Author: Sirk

Through Josh’s Eyes: Fanendo Adi

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FANENDO ADIAge at MLS Cup: 30Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria ALL COMPETITIONS IN 2020:Games: 12Starts: 1Minutes: 182Goals: 0Assists: 0 A big and skilled forward, Adi twice scored 16 goals in his five years with the Portland Timbers, including a 2015 campaign that ended with an MLS Cup championship. After a season with FC Cincinnati in 2019, Adi … Continue reading Through Josh’s Eyes: Fanendo Adi

Through Josh’s Eyes: The Celebration

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[NOTE: To read earlier installments of this Josh Williams series or other MLS Cup related posts, please click HERE. And since photo captions might not show in the mobile version, I'll say right here that all photos are by my friend Sam Fahmi.] After the goal that put the Crew up 3-0, but before the … Continue reading Through Josh’s Eyes: The Celebration

Eloy’s Save That Officially Wasn’t But Really Was

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I love sports stats. Consuming, contemplating, and playing with the numbers is fun to me. And it all seems easy enough. We see things happen on the field, we assign value to those actions, and we count and analyze them in order to provide some measure of performance and to tell stories about games and … Continue reading Eloy’s Save That Officially Wasn’t But Really Was

Through Josh’s Eyes: The Lead-Up to MLS Cup 2020

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[NOTE: To read earlier installments of this Josh Williams series or other MLS Cup related posts, please click HERE.] On Monday, December 7, 2020, Josh Williams did what many Crew fans did. He watched the MLS Western Conference Final between the defending MLS Cup champion Seattle Sounders and the visitors from Minnesota United. Unlike other … Continue reading Through Josh’s Eyes: The Lead-Up to MLS Cup 2020

Through Josh’s Eyes: Introduction

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On the occasion of the Columbus Crew’s MLS Cup 2020 championship, I wasn’t sure how to approach writing about the Crew’s nationally-broadcast 3-0 disemboweling of the Seattle Sounders. I could write about my own bittersweet experience watching the primetime Soundercide from my living room. Next to the couch, I surrounded myself with all manner of … Continue reading Through Josh’s Eyes: Introduction

MLS Cup 2020: Crew Alumni on Aidan Morris

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One of the biggest storylines from MLS Cup 2020 was Crew homegrown rookie Aidan Morris being forced to fill the shoes of MLS star Darlington Nagbe on short notice. At 19 years of age, Morris became the youngest player to ever start an MLS Cup final. After his sterling performance, he described himself as just … Continue reading MLS Cup 2020: Crew Alumni on Aidan Morris

MLS Cup 2020: Crew Alumni Reactions– Frankie Hejduk

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What better way to wrap up this series than to chat with the captain of the 2008 MLS Cup champions, Frankie Hejduk? A Circle of Honor inductee, Frankie scored the iconic goal that sealed the Crew's greatest on-field accomplishment until it was equaled in 2020 with the lifting of a second MLS Cup. Someone who … Continue reading MLS Cup 2020: Crew Alumni Reactions– Frankie Hejduk

MLS Cup 2020: Alumni Reactions– Dante Washington

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In putting together this alumni reaction series, there were two guys I saved for last. I wanted to go a little longer with those guys because we see them every day in the Crew community. (Well, at least we did before the pandemic hit.) The first of these two guys is Dante Washington. Dante had … Continue reading MLS Cup 2020: Alumni Reactions– Dante Washington