Articles written by: Tim Jones

Still learning soccer after nearly five decades. A southwestern Ohio buckeye transplanted to Chester County. Used to teach history, enjoys new ideas, sometimes bakes bread, is a sports fan, and loves apparently unconnected connections.

Analysis / Union / Union II

Organization Professional Roster Analysis #5

Photo courtesy Philadelphia Union Communications Since the Philadelphia Union’s season has ended and the club is undergoing a self-declared roster transition, we expand our usual end-of-year analysis of the younger professional prospects to include the first team as well. At the professional level there are two major subdivisions of the […]

Analysis

North Texas versus Union II: Deeper meanings

Next Saturday’s professional-level player development league championship final means more than just the game because of what the competitors represent.

Analysis / Union / Union II

Organization Professional Roster Analysis #6

We finish our end-of-season discussion of the Union organization’s professional rosters, including current amateurs who currently play active roles.

Match Reports / Union II

Playoff match report: Philadelphia Union II 4 -0 Columbus Crew 2

Union II won its first hardware in team history Saturday night.

Commentary / Union II

Eastern Conference Final preview: Philadelphia Union II hosts Columbus Crew 2

For the first time ever Philadelphia’s professional level player development side will be playing for an actual trophy, so we are previewing a farm team’s match.

Analysis / Union / Union II

Organization professional roster analysis #4

In part four of our roster survey we look at the first-team deep reserves who were stalwarts of Union II’s historic 2024 season, including the teenage midfield trio.

Commentary

Remembering Holden Trent as a professional

PSP remembers goalkeeper Holden Trent.

Analysis / Union / Union II

Organization Professional Roster Analysis #3

We explore our defensive line-up in the third part of our 2024 roster analysis.

Analysis / Union / Union II

Organization Professional Roster Analysis: #2

the second part of our 2024 roster analysis.

Match Reports / Union II

Playoff match report: Philadelphia Union II 1 (4) – (3) 1 Crown Legacy FC

After missing a second consecutive playoff clean sheet by two minutes, Philadelphia Union II won a penalty kick shootout on heroics from goalkeeper Andrew Rick and midfielder CJ Olney to advance to the conference final match at home next Saturday, November 2nd (opponent and time TBD).