Jack Pepi

Central Midfielder - Austin FC U18
3 Mar 2028
Friday
Process

Marked for Jack Pepi

78 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Austin FC

Mikkel Desler 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.

Squad

Words at Austin FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Dubersarsky is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

When it matters, Brad Stuver plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Brandon Vázquez linked with a move away

The name of Brandon Vázquez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Austin FC say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Luke Pruter knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luke Pruter trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager comes out for Mikkel Desler

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Mikkel Desler has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Austin FC book their European place

Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.

Market

Facundo Torres says no to Santa Fe

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Facundo Torres had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

One of our own: Jack Pepi joins the Austin FC first team

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

Market

One of our own: Christian Weah joins the Austin FC first team

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Micah Burton

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

When it matters, Guilherme Biro plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Myrto Uzuni story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Myrto Uzuni signs something — a contract at Austin FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Jon Bell knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jon Bell trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Christian Ramírez

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Christian Ramírez’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief