{"id":2072,"date":"2011-01-05T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2011-01-05T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T15:27:31","slug":"job-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"Job (in)security"},"content":{"rendered":"

While veteran goalkeeper Matt Reis secured a contract extension last month and third-year \u2018keeper Bobby Shuttleworth was recently elevated to the senior roster, several\u00a0of their teammates\u00a0will be heading into the 2011 preseason without agreements in hand.<\/p>\n

First-year midfielders Zak Boggs, Jason Griffiths and Roberto \u201cBetu\u201d Linck, as well as\u00a0\u2018keeper Tim Murray, are all currently\u00a0out of\u00a0contract but will report to preseason camp, according to a January 4th report on Revolutionsoccer.net.<\/p>\n

Boggs, a second-round selection in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft, made nine appearances, including four starts, before his season ended early\u00a0after sustaining a\u00a0concussion last summer. The 24-year-old had seemingly played himself into a key role on the team after scoring twice against the then-unbeaten Columbus Crew in his first professional start on May 8th<\/sup> until\u00a0his season was sidetracked\u00a0by injury weeks later.<\/p>\n

Griffiths, a third-round selection in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft, didn\u2019t sign with the team until June 24th<\/sup>, but managed 10 appearances and four starts for the Revs. The 23-year-old Englishman impressed Revs head coach Steve Nicol enough to earn\u00a0a spot in the\u00a0starting line-up next to Shalrie Joseph during the summer. But, after a nagging hamstring injury sent him to the sidelines during late-summer, he struggled to reclaim his place in the starting XI.<\/p>\n

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Linck showed promise in very limited minutes last season, but will need to earn a contract for 2011. (Photo by CHRIS ADUAMA\/aduama.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

Linck, who starred at Irvine Valley College (CA) prior to playing\u00a0with the Chicago Storm(XSL),\u00a0joined the team\u00a0on July 30th<\/sup>. The 22-year-old Brazilian made two substitute appearances and\u00a0added creativity in the attack, but didn\u2019t see the field after a\u00a020-minute cameo\u00a0at right midfield during the SuperLiga Final on September 1st. Linck subsequently suffered a strained right abductor injury on October 1st that sidelined him for the\u00a0remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

Murray, a Haverhill, Mass. native, joined the club in\u00a0April\u00a0and\u00a0inherited the\u00a0third-string goalkeeper responsibilities. Murray saw no first team action, but served as back-up keeper when Reis and Burpo both suffered\u00a0injuries at various points in the season.<\/p>\n

Additionally, veteran midfielders Khano Smith and Nico Colaluca, as well as\u00a0goalkeeper Preston Burpo, remain eligible to return after their contract options were declined and were not selected in the MLS Re-Entry Draft. However, it appears that\u00a0the Revs are in no\u00a0rush to re-sign any of the trio.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Shuttleworth,\u00a0who served as the\u00a0Revs back-up goalkeeper for the bulk of the season before he was called into duty on May 29th after Preston Burpo suffered a serious leg injury, was elevated from the developmental to the senior roster. The 23-year-old ended up making six regular season starts, recording a 3-3-0 record and a 1.62 goals against average. With Reis back in the fold for 2011,\u00a0Shuttleworth is expected to serve as the backup going into preseason camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four Revs will look to re-claim their positions – on a try-out basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/betucompressed.jpg?fit=490%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}