Two members of Cuba’s national soccer team have gone missing during the team’s trip to Washington for a World Cup qualifying match, the team’s coach told reporters on Friday.

“It is always a problem for the Cuba team,” coach Reinhold Fanz told the Washington Post. “We have security, but you can’t handcuff them to their rooms.”

The Post identified the players as midfielder Pedro Faife, 24, and forward Reynier Alcantara, 26.

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Shouts to Kyle Sheldon from Behind The Badge for the heads up.

It’s going to be a very difficult game tonight for DC United down in San Jose, Costa Rica against powerhouse Saprissa.

If it’s raining like this at game time, expect a damn fast field when you add water to field turf.

The Screaming Eagles and American Outlaws are hosting a couple of get togethers this weekend in DC for the Saturday night game versus Cuba.

Friday Oct 10 - USA Supporters Meet and Greet will be at Momo’s Sports Bar, 5:30 to Closing.

Saturday Oct 11 - Tailgate is at RFK Stadium Lot 8, starting at 3pm until gametime. Lots of food is planned. A key detail is that there will be 10 kegs: including Guinness, Spaten, Sam Adams, plus a couple regional brews Magic Hat from Vermont and Bell’s from Michigan.

PostGame - at Finn macCools.

Definitely go to The Screaming Eagles or The American Outlaws site for more information…this sounds like a blast.

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The man making Designated Player money for DC United is finally back in the nations capital after two weeks rehabbing down in Argentina.

Thanks to our boy Kyle over at Behind The Badge -

“I feel a lot better and I hope to finish the season on a positive note… The most important thing was to get rid of the pain I was feeling all the time… I hope to play a few minutes on Saturday, but don’t think I’ll play tomorrow… It was really hard to watch the team go through that [recent losing streak] and not be able to help… It would have been easy for me to sit back and not play the rest of the season, but I want to work to come back and help as much as I can.”

If you’re keeping track, that’s around $1.9 a year as Gallardo’s played in 14 matches with 4 goals and 3 assists.

Our boy Kyle Sheldon over at Behind The Badge sent us over some pics from Honduras ahead of tonight’s DC United at Marathon Champions League match.

Tonight’s match will be shown live on FSC at 7pm West Coast.