The Austin FC Gazette
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Besard Šabović
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Austin FC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Austin FC out
Out, 0‑1 to Sporting Kansas City, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mikkel Desler 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 Austin FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Riley Thomas
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
LA Galaxy take the points off Austin FC
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Žan Kolmanič 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.
In brief
- Squad 5 new faces, and Austin FC are still learning each other
- Market Anthony Fontana joins Austin FC to strengthen the squad
- Market Abraham Rodriguez joins Austin FC to strengthen the squad
- Market Austin FC shop where it costs nothing