Miami FC

They are the opponent here coming up on Wednesday on RFC do have a game in hand on them.

Um, You know, Miami is one of those teams that's kind of quietly becoming a real interesting part of this race.

We kind of wrote them off recently here, but they're sitting in ninth now with 30 points, just two behind Rhode Island FC after beating Indy 2-0 on Saturday.

So suddenly that eighth place position is looking a little precarious there.

I

mean, we were talking last week to write Miami off.

There's a question in the mailbag, so we want to be strategic about how we answer it now.

But, you know, there is some mathematical equations that have to go in.

from Haiti as well, from El Paso Locomotive, and of course the two from Curacao.

Goes without mentioning Miami's Eloy Room.

Used to be Miami's as well, Juergen Locadia, but he's out now on Tampa Bay Route.

He's representing them after transferring.

It was a late transfer in that late transfer window.

that extended to early September for the USL Championship.

So we have a lot of things to talk about.

So who is on thin ice as the playoff race tightens? We talked at length last time around Indy 11 and that important matchup with Miami, and we got a shock result.

Rhode Island FC heads to South Carolina to take on the Charleston Battery in USL Championship action this weekend.

Can they repeat the earlier success that they had seen this season in a place that they've also found relative good victories and hard-earned playoff success? Or will the sins of last weekend's match against Miami FC haunt this team as they attempt to return to form and fight for their right to USL playoff berth? Beyond the preview, we're gonna take a look at the schedule toughness ahead for Rhode Island FC, as well as the rest of the teams jockeying for a position in these playoffs.

We're gonna take a look at the new player signings and break down a little bit more of the technical things that happened last week while we were out.

And then, is another football team coming to Centerville Bank Stadium next year? Got so much to unpack.

Little bit more on the extension for Atkinson here.

Kind of some concerns coming out of that press announcement about how we were trying to figure out when we would lose these guys and when we could possibly see them back.

We speculated before we went on vacation that we might not have them for the Miami game.

That wasn't the case, but Jason, there's been some breaking information that we won't see them for a little bit longer than we thought coming out of this back end of the stretch.

Where to next?

Is Miami FC like a playoff team? Like, or was Rhode Island just, they, I know Rhode Island needs Hugo Baca rock, like desperately.

I know they need him to play the way that they want to play.

But Miami looked really, one, good, two, up for it in a way that Rhode Island did not.

But, like...

Miami looked pretty competent.

That was probably the best performance I've seen from Miami since the start of the year when we thought Gaston Madone had, you know, solved world peace and sent Miami FC to the postseason.

And then they got through the dog days of summer.

He's been with Curacao since 2015 with 70 caps and he is 37 years old coming into this cup.

Currently playing for Miami FC in the USA since 2026 but he does have some experience in Europe and not just the Netherlands although mostly the Netherlands.

circle bruise in Belgium before he moved to the USA or actually in between because he played for Columbus Crew in USA otherwise it is mostly teams in the Netherlands most notably PSV Eindhoven.

So some pretty good club affiliations there.

The other candidate who was selected is also at the multiple level.

It's Jurgen Lokadia with Courage House since 2023.

12 caps and one goal for him, and he's 32 years old, playing for Miami FC in the USA since 2026, and has played for a lot of teams, switches teams, almost every year.

Thank you.

I don't know if I'm wrong or not, but I think I might take a Lujan over a Muda at the right back position.

And they'll just go tell Facundo Muda to drive down the street and go play for Miami FC.

So...

Kick rocks, buddy.