The New York Cosmos announced today that two players have agreed to contract terms with the team: forward Jemal Johnson and defender Chris Rodd. The Cosmos also hired their full-time fitness coach, Simone Lucchesi. Johnson, 28, is a nine-year professional who began his career with Blackburn Rovers of the English Premier League, before playing for European clubs such as Wolverhampton Wanderers and Lokomotiv Sofia. The 5’9” forward from Paterson, NJ, currently plays for the NASL’s Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Johnson’s contract with
Welcome to the Blue Heaven: Don’t Bet Against the Goalkeeper by Jimmy Nielsen with Paolo Bandini is the story of a footballing journey, a journey that took Nielsen to Kansas City to become the best goalkeeper in MLS. It is a story of success and failure, of devastating mistakes and ultimately redemption. It is a story of soccer and of life and how the two go well together. It all started back in Denmark as a youngster with loads of potential and a
The Columbus Crew (4-5-5, 17 points) suffered a 3-0 loss to the Philadelphia Union (6-5-4, 22 points) at PPL Park on Wednesday night. All of the match’s scoring came in the first-half of action as the Union found tallies from Brian Carroll (25th minute), Sheanon Williams (29th minute) and Conor Casey (31st minute). The loss snapped the Crew’s three-match unbeaten streak (1-0-2) that dated back to May 18 at Toronto. “That was really lethargic performance especially in the first half,” Crew Head Coach Robert Warzycha
The New York Cosmos announced today that Emirates Airline has agreed to a sponsorship deal to become the jersey-front sponsor of the club. This agreement makes Emirates a Founding Partner of the New York Cosmos in their North American reboot season. The announcement was revealed today by New York Cosmos Honorary President Pelé, club Chairman Seamus O’Brien and Nabil Sultan, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President of Revenue Optimization and Distribution, at a news conference at the Four Seasons Hotel New
The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is proud to announce that the Virginia Legacy Soccer Club has joined the league as an expansion team. Virginia Legacy will start play in the Mid-Atlantic Conference in 2014. The Mid-Atlantic Conference already includes CASL Elite (Raleigh, NC), Chesterfield United FC (Chesterfield, VA), D.C. United U-23s, Myrtle Beach Mutiny, and RVA Football Club (Richmond, VA). “On behalf of the NPSL, I’d like to welcome Virginia Legacy to the NPSL to start play in the 2014
The Houston Dynamo Reserves defeated the Columbus Crew Reserves, 1-0, on Sunday morning at Crew Stadium. Houston midfielder Brian Ownby scored on a diving header and goalkeeper Tyler Deric made several important saves as the Dynamo Reserves improved to 4-1-0 this season. The Dynamo Reserves won despite a depleted roster due to injury and international call-ups. Five Dynamo Academy players featured for the Dynamo, including four starters – Christian Gonzalez, Louis Thomas, Memo Rodriguez and Elo Ozumba – and substitute Irvin
Jairo Arrieta’s woes in front of goal continued tonight as another 90 minutes went by without a goal. He now has 1 goal in 11 games this season with his last goal coming nearly 3 months ago on March 9 against Vancouver. He finished last season in tremendous form, ending with a goal every other game, 9 scores in 18 games. Photo Credit: Kevin Cross/ISNSoccer.com Watching him tonight he seems to be doing the same things as last season, sitting on
The entire Columbus Crew organization has finally breathed a sigh of relief. Photo Credit: Ric Kruszynski/ISNSoccer.com Federico Higuain’s 69th minute penalty conversion against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday ended a home MLS goalless streak for Columbus that lasted 294 minutes and spanned four matches. The 1-1 draw was also the first time that Columbus has earned a point at home since late April against D.C. United. The penalty came when Dynamo striker Andrew Driver took down Crew left back Chad Barson in
Red cards change games and that was certainly the case as AFC Cleveland fell 2-0 to FC Buffalo at Krenzler Field. The game was knotted at 0-0 for most of the match until 2 red cards, that’s right 2 red cards, gave Buffalo a serious advantage. The result was 2 goals scored in an amount of 10 minutes. The first was a penalty kick by FCB midfielder Ian Mort in the 86th minute. The second goal came from another Buffalo midfielder, Ozzy