Santino Quaranta To Take A Bigger Responsibility In The Midfield

Goff write a really good article about DC United's central midfield and how Tino would be involved in the plan.
In the article he interviews both Tino and Coach Onalfo about Tino's role in the central midfield. Now after reading this article it seems pretty clear that Onalfo is looking in to pairing up Simms and Tino on the midfield, I assume that Simms will take a more defensive role since Tino never really shown any qualities in that area. Onalfo also went on about Tino's work ethic and attacking qualities. And I agree that Tino has that when he wants to, but if he is not inspired he will be invisible and not very productive. Unfortunately I have to say that most of the games last year he was invisible and even though he shows bursts of brilliance and have a great shot they are far apart. To build our midfield around Tino is in my opinion a mistake but I hope Tino will rise to the challenge and prove me wrong.

Read Goff's article here.
Santino Quaranta Info
Watch Tino Score some Goals on Youtube

Chris Pontius Signs A New Contract

Read on Goff's blog that Pontius signed a new contract. Pontius was my favorite player last year and got called up to the national teams training camp earlier this year and again this past week. The are no details released about the contract but I assume that they ended up paying him more that the 36 000 dollars he got last year and hopefully they signed for at least 2 years, with options.

DC United Acquires A New Forward Adam Christman

DC United announced yesterday that the acquired Forward Adam Christman from Kansas City Wizards. We gave the wizards a foreign player spot for 2 years to get him. He will now compete with Allsopp, Pontius and Moreno to take a spot in the starting XI. He was nominated to rookie of the year 2007. He is 6' tall and a 180 pounds so maybe he will add some presence in the box which we haven't had for years. He hasn't scored a lot of goals during his career so far, but at 25 years old he still have plenty of time to do that. Am I excited about the signing, not much but at least we got another forward on the rooster.

Unfortunately I have to report...

..that DC United just announced that they re-signed Jaime Moreno and without giving any details in the announcement we can all assume that we yet again over paid for him. He will at least land in the mid 200' hundreds and for a player that hardly lasts 30 minutes at best I don't even know why our new coach would agree to this.

Also heard that Gomez is pretty much out of the picture and will not return

DC United Signs Floribert N'Galula

A 22 year old guy from the Democratic Republic of Congo, he is a Midfielder/Central Defender vame up through Anderlecht youth system and was then a part of Manchester United. I have not found much information on him but there are some more reading on Goff's Blog and Behind The Badge.

I really like the fact that they are starting to sign some decent young player and hope that they will actually play them.

Cristian Castillo has arrived!

Our new signing El Salvadorian Cristian Castillo has arrived and was yesterday introduced. DC United is looking to Castillo to be our new Marquee name. Read What Charles Boehm wrote on MLSnet.com.

Check out the the video of the introduction.

DC United Signs Striker Daniel Allsopp

Just saw the news on DC United's homepage, they signed 31 year old Austrailian Striker Daniel Allsopp, he actually looks pretty decent but I have my doubts he will score as much as Luci. He has played in England, Australia, Qatar and he has scored a decent amount of goals over the years.