Red Bulls Round-Up: February 6, 2021
Mathias Jørgensen starts on the bench for Aarhus, Gerhard Struber earns praise from his old boss, and the Red Bulls plant their academy flag in Albany
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The transfer window is always an interesting time for me. I see all of these players moving, changing their lives, doing something new. I look inward and wonder, “What am I doing with my life? Would I have the courage and wherewithal to pick up everything and move halfway across the world to a new location?” The answer is a resounding “no chance,” so perhaps followers of the sport should be a little kinder to those struggling to immediately adjust to an unfamiliar environment, one in which they are expected to succeed at a competitive and challenging task.
Brew Detroit and Detroit City FC want fans to name their next collaboration beer as the men s and women s DCFC teams prepare to play this spring.
The Detroit-based contract brewer and professional soccer club previously collaborated on the Bring Out Your Dead IPA in early 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the Detroit City FC spring season.
This year, Brew Detroit is planning for the co-branded beer to be a Session IPA, which means lower ABV but quite crushable, much like Bring Out Your Dead was. On Tuesday, DCFC asked fans on its Facebook page to submit name ideas for the beer in the comments of today s post. The deadline is Sunday.
Xavier Dussaq / Courtesy of D.C. United
I stayed up too late without getting to this piece, so it’s now a race between my ability to write and my body’s imperative right now, which is sleep. Let’s get into it:
It’s not the big ceremony anyone would have wanted (thanks covid), but D.C. United has gone from site prep to actually moving dirt at their new training facility. The Washington Spirit and Loudoun United will train there as well, with the club saying that they still plan to have it open late this summer.
Here’s Steve Goff with some thoughts on United’s roster, which was thin last year and currently has only one new player (homegrown fullback Jacob Greene) officially under contract. Even if United signs all of its draft picks which is not a common roster-building strategy in MLS over the last, oh, seven-plus years they’re still going to have a lot of work to do to improve a team that is missing a few pieces.