Matthew Ralph
Managing Editor
Managing Editor of BrotherlyGame.com. I also write stories, take photos and podcast about soccer at the youth, college, adult amateur and professional level in the greater Philadelphia region.
McKenzie: Returning a ‘mix of emotions with everything going on in the world’
Mark McKenzie talks narrating a powerful new video and Thursday’s MLS is Back Tournament opener against NYCFC
Bedoya: Life inside the bubble ‘eerily quiet’
Philadelphia Union captain reflects on life inside the bubble so far
Haverford College cancels fall soccer, conference rivals re-evaluating in September
Haverford has joined Swarthmore in canceling soccer and other fall sports
Injury setbacks, position battles and more from Jim Curtin’s presser
Curtin held his first game week presser since early March
Pandemic hasn’t slowed ambition of new Sporting Delaware youth club
While soccer was shut down completely for months, the staff for a new Delaware youth club kept plugging away on Zoom
FC Dallas withdraws from MLS is Back Tournament
The league has announced the withdrawal but not how the tournament format will be changed
Union begin training in Orlando after getting ‘all clear’ from coronavirus testing protocols
The full squad trained in Orlando for the first time on Friday night
Fans gather for Philadelphia Union send-off in Chester
The small organized gathering was the largest for Union fans since the season was suspended in March
Swarthmore College cancels soccer season
Swarthmore joins TCNJ as area NCAA schools to cancel the soccer season
Union II to play at Subaru Park on July 18, but whether fans will be allowed still up in the air
The Keystone rivalry with Pittsburgh Riverhounds will be renewed in Chester with or without fans