REMINDER OF THAT. POR EL TEMA DE MARCO. HE WAS SUCH A HAPPY BOY. HE WAS SO, SO NICE, SO KIND TO EVERYONE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES US, YOU KNOW, HAPPY TO THINK OF HIM THAT WAY. WHAT DO YOU CALL A PERSON WHO NEVER HAD A BAD DAY AND WAS REALLY JUST COMING INTO HIS OWN AS HE DEVELOPED AS A YOUNG MAN AND AS A PLAYER WHO SHOWED UP TO THE PITCH READY TO WORK WITH AN UNMATCHED ENERGY AROUND CINCINNATI. HE’S MIDFIELDER MARCO ANGULO, A FRIEND TO ALL BUT SERGIO SOLORZANO CALLS HIM BROTHER. MARCO. MARCO, LEFT ECUADOR VERY YOUNG AGE TO GO ACHIEVE HIS DREAM AND PLAY FOOTBALL FOR HIS FAMILY. FROM THE MOMENT MARCO HAD THE FIRST CALL WITH HEAD COACH PAT NOONAN, YOU KNOW HE KNEW THAT CINCINNATI WAS WHERE HE WANTED TO BE. FC CINCINNATI WAS MORE THAN JUST A TEAM TO MARCO. CINCINNATI CINCINNATI WAS THE ONLY CLUB THAT EVER REALLY ASKED HIM HOW HE WAS DOING, THAT HE FELT LIKE CARED ABOUT HIM. MARCO WAS A VERY SPECIAL YOUNG MAN. MOVED A GREAT DISTANCE FROM ECUADOR TO CINCINNATI TO JOIN OUR CLUB AND WAS AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTOR TO OUR SUPPORTER SHIELD CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM. HE SPENT ONE HISTORIC SEASON WITH FCC, BUT MISSED HIS FAMILY, SO FCC LOANED HIM TO THE ECUADORIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION. THEN LAST YEAR, ON OCTOBER 7TH, HE WAS INVOLVED IN A CAR CRASH. HE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND HAD TO UNDERGO MULTIPLE SURGERIES. WE RECEIVED A PHONE CALL. YOU KNOW, YOUR HEART JUST SINKS. ONE MONTH LATER, HE DIED. HE WAS ONLY 22 YEARS OLD. A PAIN FELT BY ALL WHO WEAR ORANGE AND BLUE. HIS FAMILY LEFT HEARTBROKEN, AND HIS SON, MARCO JUNIOR, NOW WITHOUT HIS FATHER. HE WAS A MAN WHO WAS SO DEDICATED TO HIS FAMILY. HE WAS A GOOD SON, A GOOD BROTHER. HE WAS MOST IMPORTANTLY, A GOOD FATHER. THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO HIM WAS WAS MARCO JR. THE CLUB FELT CALLED TO DO SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THE GAME. HE WAS AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTOR TO HIS FAMILY AND WE WANTED TO. MAKE SURE THAT HE WAS LAID TO REST IN A SUITABLE MANNER, A RESPECTFUL MANNER THAT ALLOWED THAT REPRESENTED HOW SPECIAL HE WAS. MUY CONTENTO POR ESO, CINCINNATI. SO MUCH TO CINCINNATI. YOU KNOW, THEY KNOCKED ON OUR DOOR AND OPENED THE DOOR FOR FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF, OF A NEW TOMB FOR MARCO. THIS IS THE INITIAL TOMB BORROWED FROM A FAMILY MEMBER IN ANGULO’S RESTING PLACE. A NEW GRAVE SITE IS NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION THANKS TO FC CINCINNATI. MARCO ANGULO WILL ALWAYS BE A BELOVED MEMBER OF THE FC CINCINNATI FAMILY. A LASTING TRIBUTE THAT IS FITTING FOR A PERSON WHO LEFT A LASTING IMPRESSION ON EVERYONE HE MET. YOU KNOW, I, I THINK FOR US, YOU KNOW, IT’S IT’S A CHANCE TO TO VISIT MARCO. YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN CALLED ESMERALDAS IN ECUADOR, AND IT’S FOR THE TOWN TO TO VISIT MARCO DANIELLE DINDAK. WL
Roman Celentano logged a third-straight clean sheet and Miles Robinson had a would-be game winning goal waived off due to a foul as FC Cincinnati played Inter Miami to a scoreless draw Saturday night.Miami was without two of their key players, including Lionel Messi, after he and Jordi Alba were suspended one match by Major League Soccer for skipping the All-Star game. Messi was still in attendance on Saturday, watching from a suite at Chase Stadium.Entering Saturday, both Cincinnati and Miami had won six of their last seven matchups. When the final whistle sounded, it was the Orange and Blue who had kept a streak of not allowing the opposition to score.The back-to-back-to-back clean sheets, all with Celentano in net, are the longest streak for Cincinnati this season.Despite being credited with 13 shot attempts, Miami was only able to put three shots on goal. The Herons did win more corners than The FC (5-3) and out-possessed the visitors, 56.3% to 43.7%.Half of Cincinnati’s shot attempts went on net, with the ball getting pushed past Miami goalie Rocco Rios Novo in stoppage time. Cincinnati’s two all-stars, Evander and Miles Robinson, teamed up on a free kick, with Robinson getting a head on the ball to put it in net, but a foul called against the USMNT defender waived the goal off, keeping the game scoreless.”We did a good job to create a moment there to potentially find the winner,” head coach Pat Noonan said after the match. “But you know, it wasn’t meant to be.”Noonan added that “the whistle was blown,” meaning the play couldn’t go to video review, with the whistle coming before the goal. Despite the frustrating result, FCC were able to keep their composure throughout the match, getting called for just four fouls.Meanwhile, the home side were tagged for 14 fouls, with four players being shown yellow cards (Benjamín Cremaschi, 4′; Tomás Avilés, 36′; Federico Redondo, 60′; Marcelo Weigandt, 90′).After a three-goal output the last time the two clubs met, on July 16, FCC has scored just one goal over its last two games.The shared points dropped Cincinnati (49 points) to second place in the Supporters’ Shield standings, after Philadelphia (50 points) defeated Colorado, 3-1.MLS play now takes a pause over the next two weeks as Leagues Cup play begins, with the Orange and Blue set to take on three teams from Mexico’s Liga MX.Cincinnati’s Leagues Cup run begins Thursday against Monterrey before. Matches against FC Juarez (Aug. 3) and Guadalajara (Aug. 7) wrap up Phase One of the competition.FCC will take the pitch in MLS play again on Sunday, Aug. 10, against Charlotte at TQL Stadium.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —Roman Celentano logged a third-straight clean sheet and Miles Robinson had a would-be game winning goal waived off due to a foul as FC Cincinnati played Inter Miami to a scoreless draw Saturday night.
Miami was without two of their key players, including Lionel Messi, after he and Jordi Alba were suspended one match by Major League Soccer for skipping the All-Star game.
Messi was still in attendance on Saturday, watching from a suite at Chase Stadium.
Entering Saturday, both Cincinnati and Miami had won six of their last seven matchups. When the final whistle sounded, it was the Orange and Blue who had kept a streak of not allowing the opposition to score.
The back-to-back-to-back clean sheets, all with Celentano in net, are the longest streak for Cincinnati this season.
Despite being credited with 13 shot attempts, Miami was only able to put three shots on goal. The Herons did win more corners than The FC (5-3) and out-possessed the visitors, 56.3% to 43.7%.
Half of Cincinnati’s shot attempts went on net, with the ball getting pushed past Miami goalie Rocco Rios Novo in stoppage time. Cincinnati’s two all-stars, Evander and Miles Robinson, teamed up on a free kick, with Robinson getting a head on the ball to put it in net, but a foul called against the USMNT defender waived the goal off, keeping the game scoreless.
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“We did a good job to create a moment there to potentially find the winner,” head coach Pat Noonan said after the match. “But you know, it wasn’t meant to be.”
Noonan added that “the whistle was blown,” meaning the play couldn’t go to video review, with the whistle coming before the goal.
Despite the frustrating result, FCC were able to keep their composure throughout the match, getting called for just four fouls.
Meanwhile, the home side were tagged for 14 fouls, with four players being shown yellow cards (Benjamín Cremaschi, 4′; Tomás Avilés, 36′; Federico Redondo, 60′; Marcelo Weigandt, 90′).
After a three-goal output the last time the two clubs met, on July 16, FCC has scored just one goal over its last two games.
The shared points dropped Cincinnati (49 points) to second place in the Supporters’ Shield standings, after Philadelphia (50 points) defeated Colorado, 3-1.
MLS play now takes a pause over the next two weeks as Leagues Cup play begins, with the Orange and Blue set to take on three teams from Mexico’s Liga MX.
Cincinnati’s Leagues Cup run begins Thursday against Monterrey before. Matches against FC Juarez (Aug. 3) and Guadalajara (Aug. 7) wrap up Phase One of the competition.
FCC will take the pitch in MLS play again on Sunday, Aug. 10, against Charlotte at TQL Stadium.
