The FC Cincinnati Chronicle
Match2 Mar 2030
The wait goes on for FC Cincinnati
20 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.
Squad4 Mar 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Joseph
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Cincinnati lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings4 Mar 2030
Ender Echenique runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Mar 2030
FC Cincinnati cannot find the net
8 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad4 Mar 2030
Evan Louro stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Evan Louro and FC Cincinnati agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Mar 2030
Ender Echenique 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 Cincinnati this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Mar 2030
Evander 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.
Boardroom4 Mar 2030
7 academy players handed senior numbers at FC Cincinnati
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market4 Mar 2030
Brandon Reyna steps up from the FC Cincinnati academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Brandon Reyna 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 One of our own: Michael Wright joins the FC Cincinnati first team
- Market One of our own: George Pepi joins the FC Cincinnati first team
- Market One of our own: Andrew Steffen joins the FC Cincinnati first team