United advance to the next round of the Champions League with a 2-0 win over Tauro FC.

DC United opened their CONCACAF Champions League campaign last night with a 1-0 victory over Jamaican side Waterhouse FC.

United fans will have new teams to root for in the next few days, as the Black-and-Red look to sneak into the knockout stages of two competitions. Photo by Hitchcock Creative. United 1, Toluca 1: D.C. United have spent this year on the fringes of pretty much everything. The fringe of the MLS playoffs. The fringe of silverware in the Open Cup. The fringe of victory or defeat (the team has 14 draws in…

Okay, let’s just get this out of the way up top: San Juan Jabloteh features a player named Elton John. It’s kind of difficult to take that seriously, even for a sport where guys named Banana score goals and participants sport these kinds of hairstyles in a tournament watched by a billion people. United’s opponents last night at a sparsely attended CONCACAF Champions League match, though, were more tiny dancer than rocket man. It was…

Sure, I could be negative. I could tell you that last night was the quietest I’ve heard RFK Stadium in some time. I could talk about how secondary the reputation of the CONCACAF Champions League appears to be, even for those involved in the competition. I could harp on the poor finishing in the first half of the match, an effort so indicative of numerous D.C. United matches this season — full of exciting offensive…

For the sparse crowd of United supporters who attended last night’s CONCACAF Champions League debacle against Toluca of Mexico at RFK Stadium, it would be easy to attribute the result and the team’s incredibly poor performance to fixture congestion. But head coach Tom Soehn just isn’t buying it. “I want to put something to bed. We keep talking about games — you know what, it’s no different than we’ve had every year,” Soehn said forcefully…

Poor D.C. United. US Open Cup success aside, it’s been about as frustrating a season as a team could have. The first few months were filled with growing pains, trying to find a way to mold the side around new Argentinian signing Marcelo Gallardo. It began to pay off in early summer, with the team finally finding form and playing with the easy-on-the-eyes attacking style in such a marked contrast to some of the league’s…

DC United kicked off competition on yet another front – The CONCACAF Champions League – last night looking like a decidedly haggard squad. Jaime Moreno was on the bench. The $1.9 million-per-year Marcel Gallardo was back in Argentina for further rehab, leaving his total games played for the season at 14. That’s over 100 grand per game, spaced out over 7 months. Nice work if you can get it. Also absent was his fellow countryman,…