Jordan Weah

Goalkeeper - Orlando City U20
25 May 2032
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jordan Weah

250 Edition

The Orlando City Herald

12 May 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Logan Farrington scores twice — 8.89

Two goals and a mark of 8.89 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Boardroom

Orlando City to lose Cameron Morris for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Cameron Morris has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Words exchanged at Orlando City

Paxten Aaronson 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Orlando City

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

Player ratings

Martín Ojeda beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Maxwell Woledzi

“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.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 93 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Orlando City had all but put away. New England Revolution will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Squad

Jordan Weah stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jordan Weah and Orlando City agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Mateo Benegas: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Orlando City will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief

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The Orlando City Herald

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From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vancouver Whitecaps come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Orlando City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Braian Ojeda beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at Orlando City

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

Match

Orlando City come up short against New York City

New York City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Cameron Harper 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.

Market

Sam Rogers told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sam Rogers has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Orlando City.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Trey Muse

“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

Brenden Sargent: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Player of the week: Iván Angulo

Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.

In brief