Category Archives: New York Red Bulls

Good things in store for San Jose Earthquakes in 2008

The newly created San Jose Earthquakes team just finished up the Carolina Challenge Cup, an annual pre-season tournament featuring 4 teams.  This year along with the Earthquakes the New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, and home team Charleston Battery.  San Jose went a perfect 3-0 to win the tournament while the USL team went 1-1-1 [...]

Do the DP’s have to be old timers?

In order for the LA Galaxy to bring David Beckham to Major League Soccer the rules had to change.  The salary cap was too small for Beckham to fit on any team by himself, so the league added DP’s which only count toward some of your salary cap.  After that the team can pay that [...]

Juan Carlos Osorio headed to New York

Juan Carlos Osorio will be replacing Bruce Area at New York Red Bulls this coming season. Osorio has been in NY before, both as a player and as an assistant coach. This past season he turned the Chicago Fire season which was a disaster before his arrival.
Osorio has spent time on the coaching [...]

Clint Mathis traded to LA Galaxy

There are rumors flying that Clint Mathis has been traded to the LA Galaxy for a 3rd round draft pick.  Maybe they are more than rumors and the official announcement just hasn’t been made yet.  Either way it sounds like the Galaxy are getting a good deal.
I’ll admit that Mathis was always one [...]

Frank Yallop and Bruce Arena moving on

Frank Yallop is leaving the Galaxy to go back to San Jose when they become the newest expansion team next year.  Even newer news is that Bruce Arena and the NY Red Bulls will no longer be working together.
So what is going to happen in the now vacant coaching positios in NY and LA?  Maybe [...]

Predicting the postseason

Well a weekend full of season ending games and a couple more end of the year awards have been finalized. How are my predictions going?
I correctly predicted that the 4th seed Chicago Fire took out overall league leaders DC United.
I also predicted that the 5th place (East) Kansas City Wizards would defeat 1st place [...]

MLS 2008 Playoff Schedule and Predictions

Well the Galaxy run came to an end and the Wizards didn’t drop out of the playoffs on their last game day like expected. Here is a look at the upcoming playoff schedule. I’m glad to see they are still going to have Thursday nite games on ESPN2! All times CST.
Thurday, October [...]

Thierry Henry to New York Red Bulls?

Well we’ve heard it before, but when Ives Galarcep writes about something, people take notice.  Now he is talking about the possibility of Thierry Henry coming to MLS and playing for the New York Red Bulls.
There was a ton of doubt that Beckham would make the move to MLS but those turned out to be [...]

Galaxy playoffs on the line tonight

Tonight the New York Red Bulls come to the Home Depot Center with a chance to spoil the playoff run being made by the red hot LA Galaxy. The Red Bulls already are in the playoffs and just have a chance to play the part of the spoilers tonight. So what do [...]

Wizards Looking For Playoff Spot Tomorrow

The Kansas City Wizards were one of the hottest teams early in this 2007 MLS season.  Now they are one of the teams still looking for a playoff spot with only 2 weeks remaining in the regular season.
Last year the Wizards’ post season schedule was not decided until the last day of the regular season.  [...]