Sam Bradley

Attacking Midfielder (R) - FC Cincinnati U18
29 Sep 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sam Bradley

136 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

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

Market

Luis Ureta comes home

The shirt still fits. Luis Ureta is back at FC Cincinnati, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Evander signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evander commits to FC Cincinnati for another 3 years.

Squad

Evander 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 FC Cincinnati this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at FC Cincinnati

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Business is business: Joe Brito goes

Nashville SC paid $270.0K and FC Cincinnati took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Match

The goals have deserted FC Cincinnati

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at FC Cincinnati can tell you which week it ends in.

Market

Sam Bradley steps up from the FC Cincinnati academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sam Bradley 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 James Robinson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. James Robinson 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