Garrett Melcer
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Digital Content Manager @FCDallas | @maybornUNT grad | Austin native
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Bernard Kamungo’s journey to FC Dallas is the most incredible story I’ve covered.
Tonight he scored his first
@MLS
goal and it was a game-winner in the 89th minute.
The stuff of dreams.
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Incredible way to make your home debut in front of 77,000 people all singing your name.
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Paes has faced 6 penalties this season and made the initial save 4 times.
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Leo Messi is going to play soccer in Frisco, Texas. What a world.
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Maarten Paes marked his Indonesia debut with a penalty save to preserve a 1-1 draw against Saudi Arabia in their opening game of the Asian Cup.
Paes & Indonesia now head home to face Australia on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
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Maarten Paes to make his debut as a starter for Indonesia 🇮🇩 in their World Cup qualifier vs Saudi Arabia
1️⃣1️⃣ pertama untuk memulai perjalanan Timnas Indonesia di FIFA 2026 Asian Qualifiers Round 3! 🦅
‣
#GarudaMendunia
‣
#TimnasDay
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The FC Dallas U19s put together this 16-pass sequence to create their game-winning goal vs Botafogo in the Dallas Cup semifinal.
Phenomenal team goal. They play São Paulo in the final on Sunday.
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Bernie Kamungo seeing the Tanzanian flag sign at Toyota Stadium for the first time 🇹🇿
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For everyone commenting on the opponents, Donovan’s hat tricks came against Cuba (Gold Cup), Ecuador (friendly) and Scotland (friendly).
Not exactly world beaters, either.
Jesus Ferreira is now tied with Landon Donovan for most hat tricks all-time in USMNT history (3).
👏👏👏
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FC Dallas academy products have scored 16 of the USMNT’s 25 goals so far in 2023:
Ferreira: 7
Pepi: 4
McKennie: 2
Zendejas: 1
Reynolds: 1
Richards: 1
The first player to score back-to-back hat tricks in USMNT history.
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The Texas World Cup squad, an offseason project by FCD's Team Administrator.
All players were either born or raised in Texas. Does this team make it out of the Group Stage?
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This is Bernard Kamungo with his brother, Imani. They walked in together before tonight’s game.
It was Imani who convinced Bernie to attend the open tryout for
@NorthTexasSc
in 2020 and paid the $100 fee.
Look at them now.
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“I want to play for Indonesia because, first of all, it's a tribute to my grandmother.”
Maarten Paes has earned his first call up to Indonesia’s national team for World Cup qualifying. He could debut against Saudi Arabia (9/5) or Australia (9/10).
A proud moment for our kiper.
Maarten Paes has been called up to the Indonesian Men’s National Team for World Cup Qualifiers.
#KitaGaruda
#GarudaMendunia
👉
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Your club's kit was leaked by EA Sports. Ours was leaked by Fab Romano.
We are not the same.
🚨🇺🇸 Official, confirmed. Petar Musa joins FC Dallas on €10m plus €3m deal from Benfica.
Here’s Petar Musa with agents Antonio Dedic and Denis Selimovic.
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I wrote this article when Bernard Kamungo signed with FC Dallas in late August of 2022.
Just incredible what he's doing less than a year later.
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The USMNT has scored 21 goals so far this year and 13 of them have been scored by FC Dallas academy products:
Ferreira: 4
Pepi: 4
McKennie: 2
Zendejas: 1
Reynolds: 1
Richards: 1
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“Both games were a big mental boost for the rest of the World Cup qualifiers."
Maarten Paes will join up with the Indonesia national team for games against Bahrain & China after FCD's matchup w/ Portland Sunday.
On his last experience w/ Indonesia 🇮🇩 👇
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"That was my first time scoring in front of him, and it was against Messi."
Three years ago, Bernard Kamungo was encouraged to try out for
@northtexasSC
by his brother, Imani.
Yesterday, Bernard scored on the biggest stage with his brother watching.
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Alan Velasco is 20 years old and has the balls to go for the panenka with
#DTID
’s playoff dreams on the line.
What a man.
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Bernard Kamungo’s timeline is wild:
2002: Born in a Tanzanian refugee camp, learns soccer with a makeshift ball
2016: Relocates to Abilene, TX, begins playing organized soccer
2020: Enters an open tryout with
@northtexasSC
, earns a contract
2021: Scores on his pro debut
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Current/former FC Dallas Homegrowns playing in Europe:
1. Justin Che
2. Ricardo Pepi
3. Dante Sealy
4. Thomas Roberts
5. Tanner Tessmann
6. Bryan Reynolds
7. Reggie Cannon
8. Chris Richards
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Maarten Paes made 5 saves to help Indonesia keep a shutout in a 0-0 draw with Australia.
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Such a painful loss for FC Dallas. Such fine margins.
But that was the best game I've ever watched live. The opponent, the storylines, the atmosphere, and of course the goals. Just phenomenal entertainment.
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The moment Reyna Reyes (former FC Dallas Girls Academy) was drafted 5th overall by the Portland Thorns out of Alabama.
That’s back-to-back first round picks for FC Dallas products with Diana Ordoñez going 6th overall last year.
Great to see
@pedritosilva
interview former FC Dallas midfielder Reyna Reyes prior to tonight’s
@NWSL
draft.
We moved the watch party to a larger room b/c Reyna brought approx 50 friends & family members to experience what we all hope will be a special night!
📸
@GarrettMelcer
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July 28, 2010, a 9-year-old Jesús Ferreira watches his father David play Manchester United in the MLS All-Star game.
August 10, 2022, a 21-year-old Jesús Ferreira plays in the
#MLSAllStar
game, wearing # 20 like his dad did 12 years prior.
The 1st father-son All-Star duo ⭐️⭐️
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Former
#DTID
Homegrown Ricardo Pepi just scored for Augsburg in a preseason friendly against TSV Schwaben.
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Paes told me postgame he guessed which way Thommy was going with the PK b/c he found a video of him taking one from a reserve game back in 2015 (he's only taken 4 in his career).
Of course GKs study the opposition's penalty tendencies but that's next-level stuff.
After his first PK save was called back for encroachment...
Maarten decides to save another.
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Just 15 minutes into his PSV career and Pepi has a goal.
Class is permanent
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Unless Necaxa beats Charlotte FC this Saturday (or beats them in PKs), FC Dallas will face Mazatlán in the Round of 32.
IF FCD wins that and Miami wins their Round of 32, FCD would host Miami (Messi) in the Round of 16.
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Former
#DTID
Homegrown Ricardo Pepi is here at
@Soccer90Store
signing autographs until 1pm.
Great turnout for the current Augsburg and USMNT forward.
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Both Diego Pepi and Santi Ferreira are in FC Dallas first team training today. Time flies.
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In what world is this not a red card? His foot is 18 inches off the ground, makes contact with studs to the knee...
That fact that VAR recommended the ref take another look at it and he stuck with a yellow is BAFFLING.
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Huge credit to the
#DTID
faithful for making the trip down. Q2 is loud but I could still hear y’all
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Sebastian Lletget’s 2 assists vs Minnesota brought his tally to 5 since joining
#DTID
on Aug. 3. No one in MLS has logged more assists in that time frame.
• 33/33 passing
• 14 passes in MNUFC's half
• Three key passes
• Seven possessions gained
• Two Assists
• One Birthday Celebration
Sebastian Lletget has been named to the MLS Team of the Week and he's joined by Alan Velasco who makes the bench.
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Maarten Paes: “I want to put Indonesia on the soccer map”
Paes is close to playing for Indonesia internationally after receiving his passport this week.
He’s eligible via his late grandmother who was born there when it was called the Dutch East Indies.
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All starts with Pepi's hold up + layoff to Pulisic 🤩
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FC Dallas academy products have scored 17 of the USMNT’s 31 goals so far in 2023:
Ferreira: 8
Pepi: 4
McKennie: 2
Zendejas: 1
Reynolds: 1
Richards: 1
Ferreira just tied the USMNT record for goals in one Gold Cup (7).
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Pepi’s 7th goal in his 15th cap. Scoring a goal every other game for your country as a 20-year-old is just insane 🇺🇸
78' - GOAL: USA!!!!!
@Ricardo_Pepi9
makes an instant impact and finds the net!!!!
🇺🇸 USA 3 - 0 MEX 🇲🇽
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The moment Dallas found out that it’s hosting World Cup 2026
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Tonight’s win puts
#DTID
on 49 points, 16 more than the club earned in all of 2021 (33) with three games to go.
16 points mark the biggest year-over-year improvement in FC Dallas history, besting the 14-point improvement from '98 to ’99.
Nico Estévez 📈
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Ryan explained in postgame that he did this pump fake because Savarese had thrown the ball at his head when it first went out of play.
Ryan also said that if he could go back, he'd do it all over again because it got the team pumped up.
#DTID
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@ESPNFC
The full story:
"That was my first time scoring in front of him, and it was against Messi."
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Incredible photo.
For context, this was after Illarra tied the game and Nkosi Tafari got the whole team together for a quick huddle. He's really becoming a leader for this group.
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41' - INCREDIBLE pass from Andrés Ricaurte who splits four Houston defenders to find Ryan Hollingshead who gives FCD a 2-0 lead.
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Jesús Ferreira starts!! He’ll become the first FC Dallas player to play in a World Cup game, ever.
Trinidad & Tobago GK Shaka Hislop was almost first in 2006 but he joined FCD from West Ham directly after the tournament.
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All the equipment FC Dallas is taking on its preseason trip to Spain.
Spare a thought for Team Administrators who have to keep track of it all.
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Nico Estévez began the
#DALvSTL
postgame press conference by speaking on today's tragic events in Allen, TX:
“On behalf of our staff & players, we are devastated about what happened today in Allen. It’s tragic, it’s right here, 20 minutes away from here. We had friends and
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Unsurprisingly, Nkosi delivered in his postgame interview:
"It could’ve been the first game of the season, if we’re playing, Austin I’d like to beat them as bad as we can."
That's 3 goals and 2 assists on the season for Kos.
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This is excellent hold up play from Pepi to find the through-ball.
#DTID
(And definitely a red card too.)
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Great turnout for FC Dallas’s open training session and it doesn’t start for another 20 minutes.
Head coach Nico Estévez is truly a man of the people.
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Everyone remember to thank Nico for recruiting Yunus Musah, who’s been brilliant this World Cup.
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Logan Farrington scored his first MLS goal and proceeded to hand out hotdogs to the crowd after the final whistle.
The rookie gets it.
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Tonight Alan Velasco recorded team highs in key passes (4), shots (4), shots on target (2), duels (13), fouls drawn (2) and possessions gained (8).
He also had a goal and an assist in the same match for
#DTID
for the first time.
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Omar Gonzalez needing to tell Jáder that his goal was offside during his 45-second celebration is an all-time moment.
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I've written a lot about Ricardo Pepi since I first met him three years ago.
From his pro debut, FC Dallas debut, and USMNT debut, he's always stepped up and seized the moment.
I expect nothing less as he continues his career in Europe.
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My 19th season as a fan of this club and 5th as an employee. I’ll never not feel lucky.
Vamos
#DTID
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It’s a damn shame this FCD 404 page needs a new gif now.
Legendary stuff from Ryan Hollingshead.
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Jesús Ferreira is the leading scorer in Major League Soccer with 8 goals.
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In case you somehow missed it:
Ricardo Pepi announced himself on the international stage in a big way last night.
#DTID
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17 minutes into his first playoff start and Bernard Kamungo has an assist and won a penalty.
This man LIVES for the big moments. 2-0 FCD
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Ricardo Pepi finishes the season with 13 goals, tying Diego Fagundez for most by a teenager over a single MLS campaign.
#DTID
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FC Dallas is averaging 2.4 goals per game under Peter Luccin.
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Good two days for the Pepi family:
Sunday, 17-year-old Diego Pepi makes his pro debut for
@northtexasSC
. Monday, Ricardo Pepi scores a game-winner for the USMNT.
THREE POINTS IN ORLANDO!!!!
🇺🇸 USA 1 - 0 SLV 🇸🇻
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Ricardo Pepi, Szabolcs Schön and Bryan Acosta are all back in Frisco and available for selection tomorrow, per Luchi Gonzalez.
#DTID
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Petar Musa arrives in Dallas tomorrow and will join team training next week.
With Ferreira already back in training, FCD is close to having 2 of its 3 DPs available.
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Three FC Dallas Academy players joined first team training today:
Santi Ferreira (Jesús’ little brother)
Alejandro Urzua
Anthony Ramirez
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New signings Paul Arriola and Maarten Paes as well as Jesús Ferreira have joined FCD preseason training for the first time today.
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After 14 days quarantined in a hotel room, we’re back.
I’m never going to Florida again.
#DTID
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Jesús Ferreira made his 145th appearance tonight, passing Victor Ulloa for the most games by an FCD Homegrown.
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"He has all the attributes that fit how we want to play"
FC Dallas breaks its transfer record to bring in Croatian forward Petar Musa. Why it's a statement signing from the club 📰👇
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The first time I ever saw Pepi score it was against Austin Bold FC in a preseason game at some junior college in middle-of-nowhere, Texas.
4.5 years later he’s scoring in the UCL. Wild.
Ricardo Pepi scores his first PSV goal from the penalty spot in a Champions League qualifier 🚂
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Ema Twumasi had one of his best games in a
#DTID
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Led the team in passes (59), passing accuracy (90%), passes in opposition's half (31), touches (78), and second-most key passes (2).
Paul Arriola mentioned him/his performance specifically in postgame as well.
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For the first time in 557 days, FC Dallas was awarded a penalty in MLS play and Jesús Ferreira converted it!
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All 4 of FCD's home wins this season have been comebacks. This is a big reason why 👇
someone asked how the section is tonight. who wants to tell him?
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Jesús Ferreira is now tied for top scorer in MLS with 10 goals (tied with Mukhtar and Bouanga).
He's first player to reach double digit goals with no penalties this season.
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