DeAndre Moore

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Austin FC U20
5 Aug 2043
Wednesday
Process

Marked for DeAndre Moore

886 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

20 Jul 2043
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Nikola Mitev damages knee ligaments — 77 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 77 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.

Match

Austin FC strike at the death to beat Sporting Kansas City

There were 85 minutes on the clock and Sporting Kansas City had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Austin FC did not stop to explain themselves.

Squad

Christian Pulisic keeps the receipts

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

Match

Austin FC make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Austin FC have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Austin FC

Sal Olivas 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.

Match

Austin FC see off Sporting Kansas City

Three points for Austin FC, 2‑1 the final word against Sporting Kansas City in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Nikola Mitev signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikola Mitev and Austin FC agree another 1 years.

Player ratings

Javier Pineda changes it off the bench

He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Austin FC had a different afternoon.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sal Olivas

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
881 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

15 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Austin FC has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Nikola Mitev damages knee ligaments — 112 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 112 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.

Squad

Sal Olivas 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 Austin FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sal Olivas

“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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Tim Pepi

Marked 8.24 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Austin FC share the spoils with Real Salt Lake

A 2‑2 draw with Real Salt Lake leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Mark Pulisic is still paying for one afternoon at Austin FC

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.

Market

The Nicolás Dubersarsky talk will not go away

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

Player ratings

Sean Johnson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

867 Edition

The Austin FC Gazette

9 Mar 2043
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

26 matches without a win for Austin FC

The run now stands at 26, and the questions being asked around Austin FC are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

The interim tag comes off Interim Coach

Austin FC interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Squad

Tempers go at Austin FC

Sal Olivas 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.

Squad

Home is on Lautaro Pannoni's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Austin FC are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Match

Austin FC come up short against San Jose Earthquakes

San Jose Earthquakes left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Matt Sargent stays put

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

Squad

Words at Austin FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Milan Gacinovic 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 ratings

Heber Velázquez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Matt Dempsey leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Matt Dempsey leaves Austin FC the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief