The FC Dallas Gazette
Squad3 May 2038
Christian Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Player ratings3 May 2038
Both of them Franco Tassitani's — 8.46
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad3 May 2038
12 seasons of Jonathan Sirois
420 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and FC Dallas know what they have.
Market3 May 2038
Zakaria Taifi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Dallas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad3 May 2038
Alaa Ghram signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alaa Ghram and FC Dallas agree another 2 years.
Match1 May 2038
The wait goes on for FC Dallas
4 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.
Squad3 May 2038
Tempers go at FC Dallas
Jonathan Sirois 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.
Match1 May 2038
FC Dallas and St. Louis CITY SC take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings3 May 2038
Caden Clark runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market FC Dallas put Ignacio Suarez up for sale
- Market Window shut, James Tillman still here
- The terraces The press have found their man in Franco Tassitani