Some Union players still have much to fight for
Hopes are low for the team finding success with what’s left of the season, but there are still several players with things left to prove by the end of the year.
Hopes are low for the team finding success with what’s left of the season, but there are still several players with things left to prove by the end of the year.
There has been ample time for Philadelphia Union to acquire help at the No. 10. Through two transfer windows, the Union found nobody. PSP’s Adam Cann lays out the problem in depth and takes the front office to task on it.
The Union held a town hall meeting for season ticket-holders but refuse to let anyone else know what happened. PSP’s Adam Schorr thinks he knows why.
Steve Whisler is relieved the Union passed on Nicolás Martinez.
Another up and down season has this writer watching the game but not loving it. All it took was a moment of Brazilian brilliance to begin to unlock the love.
If USL were to expel its player-development sides, NASL could succor them, solve its problems, and make two equal division two leagues in North America a permanent situation.
The Union have a problem. After a very public confrontation on Wednesday night, Roland Alberg is the most disliked player on the team. With fans, media, and teammates all angered, Nick Fishman comes to Alberg’s defense.
The rules for treating concussions properly and the rules governing a soccer game are incompatible, as Derrick Jones’s recent injury may help to illustrate. That incompatibility is, and continues to be, unacceptable.
The Gold Cup is the premier competition for CONCACAF supremacy. It does little to further the US Men’s National Team’s international agenda, however, and getting “results” in the competition have little impact results in subsequent World Cups.
Bethlehem Steel FC has already developed an MLS quality player, with two more potentially on the way. But what should fans really make of the Union’s USL setup?
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