Cole Mrowka

Central Midfielder - San Jose Earthquakes
6 Oct 2029
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150 Edition

The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match11 Jun 2029

Every point is an argument now for San Jose Earthquakes

Position 13 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match9 Jun 2029

No end in sight to San Jose Earthquakes's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Jose Earthquakes has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad11 Jun 2029

6 saves: Angus Gunn 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.

Squad11 Jun 2029

A falling-out at San Jose Earthquakes

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

Squad11 Jun 2029

Cole Mrowka arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Cole Mrowka has, at San Jose Earthquakes, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad11 Jun 2029

A row about effort at San Jose Earthquakes

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

Match9 Jun 2029

San Jose Earthquakes cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match9 Jun 2029

A bad afternoon for San Jose Earthquakes against San Diego Football Club

0‑1 to San Diego Football Club, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout11 Jun 2029

Justin Zardes faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Justin Zardes after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

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108 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Nobody could get near Joaquín Valiente

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout21 Aug 2028

Brendan Hines-Ike: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Dallas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match19 Aug 2028

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.

Market21 Aug 2028

Jalen Crisler is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Dallas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 Aug 2028

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.

Transfer targets21 Aug 2028

Rosenborg tell FC Dallas: Fredrik Ryerson is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom21 Aug 2028

Wages swallow 115% of the FC Dallas income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Daniel shuts the door again

8 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

The dugout21 Aug 2028

No hiding place for Cole Mrowka

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

In brief

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  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Ford Parker dropped after a run of poor form
99 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Jun 2028

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.

Match17 Jun 2028

FC Dallas come up short against San Diego Football Club

San Diego Football Club left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad19 Jun 2028

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Kamungo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match19 Jun 2028

The half-term report on FC Dallas

Position 12, 15 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

The dugout19 Jun 2028

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 the manager left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings19 Jun 2028

Joaquín Valiente was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Looking ahead19 Jun 2028

A test against the best for FC Dallas

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Austin FC.

The dugout19 Jun 2028

Cole Mrowka 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.

Market19 Jun 2028

The Shaq Moore talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Dallas know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief