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What began as a good-will search for compromise quickly devolved into a suicide pact, one in which MLS promised to destroy the league to save it. But then it torched all that at the end of its three-paragraph release by saying the MLS Labor Committee has voted unanimously to terminate the existing CBA and institute a lockout if a new deal is not reaching by midnight Eastern time Thursday. The league opened its statement optimistically, saying it had agreed to extend the negotiating deadline for another week (good) and announcing the two sides had committed to a regular schedule of meetings (better). (This is the second time in seven months the league has forced the players back to the bargaining table to renegotiate a CBA both sides agreed to last winter.) The Armada faces off against another MLS opponent Saturday when Orlando City, including Brazilian World Cup star and 2007 FIFA World Player of the Year Kaka, comes to the Baseball Grounds.The latest heavy-handed push came Friday, in response to a union offer that sought middle ground in talks for a new collective bargaining agreement.
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In addition to Eloundou, Jacksonville also got a look at two other non-roster players on trial in defender Patrick Otte and former Orange Park midfielder Garry Lewis as the teams combined to use 51 players. "It's clear, athletically, what he does, how calm he is on the ball for the speed that he plays," Meola said. Eloundou instantly struck a dipping 20-yard chip that floated over Union backup keeper John McCarthy.Īfter Eloundou's showing, Meola said the club would take a "hard look" at the young attacker. On a wet, windy night, Mechack Jerome and Pekka Lagerblom got Jacksonville's best chances before Eloundou's late winner.Ī quick passing sequence freed Jamaican Akeil Barrett on a run up the right, and when Barrett passed the ball back. "I thought in that area we were excellent tonight." "We keep talking about the middle third of the field, picking spots to win the ball and attacking it," Meola said. ¦ The midfield only sporadically penetrated on offense, but thoroughly snuffed out the Philadelphia attack.
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¦ Matt Fondy, the former United Soccer League MVP acquired Thursday from Louisville City, didn't score but provided a physical presence alongside Alhassane Keita that was lacking last season. ¦ The Armada's three-back system gave up some space early but effectively unleashed its wingbacks, left back Matt Bahner and especially right back Bryan Burke, to dash at Philadelphia with speed. "I don't think a lot of our players had played that system before," said goalkeeper Miguel Gallardo, named player of the game after a pair of excellent saves. Meola also made his mark in tactics, trying out a new 3-5-2 system for the first 60 minutes of the game rather than the 4-3-3 alignment favored in 2015. One year after kicking the ball for the first time in a 3-1 exhibition victory over the Union, the Armada opened its preseason with an outing that mostly highlighted its defensive improvements under Meola. "First thing I said to them, those are my two favorite words," Meola said. The 21-year-old youth international player from Cameroon struck in the 80th minute to open the Meola era in style. When he left the field, he had brought Tony Meola his first win as Armada coach.Įloundou, a non-roster player on trial with the club, scored the game-winner as Jacksonville kicked off its preseason with a 1-0 win against the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer at the rain-drenched Baseball Grounds on Saturday.
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When Charles Eloundou pulled on his Jacksonville Armada jersey for the first time Saturday, he wasn't even a member of the roster.