Matt Zardes

Striker - FC Dallas
3 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Matt Zardes

13 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Andrés Ricaurte: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Dallas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Dallas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Osaze Urhoghide 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 Dallas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

12 new faces, and FC Dallas 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.

Squad

Matt Zardes signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matt Zardes commits to FC Dallas for another 4 years.

The dugout

Ran Benyamin gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Logan Farrington signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Logan Farrington and FC Dallas agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Dallas

Santiago Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

One of our own: Matt Zardes joins the FC Dallas first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matt Zardes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Cal Jennings gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Daniel question follows FC Dallas around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Daniel’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

Country calls for Shaq Moore

He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. FC Dallas lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.

In brief