Nolan Norris

Left Back - FC Dallas
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Nolan Norris

14 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Michael Collodi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Dallas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Dallas

Daniel was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Nolan Norris is the division's best young player this month

At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. FC Dallas will try very hard not to make too much of it.

The dugout

Logan Farrington gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Osaze Urhoghide named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Osaze Urhoghide is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

Herman Johansson loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Herman Johansson. FC Dallas will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

FC Dallas make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now FC Dallas have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Home is on Ramiro's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FC Dallas are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Daniel in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Dallas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Petar Musa falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Anderson Julio the difference as FC Dallas beat Real Salt Lake

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Anderson Julio. 2‑1 against Real Salt Lake, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Petar Musa was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.78. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Petar Musa is carrying FC Dallas

10 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Owen Moore, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Market

Nolan Norris is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FC Dallas has been clear about where Nolan Norris stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

8 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

FC Dallas win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Minnesota United FC will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Dallas

Daniel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Herman Johansson sends FC Dallas past Minnesota United FC

It finished 1‑0, and it was Herman Johansson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Dallas.

Player ratings

One of those days for Herman Johansson

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

No hiding place for Logan Farrington

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Logan Farrington, and the manager let it.

Squad

FC Dallas are still strangers to each other

13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Owen Moore kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

Squad

Herman Johansson scores his first for FC Dallas

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

Squad

Petar Musa named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Petar Musa has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

7 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No mercy from FC Dallas

Seattle Sounders will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑3, every duel lost, and a long ride home. FC Dallas were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Petar Musa takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings

A brace, and Anderson Julio takes the afternoon — 9.13

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Anderson Julio provided it, and the 9.13 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Nolan Norris asks to leave FC Dallas

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Dallas

Daniel and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Petar Musa at his very best

Marked 10.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FC Dallas.

Match

Petar Musa among the goals in a wild afternoon

9 goals in one match, Petar Musa on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of FC Dallas and Seattle Sounders.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Dallas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Petar Musa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Daniel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel, and the manager let it.

In brief

5 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

A brace, and Petar Musa takes the afternoon — 9.46

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Petar Musa provided it, and the 9.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

6 saves: Daniel was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

The wait goes on for FC Dallas

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Lalas Abubakar delivers — 7.61

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lalas Abubakar scored, was marked 7.61, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match

FC Dallas come up short against Los Angeles Football Club

Los Angeles Football Club left with the points after a 4‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match

9 goals as FC Dallas and Los Angeles Football Club go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between FC Dallas and Los Angeles Football Club, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Dallas

Kaick and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Christian Cappis

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Cappis, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Owen Moore: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 4‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief