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Union win friendly 1-0

Philadelphia Union topped the University of Guadalajara 1-0 Tuesday on a second half goal from Fred. Temple University product J.T. Noone assisted on Fred’s goal in the 65th minute with a long setup pass, bolstering Noone’s hopes of making the team as an undrafted trialist. Fred scored from the left […]

USMNT

Changing the US National Team formation

There has been some chatter this past week about the US changing its formation. Leander Schaerlaeckens over at Espnsoccernet wrote a pretty interesting article about why he thinks the US National Team ought to change its formation. I was intrigued, so I put together some thoughts of my own about […]

Ocean City Nor'easters

Ocean City PDL team open tryouts Saturday

Ocean City’s PDL club will host an open tryout this Saturday in Camden. The tryout is open to all players and begins at 7 p.m. at Rutgers Camden Community Field. There’s a $20 tryout fee and players are advised to …

Daily news roundup
Daily news roundups

Daily news roundup

The Harrisburg Patriot-News has more on the Union’s partnership with the USL-2 Harrisburg City Islanders here and here.  (And no, we’re not just linking there because they gave us a great shout-out. But … it didn’t hurt.) You can also see some City Islanders videos here. Great quote from Union CEO Nick […]

Harrisburg City Islanders / Local / USL

Islanders Announce Pre-Season Games in PA, Sign Midfielder

For those Union fans now more attentive and those Isles fans eager to get a look at the squad in preseason training, they have announced a schedule of friendlies across the midstate: Date – Opponent – Time – Location Wed, March 17 – Saint Francis University – 8:00 – Millersville University Tues, […]

Harrisburg City Islanders / Local / Reading United AC / Union / USL

Farming the Union, Cultivating the Fans

With today’s announcement of an exclusive partnership with USL-2 side Harrisburg City Islanders, the Philadelphia Union has laid the ground work for a highly developed farm system. Already with a working partnership with PDL side Reading United AC, the Union have now established links to …

Union partner with USL-2 Harrisburg
Harrisburg City Islanders / Local / Union

Union partner with USL-2 Harrisburg

Philadelphia Union will partner with the Harrisburg City Islanders of USL-2 in a development contract could see Union players loaned to Harrisburg to get more playing time, the clubs announced today.

Daily news roundups

Daily news roundup

American international Maurice Edu scored in stoppage time to lead Glasgow Rangers to a 1-0 win over Celtic in the Scottish Premier League. This is one of the biggest rivalries anywhere in soccer, and the celebration was pretty nuts.

Union

Rookies score for Union in 2-2 draw

Rookies J.T. Noone and Jack McInerney scored today to lead Philadelphia Union to a 2-2 draw against Chivas Guadalajara. McInerney had a hand in both goals, scoring in the 50th minute and feeding Noone for the second goal less than five minutes later to push the Union out in front.

Wonderland

Street Soccer Commercial

Some nice street soccer with Capoeira action.