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Top 5 Houston Dynamo CONCACAF Champions League Matches

February 17, 2019February 19, 2019 txsoccerjournal

After a four year absence from the competition, the Houston Dynamo return to the 2018-2019 version of the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League (CCL) Tuesday night (9 p.m CST) (Yahoo Sports, Univision Deportes). The club automatically qualified into this years version of the CCL Round of 16 knockout stage when they won the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in Houston last September. The opening opponent for the Dynamo will be Guatemalan side CD Guastatoya, who qualified after winning a special two-legged playoff over Antigua GFC, scheduled when the suspension of the Guatemalan federation was lifted by FIFA. This will be the … Continue reading Top 5 Houston Dynamo CONCACAF Champions League Matches

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NASL San Antonio Thunder Resurrected Saturday night at a San Antonio FC match

September 6, 2018January 13, 2019 txsoccerjournal

A few days ago it was reported that San Antonio FC (SAFC) recently filed applications to Trademark the name and logos for the first professional soccer team to play in San Antonio…the San Antonio Thunder. https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Spurs-group-files-to-trademark-1970s-soccer-13194826.php The Thunder (1975-76) were the third Texas team to play in the version of the North American Soccer League (NASL) that ran from 1968-1984. The Dallas Tornado and Houston Stars were the first, beginning play in 1968. The Stars folded after a single season (two if you count the year in the United Soccer Association) when the NASL nearly collapsed at the end of … Continue reading NASL San Antonio Thunder Resurrected Saturday night at a San Antonio FC match

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Reliving the First Texas Derby Matches Played 51 years ago

July 19, 2018April 30, 2019 txsoccerjournal

Image Credit: naslmemories@blogspot.com Saturday night in Houston, the first of three matches in the 2018 Texas Derby between FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo will be played at BBVA Compass Stadium. As the rivalry is resumed, it is worth remembering that 51 years ago the first Texas Derby matches were played by the first two professional soccer teams from Texas to play in a national soccer league. At that time this was the only Dallas-Houston professional sports rivalry in existence, as there were no professional sports teams in the two cities that played in the same league at that time. Competitive … Continue reading Reliving the First Texas Derby Matches Played 51 years ago

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2017 10/20/50 year Texas Soccer Milestones

December 23, 2017December 29, 2017 txsoccerjournal

A 1967 Houston, Texas match that was described as the First ever Indoor/Outdoor Soccer Game played in the World In the final post of my 2017 review of the year in Texas soccer, I will discuss significant milestone memorable soccer events that occurred 10, 20 and 50 years ago in the State’s relatively short soccer history: 10 Years Ago: Houston Dynamo win second consecutive MLS Cup Houston Dynamo defeated the New England Revolution for a second consecutive year to win MLS Cup in Washington D.C.’s RFK Stadium on November 18, 2007. The setting was quite different than the year before … Continue reading 2017 10/20/50 year Texas Soccer Milestones

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50 years ago-The First Professional Soccer League Season in Houston Ends

July 28, 2017February 19, 2018 txsoccerjournal

Logo accessed from Wikipedia Fifty years ago this month, the first and only season (tournament) of the United Soccer Association (USA) came to an end. The USA was the first professional soccer league in North America that included Texas teams: Dallas Tornado and Houston Stars. The league was one of two professional soccer leagues formed in the United States in 1967 on the heels of a positive reception to televised games from the 1966 FIFA World Cup held the previous summer in England. Because the USA was forced to start up earlier than intended because of the rival NPSL, the … Continue reading 50 years ago-The First Professional Soccer League Season in Houston Ends

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Former Dynamo, SA Scorpions forward Omar Cummings retires

July 25, 2017January 19, 2019 txsoccerjournal

Image Credit-MLS Soccer Omar Cummings who played 2 seasons with the Houston Dynamo and a season with the San Antonio Scorpions announced his retirement yesterday from FC Cincinnati where he has been playing for the last couple of years. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/soccer/fc-cincinnati/2017/07/23/omar-cummings-announces-retirement-soccer/503465001/ The Jamaican international Cummings made his MLS mark with the Colorado Rapids when he was a vital piece of the Colorado Rapids roster that defeated FC Dallas 2-1 in Added Extra Time in the 2010 MLS Cup. Cummings scored a career high 14 goals, tied for 4th in the league that year, in that Cup winning season. His place in … Continue reading Former Dynamo, SA Scorpions forward Omar Cummings retires

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50 years ago-First two Texas Derby matches

June 19, 2017February 19, 2018 txsoccerjournal

Friday night MLS Soccer action will feature round two of the 2017 Texas Derby in Houston, when MLS sides Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas compete for the 2018 rights to hold El Capitán, a replica 18th century cannon. 50 years ago on June 3rd and June 10, 1967, the first professional iterations of the Texas Derby were played in Dallas and Houston between the United Soccer Association’s (USA) Houston Stars and Dallas Tornado. The background on the short-lived league (tournament) start-up and the Houston Stars can be found in the first post in this series: https://txsoccerjournal.com/2017/06/13/50-years-ago-professional-soccer-is-introduced-to-texas/ The Dallas Tornado: 1967 … Continue reading 50 years ago-First two Texas Derby matches

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50 Years Ago-Professional Soccer is introduced to Texas

June 13, 2017February 19, 2018 txsoccerjournal

A little more than 50 years ago the Houston Stars introduced a professional soccer league to Houston for the first time. Domestic interest in the 1966 England World Cup, won by the home country, convinced a number of owners of teams in other U.S. professional sports that soccer could make money, or in any event help them fill open dates in the stadiums they owned. One of these owners was Judge Roy Hofheinz who owned baseball’s Houston Astros and co-owned The Astrodome stadium, the self proclaimed “8th Wonder of the World”. In true American fashion, two groups of individuals had … Continue reading 50 Years Ago-Professional Soccer is introduced to Texas

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