Raul Gonzales Real Madrid’s all time leading goal scorer is more than certain to join MLS outfit NY Red Bulls in the summer. The Madrid legend who has been at the club since he was a teenager has fallen out of favour with coach Manuel Pellegrini since the arrival of Bezema, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo.
According to Spanish sports daily Marca, Raul is eager to play in America and the Red Bulls are prepared to meet the weekly wages Real pay him. However, for Raul to leave Madrid,something must be really wrong. Although currently struggling for a place in the first team, Real are not about to let their golden child walk out of their gates. Read more...(264 words, 2 images, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)
The New York Red Bulls will open their new stadium, called Red Bull Arena, with an exhibition game against Santos of Brazil on March 20.
The Red BullsMLS regular-season home opener will be the following week against Chicago.
Santos has won 17 Paulista Championships, including in 2006 and 2007. It is renowned as the club where Pele started his career in 1956 at age 15. Santos has also won two Brazilian Championships, in 2002 and 2004.
The New York Red Bulls, or NYRB as I call them, are a founding member of MLS, but like the Colorado Rapids, you wouldn’t know it by looking at their empty trophy case. In fact, until they reached the 2008 MLS Cup Final, they had only made it past the quarterfinals once in their 14 year history. They are perpetual underachievers.
The squad was known as the Metrostars until 2006 when the caffeine-dispensing conglomerate gave them wings and made them the Red Bulls. Prior to the rebranding, they fielded some great players, like Tab Ramos, Michael Bradley, Roberto Donadi, Tony Meola, Lothar Matthaus, Eddie Pope, Amado Guevara, and Tim Howard. But none of those gents could help them win it all. Read more...(250 words, 2 images, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)
The New York Red Bulls will kick off their 2010 season on Saturday, March 27 at home to the Chicago Fire.
The 2010 MLS Regular Season will see each team play a 30-game regular season, followed by playoffs among eight qualifying teams. The 2010 regular season will conclude Oct. 24. The MLS Cup Playoffs will culminate in the championship match, MLS Cup 2010, on Nov. 21.
Recap: The Red Bulls didn’t even finish .500 this season (10-11-9), but it was still the most memorable season in team history. Their late surge propelled them into the final, but they could not match CMB, so they had to settle for also-ran status. Overall though, I think they deserve a B- due to their mostly mediocre season.
Offense: The Red Bulls had a balanced attack this year and finished near the middle of the league table in goals scored. Dane Richards finally started to play with some motivation and Angel, as always, was perpetually a threat to score. They started slow, but finished with a flurry, and for that they get a B for the attack.Read more...(239 words, 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time)
This is the face of the only coach to ever win the MLS Cup with a team that had not finished better than 6th in the three previous seasons. It’s also the face of the only man to win the Cup with two different teams. Why the Galaxy would have ever let him go is beyond me. Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s more important to entertain and lose (Yay! The Gals lost 4-3 again! Whooopeee) than to play hard-nosed defense and eke out 1-0 wins. Read more...(1519 words, 5 images, estimated 6:05 mins reading time)
The performance helped Schelotto be named the MLS Cup Most Valuable Player, becoming only the third player in league history to win league MVP honors as well as in the MLS Cup Final, joining Tony Meola (2000) and Carlos Ruiz (2002). Read more...(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)
The MLS Cup this weekend matches features the Columbus Crew, the best team during the MLS regular season, against the New York Red Bulls, the Cinderella team in the playoffs.
This game promises to be open and entertaining with two of the best players in the league going head-to-head. New York’s Juan Pablo Angel and Guillermo Barros Schelotto of Columbus, both of them candidates for the league MVP award. Together, these South American stars combined for 21 goals, and thrilled MLS fans with their explosive skills this past season. Read more...(624 words, 1 image, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)
Dave van den Bergh got the goal midway through the first half that earned the Red Bulls their first-ever appearance in the MLS Cup but the story of this game was the missed opportunities for Real Salt Lake.
Cheered on by a crowd of 20,008 RS: attacked all game outshooting New York 24-11. Four of those shots hit the woodwork and and Red Bulls goalkeeper Danny Cepero made several brillant saves to deny RSL again and again, Read more...(572 words, 1 image, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)
The NY Red Bulls stunned the two-time defending champions Houston Dynamo 3-0 in Houston to win this semi-final contest 4-1 on aggregate. They will now play Real Salt Lake on Sunday at Robertson Stadium for the chance to go to the MLS Cup final.
New York got off to a great start when then Dane Richards put them ahead in the 25th minute. Sinisa Ubiparipovic supplied the pass that set Richards and he beat Dynamo goalkeeper Pat Onstad with a great shot from 20 yards out. Read more...(387 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)
Raul Gonzales Real Madrid’s all time leading goal scorer is more than certain to join MLS outfit NY Red Bulls in the summer. The Madrid legend who has been at the club since he was a teenager has fallen out of favour with coach Manuel Pellegrini since the arrival of Bezema, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo.
