

Friendlies
Exhibition: Portland Timbers 2-0 Tigres
By: Bob Kellett |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 |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 |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 [...]
If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best
By: Bob Kellett |They’re better than Preston North End, Toronto FC and Gonzaga University combined
The hype machine for Thursday’s must-win, play-all-the-starters exhibition against Monarcas Morelia is in full gear with Portland Timbers boss Gavin Wilkinson declaring that the Mexican club is so good that they make the California Victory look like a sixth grade junior varsity squad. [...]
A Lyon Friendly for the Portland Timbers?
By: Bob Kellett |Dave Knows has used his nose to sniff out a potential friendly between Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon to us language-challenged folks) and the Portland Timbers. I did a little bit more digging and babelfishing to come up with this nearly intelligible blurb:
L’ Olympic Lyonese could follow a camp d’ drive in the United States during [...]
Exhibition: Portland Timbers 1-0 Juventus Primavera
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: Chris Brown took a pass from Bryan Little and knocked it into the goal in the 24th minute to propel the Portland Timbers to a 1-0 victory over Juventus Primavera in an international friendly at PGE Park. It is the second year in a row that the Timbers have come out [...]
Portland Timbers to host Tigres at PGE Park on July 15
By: Bob Kellett |I’ve been looking for an excuse to dust off my Tigres U.A.N. L. wrestling mask and now I have found one. The Portland Timbers will host Club Deportivo U.A.N.L on July 15 at PGE Park. This is the second Mexican club the Timbers will face this year. Since the US Open Cup [...]
Portland Timbers to Play Monarcas Morelia July 3
By: Bob Kellett |Those pesky message board rumors turned out to be correct. The Portland Timbers have announced that they will face Mexican club Monarcas Morelia in a friendly on July 3 at PGE Park. The official pronouncement is that this is one of the best teams in Mexico. Perhaps. The club has won [...]
Timbers Face Montreal Friday, Monarcas Morelia July 3 (Possibly)
By: Bob Kellett |Save the Date
The word on the street (the pot-holed, dead-end, message board variety) is that the Portland Timbers will face the Mexican club Monarcas Morelia on July 3 at PGE Park. I’ve seen no official confirmation of this, but Merritt Paulson and others have mentioned the possibility of a Mexican friendly and this is [...]
Juventus Primavera Tickets on Sale Tuesday, Two Games this week
By: Bob Kellett |After a week off, it is game week once again for the Portland Timbers. The heroes in green and white will try to be bloody dynamite against Rochester on Thursday at PGE Park and on the road against those dreaded Seattle Sounders on Saturday. It seems hardly fair to have to go through [...]









