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Bethlehem Steel FC head coach Brendan Burke is continually asked to handle last minute matchday roster changes as a result of the club’s affiliation with MLS Philadelphia Union. But Burke relies on four returning players to help keep his matchday units in cohesion. PSP spoke with Burke about those players and the impacts they bring to his club in an ever changing, ultra competitive environment like Steel FC houses.
The teenage left back showed he belonged in his MLS debut on Saturday.
Last year in the second home game, the Steel went up a man and a goal on a last man back red card and a PK. This year in the second home game, the Steel went down a man and a goal on a last man back red card and a PK, and Nashville goalie/coach Matt Pickens made sure the early penalty resulted in three points.
I learned a long time ago that kids aren’t stupid. They know that scoring is the most fun-filled part of the game, and If soccer isn’t fun they’ll quit. And the kids are right. The Mercy Rule is Merciless.
The Tampa Bay Rowdies were the better team on the night, defeating Bethlehem 2-0 in spite of stellar play by keeper John McCarthy.
PITS is game related portrait of random people in and or around the stadium during Union matches. In this first episode Heather Reppert.