2013 Pre-Season News/Articles and Official Statements Thread

Decided we can stick most news/articles and official/reported statements for the pre-season in one thread... if you guys are cool with that.

Canetti's Corner

http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2012/12/canettis-corner-december-3

Desert Friendlies in Tucson - tickets on sale

http://www.dynamotheory.com/2012/12...s-mls-preseason-2013-houston-dynamo-fc-tucson

Apparently the tickets for Carolina Challenge Cup are on sale as well.

http://charlestonbattery.com/matches_previews.asp?cid=548

ticket start at $15 per night (two games per night) or you can get a package for the whole week for $35( all six matches)

sorry to bump my own post, went to look up a link, got side tracked, and took to long and wont let me edit it now.

Tickets can be found here
http://charlestonbattery.ticketfly.com/

there is a big US Develeopmental Academy tournament going on as well during that week. Last year all the teams brought down their youth teams as well. here is a lin to that

http://www.soccerskillsunlimited.org/TTIntro8.aspx?tid=CHBCC

If anyone is looking at coming in a group, I'm sure you can get a group rate by contacting the FO they always help set up visiting supporters.

http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2012/12/top-10-games-2012-10-dynamo-vs-real-salt-lake


Top 10 games of 2012 - #10 - Dynamo vs. Real Salt Lake

http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2012/12/top-10-games-2012-9-dynamo-vs-cd-olimpia

Top 10 games of 2012 - #9 - Dynamo vs. C.D. Olimpia

The result was a lot of cussing, flipping people off, and throwing of beers.

So it was a good game?

2012 in Review: Houston Dynamo

2012 in Review: Q&A with Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear

Opta Spotlight: Is Bruin MLS' next great goalscorer?

Armchair Analyst: Dynamo flip script with "pretty" 2012

^^^ late show!!!

i still contend Bruin could of neared 20 MLS goals if we had stuck with the 4-4-2. now we may not have gone as far as we did, but he would had more goals.

like my seat mate 'ethan' says: "if we're going to stay in the 4-3-3 then we need to get Bruin in a room watching tape of how Chicharito plays as the front and center guy in the 4-3-3".

Top 10 games of 2012 - #8 - Dynamo vs. FC Dallas

Top 10 games of 2012 - #7 - Dynamo vs. Montreal Impact

http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2012/12/top-10-games-2012-7-dynamo-vs-montreal-impact

Video Dump:

Contract Extensions


Google Hang-outs

Eric Brunner


Tim Hanley

Thanks for posting all this stuff. The videos are great.

After watching the highlights, i miss Carr already.

#6 - Dynamo vs. Philadelphia Union

#5 - Dynamo vs. New York Red Bulls

mlssoccer.com has a link to an article stating that the chinese club drogba and anelka play for has imploded and the roster will be cleared/ no matter if The Dynamo got one or both or neither of these two players,MLS needs to swoop in and get them if possible......they still have quality and will enhance the play in our league......Moreover,,,,MLS is going to prove to be one of the steadiest and most dependable leagues worldwide for players..........Argentina,and other countries have certain amounts of financial issues within their top leagues....we do not....MLS has taken a slow and cautious approach and seems to have made almost all the right calls.....and i think in the future our leagues stability will be an attraction as well as our football....

Merry Christamas everyone in the ORANGE NATION....
INDY

Drogba wants some warm weather I think. Now can we come up with ~3 million a year? Would the club even be able to break even with that kind of expenditure?
Doubtful you could even get advert or merchandizing to cover the even a 10th of cost of Didier
Only Kaka could draw in outside dollars that. Why don't we get Kaka for AM?!!?!!!?!!!?

Best of 2012: Boniek Garcia a game-changer in Houston

Top 10 games of 2012 - #3 - Dynamo vs. Chicago Fire






aka. the birth of noodle time

id love to see Kaka in Houston...but im sure the Dom has something in the works........Im not sure what the future holds for Giles Barnes....im really hoping we get to see him play alot more this next season.......And Calen Carr.....i hope he makes it back strong......we have the makings of some really good attacking options and depth.......if we can get Ching to take a significant pay cut for his final season,if he comes back,then surely we are going to have the money to make a big name signing.......and there is also this angle....if we sign a quality name player does that hurt or help in the sale of the team???? Im wondering if it wouldnt enhance the Dynamo Brand more if we had a big name player like Kaka and then see what happens in the bidding for the Dynamo.......