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That's some strike from Matheus De Paula 😮‍💨 #DOOP

Tomorrow night 7pm at #ScottAutoField our Men’s Adult program the #WestChesterPredators play @aztecafc5280 in the #hanksteinbrechercup National Semi Final! Come out and support local high level soccer, featuring some PFSA Alums. @west_chester_united_sc

West Chester United is hosting the semifinal of the Steinbrecher Cup tomorrow night in West Chester. They won the national competition in 2023.

Andrew Rick will be with @USMNT on their World Cup journey as a training goalkeeper 🤩🇺🇸 #DOOP

Stockton University prepares new field to welcome Haiti national soccer team ahead of World Cup 6abc.com/post/stockton-…

This press conference is the most out of touch thing I’ve seen in a long time. Smoke and mirrors. Blind leasing the blind. #doop

If you told me this was an actual quote I would fully believe it

one final thought here, on the "Union coach needs to play the homegrowns" narrative: The Opta data says Philly actually led MLS in HG minutes back in 2024, with 8,942. Jim Curtin got fired and they sold Jack McGlynn in the following transfer window.

Philadelphia Union Principal Owner Jay Sugarman said it was a collaborative effort to move on from Bradley Carnell. Also admitted that they knew bringing in a lot of new players this offseason that it would take time to gel, but they don't believe they saw that gelling. "Well, as you know, we work collaboratively and try to make sure we're taking as much information as we can before we make tough decisions. So this was a consensus decision that we needed to move in a different direction. We certainly hoped throughout the entire first half of the season that we'd see the progress we wanted to see. We knew coming in that we had a lot of new players and that it would take time to gel. We just didn't see that gelling happen between the players, and we saw a bit of a loss of confidence. That's a hard thing to turn around." #doop

When Jay says the word success

Jay Sugarman summarized: We’ve been almost number one before so why try harder

By no means was Carnell dealt a good hand (lowest spending club + lack of Sporting Director), but some of his tactical decisions really hurt this team. Interested where the Union go from here given that most of the players were brought in by Carnell. #DOOP

Jay Sugarman states that Ernst Tanner had already communicated that he wanted to step back from his role at the end of his current contract. Sugarman wouldn’t commit to say if Tanner would be completely gone from the organization.

Philadelphia Union has fired head coach Bradley Carnell. Jon Scheer now steps into the Sporting Director role fulltime. What are you hoping comes next for the U? #DOOP philadelphiasoccernow.com/2026/05/27/his…

Had heard chatter a month ago that Philly might be doing this and seemed interested in former RBNY head coach Sandro Shwarz. He’s since signed at Dynamo Moscow. Curious to see who fills this post.

@brianwagner1234 This makes little sense unless this means we have a new TD who has his own guy ready to go I'm really hoping that's the case Otherwise, why?

> win a shield > gut the roster > blame the manager > Circle of Life

@PhilaUnion @sagehurley__ Re-open the Curtin

Today may be the happiest I’ve been all season. #doop