HOUSTON – The Houston Dynamo welcomed the Columbus Crew to Shell Stadium for the first leg of the Round of 16 CONCACAF Champions Cup. Columbus, the defending MLS Cup champion, found a goal in the waning moments of extra time to secure the victory and take a one-goal advantage to the second leg. After the […]
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HOUSTON – In the 2023 MLS season, the Houston Dynamo lost two games at home. Such was their dominance at home that Shell Stadium took on the moniker of Hell in the Shell. The name is a nod to Houston’s blistering heat and the Dynamo’s tough-minded mentality at home. Of Houston’s 51 points last season,
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HOUSTON – The Houston Dynamo entered Saturday’s MLS home opener optimistic as they looked to build on their Western Conference Finals run from a year ago, but after a 1-1 draw against Sporting Kansas City, the team left the match disappointed with its performance. Statistically speaking, the men in orange were the better side on
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HOUSTON – Franco Escobar was bored. The Houston Dynamo left-back regularly stayed behind when the Orange had a corner kick, as his assignment asked him to defend against transition moments. While the first-year Dynamo defender was engaged in his assignment, he wanted more. The Argentinian wanted in on the action. Escobar pestered assistant coach Aurélien
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HOUSTON – The Houston Dynamo are Western Conference Finals bound. It’s a sentence that deserves a re-read because no one could have predicted that. No one could have expected Houston to be in this position after five seasons of being affixed to the bottom of the standings. A team most, if not all, Major League
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HOUSTON – A dominant performance. That’s what one would gather after looking at the scoreline and stats from the Houston Dynamo’s 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake on Sunday afternoon. Houston led in possession, 71 percent to 29, had more passes, 690 to 279, had more shots on target, 5 to RSL’s 2, and higher
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HOUSTON – The Houston Dynamo entered Saturday’s match against in-state rivals FC Dallas looking to avoid the pitfalls that befell the last two U.S. Open Cup winners. In 2022, Orlando City followed up their first U.S. Open Cup championship by getting thrashed 5-1 by the Philadelphia Union in their next game. In 2019, it was
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HOUSTON – Ben Olsen joined an elite class Wednesday night, becoming the third coach to win the U.S. Open Cup with two different teams. The first-year Houston Dynamo head coach led the men in orange to a 2-1 victory over Inter Miami FC to claim the Bayou City clubs’ second U.S. Open Cup trophy. Houston’s
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Was I crazy? That’s what Houston Dynamo head coach Ben Olsen thinks of, recalling that Griffin Dorsey was on the bench for the better part of the first season. The former Toronto FC wingback had been relegated to a bench role and played sparingly in the first half of the season,
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Houston Dynamo are the 2023 U.S. Open Cup champions. The Bayou City team lifted the U.S. Open Cup Wednesday night after a 2-1 win over a Messi-less Inter Miami FC. With the win, Houston joins an elite class of teams who have won multiple U.S. Open Cup trophies. “Thrilled with the
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