MLS Players in the World Cup

posted by kidpurple June 10, 2010

As the Sounders and DC United prepare for their Thursday night MLS game I started to think about what the list of MLS players in the World Cup would look like.  The list is much smaller than it was in 2006 much due to the increasing number of Yanks leaving MLS to play in other countries.  Let me know if I missed anyone.  I just browsed through the whole list of World Cup rosters and picked these guys out.

Chivas USA
Jonathan Bornstein

Kansas City Wizards
Roger Espinoza (Honduras)

LA Galaxy
Landon Donovan
Edson Buddle

New York Red Bulls
Andrew Boyens (New Zealand)

Real Salt Lake
Robbie Findley

So watching Seattle Sounders FC and DC United going at it is exciting, I can’t keep my mind off the games that we’ll see tomorrow morning.  Don’t miss South Africa vs Mexico, coverage starting at 8:30am (central time) on ESPN and then France vs Uruguay at 1:30pm.  I’m so excited I might not sleep tonight.

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30 man World Cup training camp roster announced

posted by kidpurple May 11, 2010

The 30 man roster for the World Cup training camp was announced just a little bit ago on ESPN News. The biggest news of this roster was the absence of striker Charlie Davies who was seriously injured in a car accident last year.

Here is the full list:

Keepers
Tim Howard (Everton, England)
Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton, England)
Brad Guzan (Aston Villa, England)

Defense
Oguchi Onyewu (AC Milan, Italy)
Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes, France)
Jay DeMerit (Watford, England)
Jonathan Spector (West Ham, England)
Steve Cherundolo (Hanover, Germany)
Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA, MLS)
Clarence Goodson (Start, Norway)
Chad Marshall (Columbus, MLS)
Heath Pearce (FC Dallas, MLS)

Midfield
Michael Bradley (Moenchengladbach, Germany)
Maurice Edu (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)
Ricardo Clark (Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany)
Stuart Holden (Bolton, England)
Jose Francisco Torres (Pachuca, Mexico)
Benny Feilhaber (Aarhus, Denmark)
Alejandro Bedoya (Orebro, Sweden)
Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA, MLS)
Robbie Rogers (Columbus, MLS)
DaMarcus Beasley (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)
Clint Dempsey (Fulham, England)
Landon Donovan (Los Angeles, MLS)

Strikers
Jozy Altidore (Hull City, England)
Brian Ching (Houston, MLS)
Edson Buddle (Los Angeles, MLS)
Herculez Gomez (Puebla, Mexico)
Eddie Johnson (Aris, Greece)
Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake, MLS)

So who else is missing from this list that you might have expected to see here?

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MLS All Star roster is completed

posted by kidpurple July 15, 2008

Coach Steve Nicol added 5 players to the MLS All Star roster and commissioner Don Garber added his 2 commissioner picks to the squad that will face West Ham.

Nicol added Pablo Mastroeni, Juan Pable Angel, Jim Brennan, Christian Gomez and Pat Onstad. Garber choose Edson Buddle and Dwayne De Rosario.

So this is what the full squad looks like:

Goalkeeper: Pat Onstad (Houston Dynamo), Matt Reis (New England Revolution)

Defenders: Jim Brennan (Toronto FC), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew), Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution)

Midfielders: David Beckham (Los Angeles Galaxy), Cuauhtémoc Blanco (Chicago Fire), Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo), Christian Gomez (Colorado Rapids), Shalrie Joseph (New England Revolution), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)

Forwards: Juan Pablo Angel (forward, New York Red Bulls), Edson Buddle (Los Angeles Galaxy), Kenny Cooper (FC Dallas), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy)

The bold names could be on an Olympic roster – so alternates will be named by Nicol soon.

Who is most deserving that isn’t on that list? Emilio? Schelotto?

Who would likely replace those 3 if they are not able to compete?

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DC United Let Real Salt Lake In On The Fun

posted by kidpurple June 25, 2007

It was a crazy weekend for Major League Soccer.

Way to go DC United, now every team in Major League Soccer has a win.  Before this weekend Real Salt Lake was the only team without a notch in the W column.  I don’t know if you guys felt bad for them or what is going on.  And what was up with scoring the goal at the very end of the game like that?  Why not just give them the shut out as well?  Well done Robbie Findley, they should build a statue of you outside the stadium there in Salt Lake.  Quite a way to make an impression with a new team, 2 goals that lead to the first victory of the not-so-young-anymore season.  Sorry but that wouldn’t have been quite as impressive if you had been traded to someone like the New England Revolution and done that.  The should be setting up their teammates and winning games.  Real Salt Lake shouldn’t.

Too bad the Galaxy didn’t have Robbie Findley still on their roster for their loss to the mighty Columbus Crew.  Some recent acquisitions paid off in this game as well.  Alejandro Moreno scored the game winning goal for the Crew, and Edson Buddle scored a late consolation goal for the Galaxy.  Not worth anything really, but it was a goal and I’m sure Galaxy fans have to take what they can get.

Moreno’s old team, Houston Dyanamo have been hot this week scoring two big wins.  Well beating Chivas maybe can’t be considered real big, but they also went to Kansas City and took a one nil victory from the powerful Wizards, who also lost to the might Columbus Crew last week.

So the Crew and Dynamo win 2 games this week.  Dynamo fans probably expect a lot of this, and Crew fans will probably never forget this week.  The Wizards drop 2 games that a team so close to the top should expect to win.  DC United’s great run comes to a screeching halt.  But most importantly, the US is Gold Cup Champions!

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Tyrone Marshall Suspended And Traded

posted by kidpurple June 13, 2007

On Saturday Tyrone Marshall and the Galaxy took on FC Dallas.  Marshall made a hard tackle on Kenny Cooper which broke his leg, earned a red card for Marshall, and now today he’s been traded to Toronto FC for Edson Buddle.

Thanks a lot Tyrone, you broke the leg of one of my fantasy guys.  He hadn’t been doing much for me recently anyway.

Now Marshall has to serve a 3 game suspension to start his career at Toronto FC.  It isn’t the best way to start out at a new team, but it probably isn’t the worst either.  Just a few weeks ago just starting a career at TFC would have been bad enough, but today it seems that would be a better deal than starting a career with the LA Galaxy.  Maybe LA will get everything turned around in July?  Maybe not?

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