The Columbus Crew today announced several additions and promotions within the front office of one of Major League Soccer’s Charter Members. Over the course of the 2013 season, the Crew has added three managers: Colt Berry (Community Relations), Jacob Hanselman (Outside Sales) and Tim Miller (Communications). Promotions on the sales side included: Adam Carney, Bobby Camilleri, Anthony Gady, Melanie Seiser, Madeline Davis and Nick White. Phil Goldfarb also received a promotion in a transition from sales to corporate partnerships. Finally,
The Columbus Crew (12-14-5, 41 points) continued its ascent up the MLS Eastern Conference standings on Sunday night at Toyota Stadium, claiming its third consecutive League win with an emphatic 4-2 triumph over FC Dallas (10-10-10, 40 points). The victory gives the Black & Gold its fourth win in their past five MLS matches under Interim Head Coach Brian Bliss, while also allowing the club to retain the Pioneer Cup – the trophy contested between the two sides with longtime ties
The Chicago Fire Reserves (3-6-1, 10 points) played the Columbus Crew Reserves (5-6-2, 17 points) to a 3-3 draw in a back-and-forth affair on Sunday morning at the Crew’s Training Facility in Obetz, Ohio. Fire midfielder Daniel Paladini’s hat trick – capped-off by a 74th-minute penalty kick – tied the match at three after both teams played a wild first 45 minutes that saw three goals in the final three minutes of the half. Columbus’ Ryan Finley, Justin Meram and
The Columbus Crew recorded a much needed win against the Chicago Fire 3-0 Saturday evening. “We owed it to ourselves to go win the game and I think that served as notice to Chicago and the other teams that are ahead of us in the playoffs, that there are a few games left and we are coming hard,” Crew Interim Head Coach Brian Bliss stated. Photo Credit: Kevin Cross/ISNSoccer.com Columbus took advantage of a red card shown to Fire defender Bakary Soumare in
The Columbus Crew (10-14-5, 35 points) pushed its way back into the playoff hunt on Saturday afternoon with a thrilling 2-1 come-from-behind victory over the Eastern Conference-leading Montreal Impact (13-8-6, 45 points). With the win, the Crew snapped Montreal’s six-game home unbeaten streak, while also moving the club within two points of the fifth and final MLS Cup Playoffs position in the Eastern Conference. After conceding a 23rd-minute goal to MLS leading scorer Marco Di Vaio, the Crew recorded two unanswered
Facing its third MLS match in eight days, the Columbus Crew (9-14-5, 32 points) fell 3-0 to Eastern Conference rival Sporting Kansas City (13-9-6, 45 points) at Sporting Park on Saturday evening. The loss is the first for the Black & Gold under Interim Head Coach Brian Bliss following Wednesday’s 2-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo. Sporting got off to a fast start in the match and never looked back, as Wil Trapp was whistled for a foul inside the Crew’s
Photo Credit: Jeff Gossel/ISNSoccer.com Tonight was a start of a new era for Columbus following the sacking of Robert Warzycha as head coach on Monday and the new era started with a morale-boosting 2-0 win over Houston. Though the outcome could have been very different if Will Bruin had found his shooting boots after a poor first half from the Crew. Houston should have been three goals to the good within the first 15 minutes of the game with the Crew
The Columbus Crew announced today that it has parted ways with Head Coach Robert Warzycha. In his fifth year in charge, Warzycha led the Crew to a 8-13-5 record (29 points), with the Black & Gold currently sitting in eighth place in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference, eight points outside the fifth and final MLS Cup Playoffs position. With eight MLS regular-season matches remaining, Technical Director Brian Bliss becomes the Crew’s Interim Head Coach following six years in his previous role. Bliss
Photo Credit: Jeff Gossel/ISNSoccer.com On a night where the weather delayed the game for almost 90 minutes, it was the Seattle Sounders who cast the darkest clouds of the night over Crew Stadium. An Eddie Johnson header in the 14th minute made the difference in the game, as Columbus fell to the Sounders 1-0, despite playing up a man after a red card was shown to Leonardo Gonzalez in the seventh minute. The presence of Sounder superstars Eddie Johnson and Clint Dempsey
