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Big D Weekly – October 21: FC Dallas finished 2024 on a positive note
Well folks, we’ve made it. After 34 games this season, plus some Leagues Cup and Open Cup matches along the way, FC Dallas is done for 2024.
Yes, the rough season is hopefully behind us as the team fully moves into the offseason here, starting with a press conference tomorrow with Dan Hunt and Andre Zanotta.
Will we get answers to whether or not Peter Luccin is being retained? Will any roster moves be announced this early (they do have until next month to wrap all of that up)? Or will it just be a press conference full of what-ifs from the two in charge? We will certainly find out those things and possibly more.
My gut tells me they’ve already made plenty of decisions both on the bench and on the roster. The lack of Luccin’s name on the media invite for the post-season press conference does lead me to believe the club will be moving on from him. For what it is worth, last year their end-of-season press conference was Zanotta and former head coach Nico Estevez.
We shall see.
I don’t think the roster moves will be announced just yet, despite the team being completely off this week from training. Typically, once the season wraps up (either with or without a playoff game), you’ll see some exit interview style training for the players for about a week or so. They’ll likely come back together next week for that as the begin their, what will be very long, off seasons.
Aside from that, I do have some exciting stuff coming to this space in the coming days. I am really excited to roll those things out when the time comes, but first, let’s get into some things from the last week around the club and around MLS.
FC Dallas vs Sporting Kansas City: Highlights, stats and quote sheet
FC Dallas wraps up 2024 season with 2-1 win over Sporting Kansas City
Michael Collodi and Nico Gordon Voted into 2024 MLS NEXT Pro Best XI
Three questions facing FC Dallas as they head into the offseason
Here are some other posts from the last few days that are worth a read:
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Three questions FC Dallas must answer this offseason (Texas XI)
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As its fanbase grows, FC Dallas eager to improve on-field product (Dallas Morning News)
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Petar Musa’s Unexpected Journey Has Just Begun (D Magazine)
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FC Dallas 2025 Part 1: Expiring Contracts and Options (Toros and Toffee)
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FC Dallas Ends 2024 Season with 2-1 Win Over Sporting Kansas City (D210SPORTS)
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FC Dallas Close 2024 With Home Win (Afterburn Soccer)
Decision Day wraps up the regular season
For us in Dallas, Decision Day certainly lacked the energy and drama that we’ve had in previous years with FC Dallas and Sporting KC already eliminated from playoff contention. But that didn’t stop the drama from finding a way to come up elsewhere. Let’s start with the swap atop the Western Conference, as LAFC snuck into the top seed after a late goal from the Houston Dynamo over the LA Galaxy.
In the East, Atlanta and Montreal locked up the final two playoff spots with big Decision Day performances.
Breaking down the contenders in the MLS Cup Playoffs
I always do appreciate how Matt Doyle breaks down the entire league in one single post. If you haven’t paid a lot of attention to who are some of the top contenders this season for the playoffs, this is as good of a place to start as you’ll find out there.
Cristian Benteke wins the Golden Boot
It wasn’t a 30+ goal season for the D.C. United star but 23 goals isn’t anything to shy away from either.
Some how Inter Miami qualified for the Club World Cup
Yep, Lionel Messi is going to the Club World Cup. It is just a shame how Miami qualified for the tournament. But winning this year’s Supporters’ Shield wasn’t the why they managed into the tournament.
It became Dallas County’s new, contemporary facility to house accused criminals in 1993. Today, close to 7,000 men and women each day either serve time, wait for trials, or transfer to state prison inside the county’s Lew Sterrett jail.
The elected leader of county government, Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins, says it’s time for a new facility — and it will cost billions to build it.
“We’ve got to begin planning and doing the work, because we can’t wait until this jail is absolutely just failing,” said Jenkins.
Expansion and development in and around downtown Dallas have the county keeping quiet about future locations.
“So we are looking at sites, and I think we’ll have land purchased this year,” Jenkins said. “And a land purchase in the relative scheme of things is a very insignificant financial amount of this.
“When I’m talking about starting on planning and building of a jail, I’m talking about something that will open perhaps 8 or 9 or even ten years from now.”
To complete a new facility in 10 years, Jenkins said the costs will be in the billions, based on a desire to build a jail that offers mental health and substance abuse treatment, trying to end the cycle of folks filling the jail, arrested over and over again for non-violent crimes.
A hearing room at Dallas City Hall was packed with an overflow crowd. Supporters of Oak Lawn United Methodist Church were ready for a fight, but that fight was one-sided.
“Rainbow steps shouldn’t be controversial,” one supporter said during his 3 minutes at the public comment microphone. “It’s just paint, y’all!”
The church came to the Dallas Landmark Commission to get permission for the rainbow steps painted last month in response to Governor Greg Abbott’s order to paint over crosswalks with political or ideological references, like the rainbow crosswalk outside Oak Lawn United Methodist.
“”These rainbow steps that I’m sitting on are an art installation,” Oak Lawn United Methodist Church Senior Pastor Reverend Rachel Griffin-Allison said. “We feel that it is urgent to make a statement, make a bold statement, and a visible statement, to say that who you are is queer, and beloved, and belongs here.”
As NBC 5 spoke with the pastor, someone yelled homophobic insults from a passing car.
“This is important to have because that kind of heckling happens all the time,” Griffin-Allison said somberly.
The church, a Gothic revival building, is a designated historic landmark, which is why it needed the Dallas Landmark Commission’s approval.
“They are not considered part of the historic preservation building; they are just steps,” one speaker said during public comments.
Several speakers pointed out that the steps had been painted a “gaudy blood red” in the past, and then a shade of gray with no comments or approval.
“When I see the stairs, I see love, support, inclusion, and kindness,” a woman wearing sequin rainbow sneakers said. “They bring a smile to my face and my heart.”
“If you don’t like rainbow steps on your church, then go to one of the 500 churches that don’t have them,” a young man said to the commissioners. “We have one street that represents this culture, and we have one church with rainbow steps!”
Not a single speaker spoke out against the rainbow steps art installation, and it was apparent there was no fight with the commissioners either, as they unanimously voted to allow the rainbow steps to stay up for 3 years.
DALLAS – Dallas police arrested a man for murder after they say he shot a couple he met through an online dating app.
What we know:
Investigators say 26-year-old Noah Trueba shot and killed a 57-year-old woman on Friday morning in Northwest Dallas. Dallas Fire-Rescue responded and pronounced one of the individuals, 57-year-old Guadalupe Gonzalez, dead at the scene.
The second victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
According to an affidavit, Trueba drank and used drugs with the two, who called themselves husband and wife. Trueba later told police that the couple tried to sexually assault him, so he opened fire.
A police drone located him hiding along a nearby highway, after he ran from the scene.
What’s next:
Trueba was arrested at the scene. He is currently booked in the Dallas County Jail and being charged with murder.
This is an ongoing investigation and anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Brewster Billings at 214-671-3083 or at brewster.billings@dallaspolice.gov.
The Source: Information in this article was provided from documents provided by the Dallas Police Department.
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