Ryan Johnson

Left Midfielder - FC Dallas
19 Sep 2038
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Marked for Ryan Johnson

628 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

9 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Aug 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Noam Ben-Harush

42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Dallas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad9 Aug 2038

A fracture rules Jonathan Sirois out for 145 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Dallas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad9 Aug 2038

A one-man rearguard from Brooks Thompson

There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match4 Aug 2038

Juan Oviedo sends FC Dallas through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Juan Oviedo obliged against Los Angeles Football Club. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is FC Dallas.

Match4 Aug 2038

Juan Oviedo wins it after the whistle should have gone

118 minutes played. Juan Oviedo found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Los Angeles Football Club went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings9 Aug 2038

Bamo Meïté, 36, rolls back the years — 8.65

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.65 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings9 Aug 2038

Nobody could get near Ryan Johnson

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad9 Aug 2038

Joaquín Valiente stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joaquín Valiente and FC Dallas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market9 Aug 2038

Matheus Figueiredo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Dallas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

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586 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

19 Oct 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Oct 2037

Justin Reynolds damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match17 Oct 2037

The season ends here for FC Dallas

Minnesota United FC go through. The table said this team was good enough for months and the format does not care what the table said, which is the argument every eliminated club has had with itself since playoffs were invented.

Match19 Oct 2037

FC Dallas up to position 3

48 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad19 Oct 2037

Najeeb Yakubu keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Dallas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad19 Oct 2037

Jonathan Sirois 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.

Squad19 Oct 2037

Defences have started doubling up on Alaa Ghram

12 goals and a season average of 7.37 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

563 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

11 May 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces11 May 2037

Anger at FC Dallas spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad11 May 2037

Tempers go at FC Dallas

Bamo Meïté 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.

Squad11 May 2037

Words at FC Dallas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Valiente 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.

Match9 May 2037

FC Dallas come up short against Los Angeles Football Club

Los Angeles Football Club left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad11 May 2037

Ryan Johnson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ryan Johnson and FC Dallas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad11 May 2037

Bamo Meïté is still paying for one afternoon at FC Dallas

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings11 May 2037

Franco Tassitani could have had three

12 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Market11 May 2037

The Jonathan Sirois talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Dallas know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Player ratings11 May 2037

Bamo Meïté never got going

5.18 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

558 Edition

The FC Dallas Gazette

6 Apr 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings6 Apr 2037

Noam Ben-Harush was immovable

43 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Match1 Apr 2037

The small margins put FC Dallas out

Out, 2‑2 to Nashville SC, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match4 Apr 2037

FC Dallas tear Vancouver Whitecaps apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Vancouver Whitecaps, and it could have been more.

Squad6 Apr 2037

15 seasons of Bernard Kamungo

331 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and FC Dallas know what they have.

Player ratings6 Apr 2037

No sign of nerves from Christian Dest at 19 — 8.56

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Christian Dest did not need any: 8.56, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings6 Apr 2037

Age has not caught Bernard Kamungo yet — 9.14

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad6 Apr 2037

Alaa Ghram in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

Squad6 Apr 2037

Jonathan Sirois stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jonathan Sirois and FC Dallas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings6 Apr 2037

Ryan Johnson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief