Three teams active on holiday weekend
Things may have slowed down around Major League Soccer for the holiday, but that didn’t prevent two fairly significant moves from going down in the last few days.
First, the New England Revolution signed their second ever Homegrown Player, adding Akron midfielder Scott Caldwell. The Hermann Trophy semifinalist had nine goals and ten assists in 22 matches for the Zips in his senior season and joins Diego Fagundez as New England’s only Homegrown Player signings.
Then on Sunday, the Houston Dynamo added speedy Jamaican forward Omar Cummings in a swap with the Colorado Rapids, sending former Sounder Nathan Sturgis and allocation money to Colorado in the trade. Cummings, 30, joins the two-time defending Eastern Conference champions after two of his least successful seasons in MLS. After posting seasons of eight goals and 12 assists in 2009 and 14 goals and three assists in 2010, Cummings managed just nine goals and eight assists combined over the last two seasons. After already parting ways with Conor Casey and adding Edson Buddle to the mix, the Rapids are under full-rebuild mode at the forward position.
Sturgis, meanwhile, joins his sixth team since coming to MLS in 2006. At 25, he is still young with plenty to offer. He was a key role player for the Sounders in 2009 and 2010 before being taken in the 2010 expansion draft by the Vancouver Whitecaps and traded to Toronto FC. That trade was finalized on Thanksgiving Day – this year’s deal was just shy of being a Christmas Eve move.
First, the New England Revolution signed their second ever Homegrown Player, adding Akron midfielder Scott Caldwell. The Hermann Trophy semifinalist had nine goals and ten assists in 22 matches for the Zips in his senior season and joins Diego Fagundez as New England’s only Homegrown Player signings.
Then on Sunday, the Houston Dynamo added speedy Jamaican forward Omar Cummings in a swap with the Colorado Rapids, sending former Sounder Nathan Sturgis and allocation money to Colorado in the trade. Cummings, 30, joins the two-time defending Eastern Conference champions after two of his least successful seasons in MLS. After posting seasons of eight goals and 12 assists in 2009 and 14 goals and three assists in 2010, Cummings managed just nine goals and eight assists combined over the last two seasons. After already parting ways with Conor Casey and adding Edson Buddle to the mix, the Rapids are under full-rebuild mode at the forward position.
Sturgis, meanwhile, joins his sixth team since coming to MLS in 2006. At 25, he is still young with plenty to offer. He was a key role player for the Sounders in 2009 and 2010 before being taken in the 2010 expansion draft by the Vancouver Whitecaps and traded to Toronto FC. That trade was finalized on Thanksgiving Day – this year’s deal was just shy of being a Christmas Eve move.
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