Daniel Brooks

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Nashville SC U20
12 Nov 2028
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Marked for Daniel Brooks

40 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match1 May 2027

Nashville SC tear Toronto FC apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Toronto FC, and it could have been more.

Squad3 May 2027

Daniel Brooks breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad3 May 2027

Elias Saad 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 Nashville SC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 May 2027

Jeisson Palacios 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.

The terraces3 May 2027

The crowd has taken to Ahmed Qasem

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings3 May 2027

Ninety minutes of Ahmed Qasem at his very best

Marked 8.62. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Nashville SC.

Match1 May 2027

Ahmed Qasem at the heart of a fast Nashville SC start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Ahmed Qasem in the middle of it, and Toronto FC unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings3 May 2027

One of those days for Cristian Espinoza

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad3 May 2027

7 new faces, and Nashville SC 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

Back issues
39 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Nobody could get near Ahmed Qasem

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Daniel Brooks breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match24 Apr 2027

7 matches without a win for Nashville SC

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Nashville SC are no longer polite ones.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Elias Saad out for 34 days

The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Elias Saad, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match24 Apr 2027

Nashville SC cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Nashville SC

Elias Saad 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Nashville SC Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Apr 2027

Ryan Acosta damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A fracture rules Daniel Brooks out for 37 days

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

Market19 Apr 2027

Nashville SC turn down Inter Miami CF for Ahmed Qasem

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match17 Apr 2027

The wait goes on for Nashville SC

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Nobody could get near Ahmed Qasem

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Nashville SC

Jeisson Palacios 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.

In brief