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Portland Timbers midfielder Sebastian Blanco off to fast start in second MLS season

  When the Portland Timbers have needed a goal this season, Sebastian Blanco has delivered. The Argentine midfielder put a ball through the legs of LA Galaxy goalkeeper David Bingham when the Timbers were fighting to get back in the game in their season opener on March 4. He scored on a stunning left-footed strike […]

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MLS injury updates after this week’s training sessions

Many Major League Soccer teams are struggling with injuries at the moment, and fans are waiting patiently to see their teams back to full strength. With starting-caliber players, such as David Villa for New York City FC, Ezequiel Barco in Atlanta and Orlando’s Uri Rosell, among others, nursing muscle strains, it can be difficult to […]

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NYCFC coach Patrick Vieira calls former teammate Zlatan Ibrahimović a ‘lovely character’

Patrick Vieira knows Zlatan Ibrahimović. They played together with Juventus and prattled as neighbors in Milan while winning titles at Inter. Ibra signed his Manchester United contract after a morning phone chat with Vieira and has called the current New York City FC manager a great influence and his favorite teammate. “He wanted to destroy […]

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New York Red Bulls News

Red Bulls pay for mistake, fall 1-0 to Chivas in first leg of CCL semifinals

[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”95″ 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″] They were down a man, down a goal and down to a few precious minutes when Bradley Wright-Phillips emerged in the Chivas de Guadalajara box. The New York Red Bulls forward, who has played a major role in his team’s march to a first […]

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Houston Dynamo In-Depth News

Houston Dynamo coach, GM perfectly aligned for club’s future

When Wilmer Cabrera traveled home to Colombia to visit family during the summer of 2015, he thought he was taking a break from soccer for a while. Matt Jordan had other plans. The Dynamo’s vice president and general manager was searching for the first coach of the organization’s new United Soccer League affiliate Rio Grande […]

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Orlando City coach Jason Kreis: Lions off to better start in 2018 than 2017

[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”81″ 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″] Orlando City’s 2018 start is the reverse of how the club began its 2017 campaign, though performance-wise, coach Jason Kreis prefers what he’s seeing from this season’s squad.  On the surface, the difference between last season’s start and this year is obvious. Orlando City […]

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Philadelphia Union’s Fafà Picault ready to get back after three-game suspension

CHESTER, PA– Fafà Picault didn’t sugarcoat his feelings on missing the Philadelphia Union’s first three games of the season. The midfielder was suspended for the opening stretch of the Major League Soccer season due to offensive language in a closed-door friendly against Orlando City. “It sucks. It’s not fun,” Picault said. “I don’t want to […]

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San Jose Earthquakes, Shea Salinas celebrate 10th anniversary of MLS debut

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ten years ago, the San Jose Earthquakes were reborn as an expansion club following the previous iteration of the team moving to Houston two years earlier and becoming the Dynamo. That squad won two successive championships for its adopted state of Texas and were the best team in Major League Soccer […]

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New York Red Bulls News

Daniel Royer, New York Red Bulls excited for ‘fire’ atmosphere at Estadio Akron

Danny Royer likes playing the villain, hearing the venom spewed from the home crowd. The New York Red Bulls winger got a little taste of that at Estadio Caliente when his team pulled out a historic 2-0 win over Club Tijuana in the first leg of their Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal last month. That heat the […]

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Club América coach Miguel Herrera accuses Toronto police of assaulting his players

Club América coach Miguel Herrera said two of his players were assaulted by police officers during halftime of Toronto FC’s 3-1 win over the Mexican club at BMO Field on Tuesday. After a heated first half of the CONCACAF Champions League semifinal, tensions boiled over in the tunnel as players made their way back to […]