WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/CARYThe RailHawks deserved to win this gamewhich they did, 2-1and the three points put them back in the thick of things at the top of the USL-1 table. Vancouver are never an easy side to subdue, but on this night the defending champions looked relatively pedestrian. The central midfield trio of Daniel Paladini, […]
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RailHawks squawk, Battery charges; Charleston wins 2-1
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARYOn a night when thunder and lightning knocked out an hour of power and heavy rain unequivocally defined the term fair weather fan for several dozen families who sheepishly made their mini-vanning way home, the Charleston Battery and Carolina RailHawks huffed and banged their way through 90 minutes of football. Carolina entered […]
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Thunder fails to clap, RailHawks build nest egg
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARYOn a Sunday afternoon best made for poolside lounging, the Minnesota Thunder and Carolina RailHawks shuttled the ball back and forth for 90 minutes. The majority of the RailHawks faithful took their cues from the weather report and stayed away in droves. Had they been at the stadium, the 90-degree temperature combined […]
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Status of RailHawks’ Marcelo Romero in question
The “great adventure” of Marcelo Romero in the United States appears to have come to an end before it began. The former Uruguayan international does not appear in any of the RailHawks’ game day literature, has not played a minute of first team football, and is not training with the team, raising suspicion that Romero […]
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RailHawks grind Rhino horns into powder, rebalance trade deficit with China
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARYIn the murky wilds of Cary, North Carolina, the Carolina RailHawks claimed the collective hide of the Rochester Rhinos with a 53rd-minute goal by Sallieu Bundu. The goal poacher from Sierra Leone gave the home fans a much-deserved reward for their consistent, if tepid exhortations. This 1-0 victory was the first time […]
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Carolina RailHawks begin league play Saturday
⇒ Also this week in Sports: Previewing the Durham Bulls in 2009 The Cary-based Carolina RailHawks kick off their 2009 regular season at 7 p.m. this Saturday at WakeMed Park against the Minnesota Thunder. Last month, we published an interview with Martin Rennie, the team’s 33-year-old first-year head coach, in which he expressed a serene […]
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Fast-rising soccer coach Martin Rennie fronts new-look RailHawks
Carolina RailHawks vs. New England Revolution 7 p.m. Saturday, March 14 WakeMed Soccer Park Martin Rennie is a busy man. The coach of the Carolina RailHawks soccer club shows up for our interview a few minutes late, phone to his ear, having come from a meeting after giving a post-training interview. He asks leave to […]
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RailHawks’ training report: 11 Feb 2009
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/CARYToday’s two hour training session began with some light jogging and stretching followed by a short passing game. For aspiring coaches out there, the game involved two players, three cones and a ball. After passing between two cones, the receiving player was required to take a touch moving the ball around a cone […]
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RailHawks announce Martin Rennie as head coach
Martin Rennie, with publicist Marco Rosa (left) and owner Brian Wellman The Carolina RailHawks announced Scotsman Martin Rennie as the team’s new head coach. Rennie comes to the Railhawks from the Cleveland City Stars of the USL’s Second Division. At Cleveland, Rennie compiled an impressive record, taking the Stars to the USL-2 semi-finals in his […]
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RailHawks claim six points and one trophy in two days to end season
A light but compact crowd gathered at Bull McCabe’s in Durham on Friday night to watch the USL-1 Carolina RailHawks take on the Charleston Battery. It came as a surprise to some at the bar that such significant emotion could be generated for somthing that they did not heretofore know existed. Yet, there it was, […]