With the same criteria as the other Scholar All-Americans we named earlier today there are a pair with local ties to be named in DI. From a line of soccer players in his family, Hofstra Senior Defender, Sean Nealis of Massapequa was selected with his almost perfect 3.7 in the demanding Accounting program out of Hofstra. Columbia also had one Lion maned or rather named, Dylan Castanheira possibly a student of former USSF prez., Sunil Gulati in being an Economics student carrying a 3.43 GPA.
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December 11, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
Before the first game and scant hours after making their 5 selections in the 2018 MLS Expansion draft, FCC has already paid out in excess of $1,000,000 in Allocation Money. Just after the draft, they dropped a quarter mil. on ATL UTD for Greg Garza, now another $825,000 goes to the Whitecaps for Kendall Watson along with an international spot. This establishes a new record in money for a single defender.
read December 11, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
Only the Chicago Fire put out a list to press, from MLS, here is a full and complete list.The 5 teams that are not exposed as they lost a player last year in the draft to LAFC are, the Crew, Earthquakes, Sounders, SKC & Toronto. Other than Generation adidas players and homegrown each team is able to protect 11 players. Designated players are not automatically protected however if one has a no trade clause contract, he then must be protected. No team may lose more than one player, there will be 5 rounds, 3 minutes per selection, no timeouts, no trades during draft.
read December 11, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
Just a few hours away, 1p.m. CST, the draft will be held, allowing FC Cincinnati to get up to 5 players as they begin MLS play in the spring.
Protected players: Brandt Bronico, Diego Campos, Michael de Leeuw, Raheem Edwards, Fabian Herbers, Johan Kappelhof, Aleksandar Katai, Dax McCarty, Nemanja Nikolic Matt Polster & Bastian Schweinsteiger
Automatically protected: Mo Adams-Generation adidas & 3 Home Grown Players:Drew Comner, Grant Lillard, & Djordje Mihailovic
read December 8, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
The next iteration of the World Cup will occur from June 7- July 7 in 9 different venues. The draw completed a few hours ago was done at the Le Sein Musicale and arts center in Paris. With the top ranking going into the tourney, the US was one of 6 seeded teams then put into Pot 1 with the others, France as then the USA was last selected, into Group F. Jill Ellis, USWNT HC had this to say, "It's a good group, a European team, Asia & South America." Opening round game oppponent will be Thailand on June 11 in Reims, Chile is next up June 16 in Paris, lastly Sweden, June 20 in Le Harve.
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