Brotherly Game Daily Links: Union not giving Red Bulls bulletin board material

Philadelphia Union News

Aaronson’s rise to the USMNT is fueled by a strong season and a hunger to learn
Brenden Aaronson’s inclusion into the the USMNT took a lot of people by surprise, but when you look at the upward trajectory he displayed in 2019 and the people he surrounds himself with, it shouldn’t have.

Philadelphia Union respond to bullish New York Red Bulls: “We’ve done our talking on the field”
Jim Curtin doesn’t see the need to respond in kind to the Red Bulls’ bullish remarks. “For the one exception maybe [being] Kacper’s comment about LAFC, I think we’ve done our talking on the field so I’m not going to talk or give any locker room bulletin board material with Red Bull,” he said.

MLS News

Top 10 coaching candidates for MLS vacancies
The pool of unemployed managers remains deep and varied, making for tough picks when narrowing down the top ready-made candidates. We’ve got homegrown coaches, European coaches, assistant coaches, exciting new coaches and coaches with oodles of top-level titles on their resumes.

Chicago Fire sign Spanish midfielder Álvaro Medrán
The Spanish midfielder has experience playing in La Liga with Real Madrid and Valenica.

Crew break ground on new downtown stadium
The Black & Gold’s new home began the construction process on Thursday.

U.S. Soccer News

United States to start Josh Sargent in CONCACAF Nations League vs. Cuba
It will be the 19-year-old Werder Bremen player’s second-straight start -- he went 75 minutes in a 1-1 friendly draw against Uruguay in September -- and his third straight appearance for the American side.