Friday, March 20, 2009

Heads Up on the Austin Aztex FC


For their final tuneup before heading into the regular season Real Salt Lake are facing USL-1's newest team, the Austin Aztex.

As most of the readers of this blog most likely have a pretty good feeling of what to expect from Salt Lake on Saturday, this article will shed a bit of light on the opponent.

The Aztex join the USL system as an affiliate of Stoke City of the Premier League. Although a second division side, the Aztex have played three other MLS teams in preparations for the USL season that starts in a a couple weeks. After loosing to the Red Bulls 2-0, and getting tied up with the Houston Dynamo 2-2, the Aztex are coming to Rio Tinto Stadium following a 1-0 win over MLS Cup Champion Columbus Crew last week.

One member of the Aztex roster may look familiar to the RSL faithful. Kyle Brown, who spent the 2007 season on the RSL roster, is one of Austin's strikers.

Austin appears to be a formidable opponent for the Rio Tinto Stadium open house on Saturday. Among the other festivities the match kicks off at 1pm.

See you all there!

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