It may have been a glorified training exercise, but that won’t stop us from assessing player performances. Peter Andrews on who impressed and who didn’t against the Swans.
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Curtin press conference: Homegrowns and swan songs
PSP recaps Jim Curtin’s weekly press conference. The coach touched on two Union players’ selection in the MLS Homegrown game, the friendly with Swansea City, and the club’s overall first half of the season.
Steel profile: Anthony Fontana
Is Newark Delaware’s Anthony Fontana, a YSC Academy junior who practiced with the Philadelphia Union start-to-finish this preseason, their next home grown signing?
Match report: Bethlehem Steel 1-0 Temple
Steel blanked Temple on the back of an Adam Najem goal. Fellow Union players Brian Carroll, Giliano Wijnaldum and Marcus Epps also featured.
Player to Watch: Derrick Jones
Mental quick study Derrick Jones may become the first product of the Union Academy and wholly-owned affiliate Bethlehem Steel FC to start for the Union as a complementary player to Haris Medunjanin and Alejandro Bedoya.
Match report: Philadelphia Union 0-1 Chicago Fire
Michael de Leeuw scored the lone goal to drop the Union in a closed door scrimmage in Bradenton, Florida.