- by Angel Soto, writing from California
Immediately we have seen most of these new faces make an impact. Charlie Davies, Omar Bravo and Vancouver’s Eric Hassli, all scored braces this opening weekend, as well as Vancouver showing what they’re made of as they trounced Toronto FC. Although, we have all seen Agudelo before, this season will be his first full one, and he started of brightly, as he drew a penalty that Arsenal legend Thierry Henry missed, and scored a beautiful game winner.
We also had many “old faces in new places” like, Dax McCarty and Josh Wolff at DC United, Jimmy Conrad at Chivas USA, Jack Jewsberry and Kenny Cooper at Portland. McCarty and Wolff enjoyed successful debuts, as DC United overpowered Columbus, with McCarty captaining the side and Wolff netting the first goal of a 3-1 dominance. Conrad also netted the first goal of his side in a losing effort, but his defensive teammates would make costly mistakes that Sporting Kansas City punished them for. Jewsberry and Cooper were not welcomed so kindly to their new club, as they faced the ferocious defending champions, the Colorado Rapids. Kenny Cooper did score in his debut but in a deafening effort by the Timbers as they were outmatched.
Players weren’t the only new faces, we also have new coaches that begun their regimes this last weekend. Robin Fraser is now the coach of Chivas USA just falling short to Omar Bravo and Sporting KC this weekend. Ben Olsen starts his first full season managing the historic DC United as they enjoyed their first victory after the first match, defeating a questionable Columbus Crew side 3-1.
The fans, it seemed like every stadium had a good capacity crowd throughout MLS this weekend, Let's up this keeps up! Keep it up MLS fans!
What will week 2 bring us? We shall wait and see! MLS is finally here again!
