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Kofi Sarkodie wants to succeed with the Dynamo this year and garner more playing time with the U.S.
Olympic team.
Forward Calen Carr, who played a key role in the run to the MLS Cup final, has been limited this
week while rehabbing from the left knee surgery he underwent late last month. "I had to get a
little work done on my knee," he said. "It was nothing major. Just cleaned up some things." [...]
The U.S. Under-23 men's national team finished off its January training camp with a victory,
topping Alajuelense 1-0 in a friendly in Costa Rica.
Tony Taylor scored the lone goal, taking a pass from the Columbus Crew's Dilly Duka at the top
of the box and finishing in the 41st minute.
It seems like just yesterday the Dynamo played for the MLS Cup in Los Angeles, in fact it was
only 66 days ago, but time waits for no one and the new season must get underway. Yesterday at the
team's training facilities, the Dynamo did just that, kicking off the 2012 season with the opening
of pre-season camp.
The United States Under-23 National Team scrimmaged Saprissa's reserves today in Costa Rica.
Playing at the Monster's Cave, aka Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Ayma, the two teams finished scoreless.
USA: 1-Zac MacMath; 4-Kofi Sarkodie (17-Sheanon Williams, 77), 3-Zarek Valentin (capt.)
(19-Royal-Dominique Fennell, 77), 2-Sebastien Ibeagha (Andrew Wenger, 46), 5-Jorge Villafana;
6-Amobi Okugo (15-Mix Diskerud, 46), 8-Jared Jeffrey (13-Michael Stephens, 61), 10-Dilly Duka
(12-Isaac Acuna, 67); 7-Freddy Adu, 9-Tony Taylor (11-Jack McInerney, 70), 11-Jack McInerney
(14-Joe Corona,.
By FRANCO PANIZO
Neven Subotic is one of the top young centerbacks playing in Europe, but his future is under
threat after Geman authorities opened a sexual assault investigation against him.
Subotic and three others are under investigation after a 21-year-old woman claimed she was the
victim of a sexual assault.
The U.S. MNT is training in Costa Rica
The U-23 Men's National Team is in Costa Rica for the conclusion of their January training camp,
and Saturday they played the first of two scrimmages when they took on the reserves of perennial
Costa Rican powerhouse Saprissa.
The teams dueled to a 0-0 draw at Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, which U.
Jared Jeffrey (blue) and Benny Feilhaber (Grey)On Friday, the full team lined up against the U-23 MNT for the first of two scrimmages while the
teams share space at The Home Depot Center. For both groups, it was the first opportunity to play
11 v. 11 since camp began and continue to evaluate players for the upcoming friendlies.
The full team lined up against the U-23 MNT for the first of two scrimmages while the teams share
space at The Home Depot Center. For both groups, it was the first opportunity to play 11 v. 11
since camp began and continue to evaluate players for the upcoming friendlies.
"These scrimmages are good for us and the Under-23s, that's why we do it purposely, because it's a
big year for U.
A healthy Josh Gatt and Mexican-American midfielder Isaac Acuña are among the 22 players called
in for the next U.S. Under-23 training camp by coach Caleb Porter.
The camp will take place at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., before the group departs
for Costa Rica to play friendlies against Saprissa reserves on Jan.
By FRANCO PANIZO
BRADENTON, Fla. -- The U.S. Under-23 men's national team wrapped up its December camp with a
second intra-squad scrimmage on Thursday afternoon, and the competition for roster spots set the
tone for a physical and fiery match.
Split up into white and blue teams, the 29 players in camp (Bill Hamid left camp earlier in the
week due to family reasons) took part in a windy match at IMG Soccer Academy that saw its share of
physical play and rough challenges.
The December camp for the U-23 Men's National Team came to a close after eight days in Florida that
included eight training sessions on the field and two 90-minute intrasquad scrimmages. U-23 head
coach Caleb Porter and the coaching staff got a birds eye look at much of the player pool, and
spent significant time educating the group
Terence Boyd and Sebastian Lletget (pronounced leh-JET) put in two nice finishes in the game at the
IMG Soccer Academy in Bradenton.
With U.S. head coach Caleb Porter indicating there are about 50 potential players for the U.S.
Olympic Qualifying roster, the chance to evaluate the individuals in game conditions is clearly
important. It also gives the coaches a chance to gauge the progress of the group in understanding
the concepts of how they want the team to play.
For seven of the MLS-based players, arriving into camp on time required a Herculean effort that
began with an early morning wake-up call in Amsterdam and ended 21 hours later in Sarasota. As
you'll see, there's no easy way to get from Point A to Point B. The merry band of travelers
included David Bingham, Will Bruin, Dilly Duka, Zac MacMath, Jack McInerney, Amobi Okugo, Kofi
Sarkodie and Zarek Valentin, who were with a select MLS squad playing in Holland.
HRH Kofi Sarkodie is at it again, wrapping up the European adventures of both himself and
teammate Will Bruin with the Generation adidas team in the Netherlands.
And here you thought with that title that I was going to write about Landon Donovan heading back
to Everton. Well, for Ginge's sake, I hope Donovan kicks ass across the Mersey.
Photo by Bill Barrett/ISIphotos.com
The MLS Generation adidas side continued its tour of the Netherlands with a 3-2 victory over
second-division club FC Volendam on Tuesday.
Columbus Crew midfielder Dilly Duka scored his second goal of the tour, tallying off a free kick
much like he did against the Ajax reserves in a 4-2 loss last week.
United States Men's National Team head coach Caleb Porter named five Philadelphia Union players
as part of his 28-man roster for the Olympic squad's December camp, today. The Union players make
up the largest group of club teammates on the team.
Freddy Adu, Zac MacMath, Jack McInerney, Amobi Okugo and Sheanon Williams will head to Florida
from December 15-28 to train with the rest of the under-23 team at the Premier Sports Campus.
Caleb Porter has named a 28-man roster for his first camp in charge of the U.S. U-23 men's
national team, and there's talent aplenty.
Freddy Adu, Teal Bunbury, Mikkel Diskerud and Bill Hamid are just some of the more well-known
names in the eight-day camp that will be held in Lakewood Ranch, Fla.
It's always a good sign about the your club's future when three players, well three and a
potential fourth future Dynamo star, get called in to a US Men's National Team U-23 training camp.
Danny Cruz, Kofi Sarkodie and Will Bruin head to Florida starting next week for a week long camp
with new U-23 head coach Caleb Porter.
While the USMNT has their January "Camp Cupcake" coming up, the US U-23s will head to Florida
under the direction of new coach Caleb Porter on December 15th, to participate in their own camp
("Camp Junior Mint?") in advance of next year's Olympic tournament.
The Dynamo's Danny Cruz, an unheralded name in the mix.
photo by Bill Barrett/ISIphotos.com
The 2011 Generation adidas team began its three-game tour of the Netherlands on Thursday
morning, but not in the fashion that it would have liked.
Ajax's reserve team defeated Generation adidas, 4-2, in a friendly in Amsterdam, according to
MLS's twitter.
Photo by Michael Janosz/ISIphotos.com
MLS announced the 18-man roster that will be making the trip to the Netherlands for the
Generation adidas tour, with four players from the Philadelphia Union, up-and-coming Real Salt Lake
midfielder Luis Gil and last year's No. 1 pick in the MLS SuperDraft, Omar Salgado, headlining the
team.
STARTERSI'm getting goosebumps already! MLS Cup is 6 days away.
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Bruce Arena of the LA Galaxy has been named the MLS Coach of the Year.
-That was an easy one. No one else was even close.
dN
The New England Revolution has hired Jay "He also played basketball for Mike Krzyzewski at Duke"
Heaps as their new head coach.
Among the highlights of the Dynamo Reserves' 2-0 win yesterday morning over the Kansas City
Wizards Sporks are a couple of very nice finishes from Alex Dixon and Colin Clark. When thinking
beyond this season, it's getting pretty clear that Dixon is a serious asset. Check out the moves he
makes to create space in a dangerous area before cooly finishing the chance.
Chicago Fire Reserves (6-2-1) vs. Houston Dynamo Reserves (5-4-0) October 01, 2011 --
Robertson Stadium, Houston, TX MLS Reserve League -- Central/Mountain Division
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Will Bruin 1 (Calen Carr 1) 12
HOU -- Will Bruin 2 (Jason Garey 2) 25
HOU -- Calen Carr 1 (unassisted) 42
Chicago Fire – Alec Dufty, Pari Pantazopoulos, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Yamith Cuesta,
Francisco Mendoza, A.
I'm on the road today so expect plenty of reaction to this disaster tomorrow in Monday Morning
Centre Back.
Houston Dynamo (8-9-11) vs. Sporting Kansas City (10-8-10)
September 10, 2011 -- Robertson Stadium
Attendance: 14,791
Scoring Summary:
KC -- Teal Bunbury 6 (Graham Zusi 5) 9
KC -- Teal Bunbury 7 (Julio Cesar 1) 73
KC -- C.
The Philly Soccer Page " Match report: Revolution 0-3 Union
Even stranger, the Union were in no mood to give it to them. Carlos Ruiz got his sixth while Carlos
Valdes and Sheanon Williams each got the first of their careers as the Union dismissed the last
place Revolution 3-0.
Union 3-0 NE Revolution | Philly Union Talk
Where do I start?
The Union raised a lot of eyebrows by taking Maryland goalie Zac MacMath fifth overall, passing
on big-time defensive prospects like AJ Soares and Kofi Sarkodie, and turning a blind eye to
strikers CJ Sapong and Will Bruin.
The Union see MacMath as their future: A future US international number one who can take over
games and save shots that even very-good-goalies can only dream of stopping.
It is rare to see a 20-year-old centerback do well on the professional level, and it's tough to
remember many doing well in Major League Soccer, but D.C. United rookie Ethan White has been an
exception to that rule, growing into a quality central defense option for the Eastern Conference
club.
Down a man and a goal after Kofi Sarkodie's ejection, staring another loss to their rivals from
the north right in the face, the Houston Dynamo dug deep and got an 88th minute equalizer from
Colin Clark to earn a hard fought 2-2 draw with FC Dallas in a physical match that was typical of
clashes between the two teams.
Dynamo News:
- Congrats to Andre Hainault for being named to MLSSoccer.com's Week 9 Team of the Week
- NY's De Rosario still has place in his heart for Houston [MLSSoccer]
- Kofi Sarkodie started in the U.S. U-20's Draw against France [USSoccer]
- Dynamo Academy's Fernando Piña and the U.
By FRANCO PANIZO
Joe Gyau, Conor Doyle, Kelyn Rowe and Dillon Powers were among the U.S. U-20
men's national team veterans called into the team's May training camp in France.
20 players were selected in total for the training camp in Vichy, France by Tab Ramos.
Sporting Kansas City 1 - 0 Houston Dynamo April 06, 2011 -- Aggie Soccer Stadium, College
Station TX
Attendance: 2,383
Scoring Summary:
KC -- C.J. Sapong (Teal Bunbury) 92
Sporting Kansas City -- Eric Kronberg, Michael Harrington, Matt Besler, Shavar Thomas, Roger
Espinoza, Luke Sassano (Davy Arnaud 91), Craig Rocastle (Birahim Diop 76), Milos Stojcev, Kei
Kamara, Omar Bravo (C.
The Dynamo hit the road again in the second leg of their early season transcontinental adventure
to face the New York Red Bulls. It's Houston's annual sojourn to play the team with a big city name
that calls the land of Bruce Springsteen and "Waste Management" companies home.
Saturday's match will be all about the continued growth and development of this Dynamo team.
We started this feature with the idea that it would be a chance to have a less emotional
reaction to the game. A way to just be presented with the facts and make a more measured
assessment.
What I didn't count on was actually being more emotional about a game the next day than I was at
the time.
Photo by ISIphotos.com
In light of the series of player moves that have happened this offseason, most notably this past
week, a number of Major League Soccer teams have improved themselves significantly - at least on
paper.
Although not many of the playoff stalwarts did much tinkering heading into 2011, some of the
league's worst teams have appeared to take large steps in closing the talent gap, which should make
for a pretty exciting season, one whose opening game is less than a month away.
As many Dynamo fans have hoped, the team has officially signed Jamaican international defender
Jermaine Taylor.
Since MLS keeps transfer and contract information so secret that even WikiLeaks couldn't get us
the information, we don't know any details. What we do know however is that once Taylor receives
his international transfer certificate and P-1 visa, he'll be a part of the Houston Dynamo and
occupy one of the team's international roster spots.
It's rather difficult to write up a report concerning a match you could only follow via a live
chat. I'm not complaining of course, just stating facts. Fortunately, the Dynamo have provided us
with some game notes that will at least give you an idea of what occurred in this morning scrimmage
against Sporting KC.
By AVI CREDITOR
To date, perhaps no team has had as active a preseason than the Houston Dynamo. And the club has
barely hit the training pitch.
With the team breaking ground on its new downtown stadium last week and the club being shifted
to the Eastern Conference (for this season at least), change is in the air in Houston.
Dynamo Press Release
The Houston Dynamo beat local college side Houston Baptist University 2-0 in a scrimmage
Saturday morning at Sorrels Field on the HBU campus.
The Dynamo rested regulars Geoff Cameron, Brian Ching, Brad Davis, and Lovel Palmer while
allowing four foreign trialists to play 61 minutes each.
