As I sat on my perch inside RFK Stadium last night, preparing to witness the fifteenth home opener in D.C. United’s history with 20,664 of my closest friends, my thoughts didn’t wander to how new center back Juan Manuel Pena would perform, or how large the ovation would be for Salvadoran newcomer Cristian Castillo or even to what the bass levels were on Wale’s amps on the Armory Mall as reverberations of his pre-game set…

Kyle Gustafson / www.photokyle.comD.C. United is a proud club with the kind of support that most American soccer entities would kill for. But the last two seasons have been trying, even for United’s sizable base of ardent fans. Two incredibly mediocre league campaigns that ended without playoffs. A stadium debacle that doesn’t seem to have any positive resolution in sight. The crushing defeat to Seattle in 2009’s U.S. Open Cup Final after a massive “We…

Steven Goff, the Post’s Soccer Insider, reports that D.C. United named Curt Onalfo as the team’s new head coach this morning. Onalfo is a former U.S. national team assistant and former coach for the Kansas City Wizards. Goff writes that Onalfo “became the front-runner two weeks ago when Caleb Porter declined United’s overtures and decided to stay at the University of Akron.” Onalfo will be formally introduced at a press conference next week….