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FC Dallas Opens 2009 Season at Home

The Brimstone Cup kicks it off.

December 2nd, 2008 . 1:14 pm . By: Buzz Carrick

 Major League Soccer has announced the home openers for each MLS team through the first three weeks of the season.  FCD will open 2009 play on Saturday, March 21st at 7:30 PM against their Brimstone Cup Rivals, the Chicago Fire.  In week two FCD takes their turn as the off team in the 15 team league.  Edit: or plays in a non-home opener. Week three sees the Red Stripes open up the New England Revolution home schedule up at the Big Razor in Foxboro on April 4th.

Here’s the announced games…

(Game dates, times and venues are subject to change. All times eastern)

REGULAR SEASON – WEEK 1 (FIRST KICK)

Thursday, March 19, 2009 

New York Red Bulls at Seattle Sounders FC, 9 p.m. (ESPN2/Deportes)

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Columbus Crew at Houston Dynamo, 8 p.m. (Fox Soccer Channel/Fox Sports en Espanol)
Chicago Fire at FC Dallas, 8:30 p.m. 
Toronto FC at Kansas City Wizards, 8:30 p.m. 
Colorado Rapids at Chivas USA, 10:30 pm (Fox Soccer Channel/Fox Sports en Espanol)
New England Revolution at San Jose Earthquakes, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 22, 2009 

D.C. United at Los Angeles Galaxy, 3 p.m. (TeleFutura)

REGULAR SEASON – WEEK 2

Saturday, March 28, 2008 

Toronto FC at Columbus Crew, 4 p.m. 
San Jose Earthquakes at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m. 
New England Revolution at New York Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m. 
Kansas City Wizards at Colorado Rapids, 9:30 p.m.

REGULAR SEASON – WEEK 3

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Columbus Crew at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m. (ESPN2/Deportes)

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Seattle Sounders FC at Toronto FC, 3 p.m. 
FC Dallas at New England Revolution, TBD

Sunday, April 5, 2009

New York Red Bulls at Chicago Fire, 3 p.m. (TeleFutura)





7 Comments

  1. Comment by Philip on December 2, 2008 1:34 PM

    Are you sure FCD is off Week 2?
    They are only showing home openers I believe.
    We could be at Houston or Seattle, someone that “opened” at home in week 1

  2. Comment by kenny on December 2, 2008 2:01 PM

    I’m guessing under 10k for the opening day attendance, what say you? No KC Jr and rally no one else very marketable left on the team so who will really care next year?

  3. Comment by the stick on December 2, 2008 2:58 PM

    Or we could be at home again in week #2….

  4. Comment by Buzz Carrick on December 3, 2008 1:26 AM

    yes, they could easily have a game week 2… my bad.

  5. Comment by dustin on December 3, 2008 12:57 PM

    buzz,

    unrealated topic, but…

    do you know what’s happening with the MLS convention thats going on in downtown dallas today?

    I saw a lot of people wearing MLS team gear at lunch today, it was beautiful. have you heard anything about this?

  6. Comment by Buzz Carrick on December 3, 2008 2:03 PM

    sales meetings.

  7. Comment by Z on December 4, 2008 10:35 AM

    Buzz,

    Any chance we can request that any national FCD games not be on Telefutura this coming season? Last year a huge majority were on a channel that’s not even nation wide (I don’t mind the spanish part, its the nation wide that gets me). For those of us FCD fans not in Dallas, how can we “ask” for less games on Telefutura (and more on ESPN2, FSC, HDNet, etc.)

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