Sam Weah

Central Defender - FC Dallas
16 Nov 2030
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Marked for Sam Weah

224 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

11 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Nov 2030

Warren Madrigal falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market11 Nov 2030

Jackson Travis is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FC Dallas has been clear about where Jackson Travis stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout11 Nov 2030

No hiding place for Devon De Corte

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Devon De Corte, and the manager let it.

The dugout11 Nov 2030

When it matters, Jackson Travis 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.

The dugout11 Nov 2030

Keegan Hughes asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout11 Nov 2030

The manager makes Brooks Thompson a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Dallas. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Boardroom11 Nov 2030

FC Dallas keep producing them

42 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

Squad11 Nov 2030

The training reports on Devon De Corte are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

Squad11 Nov 2030

The penny has dropped for Sam Weah

He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at FC Dallas the difference is visible from the back of the stand.

In brief

Back issues
223 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

4 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Match30 Oct 2030

FC Dallas are out

3‑4, and a season that ran to May has ended inside a fortnight. This is what a playoff is: nine months of work settled by a couple of evenings, and nobody who designed it was thinking about the losing dressing room.

Player ratings4 Nov 2030

Anisse Saidi scores twice — 8.41

Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings4 Nov 2030

Vintage Herman Johansson — 8.24

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.24, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match30 Oct 2030

7 goals as FC Dallas and Portland Timbers go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between FC Dallas and Portland Timbers, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

The terraces4 Nov 2030

The crowd has taken to Anisse Saidi

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout4 Nov 2030

The manager makes an example of Ryan Porteous

“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.

Market4 Nov 2030

No place for Warren Madrigal in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Warren Madrigal has his answer from FC Dallas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad4 Nov 2030

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Sofo 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.

Squad4 Nov 2030

Sam Weah stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sam Weah and FC Dallas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

221 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

21 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match16 Oct 2030

Job done: FC Dallas advance past St. Louis CITY SC

The tie is over and the right side of it is theirs. 1‑0 on the night, a dressing room that will not come down for a day and a half, and a next round nobody has thought about yet.

The dugout21 Oct 2030

Stiven Jimenez: 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.

Market21 Oct 2030

Eric Klein is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Dallas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 Oct 2030

Words exchanged at FC Dallas

Bernard Kamungo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad21 Oct 2030

Warren Madrigal falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout21 Oct 2030

The manager makes an example of Ramiro

“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 terraces21 Oct 2030

FC Dallas supporters have found a favourite in Gustavo Caraballo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Gustavo Caraballo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings21 Oct 2030

Gustavo Caraballo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad21 Oct 2030

Sean Aaronson signs on for more

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

In brief

213 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

26 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market26 Aug 2030

Kieran Chandler asks to leave FC Dallas

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match24 Aug 2030

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

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

Market26 Aug 2030

Only the photograph left for Eric Klein

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eric Klein will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Dallas the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad26 Aug 2030

Words exchanged at FC Dallas

Bernard Kamungo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad26 Aug 2030

A row about effort at FC Dallas

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

The dugout26 Aug 2030

No hiding place for Devon De Corte

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Devon De Corte, and the manager let it.

Loan watch26 Aug 2030

Sam Weah wants to come home

“I did not go to New England Revolution to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Dallas and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Player ratings26 Aug 2030

Nobody on the pitch touched Bernard Kamungo

7.67, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. FC Dallas had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match24 Aug 2030

Prince Owusu rescues a point for FC Dallas

It needed Prince Owusu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Los Angeles Football Club, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief