FOXBOROUGH — Michael Mancienne is on his way.
Revolution manager Brad Friedel confirmed Tuesday that the club has received the former Nottingham Forest central defender’s P-1 Visa, and that he is expected to join the club for training at Gillette Stadium Wednesday ahead of this weekend’s trip to DC.
(UPDATE: Revs' senior writer Jeff Lemieux wrote Tuesday evening that Mancienne will begin training Thursday.)
Mancienne signed with the club on Friday, Aug. 3, a week and a half ago, but had to go back to London in the meantime to sort out all the paperwork between the American and British embassies.
Friedel noted that he didn’t feel frustrated that Mancienne had yet to receive his work permit here in the States, and that this type of thing is normal.
Mancienne, 30, who started in the Chelsea FC Academy before a spell in Germany and eventually ending up at Nottingham, is expected to help bolster a beleaguered defensive unit which has been thinned out thanks to prior poor performances.
Friedel reiterated Tuesday Mancienne’s leadership abilities, having captained his prior clubs.
“He’ll absolutely know what it means to win,” the gaffer said. “He’ll help in that department. But we have players in the locker room, as well, that understand that. It’s about those little times in the game that we have to do a better job.”
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- Femi Hollinger-Janzen came up with a cross to Kelyn Rowe after some hard defending by Brandon Bye.
- Going the other way, Diego Fagundez had a bullet off his right that Brad Knighton dove for and gave a sharp parry.
- Scott Caldwell came up with a dispossession on a slow-rolling distribution, then gave it off to Fagundez. He crossed to Teal Bunbury, who pounded it into the net.
- There was some good football between Academy player Tyler Freitas and Homegrown rookie Isaac Angking before Angking laid it into space for a hard-charging Hollinger-Janzen.
- Cody Cropper had a nice save on Zach Herivaux.
- Herivaux then came up with a neat finish beyond Cropper’s reach, off a backheel by Brian Wright.
- Herivaux also dispossessed Cristhian Machado.
- Nico Samayoa also came up with a slide on Cristian Penilla, which followed a ground duel by Penilla and Herivaux.
- The team then worked on corner kicks for a few minutes.
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