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Alexi Lalas: ‘I’m seeing firsthand that Austin is a dynamic soccer city’

When the U.S. men’s national team had its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup dashed by a 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago last October, the despondency stretched from the Caribbean to the Fox Sports board rooms. Fox Sports paid dearly — up to a reported $425 million — for the rights to broadcast […]

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Three things we learned from Columbus Crew win over Montreal Impact

[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”41″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Three things we learned from Columbus Crew SC’s 3-2 win over Montreal Impact. The old guys still got it. Federico Higuain scored in his second straight game, and Ignacio Piatti willed the Impact back into the match. These veterans aren’t going anywhere. It’s not […]

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Late goal caps historic home opener for Columbus Crew SC

[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”41″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Columbus Crew SC kept sizzling this week as the Crew took a quick lead in their home opener against the Montreal Impact, eventually holding on for a 3-2 win. 12 minutes into the match, former Crew SC defender Jukka Raitala dragged down Lalas Abubakar […]

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Decades after Browns left for Baltimore, ‘Modell Law’ could keep soccer team in Ohio

Two years before Cleveland lost its professional football franchise, Columbus, Ohio, got a professional football — sorry, soccer — team. The Columbus Crew are one of Major League Soccer’s 10 charter clubs. They’ve won a league championship. They play in the first soccer-specific stadium ever built for an MLS team. But with the organization’s owner frustrated over the unwillingness of […]

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Crew SC owner homes in on Austin stadium site

The owner of Columbus Crew SC is homing in on a stadium site in Austin, Texas. Anthony Precourt, CEO of Precourt Sports Ventures, said on Thursday “we’re impressed with the potential at McKalla Place,” north of the city’s downtown. “We continue to believe Major League Soccer can integrate into the heart and soul of the […]

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Columbus Crew face challenges on and off the field in 2018

Every team has goals for a season. Often times the No. 1 goal is to win a championship. If a team doesn’t achieve its goal, there is an overriding sense of “next year.” That has been the case recently for the Columbus Crew SC. A playoff berth in head coach Gregg Berhalter’s first season with […]

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Columbus Crew’s Harrison Afful feels prepared, expects big season

Harrison Afful’s 2018 with Crew SC got off to a stronger start than in 2017. It helped, first of all, that he was present. Afful and teammate Jonathan Mensah missed a significant chunk of preseason last year while playing for Ghana’s national team at the Africa Cup of Nations, missing training camp in Brazil and […]

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Fox analyst Stu Holden not sold on idea of Austin as a can’t-miss MLS market

One of the top TV personalities in American soccer needs to be persuaded that Austin is a can’t-miss Major League Soccer market. Former U.S. national team standout Stuart Holden will be one of several Fox Sports personalities in town this week for South by Southwest as the network rolls out its Fox Sports House at […]

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MLS, Precourt: ‘Strongly disagree’ with Ohio’s lawsuit to keep Crew SC

Major League Soccer and the owner of Columbus Crew SC responded to a lawsuit aimed at blocking the club’s move to Austin, Texas, saying they strongly disagree with the interpretation of an Ohio law intended to keep professional sports teams from relocating. MLS and Precourt Sports Ventures released a statement Tuesday, after Ohio Attorney General […]

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Three players added to Columbus Crew SC leadership council

[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”30″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Columbus Crew SC’s leadership council has grown to seven players, coach Gregg Berhalter said Monday. Fourteen-year MLS veteran Ricardo Clark, goalkeeper Zack Steffen and eight-year MLS veteran Hector Jimenez have been added to a group that already includes midfielders Federico Higuain and Wil […]