Going into Sunday’s home match against the Kansas City Wizards, the Houston Dynamo knew the needed a result to secure their fourth straight playoff berth since moving to the Bayou City, but when forward Cam Weaver received a red card in the 17th minute hopes of an easy victory were quickly dashed. The crowd of 16,854 who braved the early rain that gave way to heat and humidity, were not disappointed because in the 26th minute, Luis Angel Landin scored his first MLS goal, giving the Dynamo a lead going into halftime.
Unfortunately, the Dynamo were unable to maintain their lead, with Zoltan Hercegfalvi scoring the equalizer for Kansas City in the 73rd minute. Former Dynamo player, Kei Kamara, who was warmly received by the Houston crowd, had some good looks at the goal but was unable to convert. Zoltan’s goal was the last of the match, and the one point was enough to secure the Dynamo’s spot in the 2009 MLS Playoffs, which the Dynamo have marked with the launch of their <a href="http:\/\/www.mlsnet.com/t200/fans/playoffs/2009/">Dream. Scream. Believe. website</a>.
This Sunday, the Dynamo will participate in the inaugural <a href="http:\/\/web.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20090903&amp;content_id=6774002&amp;vkey=news_hou&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;team=t200">Charities Cup</a> in which they will host Monterrey in a friendly at Robertson Stadium; however, the team will be missing Brian Ching, Stuart Holden, and Ricardo Clark who will be with the US National Team as it takes on Honduras on Saturday night in its penultimate World Cup Qualifier. The Dynamo only have two MLS regular season matches left, it will host Los Angeles Galaxy on Sunday October 18th, in what might be David Beckham’s first appearance in Houston since joining MLS, then the Dynamo close their season at Chivas U.S.A. on Sunday October 25th.
Here’s some video that was shot by Erin Dutka following Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Kansas City Wizards (the angle isn’t always right, she’s learning how to use her new Nano still):
<a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQdfjacbtRg">Coach Dominic Kinnear following Dynamo draw with Kansas City on October 4, 2009</a>
<a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAvsPY_pyYk">Luis Angel Landin following Houston draw with Kansas City</a>
<a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1oZ03TcJq4">Kei Kamara following 1-1 Draw Between Houston and Kansas City</a>
<a href="http:\/\/web.mlsnet.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7002145">Don’t forget the official MLS video too.</a>

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Houston Dynamo Secure Playoff Berth With 1-1 Draw Against Kansas City Wizards

The playoffs are almost done and only two more teams will be vying for promotion to League One, Rochdale and Stockport. What is known after today&nbsp;are what teams will be leaving and coming into the Championship for next season. Gaining promotion to the EPL along with the riches and glory are West Bromwich Albion as Champions, Stoke City in second place and Hull City winners of the CCC Playoff Final yesterday against Bristol City. Hull have now gotten rid of the “biggest city to never have a top flight team” tag. Coming up from League One are Swansea City as League One Champs, Nottingham Forest( or as I affectionately call them Notts Florist)&nbsp;in second and today Doncaster Rovers secured thier place in the Championship by beating Leeds United 1-0 in the League One Playoff Final. For Doncaster they were playing in the Blue Square Premier only 5 years ago so this is quite a rise for them.
Coming down from the EPL are my beloved Derby County, Birmingham City, and Reading. All three teams now have two years of 11 million dollars worth of parachute payments to help regroup and get promoted once more.In there last year of parachute payments&nbsp; after relegation from the EPL last season&nbsp;are Charlton and Sheffield United and Watford.&nbsp;Going down into&nbsp;League One are Colchester, Scunthorpe, and Leicester City.
With the Championship being wide open and the transfer window not open yet its almost impossible to predict who will go up and will go down but as the summer evolves I will try to do just that and I am sure be proved spectacularly wrong.

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