The Cleveland Freeze announced today that Hector Marinaro, the all-time leader in points and goals in professional indoor soccer, will become the Freeze’s head coach for their inaugural 2013/2014 Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL) season. This comes after the Freeze previously announced Co-Owner and Director of Team Operations Louis Kastelic as the team’s Head Coach. “I am honored to have been offered the job to coach this team and was fully prepared to do so, but
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
Fans of the indoor game have many fond memories. Unfortunately, most of those memories are in the past. Known by many names, this version of the beautiful game focuses on bringing the game inside for fast and entertaining soccer. In Ohio, there were many success stories when it came to the sport of indoor soccer. The Canton Invaders, and more importantly, the Cleveland Crunch and Force took Northeast Ohio by force. Big crowds in large venues were the name of the
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
Part of the NPSL’s mission is to develop players at the collegiate level. That mission is accomplished if you look at some of the nation’s marquee matchups in NCAA soccer this season. The matchup between the University of Akron and Virginia Commonwealth University has to be at the top of that list. Five RVA FC players made the starting XI for VCU, while three former and current AFC Cleveland players were part of the UA squad. Photo Credit: Pam Moody/ISNSoccer.com Romena Bowie,
The Dutch Lions FC is starting a second club in Ohio with the acquisition of the Premier Development League franchise in Cincinnati. The team will play under the name Cincinnati Dutch Lions FC and will start league play in May 2014. The team will consist of top college players and several Dutch players and have a close partnership with the professional team in Dayton that plays in the USL PRO Division. Different than the Dutch Lions FC clubs in Dayton
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
