Preseason / Union

A Score Card for Friday’s friendly

Photo courtesy Philadelphia Union II Communications

Because this is the age of IT, social media, and cellphones, for most PSP readers by now it is no longer breaking news that the Philadelphia Union’s preseason friendly with FC Cincinnati Friday at 5:00 PM in Clearwater at the DiMaggio Complex will be livestreamed on the Union’s website.

But at this writing there has been no official announcement updating who is in Florida with the team, as contrasted with who went to Spain. Below we try to provide that information.

Careful observation of photographs and video on the official Philadelphia Union sites on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram allows the unofficial Score Card that follows below.

We grouped players by positions as best we can guess them. As we have tried to suggest, the midfield will probably see the greatest positional interchange by individual players, closely followed by the strikers.

Since it is preseason, conditioning, i.e., the accumulation of game minutes, is the most fundamental purpose of the friendly. So we provide a column to record that detail. (Typos are deliberate to make the layout work.)

Uni Player Pos Age Stt — End  G, A,
7 Mikael Uhre S 30.4
28 Tai Baribo S 27.1
35 Markus Anderson S 21.2
25 Chris Donovan S 24.5
77 Eddy Davis III* S 18.6
Leandro SoriaU II S 20.3
10 Daniel Gazdag AM/M 28.9  —
6 Cavan Sullivan AM/M 15.4  —
17 CJ Olney M 18.1  —
33 Quinn Sullivan M/S 20.9
22 David Vazquez M/S 19.0
4 Jovan Lukic M 23.0
8 Jesus Bueno DM 25.8
21 DanleyJeanJacques DM 24.7
14 Jeremy Rafanello M/DM 24.8  —
11 Alejandro Bedoya M/DM 37.8
24 Nick Pariano M/DM 21.9
27 Kai Wagner LB 28.0
39 Frank Westfield LB/RB 19.2  —
12 Isaiah LeFlore LB 22.2  —
2 Ian Glavinovich LCB 23.1  —
29 Olwethu Makhanya LCB 20.8  —
5 Jakob Glesnes RCB 30.9  —
44 Neil Pierre RCB 17.3  —
26 Nathan Harriel RB 23.8
15 Olivier Mbaizo RB 27.5  —
18 Andre Blake GK 34.2  —
76 Andrew Rick GK 19.0
1 Oliver Semmle GK 26.9  —
Mike SheridanU II GK 23.5  —

Instagram photos and video confirm that recently announced Serbian midfielder Jovan Lukic is already in Florida with the team and that his uniform number is almost certainly “4.”

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