Professional

Jerry Yeagley Award to Union's Raymon Gaddis
December 10, 2020
by Sean McCaffery

United Soccer Coaches made it known that defender, Raymon Gaddis has been named as the recipient of this year's Jerry Yeagley Award for Exceptional Personal Achievement, this is to be awarded on Jan. 16 during the USC convention.

Each year this honor is bestowed upon an ex-NCAA athlete for doing things above and beyond service to the game at large. It is named after the US Soccer legend, who ruled the game with the IU Hoosiers for many decades. We have been honored to have known him since 1985 or so. 

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Legacy Project with MLS & the Crew at Ronald McDonald House Columbus
December 10, 2020
by Sean McCaffery

Given that we have been to a few events, photographed a good number of them and brought the NY Cosmos out to the Ronald McDonald House of LI and a former photographer of SLIM, Mike Anderer is heavily involved with it, this is a great thing for us at many levels.

With the MLS Cup coming to Columbus Saturday evening, MLS Works, the charitable arm of the league and the Crew had the reveal of a newly done fitness room at the facility.

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A Chat with Andres Flores
December 9, 2020
by Sean McCaffery

Andes and the El Salvador Federation were kind enough to give us a few minutes of his time and we greatly appreciate that. He reached out from Florida where he and fellow St. John's Men's Soccer alum Pablo Punyed will take on the USMNT with local player Kyle Duncan and his Red Bull teammate Aaron Long tonight at 7:30 on TUDN, UniMas & ESPN News. 

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A quartet from the Academy are Expected to Impact Montreal
December 5, 2020
by Sean McCaffery

No idea of how strong or how good of a trumor it is the that the Monteal Impact will be changing their name, I for one think it is a bad idea, it has been an identity for local soccer for decades and would hurt them.

 The four brought up to the first team are Jean-Aniel Assi, Sean Rea, Nathan-Dylan Saliba & Rida Zouhi, they are first time pros all and with deals including a 3 year option. As they are valid now, the 4 are good to go for the CCL game Dec, 15 with Olimpia at 8 p.m. ET in Orlando.

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MLS Disciplinary Decisions
December 5, 2020
by Sean McCaffery

One might think that now in the throws of the playoffs that the players would be on their best behavior, well not exactly, more so for those not moving on, see Orlando. 

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