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One time FC Tucson player Monahan to BSF

Former NAU and FC Tucson striker Sam Monahan touched ground last week in Denmark to ply her trade for Ballerup-Skovlunde Fodbold, a club that plays its home matches northwest of Copenhagen. Monahan was a All-Big Sky first teamer at NAU in 2010 and 2011. Unfortunately, her professional career got underway just in time for WPS to collapse in the US. She went to Finland, where she played two seasons…

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#Ballerup-Skovlunde Fodbold #FC Tucson #Samantha Monahan

Former FC Tucson Forward Volesky Named Player of the Week

Saint Louis FC forward Christian Volesky has been voted the USL Player of the Week for Week 2 of the 2017 season. Volesky recorded a goal and assist, and then played a key role in STLFC’s late winner in a 3-2 victory against Ottawa Fury FC in front of a sellout crowd of 5,566 at Toyota Stadium – Saint Louis on Saturday night. Volesky received 38 percent of the poll conducted by a national panel…

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Wildcat Spring Season: Maddy Bennett back in line-up

There were concerns about Maddie Bennett’s hamstring so she was kept out of the March 4 Spring season match against Grand Canyon University. I spoke to coach Tony Amato and he says that the incoming sophomore forward will be on the field against UTEP this weekend as the team resumes Spring games. Amato described Bennett’s 2016 season as “up and down,” but has said that her play in training is now…

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#Arizona Wildcats #Maddie Bennett #Tony Amato #Utah Valley Wolverines #UTEP Miners

Not believing the hype

Fox Sports ran a headline about Atlanta United stating “These gorgeous goals are the surest sign Atlanta United might be for real.” It’s a sentiment I’ve seen in plenty of other places in the soccer interwebs. Hold on for a second. I say that even as the author herself says hold on for a second: When Atlanta United steamrolled the Chicago Fire on Saturday, there were plenty of reasons to think it…

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#Atlanta United FC #Miguel Almirón #Tata Martino

ASU Men's Soccer Mystery

ASU Men’s Soccer Mystery

The Tweet came out yesterday announcing the news: It is with deep mourning that we must announce that ASU soccer has been suspended and therefore will forfeit our match this weekend. — Arizona Men's Soccer (@azmenssoccer) March 20, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Hmm. What gives? Well, this bit of news follows a disturbing incident at an ASU/U of A rugby match last month. Back on February…

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#Arizona Soccer #ASU Soccer

And We're Back On

And We’re Back On

The referee strike in Liga MX is over, meaning that games are back on. Per Jon Arnold of Goal.com, the league announced Monday that it was going to suspend Toluca’s Eric Triviero and América’s Pablo Aguilar for a full year, rather than the ten and eight week bans initially handed out to the two players for assaulting referees. This means that tonight’s Copa MX games are on again. These are the…

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#CA Monarcas Morelia #CA Santos Laguna #CD Guadalajara #Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente #Cruz Azul FC #FC Juárez #Puebla FC

Monday Morning Centerback: Cancelled Matches Edition

People gave the New England Revolution for postponing Saturday’s match due to weather conditions (quoth longtime Rider and cigar smoker Monty Rodrigues, “What are we, baseball?”), but Liga MX did one better by cancelling the whole slate of weekend matches due to a referee strike. The strike is over insufficient response to assaults on referees by Club América’s Pablo Aguilar and Toluca’s Enrique…

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#Andrew Weber #Atlanta United FC #Christian Ramirez #Club America #Deportivo Toluca FC #Enrique Triverio #FC Arizona #Jagielonia Białystok #Kevin Molino #LA Galaxy #Miguel Ibarra #Minnesota United FC #MKS Korona Kielce #Orange County FC #Pablo Aguilar #Portland Timbers FC

Be Careful What You Wish For, Kei Yesterday's headline in the Bent Musket: Kamara Hoping Weather Is “Cold Enough” for Revolution Home Opener…

#Kei Kamara #New England Revolution

Arizona Spring Season

It took until nearly the end of the contest last Saturday for freshman Zoe Barrie to score on Grand Canyon University in the first of Arizona’s Spring Season matches. I was out of state and didn’t see the match. If I want to see the next one, I’ll have to wait until March 25…and the next ones come in mid-April. Yes, Spring Season is an odd duck. Here’s the deal: your seniors don’t play because,…

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#Arizona Wildcats #Tony Amato #Zoe Barrie

Second Ekstraklasa Post of the Week

Nemanja Nikolić is playing for Chicago now, but is still leading Konstantin Vassiljev and Marcin Robak in Poland’s unofficial “golden boot” race. Funny how that works. One of the best English language sources for Eskstraklasa information is Christopher Lash. To hear him tell it, the real contest in Ekstraklasa is between Lech Poznań and Lechia Gdańsk. Oh, don’t pay attention to that Jagiellonia,…

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#Chicago Fire SC #Cillian Sheridan #Grzegorz Kuświk #KKS Lech Poznań #Konstantin Vassiljev #KS Lechia Gdańsk #KS Ruch Chorzów #Marcin Robak #Nemanja Nikolić #Sławomir Peszko #Vanja Miliković-Savić #Ziggy Gordon

Monday Morning Center Back: Rising Arizona/MLS Opener edition

Once again, Tedski’s occasional series of random thoughts on random weekend matches makes its appearance on the internet scene again. What will I be going on about this time? Saturday Phoenix Rising FC 2 (Nydard 60′, Seth pk 69′) – Grand Canyon Antelopes 2 (Delmonte 36, Moreno 58′) Phoenix Rising skipped out on Tucson preseason this year to have two matches against Grand Canyon University. The…

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#Cillian Sheridan #Fedor Černych #Grand Canyon Antelopes #Jacek Goralski #Jagiellonia Białystok #Jill Ellis #Justen Glad #Konstantin Vassiljev #Mariusz Pawełek #Matt Watson #Omar Bravo #Phoenix Rising FC #Real Salt Lake #Ricardo Velazco #Sean Wright-Phillips #Toronto FC #WKS Śląsk Wrocław #Ziggy Gordon

Weirdest Preseason Incident

So, I’m hanging out with a couple of staffers for the Colorado Rapids during a practice. “Hanging out” may be putting wrong. Really, I was just standing there while they talked to each other. Tim Howard was injured throughout preseason. He’d still be at training, but he’d be mostly giving advice to players, maybe helping out with a drill here and there. He looks over at the three of us. “I see…

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#Colorado Rapids #Tim Howard

AJ DeLaGarza on Video Replay Maybe not cool the way it happened. Obviously, they have a lot to work on with video replay.

#AJ DeLaGarza #David Villa #Houston Dynamo

Disconnected thoughts on Saturday's action

Disconnected thoughts on Saturday’s action

A few things on yesterday’s matches: Phoenix Rising and FC Tucson: Rick Schantz and Frank Yallop were in the stands for the FC Tucson – NK Istra 1961 match. Part of the point of the match was to allow the two of them to scout potential players, so said Jonathan Pearlman: We had some trialists the Phoenix rising wanted to look at and maybe put on their roster…Rick is one of closest friends and…

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#Freddy Adu #Jonathan Pearlman #Liam Ridgewell #NK Istra 1961 #Phoenix Rising FC #Portland Timbers FC

Practice Report Brief, Timbers Edition

Josh Pearson and I stopped by Timbers training this morning. Sporting Kansas City was not out, and Red Bulls practice, being held in Oro Valley, was closed to press. Caleb Porter was in a good mood. I didn’t say giddy, but affable. The press gaggle included Timbers staff, Oregonian soccer reporter Jamie Goldberg and someone from KOLD. He included an assertion that I hear from coaches in preseason…

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#Caleb Porter #Freddy Adu #Gbenga Arokoyo #Nat Borchers #Portalnd Timbers FC

A legend in my own...never mind...

A legend in my own…never mind…

Very honored that FC Tucson chose to pick me as a “Legend of Tucson Soccer.” Kind of funny, since I can’t trap a bag of wet cement but I still get to share an award with Sam Monahan and Donny Toia. Here is the complete list of honorees. We’ll all be getting, I’m sure, palm branches and red ribbons: Coaches: Dave Cosgrove, Ron Fox, Lisa Fraser, Charlie Kendrick, Roxanne Taylor , Wolfgang Weber…

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#Analisa Marquez #Charlie Kendrick #Dave Cosgrove #Donny Toia #Edgar Reyna #Erin Fahey Emenalo #Justen Glad #Lisa Fraser #Luis Robles #Mallory Miller #Ricardo Velazco #Ron Fox #Roxanne Taylor #Samantha Monahan #Wolfgang Weber

Ledbetter, DeGraffenreidt picked in draft

The third and fourth rounds of the MLS draft were held today and two FC Tucson players, Austin Ledbetter and Michael DeGraffenreidt will be off to the big time. Missouri-born Ledbetter, an MVC player of the year at SIUE, was a long termer by FC Tucson standards, first hitting the field for the team in 2014 and scoring a late season goal against RC Foxes that year. Ledbetter was one of four…

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#Austin Ledbetter #FC Dallas #Michael DeGraffenreidt #New York City FC

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