Brandon McDonald Rumors & News

Find a worse month than this one was since the year we don't like to talk about in these parts. Just try. Actually... don't. You'll just make yourself sad, and nobody wants to spend a gorgeous Friday heading into what should be a very pretty weekend in the Nation's Capital being sad. So instead, we'll just vote for who was the worst in a truly awful month on the field for D.C. United. The nominees are... Brandon McDonald - He's the organizer of the defense, and he's the emotional leader of the back half of the team. And he had himself a very bad month, capped by probably the worst 45 m...

The game might have been mostly even, but the final score sure wasn't. D.C. United lost its fifth match in a row on Saturday night against the Columbus Crew. Some might say that United turned in a better offensive performance, but the team also gave up three goals thanks to three mistakes by Brandon McDonald. Their Words - Steven Goff, Washington Post: As one of my editors dryly pointed out during the delay, goal-starved United has no use for a scoreboard anyway. Especially on the road. The last time the club scored more than once away from RFK was last June 24 at New York, a 3-2 defe...

He hasn't been around RFK Stadium quite as long as yesterday's subject in this space Dejan Jakovic. But Brandon McDonald is, without a doubt, D.C. United's most important defender. It is his organization that keeps the back line in sync, his long balls out of the back that provide us a pressure release valve and his attitude that define the Black-and-Red back four. How B-Mac performs in 2013 will go a long way toward whether the team as a whole achieves its goals of a top finish in the Eastern Conference and a run at MLS Cup this fall. Let's start with the first of those three items I ...

We knew he had the potential to be something special when D.C. United drafted him third overall in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. We knew his ceiling was really high when the Black-and-Red moved him to his favored defensive midfield position at the end of his rookie campaign. Now, going into his third professional season, Perry Kitchen could be on the verge of something big. In his sophomore season, Kitchen cemented his place in the lineup, playing and starting 32 games and logging 2804, second-most behind only Brandon McDonald. His place in the center of the park locked down for the foresee...