The Minnesota United FC Chronicle
Market8 Mar 2027
Bongokuhle Hlongwane hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Minnesota United FC can pretend not to have heard.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Minnesota United FC
5 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
James Rodríguez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” James Rodríguez commits to Minnesota United FC for another 2 years.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near James Rodríguez
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Drake Callender 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 Minnesota United FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A move Farhah Al-Shamrani would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Farhah Al-Shamrani is living that version at Minnesota United FC, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Minnesota United FC
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Daniel Yedlin joins the Minnesota United FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Yedlin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
DeAndre Bradley steps up from the Minnesota United FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. DeAndre 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.
In brief
- Market Daniel Steffen steps up from the Minnesota United FC academy
- Match Minnesota United FC come up short against Houston Dynamo
- Squad Words at Minnesota United FC training over how hard people work