Dylan Steffen

Left Midfielder - FC Cincinnati U18
12 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Dylan Steffen

2 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Boardroom

Window shuts: 15 in, 0 out at FC Cincinnati

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Pavel Bucha wants more than FC Cincinnati are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Transfer targets

Kekuta Manneh turns down FC Cincinnati

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Cincinnati

Miles Robinson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

David Douděra signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Douděra commits to FC Cincinnati for another 4 years.

The terraces

FC Cincinnati supporters have found a favourite in Ender Echenique

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ender Echenique has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

FC Cincinnati get the job done against Inter Miami CF

A 2‑0 win over Inter Miami CF, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Dylan Steffen steps up from the FC Cincinnati academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dylan Steffen has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

FC Cincinnati promote Ryan Morris from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ryan Morris has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief