PSP’s coverage of minor league, college, high school and top amateur soccer in the region.
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.
Brandon Allen netted a brace in his debut for Bethlehem Steel FC on Sunday, making him PSP’s Player of the Week.
After having watched preseason carefully, PSP estimates the current game-day player pool from which individual game-day rosters will be drawn, subordinate to the short-term needs of the first team. It’s complicated.