Kimito Nono

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Marked for Kimito Nono

7 Edition

The DC United Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market14 Sep 2026

Sean Nealis is on his way

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

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Kimito Nono beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad14 Sep 2026

6 saves: Sean Johnson 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Silvan Hefti 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

100 appearances for Nathan Ordaz

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at DC United

Conner Antley 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Honours even between DC United and Chicago Fire

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Half-satisfied: Ryan Moore on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Jackson Hopkins

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The DC United Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Aug 2026

Aaron Herrera asks to leave DC United

“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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Louis Munteanu scores twice — 9.32

Two goals and a mark of 9.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market31 Aug 2026

Only the photograph left for Conner Antley

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Conner Antley will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around DC United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match29 Aug 2026

Louis Munteanu the difference as DC United beat Toronto FC

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Louis Munteanu. 3‑1 against Toronto FC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

DC United beat the market to Luca Petrasso from CF Montreal

CF Montreal will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Luca Petrasso has pre-agreed a move to DC United, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Kimito Nono runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match29 Aug 2026

At last: DC United win one

5 matches without a win, and then this, against Toronto FC. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A row about effort at DC United

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

14 new faces, and DC United are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

4 Edition

The DC United Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match22 Aug 2026

No end in sight to DC United's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at DC United has to find a result from somewhere.

Market24 Aug 2026

Alex Bono has one foot out of the door

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

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

DC United to lose Alex Bono for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alex Bono has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Silvan Hefti 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Kimito Nono was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Louis Munteanu was the difference for DC United

Marked 7.99. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Hosei Kijima

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match22 Aug 2026

DC United and Philadelphia Union take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Ryan Moore: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief