Revolution Roster Refresh Brings Excitement Ahead Of 2025
14 new faces joined the Revs during the off-season.
An off-season overhaul means the New England Revolution will look different in 2025. With 14 additions, there’s a sense of excitement surrounding the team.
The first thing to note is the average age the roster is 24.9. Six players are 30 or older: Alex Bono, Aljaz Ivacic, Matt Polster, Carles Gil, Andrew Farrell, and Maxi Urruti. All new players are 27 or younger except Urruti, Bono, and Wyatt Omsberg.
Head coach Caleb Porter discussed the roster changes in his first media availability of the year.
“We felt it was important to refresh the roster and to bring in some new blood to enter a new era, and to get players that, no right or wrong, were a little bit more the profile that could play in my game model,” Porter explained.
He later added, “The way that I like to play is there's an intensity to it on both sides of the ball, and we need guys that are athletic and we need guys that are fit.
“So, we felt like again with some of the maturity we had in the team in the past, that we needed to get younger and inject some players that were younger, developmental players, some players that were reaching the prime, and a lot of players that are in the prime, meaning they're experienced, but also they're physically still capable of running, working, and training hard.”
Alhassan Yusuf, who signed midseason last year, told The Blazing Musket that he had other options but signed with the Revs because he liked the club’s vision.
“We're going to bring new players,” Yusuf said when asked what he was told before signing. “We're going to bring players with potential, young players like you, like yourself. It was really interesting, hearing that. I think it was an easy decision for me.”
The Revs have been bold in the last two transfer windows, adding players from different backgrounds. Each profile brings its own level of excitement.
Let’s take a closer look.
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