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Interview: Orlando City SC head coach Adrian Heath

by Adam Cann × on December 15, 2014 at 11:09 am × 10 comments

Orlando City SC head Coach Adrian Heath talks to PSP about trading for Amobi Okugo and drafting Danny Mwanga and Pedro Ribeiro.

Season Review: Reevaluating John Hackworth’s firing

by Dan Walsh × on December 10, 2014 at 11:21 am × 39 comments

PSP’s look back at the 2014 Union season moves on to a reevaluation of John Hackworth’s firing and considers the factors that led to it.

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Season review: Reevaluating the Maurice Edu Trade

by Peter Andrews × on December 9, 2014 at 11:27 am × 8 comments

PSP’s Peter Andrews reconsiders the Maurice Edu trade, on all fronts.

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Okugo to be traded to Orlando City

by Eli Pearlman-Storch × on December 7, 2014 at 10:19 pm × 57 comments

Source tells PSP that Amobi Okugo will reject Philadelphia Union’s bona fide contract offer and sign with Orlando City SC. Updated

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Season Review: Austin Berry – What went wrong?

by Kevin Kinkead × on December 5, 2014 at 11:49 am × 21 comments

Kevin Kinkead recounts Austin Berry’s first season with the Union, which began with high expectations, and ended with disappointment after injury, illness, and a slide down the depth chart under Jim Curtin.

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The origins of soccer in Philadelphia, part 5: Local college-based football after the 1863 Laws of the Game

by Ed Farnsworth × on November 28, 2014 at 10:43 am × 1 comment

Our series continues with a look at college football in Philadelphia after the 1863 Laws of the Game, and how rival rules of the game resulted in what would become American gridiron football supplanting soccer-style football in intercollegiate sport.

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The origins of soccer in Philadelphia, part 4: The first account of soccer-style football after codification?

by Ed Farnsworth × on November 24, 2014 at 11:34 am × 2 comments

Our series continues with a look at football in Philadelphia after the 1863 code, including what may be the first newspaper accounts of a soccer-style game in the city.