The first XI for the 2008 MLS All Star game was announced. This isn’t necessairly the starting lineup – coach Nicol will decide who starts. These are just the first 11 guys named to the team. If it were the starting lineup it would look something like this:
Donovan – Cooper
Rogers
Kljestan – Blanco – Joseph – Beckham
Parkhurst – Conrad – Hejduk
Reis
What other players do you think will be added to the team? What will the starting lineup really look like?
Along with the recent departure of Nick Garcia, the news that Jose Burciaga Jr is going to Colorado for more draft picks reveals signs that the Wizards will be looking to play a new formation. The lineup will feature 1 defender (who needs more than Jimmy Conrad anyway?), 6 in the midfield, and 3 strikers.
Jose Burciaga Jr is headed to the Colorado Rapids. In exchange for Burciaga Jr the Wizards will get a second round draft pick in 2009.
The Wizards may also be losing Eddie Johnson to Fulham. It seems the US National team is just moving to London. Now Fulham, who already has 4 Americans, is after Eddie Johnson and Chivas USA goalkeeper Brad Guzan. Who will be the next American to head for Fulham?
The Galaxy looked like a team that Brianna Scurry could have shut out tonite. Then they got one shot on goal and it happened to go in.
Good thing the Galaxy have Joe Cannon in goal. He was forced to make a nice save on what would have been an own goal had he not stopped it. Other than that the Wizards didn’t force too much out of him all game.
That one goal scored by Gavin Glinton in the 80th minute was all the Galaxy needed to move 3 points up on the other teams fighting for the playoffs. With their game in hand it doesn’t look like an impossible mission for them to come back and sneak into the playoffs this year. I still wouldn’t bet on it though.
Kansas City finished the game with only 9 players on the field after Davy Arnaud and Jimmy Conrad were both shown red cards for hard tackles on Peter Vagenas. Vagenas was not very happy about the second one and could have got a yellow for his bit of a retaliation on Arnaud.
I was surprised to learn was that Marky Mark Wahlberg plays for the Wizards.
The MLS All Star game first 11 was announced today. This isn’t necessairly the starting lineup, just the first 11 guys voted onto the team. 7 more will be added later. No representative from the Colombus Crew, Toronto FC, Chicago Fire, Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake.
Juan Pablo Angel – Eddie Johnson
Chrisian Gomez – Dwayne De Rosario – Juan Toja
Sharlie Joseph – Ricardo Clark
Jonathan Bornstein – Jimmy Conrad – Michael Parkhurst
Matt Reis
Jimmy Conrad occasionally writes for ESPNsoccernet and it is usually pretty good stuff, but recently we got a great article in which Jimmy interviews his teammates asking them some “semi-serious” questions.
My favorite part of this is that they reveal what their team huddle pre-kickoff cheer is: “Taste the Rainbow”. Maybe some of you don’t know they used to have a pretty sweet rainbow on their jerseys. I looked for a good picture of one but couldn’t find one so I’ll take a pic of my old Wizards jersey and post it here later tonite.
Get the whole archive of everything JC has written for ESPNsoccernet.
Jimmy Conrad broke his jaw against the Crew this past weekend and has aparently agreed to eat only soft food for a month rather than have surgery. I suppose he misses less of the season this way, but will still miss Lamar Hunt night at Arrowhead Stadium this Saturday when the Wizards host FC Dallas.
