May 4, 2008 STANDING PAT IS STEP BACKWARDS
Team still needs more help
Last season, FC Dallas ended up as a decent offensive team looking for a clutch defense.
Praise head coach Steve Morrow for one mission accomplished. Dallas has already earned three clean sheets in just six games in the 2008 MLS season. Crucial signee Duilio Davino from Mexico’s Club America is just getting better every game in organizing the Dallas defense from his central role.
April 28, 2008 LACK OF URGENCY DISTURBING
Opportunities still abound for Dallas
Last week was a big letdown for FC Dallas, which was off to a smart start to the 2008 season. An injury-racked New England Patriots sent the previously undefeated Hoops back to earth in a crash landing with a 1-0 whitewash.
Of course, it isn’t really a reason to get concerned with most of the MLS season still ahead, and your FCD still in first place in the Western Conference. Unfortunately, the way Dallas played last Thursday was just too reminiscent of seasons past. Offered a golden opportunity to make a nice move further ahead in the Western Conference, the FCD attack wilted and suffered a severe lack of urgency.
April 20, 2008 FANS HAVE MUCH TO CHEER
FCD has shown steady improvement so far
While the rest of the MLS is trying to figure out how to stop FC Dallas from getting its fill of goals, local fans can celebrate a big start by hometown star Kenny Cooper and a shocking two straight clean sheets by the Dallas defense.
April 6, 2008 FCD'S FATE TOO EARLY TO TELL
Early test today could be dramatic
Just what have we here at Pizza Hut Park? The announced crowd of 17, 450 at Sunday’s MLS season opener against Chivas USA is probably still wondering that after the home team let a big three-point win slip away with six minutes left in the game on an amateurish mistake by the team’s marquis defensive acquisition in the off-season, Duilio Davino.
March 15, 2008 BECKHAM YEN FOR U.S. BORN HERE
International celeb hooks it up with FCD tonite
You wouldn’t have noticed anything outrageously different about David Beckham from his teammates some 20 years ago, the last time he played in Dallas—unless you happened to talk to him and noticed that he was one of the most polite players playing for Essex County Schools.
February 15, 2008 CAN IT GET ANY BETTER?
Cooper clan keeping talents at home
Dallas has been good to Kenny Cooper, ever since he arrived here from England 37 years ago. But it keeps rewarding him; or is it that he is rewarding Dallas?
The latest contribution is Joe Cooper, senior forward with Jesuit College Prep and the Dallas Texans Soccer Club. Cooper just signed a letter of intent to continue his soccer career at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and admittedly, SMU is really the only university he wanted to attend and play for.
December 12, 2007 RUIZ TRADE DEAL FALLS THROUGH
Houston beats FCD for defender Boswell
On the surface, it was business as usual for FC Dallas in the off-season as this week began. But high drama was just below the surface.
November 21, 2007 MORROW'S NECK SHOULD BE SAFE
Fans, front office should expect more
Let us eliminate one item of suspense at the start.
Head coach Steve Morrow should not be sent packing after a rookie season that featured some nice positives, along with some tough negatives.
November 14, 2007 WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN FOR FCD
Scrutiny order of the day for front office
With Kansas City beating out Chivas USA in the MLS Western Conference semifinals, the soccer fans’ brain cannot resist the might-what-have been game when thinking about FC Dallas. It could have so easily been the Hoops hosting a hopeful K.C. at Pizza Hut Park.
November 2, 2007 HOOPS FACE MOMENT OF TRUTH
Dynamo may be set for a fall
Logic says the one team Dallas didn’t want to see first pop in the playoffs is Houston. But for the same reasons, one could argue that the Dynamo is the first team Big D wanted a crack at.
For at least one game, Dallas proved that last Saturday in its 1-0 win over the Dynamo in the opening shot of the Western Conference Semifinals series.
October 19, 2007 DALLAS MUST LOOK PAST WIZARDS
FCD offense must carry Hoop defense
Steve Morrow’s first season as head coach of FC Dallas is drawing to a close, with the last regular-season game scheduled Saturday, against the Kansas City Wizards.
Dallas can do nothing this weekend to affect its playoff slot or who its opponent will be in the first round. As third place team in the Western Conference, the Hoops will play the loser of the Houston Dynamo vs. Chivas USA game played just after Dallas’ game, in Los Angeles.
September 28, 2007 CRUCIAL WEEK LOOMS FOR FCD
Team milestone possible on Wednesday
Aside from the MLS playoffs, the next week shapes up as the most important week in the history of the Dallas MLS franchise.
September 10, 2007 RECOLLECTION, COMPARISON TO 1991
WNT may be poised to dominate world stage
Time doesn’t always cloud certain memories—like my recollection of the first women’s world cup in China in 1991. It was a journey in a land so foreign, yet with a timeless quality.
It was a flash point for U.S. Soccer history, its first ever world championship. Any American that was there would never forget the raw excitement of the climax, the first-ever women’s world championship and even more unlikely, a United States world soccer championship.
September 4, 2007 LOSS TO UNITED BUILDS PRESSURE
Dallas faces must-win game tonight
Any team endures its highs and lows during the season. But the 4-0 loss D.C. United put on FC Dallas Saturday is the kind that is hard to shake off, the kind of loss that rattles the confidence of players and fans.
August 25, 2007 PEDAL TO THE METAL FOR DALLAS
Club takes DP plunge with Denilson
FC Dallas may be in the midst of a two-week break from game action, but the soccer clock is gaining time.
The Hunt Sports Group, head coach Steve Morrow and general manager Michael Hitchcock showed they are serious about bringing hardware home to Pizza Hut Park this season with the signing of Brazilian world cup winner Denilson this week.
