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Time for another roster analysis
I came up with most of this while standing in line outside in 20 degree weather for two hours to see Barack Obama speak in College Park yesterday (well worth it).Major League Soccer is probably unlike any other league in the world that I can think of in its limitation of foreign players and players...
Senior roster appears set
At least it appears that way as far as I see. Goff told us this morning that David Blumer and Josh Gardner would not be offered contracts by the club. So if you look back at this post, you'd realize that there are only 18 players left who I've considered as being in competition for the 18 senior...
A rule change that actually benefits DC
Gasp! And here we were thinking that MLS only made rule changes in order to benefit the Galaxy!Maybe this was announced earlier and I missed it, but a change to the MLS roster rules has come up today only because of Goff's latest post announcing the signing of Justin Moose to a Developmental...
Salaries
The MLS Players Union just released the annual salary figures for the league. For easy reference, below are the guaranteed salaries for each DC United player currently under contract as of 3/31/08:DC Barlow Jeremy D $ 12,900.00DC Burch Marc D $ 33,000.00DC Carreiro da Silva Fred M-F $ 242,000.00DC...
3 goals by 3 rookies
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> The United Reserves fought back from a 2-0 deficit early in the second half to earn a 3-2 victory this morning at the RFK training grounds. Sitting out there for two hours, my arms are definitely sunburnt. Check out behindthebadge.com for the full match...
Reserves fall to 1-1
On an ugly rainy day, the DC United reserves suffered their first loss of the season to a Chicago team that was able to keep the ball in United's half for probably about 65% of what I saw. I only caught the last 30 minutes or so. Better turn out of fans than I was expecting with all the rain and...
Mid-Season Review part 1: Acquisitions
Given the focus that this blog has given to United's roster this year, I thought it would be appropriate to base our Mid-Season Review specifically on the roster moves that the team has made. In part 1, we will look at United's acquisitions, meaning the players that the team added since the end of...
Ivan Guerrero
We bring you this brief interruption to the MSR with the news that DC United has acquired Ivan Guerrero from the Earthquakes. The best endorsement of Guerrero has to be this one from Bryan Namoff: "He took us apart in the playoffs [with Chicago]. Very skillful, very quick, good technically on the...
Reserve review
I considered making the hour drive to RFK on Sunday morning to see the DC Reserves in action, but decided to play an impromptu game of tennis for the first time in 8 years against by brother-in-law. The good news: I still got it. The bad news: The Reserves lost.But just in reading the summary of...
The matches I missed
For the record, here are my player ratings from the two matches I missed while on vacation, based only on descriptions of the games given by Fullback, BDR, and Goff.8/10/08: 4-1 loss at NYRBTop shelf: Jaime MorenoCall: FredRail: Zach Wells, Pat Carroll, Marc Burch, Devon McTavish8/12/08: 3-1 win in...
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