Kyle Smith

Right Back - FC Cincinnati
24 Nov 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Kyle Smith

17 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Bryan Ramírez damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 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

Words exchanged at FC Cincinnati

Miles Robinson 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.

Market

The Miles Robinson question follows FC Cincinnati around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Miles Robinson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Alvas Powell knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Cincinnati, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Kyle Smith has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kyle Smith has written the date down.

The dugout

Joe Corona keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Joe Corona plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bryan Ramírez

40 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.

Match

FC Cincinnati sink to position 14

6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

The dugout

Fabian Mrozek keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at FC Cincinnati

Miles Robinson 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

Words at FC Cincinnati training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Anunga 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kyle Smith

“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.

In brief

13 Edition

The FC Cincinnati Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Bryan Ramírez 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Will Richmond

“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.

Market

The Miles Robinson question follows FC Cincinnati around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Miles Robinson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Ender Echenique knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Cincinnati, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager makes Kyle Smith a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Cincinnati. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

David Douděra named in the team of the week

A rating of 6.64 was enough for the selectors, and nobody who watched the match is going to argue with them.

In brief