With a crop of homegrown players and veteran goalkeeper Nick Rimando, Real Salt Lake is ready for its MLS Cup Playoff clash with the Portland Timbers.
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Real Salt Lake announced two more international call ups on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Midfielder Albert Rusnák will join Slovakia as the squad prepares for two matches in UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifying. First, Slovakia will face Croatia in Slovakia on Sept. 6, then go on the road against Hungary on Sept. 9. Stateside, forward […]
With an eye toward the future, Real Salt Lake turned to an Englishman with decades of youth soccer development experience to oversee its academy. The club announced Wednesday that Tom Spall was hired as the club’s new Academy Director. RSL hopes to continue some valuable momentum in developing young players since academy product and RSL […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In what was a happy homecoming for Nick Lima, the San Jose Earthquakes defender returned to the training field he has known so well over his two-plus MLS seasons. He was wearing the U.S. soccer crest on his jersey, sweating in the Bay Area sunshine as the national team prepared for […]
Corey Baird had a roommate at Stanford who is a computer coder and arrived on campus having already established several companies. Baird has never asked him what he makes, but he figures it probably involves another zero or two more than the $54,504 Baird pulled in as a rookie in Major League Soccer. The same […]
When Real Salt Lake rookie forward Corey Baird first entered the team’s preseason training, he was expecting to fight for Major League Soccer minutes while perfecting his craft with the team’s United Soccer League affiliate, Real Monarchs. But Baird quickly impressed RSL manager Mike Petke with a few qualities he values in young players. He […]