Articles written by: Dan Walsh

Novelist in progress. Former newspaper & magazine reporter. Occasional freelancer. Started PSP in 2009 with some awesome guys. Moved to Italy in 2014, then the UK in 2019. See more at http://www.danielwalsh.net. Follow on Twitter @danwalsh_writes.

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Featured / Union

Union preseason observations: Torres, lineups, more

The latest preseason observations on Philadelphia Union, with a bonus look at Orlando eying MLS.

Featured / Union

Union thoughts, post-friendly

Ten thoughts on the Union, post-friendly, in under 800 words? You betcha. Ready? Click.

Featured / Union

Draft day reaction: Anding, Okai, Adu

The surprising Don Anding pick and Freddy Adu drama overshadowed a great piece of draft work by the Union with Stephen Okai. One PSP contributor reacts to each move and is far more reluctant to lose Adu than you’d think.

Featured / MLS / Union

Hackworth: Adu “not in our plans”

Hackworth on Adu: “Freddy is not coming into our preseason. He is not in our plans.” PSP has the story.

Featured / Local / Union

Five questions, five answers

After a year spent mostly on the outside looking in, could Roger Torres return to America de Cali? Is the Union locker room bad for Latinos? Who will the next captain be? Who will the trialists be? PSP hits five questions facing the Union and hazards a few answers and guesses.

Featured / MLS / Union

The quiet departure of Carlos Valdes

Most accept that Carlos Valdes will leave the Union this winter. Few know exactly why. PSP explores this mystery.

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Annual Awards / Local

PSP’s Best of 2012 Awards

Here is the Best of 2012, as voted by the PSP crew.

Featured / MLS

MLS-USL deal is huge for American pro soccer

The proposed MLS-USL partnership is a big deal, and not just because Philadelphia Union and the Harrisburg City Islanders pioneered it. It could be one of the most significant developments ever in American professional soccer. PSP explains.

Featured / Union

Conor Casey, Freddy Adu and the advent of logic

The arrival of Conor Casey is one more nail in the coffin for Freddy Adu. Why? Because it drives home the fact that the Union now do things logically. PSP explains.

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Featured / Union

The erasure of Diego Gutierrez

The trade of Josue Martinez shows how the Union are persistently erasing signs of Diego Gutierrez’s tenure as Union scouting director. That’s not by accident.