DC United Home Opener

DC United kicked off their season away in Carson CA against LA Galaxy. Unfortunately, they did not win, but tied 2-2. Then they opened their first home game against Chicago Fire and they also tied 1-1. But that's not bad considering that this is a rebuilding year for them.  That was only two games out of the whole season. In the preseason they only won 2 games out of three. However for the Carolina Challenge Cup, they went 1-2. So it looks like it's going to be a hard season upcoming. Like I mentioned in the last post that they had made changes to their roster and now that I look at their last game I am surprised that Ben Olson was as good as people guessed. 

Ravens Trading

The NFL is now officially finished their football season and are now trading and players are deciding if they want to finally retire. For one team, the Baltimore Ravens are losing at least one of their valuable players, Matt Stover, who has been with the Ravens ever since they won the super bowl in 2001. He has made a great impact on the Ravens and fans are sad to see him go. Last season was his worst season ever and it looked like this would probably be the best time for him to retire. Ray Lewis' contract was also up after the 2009 Super Bowl and people started to think he would leave and go to the Cowboys or the Giants, but now it looks like he might re-sign with the Ravens. Most likely, that would probably be the smartest move to stay with the Ravens. But over-all the Ravens still have Joe Flacco And John Harbaugh. So the Ravens look like the have a pretty good season ahead of them and they have 26 draft pick this year so all things for the Ravens are looking pretty good.

DC United Roster

DC United is getting ready for the 2009 season and are ready to come back as champs. Last year was mostly a big flunk but this year they hope to change things. They have made a good deal of changes to the roster. Here is the new one. They have made some good changes to their lineup and it looks like they have a great season ahead of them. One reason is because Ben Olsen is not hurt anymore which means they now have a strong midfield. Also, Fred had the chance of a lifetime to play on the USA national soccer team and most likely learned a lot from that.

Unf	Player	Pos	Birthdate	Place of Birth	MLS Status	MLS Exp.
	Brandon Barklage	M-F	1986-11-02	USA	UDF	0
4	Marc Burch	D	1984-05-07	USA	S	3
7	Fred	M-F	1979-08-18	Brazil	S	2
27	Louis Crayton	GK	1977-10-26	Liberia	S	1
30	Francis Doe	F	1985-12-25	Liberia	S	2
11	Luciano Emilio	F	1978-12-12	Brazil	I/DP	2
10	Christian Gomez	M	1974-11-07	Argentina	S	5
8	Andrew Jacobson	M	1985-09-25	USA	S	0
5	Dejan Jakovic	D	1985-07-16	Yugoslavia	I	0
16	Greg Janicki	D	1984-07-09	USA	S	1
17	Thabiso Khumalo	F	1980-10-27	South Africa	S	1
	Milos Kocic	GK	1985-06-04	Serbia	UDF	0
18	Devon McTavish	M	1984-08-08	USA	S	3
6	Domenic Mediate	D-M	1982-06-01	USA	S	4
13	Ryan Miller	M-D	1984-12-14	USA	S	0
99	Jaime Moreno	F	1974-01-19	Bolivia	S	13
9	Ange N'Silu	F		DR Congo	I	0
26	Bryan Namoff	M	1979-05-28	USA	S	8
14	Ben Olsen	M	1977-05-03	USA	S	10
13	Chris Pontius	M-F	1987-05-12	USA	S	0
25	Santino Quaranta	F	1984-10-14	USA	S	8
19	Clyde Simms	M	1982-08-21	USA	S	4
40	James Thorpe	GK	1985-02-17	USA	S	0
22	Rodney Wallace	M	1988-06-17		D/GA	0
20	Mike Zaher	D	1985-09-24	USA	S	1