then falling down to
bat the ball away from Fredy Montero's opportunistic foot.
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The Houston Dynamo's 2009 regular season came to an end on Sunday as they beat Chivas USA 3-2 at
the Home Depot Center. Coming into Sunday's match, both teams had secured playoff berths, but the
outcome would decide the seeding of the teams. By beating the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday, the
L.
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Du Nord 26 October @ 04:25 PM EST
STARTERSDon Garber will take calls on Fox Football Fone-In show on Mon Oct 26 from 6-8pm Central. Jesse
Marsch of Chivas USA is also scheduled to appear.
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Minnesota Thunder GM Djorn Buchholz has left the team to become CEO of the Austin Aztex. On a
personal note Buchholz has been a fantastic person to deal with at the team and will be greatly
missed by me as a fan of the team.
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Chivas USA 0 Houston Dynamo 2
Two goals in three minutes have changed the face of this game.
First the Dynamo took the lead from a 26th minute corner kick by Brad Davis, defender Mike
Chabala knocking it on with his head at the far post to a lurking and unmarked Andrew Hainault who
scored with a simple header right in front of the net.
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Galaxy fans will be watching this one as closely as Chivas USA supporters given that the clubs
will meet next Sunday should Houston beat or tie the home team.
A half dozen changes for Preki today after Chivas USA's rather meek 1-0 loss to the Chicago Fire
last time out.
Carey Talley and Ante Jazic replace Mariano Trujillo and Jonathan Bornstein at full back
respectively, with Bornstein sliding into the middle in place of Shavar Thomas who drops to the
bench.
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After what appeared to be a whole mess of home cookin' the last time these two teams faced
eachother, the weather seems to favor the road team this time around. Here's a brief lesson in
climatology... Arabe Unido hails from Colon, a city in Panama that averages 129 inches of rain each
year. Houston averages 54 inches per year.
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MLS Debris 19 September @ 11:08 PM EST
There seems to be something about Houston that awakens the scoring touch of forwards. Here are
three recent examples of players who reaped the rewards of joining one of Major League Soccer's
best teams.
Kei Kamara
Houston 19 gm 5 g 3 a .26 gpg
SJ/Clb 48 gm 7 g 0 a .15 gpg
Nate Jaqua
Seattle 12 gm 3 g 4 a .
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The CONCACAF Champions League continued on Wednesday with three more group stage matches. The
Columbus Crew visited faced Saprissa, Pachuca hosted the Houston Dynamo, and Pumas traveled to W
Connection. It's about halfway through the group stage with the Columbus Crew the only MLS team in
position to advance to the quarterfinals.
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If I said not much had changed in the Major League Soccer table in the last seven days, I'd be
doing Week 20 a terrible disservice. The action was thrilling, surprising and eventful, shaking
things up even if the shock didn't quite register in the standings.
The week got underway in nauseatingly corporate fashion on Wednesday at Rio Tinto, where the
MLS All-Star game 2009 saw Premier League side Everton go up against the league's
hottest talents.
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A list of all penalties can be found on the league stats page (scroll to the bottom). However, on
that page they don't list who earned and conceded the penalties like they used to a few years back.
I've always missed that, so I keep track of it myself by looking through match reports.
This seems to be the year of the handball.
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Nutmegged 24 July @ 02:53 PM EST
Yes, according to this article here.
It is well known that Dynamo have his MLS rights, and I strongly believe that he fits in here far
better than Dominic Oduro (or possibly even Cam Weaver). So I am optimistic. Though I find it
interesting to note that this SI and Goal.com writer Shane Evans does not speculate on his landing
spot.
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Nutmegged 24 July @ 11:25 AM EST
Boy, it sure was nice watching what is basically an MLS First XI advance to the Gold Cup Final last
night. But even nicer was watching Chingy and Goalden take over the attack in the second half,
leading to Kenny Cooper's put it away goal. It is whetting my appetite for the second half of the
season, I can tell you.
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Before the season, I examined the average age of each MLS team in league history. That's done by
taking the average age of all the players for the season (using July 1st birthdates) and
multiplying it by minutes played. It's then divided by the total team minutes. I think it was one
of the more interesting posts I've ever had on this blog.
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MLS Rumors 12 July @ 03:31 AM EST
Montero's goal is likely to always remain controversial.
This was an important game for both teams in the league standings and each club had multiple
starters out due to injuries and national team call ups. Even though neither team was at full
strength this turned out to be a well played entertaining game.
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It's been almost a month now since the Wizards won a game (the game against Minnesota technically
goes down as a draw), and against opponents not from USL-1 they've managed to score a grand total
of 2 goals in that time period. Last night's performance against Houston was just the latest in
this current trouble for the Wizards.
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MLS Rumors 02 July @ 03:36 PM EST
MLS Clubs Even the Score Wednesday Night, Next Round Kicks Off July 7
CHICAGO (July 2, 2009) — The third round of the 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup wrapped up
Wednesday night with matches in Austin, Texas, and Portland, Ore. While Tuesday night had seen four
of six MLS teams tossed from the tournament with losses to lower division teams, Wednesday saw
balance restored in the form of victories for the Seattle Sounders and Houston Dynamo.
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MLS Daily 15 June @ 08:14 AM EST
Houston Dynamo forward Cam Weaver has been selected as the MLS Daily Player of the Week for his
two-goal, one-assist performance in Houston's pair of victories in Week 14. It was Weaver's first
action as a member of the Dynamo, having been traded away from the San Jose Earthquakes in exchange
for Chris Wondolowski on Tuesday of last week.
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The Houston Dynamo has added yet another forward, bringing in Cam Weaver from the San Jose
Earthquakes in a trade completed Tuesday that sends Chris Wondolowski to the Earthquakes, along
with a conditional draft pick.
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The Houston Dynamo has added yet another forward, bringing in Cam Weaver from the San Jose
Earthquakes in a trade completed Tuesday that sends Chris Wondolowski to the Earthquakes, along
with a conditional draft pick.
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MLS Rumors 09 June @ 11:38 AM EST
The trade season is officially on.
The following series of emails were received early this morning. Of course now the trade is
official but we thought it would be fun to show you the kind of behind the scenes tips we get:
5:40 AM (3 hours ago)
Houston Dynamo announced via twitter that the team finalized a trade overnight.
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One game to watch this weekend: Toronto visits Houston in a homecoming for Dwayne De Rosario.
A bit from today's paper on that game:
Dwayne De Rosario has good memories of his time with the Houston Dynamo, for whom he scored
plenty of clutch goals to help them claim two MLS Cup titles.
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Dominic Oduro fell far short of expectations, and will now wake up tomorrow,
once again a citizen of Texas. The Bulls have sent Oduro to Houston for a pair of draft picks. This
will now ensure that the Bulls will have two first round picks heading into next season (just in
time for Red Bull Arena!
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3rd Degree 27 May @ 11:44 PM EST
MLS Daily 27 May @ 05:48 PM EST
The Houston Dynamo have bolstered their stable of forwards, acquiring Ghanaian striker Dominic
Oduro from the New York Red Bulls in exchange for a pair of draft picks, the team announced in a
press release this afternoon. In return, the Red Bulls will receive Houston's first-round pick in
the 2010 MLS SuperDraft along with a second-round selection in 2011.
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MLS Rumors 27 May @ 02:44 PM EST
Red Bull New York have traded Ghanan striker Dominic Oduro.
MLSNet press release:
HOUSTON, TX -- The Houston Dynamo acquired forward Dominic Oduro in a trade with the New York Red
Bulls, the team announced Wednesday.
Houston sent a 2010 first-round pick in the MLS SuperDraft and a 2011 second-round pick in the MLS
SuperDraft to the Red Bulls in exchange for Oduro.
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Houston sent a 2010 first-round pick in the MLS SuperDraft and a 2011 second-round pick in the
MLS SuperDraft to the New York Red Bulls in exchange for Dominic Oduro.
Oduro, 23, is already in his fourth season in Major League Soccer. Oduro played with FC Dallas
from 2006-08, scoring nine goals in 70 games, and has made three appearances with the Red Bulls
this season.
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