Mid-Atlantic Pool:D.C. United (MLS) @dcunited will host Philadelphia Union (MLS) @PhilaUnion Columbus Crew SC (MLS) @ColumbusCrewSC will host Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC (USLC) @RiverhoundsSC #USOC2019— U.S. Open Cup (@opencup) May 30, 2019 Looks like we are hosting the Union in the 4th round of the USOC. We haven't beaten an MLS side in the cup since we won it all in 2013.
I got an email from DCU that confirms this: 6/12 @ 7:00 PM. It looks like they are only opening the west and north stands. Tickets are $10, north stand and $15 west stand. All are GA. asitis Edit: these prices are for STM's
I'm guessing we might actually see a fairly strong lineup. We'll have a few players out on National Team duty, but we'll be eleven days past our previous game and two weeks away from our next. Everyone should be rested with plenty of time to recover for the next game. asitis
Dammed well better! I &?#$ing hate Philly, perhaps almost as much as NJ. It was the preseason games we played against them down in Tampa 3 years ago that really turned me into a club over country guy when Bedoya and Gooch were intentionally hacking and trying to hurt Lucho, which really set him back for much of the early part of the season due to the ankle injuries he incurred that game.
You have to have positive feelings about something to be ambivalent. I can fathom why someone would feel okay about the city of Philadelphia I fully understand positive feelings about unions But the Philadelphia Union? Nah. Can't see it
Someone else's sports hate? Who am I to judge? I just laugh at MLS because they think they can extinguish my Galaxy hatred by not scheduling any DC United games with them. To this day I have positive Chivas USA feelings because their fans hated the Galaxy.
It's news to me that LAFC fans hate the Galaxy. Hating the Galaxy is common sense, I'm not become a fan of a team because they have a little common sense.
I don't care much one way or the other about the Philadelphia Union. Marylanders who claimed to be dyed-in-the-wool DCU fans who then jumped ship for the SOB as soon as the Union appeared and showed a little leg? Fuck them hard.
Well at least one Marylander has stayed loyal for 23 years....................even after this Flo debacle!!!
Another sign that DCU is just a bunch of posers. The guy wasn't here for more than a few months and he jumps at the first opportunity to be an assistant.
Uhh...I would say Williams's loyalties lie with Bruce Arena for far longer than with DCU. How does that make United posers?
Agree 100%. He's going to work for the guy that recruited him in college, coached him to great success as a pro and, because Arena is my age, he won't be coaching much longer. At that point, Williams becomes the heir apparent for an MLS gig. If I were him, I would have taken the offer as well -- it just makes sense.
I might have as well, or maybe I might have shown some proper respect and responsibility and stayed in the job I promised to do for the remainder of the season - but who knows - people take jobs then leave them for different jobs before the ink on the first paycheck is dry every day. Now Loudoun United probably has their pick of about half the guys who they told weren't good enough for the job in March. They'll probably just hire the Academy guy and hire some local youth guy for that spot. I'm curious what it'll do to the team, they've been slowly playing like they didn't all just meet about a month ago
If you operate from the assumption that coaches are hired to be fired, then Williams move makes sense. Put another way, Williams could have said I will honor my contract and then DCU fires him two weeks later. Sure they would have to pay him the balance of his contract -- unless he was fired for some transgression that relieved DCU from its contractual obligations. In either case, the opportunity for Williams to coach in MLS would be gone. I don't have problem with him leaving and the FO did right to permit him to leave and NE rightfully compensated DCU for the inconvenience of losing a coach in midseason. For other examples of this, just look to Philly where one of their assistants left a few weeks ago to join his brother who is now a head coach in Germany.