New Players Coming to Portland from all Directions
By: Bob Kellett | March 14th, 2009
That mop of hair over there to the left belongs to defender Stephen Keel, the newest member of the 2009 Portland Timbers. Keel comes to Portland after being released by the Colorado Rockies Rapids. He is the 15th new player on the club’s roster. Talk about changes!
Below the jump is a list of the new players and where they last played. A couple things stand out. First, the Timbers have gone far and wide to bring in new blood. I don’t know who is doing the scouting but under Gavin Wilkinson this club certainly has expanded its talent-seeking net. Second, the fact that MLS scrapped its reserve league is having an impact. I can’t recall a year in which so many MLS players have been signed by the Timbers. There’s only one college kid and no PDL players.
By the way, if you want to follow Saturday night’s exhibition against San Jose there is a match tracker.
MLS
Steve Cronin – LA Galaxy
George Josten – Columbus Crew
Stephen Keel – Colorado Rapids
Alex Nimo – Real Salt Lake
Ryan Pore – Kansas City Wizards
Keith Savage – Chivas USA
USL
David Hayes – Atlanta Silverbacks
Brian Farber – Minnesota Thunder
Jason McLaughlin – Atlanta Silverbacks
Tony McManus – Atlanta Silverbacks
Foreign Country
Johan Claesson Gefle IF (Sweden)
Antou Jallow – IK Sirius (Sweden)
Mandjou Keita – DPMM FC (Brunei)
Dieumerci Vua – Catania (Italy)
College
Josh Cameron (Oregon State)
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Pssst…Rapids.
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Player on right is…
A: Wishing he would have got the matching boots
B: Perplexed by Keel’s package
C: Avoiding looking at that hair
D: In awe of sitting next to a future TimberPosted from
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Keel played the entire match in San Jose and I was surprised he did so well after one day as a Timbers. He is good enough to break into the starting Line-up.
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