Traffic Sports director Fernando Clavijo has denied that any deal had taken place between USA Under-20 central defender Gale Agbossoumonde and Portugese club Sporting Braga. Click to continue reading...

In recent weeks, one of the biggest figures in American youth soccer has been Fernando Clavijo who has moved on to become a director of the Brazilian based company Traffic Sports since leaving his position as head coach of Colorado Rapids. Click to continue reading...

Saturday night was last Miami FC game of season and Burrito saw how Miami lose against the Islanders. But the good thing was watching the Miami Ultras. They were loud and they had one hombre with a cowbell who was great! The pinches Ultras also give Burrito's compadre Zach "Beowulf" Kirby the players of the seasons award. Click to continue reading...

Saturday night was last Miami FC game of season and Burrito saw how Miami lose against the Islanders. But the good thing was watching the Miami Ultras. They were loud and they had one hombre with a cowbell who was great! The pinches Ultras also give Burrito's compadre Zach "Beowulf" Kirby the players of the seasons award. Click to continue reading...

Saturday night was last Miami FC game of season and Burrito saw how Miami lose against the Islanders. But the good thing was watching the Miami Ultras. They were loud and they had one hombre with a cowbell who was great! The pinches Ultras also give Burrito's compadre Zach "Beowulf" Kirby the players of the seasons award. Click to continue reading...

Instead of waiting on the pink slip, Juan Carlos Osorio took it upon himself to pull a Fernando Clavijo and resign from the New York Red Bulls. Not many details are out yet but a conference call is set for a couple hours from now.

Ives, the New York Post and others are all reporting it.

It looks like assistant coach Richie Williams is set to be the interim coach, a move that I said would be a smart one by the Red Bulls if they'd just pull the trigger on Osorio.

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The Miami Herald is reporting that defender Facundo Erpen and midfielder Richard Perdomo are both likely on their out from the club when the summer transfer window opens on July 15th.

The club is looking to accommodate Erpen's request for a transfer, and is shopping the player to teams in France and Mexico, according to Fernando Clavijo, director of soccer for Traffic Sports.

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Climbing the Ladder has done it again. If you're not familiar with the blog, get familiar. Scaryice rules that roost and is the best at tracking and analyzing MLS and US Soccer stats. Seriously, I don't know any other blogger/writer doing what he's doing over there.
This time he's putting together college teams who have graduated and gone onto MLS. Click to continue reading...

Should have gotten to this earlier, huh?

Giuseppe Rossi is a soccer player of (seemingly) quite exceptional ability. His two goals led Italy to a 3-1 win over the US in the first group match of the FIFA Confederations Cup on Monday and have led to the 22-year-old from Teaneck, New Jersey being branded a "traitor" by many US fans.

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Hola South Florida Futbol Fans and peoples of the worlds! (Especialy all the hot mamacitas!) Burrito bring you mucho informations so put on seatbelts cause here we go:
Miami FC win game on Sunday vs los Aztex from Austin by 2-0. Burritos idol Diego Serna hit post on shot then miss penalty but later score when Austin Goalie make boo boo and give ball straight to Serna. Click to continue reading...

"I think people at the top have demeaned this competition"
It is rare that we get a snarky comment out of Colorado. But luckily we now have one courtesy of one English manager, Gary Smith. One part snark, one part disgust, one part conspiracy theory. Apparently he is none to happy his Rapids didn't get to play at Qwest Field and has wrapped himself in the flag of the US Open Cup to defend his comments. Click to continue reading...

The Rapids have taken their official team photo for 2009, and the team will be selling it at home games.

Fans will be able to get their hands on the team poster, which features the photo on a thick-stock poster, starting Saturday.Â

Members of the Rapids Academy will be selling the team posters at all gates of the stadium at all games this season at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

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Fernando Clavijo winner of 61 caps as a player for the United States National Team, and former MLS and International manager joins us on the program. Listen to Clavijo's memories of his time with the National Team, the 1994 World Cup, managing in MLS and his thoughts about USL-1.

Facundo Erpen was a 2006 MLS All Star and won the 2006 and 2007 Supporters Shield with DC United.

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Welcome back ya'll, I'm still here and updating, I promise to get back on a regular schedule very soon. Big new over on the du Nordfront, Brucio is re-opened for business. That is great news all around. Now we will see some sort of competition between MLS Daily and du Nord. Should be interesting to see how that plays out. Click to continue reading...

The result in last night's US Open Cup play-in game is that Colorado moves on while the Galaxy only have MLS to focus on this season.
This sets up a tasty game regardless of who wins the April 28th game between Real Salt Lake and Seattle Sounders FC.
Should Real Salt Lake win on the 28th then Colorado will face it's Rocky Mountain Cup Rival in the US Open Cup again after having defeated them 1-0 in the Fourth Round in 2006. Click to continue reading...

Previously on EPL Talk, we identified some of the top footballers on MySpace and Facebook. Now it's the turn of Plaxo, the online address book used by more than 40 million people worldwide. Steve Sampson. It's pretty sad when someone spends practically his entire career in sport and what he's remembered most for is his role [. Click to continue reading...

The Colorado Rapids grinded this one out against one of the league's top teams and were unlucky in the end to only get a 1-1 draw. With Chivas beating Salt Lake, the Rapids are now third in the Western Conference with just five games to go. Gary Smith, head coach, now has one of the nine points he said he wanted from six games but this conference remains so tight, especially with Dallas' surprise victory over Chicago, that it looks impossible to predict what will happen. Click to continue reading...

From Ives' Q&A today: IVES- Here are my odds on who will be Seattle's next coach: Sigi Schmid- 2/1 Paul Mariner- 5/1 Brian Schmetzer- 10/1 Fernando Clavijo-25/1 What does Ives know to put Sigi leaving the Crew at 2/1? Crew fans should be asking the same thing? Losing the likely Coach of the Year to an expansion team certainly won't do much [. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to an MLSR reader we now have an answer to a burning question we have had since we started..."Where are the Colorado Celebrity Fans???" Of course looking at most games at Dicks Sporting Goods park the question paled in importance to ones like, "When will Fernando Clavijo get the sack?, "Why is Colorado's best player, Christian Gomez riding the bench? Click to continue reading...

The Colorado Rapids are in trouble. Actually, they have been since their opening night evisceration of the LA Galaxy, a game which gave fans a very false sense of security. The Rapids of 2008 have not been able to solve the problem of points on the road in MLS. Only Real Salt Lake is worse away from their friendly confines, securing a single win and two ties in 11 tries. Click to continue reading...

Confession. I only saw the last 20 minutes or so of this game due to other commitments and a need to change shoes. It's a long story. Suffice it to say I have very little intelligent to say about the game. I arrived when it was already 2-0 to Real Salt Lake, saw a bit of honest running from the likes of Omar Cummings and very little actual shots on goal. Click to continue reading...

Nick at We Want Rapidman felt the Colorado Rapids, with new coach Gary Smith at the helm, would be fired up and ready to play at RFK Stadium against DC United. Unfortunately that wasn't the case with the Rapids losing 3-0.

View From The Couch takes a look back at the Clavijo Era. Note that the talk on the street was that Clavijo was a coach in name only.

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There really is no need to brag about getting something as right as saying a coach should be fired at anytime in the year. I know other sites will say they called it and what not but I like everyone else knew Fernando Clavijo's time in Colorado was about two years too long. So with that [...] Click to continue reading...

It's probably not the way anyone wanted his tenure to end but Fernando Clavijo's days with the Colorado Rapids are over.
Clavijo resigned due to personal reasons as he and the Rapids reached some sort of mutual agreement that allowed the two to part ways.
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It's finally happened. The Rapids have fired their coach, Fernando Clavijo. Surprisingly, Gary Smith is going to take over for him on an interim basis, whatever that means. I say suprisingly, because it seemed like the Rapids have been preening assistant coach John Murphy for the job. He's been the face of the coaching staff for years, and the Rapids even sent him over to Europe to become the first American to be a UEFA certified manager.

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Well, it happened. Fernando Clavijo and the Colorado Rapids have parted ways with 11 games left in the 2008 MLS season.

I didn't think it would with the Rapids front office seemingly content to wait for Clavijo's contract to run out at the end of the year. Likewise Fernando Clavijo didn't seem interested in leaving before his contract was up.

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Fresh on the heels of the news that former U.S. coach Bruce Arena has been handed the keys to the LA Galaxy came the announcement that Fernando Clavijo has resigned as Colorado Rapids head coach. "A lot of things happened through the year that I was not happy with in many ways," Clavijo told the Denver [. Click to continue reading...

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Fernando Clavijo has resigned as Colorado Rapids head coach in a move that seemed destined to happen even before the 2008 season began.

"A lot of things happened through the year that I was not happy with in many ways," Clavijo told the Denver Post.

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BE WARNED: If baseball on ESPN2 runs long tonight, the USA game will start on ESPN Classic.
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Coach Fernando Clavijo is done in Colorado. He went to his native Uruguay last week to attend to personal matters, and has now "resigned". He has never been a great week to week coach, but I think the guy has a great eye for talent, and should be given some credit with setting up the New England team that Steve Nicol make great. Click to continue reading...

Another MLS coach faced the firing squad on Wednesday afternoon as the announcement was made that the Colorado Rapids have decided to part ways with head coach Fernando Clavijo immediately. Assistant coach Gary Smith has been tapped to fill the position on an interim basis for the remainder of the 2008 season. Click to continue reading...

Today, the Rapids and head coach Fernando Clavijo decided to part ways.  Clavijo had not only overseen 3 mediocre years for the Rapids, but he recently had go back to his native Uruguay to take care of a family medical emergency.  Assistant coach Gary Smith has been managing training and was the coach in Colorado's [. Click to continue reading...

Fernando Clavijo is resigning as coach of the Rapids effective immediately, according to the Denver Post this morning. No real shocker here as Clavijo left the club earlier last week to be with his family in his native Uruguay. He mentions that he wants to help the club but needs to be with his family [. Click to continue reading...

Fernando Clavijo, the head coach of the Colorado Rapids, has resigned with immediate effect from his position. Like the death of a sick loved one, the news comes as a shock but not exactly unexpected. Rumors had been flying for some time, especially after the recent meltdown at the Los Angeles Galaxy when Ruud Gullit and Alexei Lalas said goodbye. Click to continue reading...

As some of you have already noticed, there is a new feature here on WVH, the WVH Poll. I will try to add a new poll every couple of weeks. Right now its about the coaching hot seat, so far Fernando Clavijo leads the race. Feel free to add your comments in here if you [...] Click to continue reading...

Bouna Coundoul, Pablo Mastroeni and Omar Cummings have all been called up for their respective national teams for international fixtures next week. Bouna will be off to Tripoli for a Senegal friendly against Libya while Cummings and Mastroeni will represent their countries in World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Guatemala respectively. Click to continue reading...