Alex Harris

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Real Salt Lake
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534 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

20 Oct 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Match15 Oct 2036

Real Salt Lake are out

1‑1, and a season that ran to May has ended inside a fortnight. This is what a playoff is: nine months of work settled by a couple of evenings, and nobody who designed it was thinking about the losing dressing room.

Match20 Oct 2036

Real Salt Lake are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 58 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market20 Oct 2036

George Ferreira is on his way

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

Squad20 Oct 2036

Lucas Halter 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 Real Salt Lake this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad20 Oct 2036

Defences have started doubling up on Lucas Halter

11 goals and a season average of 7.40 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad20 Oct 2036

Victor Olatunji 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.

Player ratings20 Oct 2036

Alex Harris misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Squad20 Oct 2036

The manager has not finished forgetting Felipe San Juan's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings20 Oct 2036

Nobody could get near Jose Ferreira

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
515 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

9 Jun 2036
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad9 Jun 2036

A fracture rules Juan Manuel Sanabria out for 74 days

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

Match4 Jun 2036

Cup progress for Real Salt Lake

A 1‑0 win over Los Angeles Football Club, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match7 Jun 2036

Nobody wants to play Real Salt Lake right now

7 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings9 Jun 2036

Alex Harris runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings9 Jun 2036

Age has not caught Brian Rodríguez yet — 8.28

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.28 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings9 Jun 2036

Nothing got past Emeka Eneli

26 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad9 Jun 2036

Lucas Halter signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Halter commits to Real Salt Lake for another 2 years.

Squad9 Jun 2036

Tempers go at Real Salt Lake

Lucas Halter 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.

Match7 Jun 2036

Real Salt Lake keep winning on the road

4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

In brief

506 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

7 Apr 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Apr 2036

Juan Manuel Sanabria breaks a bone — 137 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 137 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad7 Apr 2036

John Zardes damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match2 Apr 2036

Real Salt Lake through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over New York Red Bulls, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings7 Apr 2036

Both of them Donavan Phillip's — 8.64

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.64, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad7 Apr 2036

A one-man rearguard from Felipe San Juan

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings7 Apr 2036

Bautista Cabrera shuts the door

Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad7 Apr 2036

Tempers go at Real Salt Lake

Lucas Halter 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.

Player ratings7 Apr 2036

Alex Harris runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom7 Apr 2036

$3.3M on the table at Real Salt Lake

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

In brief

478 Edition

The Real Salt Lake Post

24 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Sep 2035

Griffin Dillon breaks a bone — 123 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 123 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings24 Sep 2035

Alex Harris runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market24 Sep 2035

Only the photograph left for Philip Quinton

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Philip Quinton will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Real Salt Lake the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Tempers go at Real Salt Lake

Lucas Halter 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.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Lucas Halter is carrying Real Salt Lake

9 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Diego Luna is still paying for one afternoon at Real Salt Lake

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Match22 Sep 2035

Tim Ferreira rescues a point for Real Salt Lake

It needed Tim Ferreira to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Austin FC, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings24 Sep 2035

Donavan Phillip could have had three

10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

The terraces24 Sep 2035

Everybody has an opinion about Donavan Phillip

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief