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FCD Departs for Brazil

Update: Travel Roster

February 26th, 2007 . 8:12 pm . By: Buzz Carrick

FC Dallas leaves today on their spring road trip to Brazil.  Down south the hoops will be staying and training at Clube Atletico Paranaense’s training center.  While in Brazil FCD will face off against three of CAP’s teams.  In addition to the CAP reserves and U20s, FCD will face off against the CAP first team in a gated game at Kyocera Stadium in Curitiba, Brazil, on March 7th.  This game and an as yet unannounced game against another pro first team opponent set up by promoters will allow FCD to make money on their trip rather than losing money as they have for many years.
 
March 1st is the MLS roster compliance date, so FCD will in all probability be taking their finalized spring roster to Brazil.  We are efferting to obtain the travel roster and will update here when we obtain it.  Shaka Hislop will be traveling to Brazil from his home nation of T&T after receiving his green card and probable new signing Juan Carlos Toja is also scheduled to join the team while in Curtiba. 
 
You can keep up with FCD’s spring schedule on our Schedule and Results page.
 
While 3rd Degree will not be joining the team in brazil for various reasons, we will endeavor to bring you as many independent reports as we can from our sources with the team out of country.
 

UPDATE: Travel Roster
 
Senior Roster:
Arturo Alvarez
Kenny Cooper
Chris Gbandi
Clarence Goodson
Shaka Hislop *
Roberto Mina
Drew Moor
Richard Mulrooney
Aaron Pitchkolan
Bobby Rhine
Carlos Ruiz
Dario Sala
Marcelo Saragosa
Abe Thompson
David Wagenfuhr
Alex Yi.
 
Developmental Roster:
Ray Burse
Andrew Daniels *
Michael Dello-Russo
Sandi Gbandi
Scott Jones
Tommy Krizaonvic
Dax McCarty
Dominic Oduro
Blake Wagner
Anthony Wallace
 

Notes:
 

Goalkeeper Shaka Hislop will join the team on Friday in Brazil. He is currently in Trinidad waiting to finalize his U.S. residency status. He will travel to Miami, Florida on Thursday to obtain his green card then fly to Brazil later that night.

Midfielder Ramon Nunez will not travel to Brazil. He is waiting for the required special permission from the U.S. government to leave and re-enter the U.S. Ramon should receive his U.S. residency status within 3-4 weeks.

Andrew Daniels will join the team on Saturday in Brazil. He returned to Brown University today to work out details to continue his education while with the team.

FCD and MLS have agreed to allow 15-year old draft pick Abdus Ibrahim to honor his commitments to the U.S. U-17 team, thus he would not be eligible to play in regular season games during 2007. He would not count on the team’s Development Roster, which permits FCD to still have 10 eligible players available

Adrian Serioux will not travel with the team due to injury.

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