Here’s your recap of the player moves, spectacular goals and big news you missed in USL this week.
Tag: ATL UTD 2
A USL League One team will invest big money in building its own stadium and a mixed-use development around it. Bob Martino – the owner of Chattanooga Red Wolves SC – announced Thursday the club will build a soccer-specific stadium with space for housing, retail, restaurants, hotels and greenspace around it in a proposed $125 […]
Things have not started smoothly for the Charlotte Independence in 2019. Through six games, the side led by Jim McGuinness has just four points and sits at 15th place in the Eastern Conference of the USL Championship. There’s no question the roster has talent. It features two-time USL MVP finalist Enzo Martinez, Celtic FC signee […]
ATLANTA — When record signing Ezequiel Barco picked up a muscle injury that would sideline him for the first few weeks of Atlanta United’s 2018 season, the club’s supporters thought Andrew Carleton’s time had come. There was a sudden void in the starting 11, and surely Carleton, then a 17-year-old rising star and Atlanta’s first […]
OKC Energy FC has a goal differential of -1 through its first five games of the regular season. Perhaps its newest signing will help shore-up the back line. The club announced Tuesday that Alvin Jones, a national team player for Trinidad & Tobago, is joining the squad. The deal is pending league and federation approval. […]
The 2019 USL Championship season kicked off with a bang last weekend, drawing more than 90,000 fans to games across the country. Unlike some other teams in the league, two-time defending champion Louisville City FC, did not begin the season with a strong performance Saturday and lost 4-1 to North Carolina FC. In Cary, N.C., […]
MARIETTA, Ga. — About a year ago, Patrick Okonkwo did not want to go to Charleston, S.C. Atlanta United had made the decision to loan the homegrown talent, and teammate Gordon Wild, to the Charleston Battery of the USL Championship for the entire 2018 season. Okonkwo knew if he worked hard, he’d get chances to […]
The United Soccer League rebranded and reorganized itself into three tiers during the offseason, and the highest level – the USL Championship – is set to get underway this weekend. Filling rosters in the league are budding and promising prospects, former MLS stars, bonafide professionals and journeymen who just flat out love the sport of […]
A day after advancing to the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions League with a 4-0 win over CS Herediano, Atlanta United FC announced a few roster moves. On Friday, the Five Stripes agreed to terms with first-round MLS SuperDraft pick Anderson Asiedu. The terms of the deal for the 22-year-old UCLA product were not disclosed. […]
The USL Championship affiliate of the reigning Major League Soccer Cup champion added a little more international flavor to its roster ahead of its second season. In the past six days, ATL UTD 2 has announced the signings of defender Wesly Decas and midfielder Laurence Wyke. Decas, 19, joins Atlanta on loan with an option […]