Kaiden Moore

Central Defender - Retired
24 Dec 2045
Sunday
Process

Marked for Kaiden Moore

952 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

24 Oct 2044
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Josh Torquato out for 77 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Dallas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at FC Dallas

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kaiden Moore

“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.

In brief

Back issues
946 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

12 Sep 2044
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Ianis Puscas leads the rout of Real Salt Lake

3‑0, and Ianis Puscas took the headlines on an afternoon when everything FC Dallas tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

James Zardes breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them Ianis Puscas's — 8.92

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Amin Dabbabi yet — 7.82

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Ianis Puscas is carrying FC Dallas

19 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Dallas

Brooks Thompson 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

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malachi Molina 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Kaiden Moore

Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Artyom Krasnov

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

936 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

4 Jul 2044
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

James Zardes breaks a bone — 121 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

A brace, and Ianis Puscas takes the afternoon — 9.57

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ianis Puscas provided it, and the 9.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Malachi Molina has been here 19 seasons

380 appearances across 19 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Match

No end in sight to FC Dallas's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Dallas has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Kaiden Moore signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kaiden Moore and FC Dallas agree another 2 years.

Match

6 goals as FC Dallas and Sporting Kansas City go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between FC Dallas and Sporting Kansas City, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malachi Molina 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.

Match

Ianis Puscas rescues a point for FC Dallas

It needed Ianis Puscas to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Sporting Kansas City, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings

Harun Mbugua runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief