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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 14h

Just a note: best as I can tell, Romero is the first #MNUFC player ever to be named to this yearly list.

Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 15h

#MNUFC defender Nicolás Romero is #19 on the league's official "22 under 22" list.

This is also a reminder that Romero, who turns 22 on November 28, is - despite his assured presence on the field - still just 21 years old.

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 15h

#MNUFC defender Nicolás Romero is #19 on the league's official "22 under 22" list.

This is also a reminder that Romero, who turns 22 on November 28, is - despite his assured presence on the field - still just 21 years old.

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 17h

Is Brad Frost even awake at this point

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 18h

No, no. We love our children even when they make what is objectively the wrong choice.

Also I dunno what Dinkytown Athletes is doing right now but clearly they need to focus up

Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 18h

lock the doors until the team decides to start winning again?

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 1d

Just shut the Gopher women's hockey program down now. Clearly it's a failed state.

Emily Pohl, hockey state champion at Hill-Murray, commits to Wisconsin | Strib Varsity

Both of her parents, John Pohl and Krissy Wendell-Pohl, represented the Gophers, but junior forward Emily Pohl committed to the reigning national champion Badgers on Monday.

varsity.startribune.com

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 1d

Fewer #MNUFC international call-ups than usual, with Carlos Harvey injured. Dayne St. Clair, Michael Boxall, Robin Lod, and Joseph Rosales have all headed out for international duty.

🇫🇮, 🇭🇳: WC qualifiers
🇳🇿: Friendlies (in Europe)
🇨🇦: Friendlies (in Canada)

Loons are taking a break, off until Fri.

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 2d

Not so much a plug as a trial balloon as I try to work out my own feelings…

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 2d

As in “which day of the week,” or the general schedule?

Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 2d

More from #MNUFC over the weekend, as the international break starts:

* Loons go classic 4-4-2
* How Mamadou Dieng needs to improve to fit in: be more like Tani Oluwaseyi

Analysis: Minnesota United adjusting to playing without traditional strikers

Injuries and transfers have posed an interesting challenge for Loons manager Eric Ramsay as the MLS playoffs approach.

www.startribune.com

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 2d

I mean TECHNICALLY 2019, with 13 home wins, has 2025 (11) beat, for the moment, but also someone's probably going to yell at me for splitting hairs like this

x - Minnesota United FC @mnufc.com · 3d

And after all 🫶

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 2d

greatest art of 2025 imho

Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 2d

Update: "Titanium" has now been stuck in my head for more than 36 hours and I am going insane

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Reposted by Jon Marthaler

Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 3d

It's the final, full-slate Sunday column of the year! Thank you as always for reading.

Philadelphia Union meet the moment, San Diego make history & more from Matchday 38

Plus Atlanta, of all teams, providing a blueprint...
www.mlssoccer.com/news/philade...

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 3d

By the time Decision Day rolls around, #MNUFC could be down to "well, if the Loons win and San Diego loses, Minnesota will clinch third place in the West"

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 3d

Okay let me see if I have this right: OpenAI is running commercials featuring questions that you used to be able to answer via a simple web search, only now this doesn’t work because the web search results are now filled with useless OpenAI slop?

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 3d

the funniest thing about this ongoing bit was that when I saw the final score, I actually felt some relief of the "well now I'm not going to get yelled at on the series of tubes today" type

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

Nope, team option. Wouldn’t be a free agent anyway since he’s short of four years service time.

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

Random stat of the night: tonight's 3-0 win for the Loons was the first time since July 2024 that #MNUFC won a match AND had 50% possession or better

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

Not this year. And in MLS history, only Brek Shea ever scored more as a defender (11 in 2011)

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

Manager Eric Ramsay said that Anthony Markanich was adamant about continuing after the leg injury that forced him off in the second half, but the coaching staff decided it wasn't necessary to risk it.

Markanich said he was fine, after the game... and he's got two weeks to rest up, too.

#MNUFC

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

Anthony Markanich, on his teammates' response to his tongue-wagging goal celebration: "Oh, they hate it. Everyone hates the tongue out. I don't know what to do, though."

#MNUFC

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

#MNUFC game story for @stribsports.startribune.com: no matter the question, somehow Anthony Markanich is always the answer.

(He still says he hasn't started selling the MARKANICH hats, by the way.)

Minnesota United shuts out Sporting Kansas City in regular-season home finale

Anthony Markanich scored a pair of goals as the Loons clinched home field in the first round of the MLS playoffs.

www.startribune.com

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

By the way, the Houston-San Diego game has gone Full Chaos; San Diego has scored twice and Houston once in the last five minutes of the match, it's 3-2 San Diego, and at the moment #MNUFC still trails #SDFC by two points at the top of the West

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Jon Marthaler @jonmarthaler.com · 4d

FINAL: #MNUFC 3, Sporting KC 0.

A comfortable win against a struggling team, and a positive note for the Loons to close out their home schedule.

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