DC United Got The Player They Needed - Black And Red United
Assuming Dwayne De Rosario actually suits up for DC United, that will be his third MLS team in less than a year and his fourth MLS team in four years. Obviously, there is some risk involved. There's also a tremendous amount of potential reward, though. For all his faults, De Rosario has won four MLS Cups and scored a goal at a rate of about one out of every three matches over his 256-match career. Black and Red United, SB Nation's DC United blog, sees him as just the kind of player they needed:
But this is absolutely the type of move that United needed to make to compete with the Philadelphia Union and Red Bulls in the Eastern Conference this season. It’s a true No. 10, which fans have been calling for since the day Christian Gomez moved on. De Rosario will take up that No. 10 tradition with class. Filling the shoes of Gomez and Marco Etcheverry won’t be easy. There are only three or four midfielders in MLS who could do it. De Rosario is one of them.
BR&U also foresees an almost immediate change from a bucket 4-4-2 formation to more of a diamond midfield with De Rosario in the middle. They also think this is the clearest sign yet that United is trying to win now:
...this drastic move say to me that this can no longer be considered a rebuilding year for United. No rebuilding team would ever trade a 25-year-old with national team experience for a 33-year-old, no matter their respective resumes. The expectations have now been raised exponentially for D.C. It’s playoffs or bust again for us.
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