Daniel Pepi

Striker - Sporting Kansas City U20
3 Feb 2036
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The Sporting Kansas City Post

13 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces13 Aug 2035

Anger at Sporting Kansas City 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.

Match11 Aug 2035

The wait goes on for Sporting Kansas City

6 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.

Squad13 Aug 2035

Tempers go at Sporting Kansas City

Shapi Suleymanov 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.

Squad13 Aug 2035

Lasse Berg Johnsen 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.

Squad13 Aug 2035

No hiding place for Or Blorian

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

Match11 Aug 2035

A bad afternoon for Sporting Kansas City against Portland Timbers

0‑1 to Portland Timbers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad13 Aug 2035

A smaller club would suit Luis Otávio now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Sporting Kansas City can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

Market13 Aug 2035

Sporting Kansas City buy the years ahead of Daniel Pepi

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market13 Aug 2035

The Luis Otávio story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luis Otávio signs something — a contract at Sporting Kansas City or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

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The Houston Dynamo Sentinel

3 Apr 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Apr 2034

Alexis Alvarez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Houston Dynamo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad3 Apr 2034

Marcelo Saracchi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcelo Saracchi commits to Houston Dynamo for another 2 years.

Squad3 Apr 2034

Felipe Andrade 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 Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Apr 2034

Words at Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nelson Quiñones 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.

Player ratings3 Apr 2034

Nelson Quiñones runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad3 Apr 2034

Patricio García gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market3 Apr 2034

Rhys Browne is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Houston Dynamo has been clear about where Rhys Browne stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings3 Apr 2034

The afternoon belonged to Guilherme

A mark of 7.05, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match1 Apr 2034

No goals between Houston Dynamo and San Diego Football Club

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. San Diego Football Club will be the happier side with the point.

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