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Ten-Man VSLT Draws Med City FC
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Ten-Man VSLT Draws Med City FCVSLT FC earned a point on the road at Med City FC after going down a man, keeping the team in contention for a playoff spot as the season enters its final stage. Even after going a man down, defensively, VSLT was tough to break down. “Their defensive line was really good…you can tell why…
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Loons Swept Away by Rapids
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Loons Swept Away by RapidsAfter taking an early lead on a Miguel Ibarra goal, Minnesota went down a man and lost 3-2 to the Colorado Rapids. A late stoppage time goal gave the home team the win over Minnesota after the Loons had been the better team for the majority of the match. Lineup Minnesota head coach Adrian Heath…
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Matchday Fifteen: Loons Embarrassed In Last-Second Loss To Awful Colorado
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Matchday Fifteen: Loons Embarrassed In Last-Second Loss To Awful ColoradoYou’ve heard the adage that ‘good teams make their own luck.’ A team like Atlanta gets so many penalties and cards on the opposition simply by putting them pressure. In contrast, Minnesota are proving the reverse is true, that bad teams make their own bad luck. In Colorado, against a team that would struggle to…
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#COLvMIN Open Game Thread
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: #COLvMIN Open Game ThreadWhen? – 8:00 p.m. CDT, Sunday, June 23 Where? – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO How to Watch? Fox Sports North How to Listen? 1500 ESPN Social: Official Hashtag: #COLvMIN Follow us at @FiveFiftyOne! Team Accounts Minnesota United FC – @mnufc Colorado Rapids – @ColoradoRapids Live Updates MNUFC Gameday – @mnunitedgameday Pre-Match Reading: Match…
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Match Preview: Colorado Rapids vs. Minnesota United FC
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Match Preview: Colorado Rapids vs. Minnesota United FCMinnesota United has spent much of the season at least tickling the playoff line. That is officially no longer the case. The Loons are six points back from the Western Conference playoff line (22 points, where two teams currently sit) and will need a hot streak, in combination with some stumbles by the teams directly…
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No Mercy in the North: NPSL North Matchweek Seven Recap
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: No Mercy in the North: NPSL North Matchweek Seven RecapWhile no team has been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, for all intents and purposes, the NPSL North is now a four team race. Assuming VSLT wins its rain-postponed game versus La Crosse Aris, the Sky Blues will sit four points back of the top spot, while Duluth holds third place, seven points behind leaders…
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Twinstars Earn Draw in Rochester
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Twinstars Earn Draw in RochesterRochester, MN – Twinstars assistant coach Karim Darbaki was the stand-in head coach on Saturday when the Twin Cities team earned a point against Med City FC in Rochester. It was a rough and tumble game, with some diving — one player feigned injury on the Twinstars team before getting up when his team had…
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#HOUvMIN US Open Cup Game Thread
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: #HOUvMIN US Open Cup Game ThreadWhen? – 7:30 p.m. CDT, Monday, June 18 Where? – BBVA Compass Stadium How to Watch? ONLINE STREAM Social: Official Hashtag: #HOUvMIN Follow us at @FiveFiftyOne! Team Accounts Minnesota United FC – @mnufc Houston Dynamo – @HoustonDynamo Live Updates MNUFC Gameday – @mnunitedgameday Pre-Match Reading: Glory, Defeat, and Pepper Spray, Minnesota in the US Open Cup…
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News in Brief: Apartments, Coach of the Year, and More…
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: News in Brief: Apartments, Coach of the Year, and More…Apartments to be built near Allianz Field Proposals are on the board, as reported by both the Pioneer Press and Star Tribune, to build 175 apartments in place of the Bremer Bank near Allianz Field. Wellington Management has proposed Bremer could be a tenant of the 18,000 square feet of commercial space below the apartments,…
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MN Migration: Bunbury Makes it Nine
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: MN Migration: Bunbury Makes it NineIn this week’s recap of Minnesotans playing professionally outside of the state: Yueill earns an assist and Mallace puts in a full shift. Teal Bunbury equaled his season high goal mark just 15 games into this year. In 2011 he scored nine goals in 29 appearances for Sporting Kansas City. The forward went the full…
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A North Fan’s Guide to Rooting for the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Continue Reading: A North Fan’s Guide to Rooting for the 2018 FIFA World CupAs the 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off this week, the attention of the world will turn to Russia. 1.6 billion people will cheer for their own nation, but the remaining five billion and change have a choice on their hands. Some will root for the land of their ancestors. Others will root for a…
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Minneapolis City Stays Perfect With Win Over Med City
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: Minneapolis City Stays Perfect With Win Over Med CityA rainy night slipped out of control between Med City FC and Minneapolis City SC after the final whistle. Players and coaches got into an argument, with taunting uttered in mostly hushed tones, as the post-match scene fell into chaos. According to chatter on the field, uneven refereeing seemed to be the cause of the…
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The Half-way Point: NPSL North Power Rankings
Categories: NewsContinue Reading: The Half-way Point: NPSL North Power RankingsIt is hard to win games in the NPSL, harder than in most leagues, because of a mixture of talent parity and roster unpredictability unique to a summer league reliant on college-aged and recent post-college players who are not being paid to play. Couple that with a short season in an extremely compact time frame…