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Goff, today:

The weather is balmy, so DCU has changed course and decided to stretch the legs and conduct a light workout on the artifical turf field....

UPDATE: Ben Olsen is out here, participating in a half-field workout and moving well.

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"I am cautiously optimistic about maybe getting through a season. The verdict on the ankle seems to be: 'It is what it is.' It's not going to get better than it is now. Knowing that helps me go ahead and push and do what I can. There will be a lot of maybe managing the pain throughout the season and maybe I am not going to be a guy that starts or plays. I have no idea how this is going to play out. It's very day to day with me, as it has been for a year. I've been active [the last couple weeks]. I've gotten through every day. Some days I look like someone shot me, but I am getting through it. Just keep going, keep pushing and see if I can't get through preseason, and if I can get through preseason, go from there. ... I am trying not to get too excited about playing and be part of the team right now."

I bet a pint Benny plays more minutes than Gallardo this season. Takers?

Gallardo?

Marcelo Gallardo, D.C. United's Argentine playmaker, has been excused from the start of training camp tomorrow in order to continue his rehabilitation from last season's injuries and tend to personal matters back home. I am still awaiting word on when he is scheduled to arrive.

Jeebus.

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Argentine playmaker Marcelo Gallardo will join the team in a week to 10 days, GM Dave Kasper said. Besides the sports hernia surgery last summer and the knee problem that ended his 2008 season, we found out today that Gallardo had adductor surgery in December. It was performed by the Argentine national team doctor.

"His starting points [in training camp] won't be great," Kasper said. "He obviously has to get healthy and get fit. Now it's a matter of just finishing the final rehabbing and when he can begin training."

Kasper confirmed that, early in the offseason, Gallardo "expressed that he may have an interest in going back to Argentina, but that never really went anywhere."

Jeebus.

I bet a pint Olsen's the head coach by season's end. Takers?

UPDATE: More on Olsen, plus this:

Three young midfielders from last year's squad -- Craig Thompson, Quavas Kirk and Ryan Cordeiro -- as well as Sierra Leone defender Ibrahim Koroma, will not return.

Quavas?

Be a Metro by April.