Samuel Armenteros scored twice in the second half to lead the Portland Timbers to a 3-2 win over Sporting Kansas City in their final game of preseason Saturday. The game was a tale of two halves. Portland’s top lineup struggled mightily in the first half, allowing Kansas City to put in a dominant performance and […]
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For the first time since his long-awaited signing as the New York Red Bulls Young Designated Player, Kaku saw game action on Saturday. Alejandro Romero Gamarra, the 23-year-old attacking midfielder, made his preseason debut for the Red Bulls against Phoenix Rising FC of the USL at Kino Stadium in Tucson, Ariz. Playing on a team […]
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Red card rules in MLS preseason: is it an exhibition or scrimmage?
In Major League Soccer’s preseason affairs, it turns out a scrimmage match and an exhibition match are not the same thing. New York City FC took a cross-country journey recently to meet 2018 expansion side Los Angeles FC and then take on the L.A. Galaxy the following night. NYCFC played the nascent L.A. franchise to […]
Will the Los Angeles Football Club make its hometown proud? Performance-wise that remains to be seen, but on style points alone it already has. The LAFC’s inaugural-season uniforms, officially unveiled Saturday, add a dash of fashion to the functional Adidas Climacool kit — as much for what they don’t have as what they do. Here […]
Bob Bradley, perhaps more than many coaches in MLS, makes a point of getting to know his players. He learned something interesting during his introduction to one of his forwards last month. Marcos Ureña’s first name has been misspelled for most of his career. “It’s Marcos,” Bradley said. “Even though sometimes it gets written as Marco, […]
Marco Farfan turned heads in his rookie season. The then-Centennial High School senior put in five strong starts for the Portland Timbers and looked like a seasoned pro in April when he was named to the MLS Team of the Week following his second start at the MLS level. That promising rookie campaign drove Farfan to push himself […]
After the best debut season by a midfielder in L.A. Galaxy history, no one would have begrudged Romain Alessandrini if he had taken a trip home to France for some relaxation and celebration this winter. Yet he did neither, staying in Playa Vista where he began working out for the new MLS season before the old one had officially […]
The Los Angeles Football Club has several issues to address ahead of its inaugural MLS game in two weeks. But resilience isn’t one of them. For the second time in three preseason games, LAFC came from behind to earn a draw, this time playing the Vancouver Whitecaps to a 4-4 tie at UCLA on Sunday. “You’ve got […]
CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. – Paul Arriola and Russell Canouse have been members of D.C. United for about seven months. Arriola just turned 23. Canouse is 22 until June. Combined, they’ve played all of 21 MLS matches. Until last winter, when Arriola cracked Tijuana’s lineup, neither had started regularly in first- or second-division soccer. But with […]
Everything about #KakuWatch was unprecedented for the New York Red Bulls. For the club’s sporting director Denis Hamlett, who had coaching gigs with the Chicago Fire, Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact before joining the Red Bulls in 2015, there’s never been a longer process than the one that resulted in the club signing Alejandro “Kaku” […]