Photo Credit: Richard Kruszynski/ISNSoccer.com The trade of midfielder Justin Meram to Orlando City SC signaled the move of yet another high-profile Crew SC player out of Columbus, but supporters shouldn’t worry. Crew SC got an impressive haul for the Iraq national team standout, including over one million in allocation money in addition to an international roster slot. The breakdown of the allocation funds are as follows: $300,000 in Targeted Allocation Money for the 2018 MLS season, $300,000 in General Allocation Money
Saturday’s match between Columbus Crew SC and Orlando City SC might has well been called “The Justin Meram Show” as the midfielder’s brace helped the Ohio side cruise to a 2-0 win, their third victory of the young season. Photo Credit: Richard Kruszynski/ISNSoccer.com Fresh off a contract extension in March, Meram has been the fulcrum of the Crew SC attack with three goals on the season. He is, after all, the longest-tenured player in the current Black & Gold roster and
16,486 fans came out to BBVA Compass Stadium to see Columbus Crew SC fall 3-1 to the Houston Dynamo. The loss brought Crew SC’s record to 0-1-1 on the young MLS season. “Well, first off give Houston a lot of credit,” Columbus Crew SC Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter commented. “They came out, got an early lead there and hung on. Were disappointed with the start of the game, obviously. We felt that we should have been up, should
Photo Credit: Richard Kruszynski/ISNSoccer.com Columbus Crew SC today announced that it has exercised the contract options on Designated Player and midfielder Federico Higuain and midfielders Justin Meram and Wil Trapp. The announcements of additional roster decisions are set to follow in the near future. Higuain, Meram and Trapp have combined for 370 matches played, 64 goals and 70 assists for Crew SC, with Meram currently the longest tenured player on the club after being drafted in 2011. When the trio of
Several Crew SC players came away with standout performances in a 2-2 draw with Orlando City SC. Kei Kamara set the club record for being the fastest player to score 10 goals in a single season. Justin Meram made his 100th MLS appearance, while Steve Clark finished with a career-best seven saves. Crew SC midfielder Tony Tchani scored the game’s first goal in the 6th minute with help from Hector Jimenez and Ethan Finlay. Orlando City SC star Kaka scored in
Columbus Crew SC won their home opener tonight 2-0 against Toronto FC at the newly named MAPFRE Stadium thanks to some help from the officials as Justin Morrow was controversially dismissed just before halftime. Toronto came into tonight’s game with an expensively assembled front line of Jozy Altidore and Sebastian Giovinco, and the interchange of their attacking play was causing Columbus some early trouble. Giovinco twice found space behind the defense, but both times he was unable to trouble Steve Clark. Photo Credit:
Photo Credit: Jeff Gossel/ISNSoccer.com The Columbus Crew kept up their playoff push thanks to a comfortable 3-0 win over Chivas USA on Sunday. The victory moved them up into playoff position, taking fourth place in the conference. With Chivas looking for new owners, tonight’s game highlights the level of work that is required to get the visiting team competing again. The game was a tale of two halves with the first being a desperately poor contest with both teams struggling to
Photo Credit: Jeff Gossel/ISNSoccer.com The Columbus Crew put on their most impressive performance in recent memory in front of 20,729, beating an in form LA Galaxy 4-1. The Galaxy were flying high coming into this match, having only lost once in their last 13 matches. The win also moves the Crew up to fourth and back into the playoff position with ten games remaining. The game started at a relentless pace with both teams setup to attack, creating an open and free-flowing
They were calling it “Marvelous March” with the Columbus Crew starting the season a perfect 3-0 for the first time in their history. It wasn’t long before Crew head coach Gregg Berhalter’s honeymoon was abruptly ended by a 2-0 loss to Toronto FC, a team that finished last season with the third-worst record in MLS. That was certainly before some big-name signings came to Ontario during the offseason, bringing along an expectation that the team would be reaching the playoffs
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