Friendlies
International Exhibition: Portland Timbers 2-0 Bayern Munich II
By: Bob Kellett |
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Bottom Line: Trialist Kevin Forrest and forward Anton Jallow scored to pace the Portland Timbers to a 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich II in an international friendly played in front of 9,340 at PGE Park. Forrest, who was released by the Seattle Sounders last week, opened the scoring in the 8th minute by heading [...]
Category: Friendlies
Portland Timbers to Face Bayern Munich Reserves on July 2
By: Bob Kellett | No Comments
The second international friendly of the season has been announced. The Portland Timbers will face the unknowns that are owned by Bayern Munich. You can bet that those unknowns are pretty darned good. Not as exciting as, say, a match against the first team, but at least this will help to get [...]
Category: FriendliesTimbers to Face Club America’s Reserve Squad
By: Bob Kellett | 1 Comment
The excitement is palpable, I’m sure. It will grow to a full frenzy when you look at the schedule and see that the Club America game is scheduled for the day immediately following a match against the Vancouver Whitecaps. Hopefully the starters will be rested so that we can kick off the international [...]
Category: Friendlies“It’s an Honor to Play the Timbers”
By: Bob Kellett | 2 Comments
* Timbers top Oregon State
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Suzuki lifts Timbers to preseason win over OSU.
Yes, that Suzuki. Timbers pick up their first win of 2009. We’re going to win the league. The Pac-10 is all ours.
Category: FriendliesThings to Take Note of During 180 Goalless Minutes at Merlo Field
By: Sean | 3 Comments
For the second Friday night in as many weeks, the Portland Timbers continued their pre-season warm-up with another friendly on Merlo Field at the University of Portland’s Clive Charles Soccer Complex. This contest against the Pilots ended 0-0, much like the contest just seven nights earlier against the NY/NJ Red Bulls [Reserves]. Despite [...]
Category: FriendliesLet the preseason begin
By: Bob Kellett | 2 Comments
Now that we are at the tail end of a dramatic week of MLS expansion goodness, the attention briefly returns to the guys who are suiting up for the 2009 version of the Portland Timbers. The good guys travel to San Jose Saturday to take part in their first exhibition match. What can [...]
Category: FriendliesTimbers v. NJ/NY Red Bulls, 20 March
By: Sean | 2 Comments
This isn’t exactly what I meant when I said I wanted MLS in Portland, but I think I’ll take it nonetheless.
I just got a head’s up from Ticketmaster that the Portland Timbers are scheduled to play a pre-season friendly against the MLS NJ/NY Red Bulls on Friday, March 20th, Merlo Field at the University of [...]
Category: FriendliesExhibition: Portland Timbers 2-0 Tigres
By: Bob Kellett | 15 Comments
The Bottom Line: Byron Alvarez made a triumphant return to the Portland, setting up a goal and scoring one himself to lead the Timbers to a 2-0 victory over Tigres in an exhibition match played in front of 8,375 at PGE Park. Alvarez, on trial with Portland, danced around the box before setting [...]
Portland Timbers close out the exhibition season against Tigres
By: Bob Kellett | 13 Comments
If it feels like we just did this, it is because we just did. For the second time in 12 nights the Portland Timbers face a club from Mexico in an exhibition match at PGE Park. After falling 2-0 to Morelia on July 3, the Timbers now face Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. [...]
Timbers lose a pair of exhibition matches against Monarcas Morelia
By: Bob Kellett | 8 Comments
The Portland Timbers spent their Independence Day weekend losing to Monarcas Morelia 2-0 on Thursday in Portland and 3-1 on Sunday in Seattle. The Timbers will interrupt their crucial stretch of Mexican preseason futbol when they face the Puerto Rico Islanders on Thursday before taking on Tigres next Tuesday. What did we learn [...]
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