Major League Soccer Talk

Stuart Holden will not be able to watch team mates Brian Ching and Dwayne DeRosario in qualifying tonight because he’s playing at the same time/photo from MLSNET
Major League Soccer is one of the strangest football leagues in the world. While some European oriented fans ridicule MLS for the time of year it is played those […]

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Kyle Beckerman is among several outstanding players missing from Bradley’s recent call ups
With today’s announcement that the injury prone and ineffective DaMarcus Beasley has been added to the US squad going down the Guatemala for the most important match of the Bradley era, some suggestions for Coach Bradley. STOP CALLING THE SAME PLAYERS INTO THE […]

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Freddy Adu did not develop well in MLS
We’re constantly hammered with one side of the coin including Sunday at the conclusion of the US-Netherlands match on NBC by Marcelo Balboa: we hear constantly that Major League Soccer is responsible for the US being more competitive in major international tournaments. This theory is so often repeated […]

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The best of MLS Players in Olympics
Nigeria
Emmanuel Ekpo entered the match in the 89th minute in the the 0-0 draw.
USA
Stuart Holden scored a goal for the US in its 1-0 win over Japan.
Marvell Wynne set up Holden’s goal and played a full 90 minutes at right back in the US […]

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Olympic squads were finalized today. Here are the MLS, USL and NCAA based players as well a list of former MLS players particpating.
Michael Boxall/New Zealand
Craig Henderson/New Zealand
Chris Seitz/USA
Mo Edu/USA
Marvell Wynne/USA
Patrick Ianni/USA
Michael Parkhurst/USA
Stuart Holden/USA
Robbie Rogers/USA
Sacha Kljestan/USA
Dax McCarty/USA
Brian McBride/USA
Emanuel Ekpo/Nigeria
 FORMER MLS PLAYERS
Ramon Nunez/Honduras
Carlos Pavon/Honduras
Ryan Nelson/New Zealand
Simon Elliot/New Zealand
Samuel Caballero/Honduras
Freddy Adu/USA
Michael Bradley/USA
Danny Szetela/USA
Jozy Altidore/USA
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Thorrington’s goal last October buried David Beckham’s MLS Cup hopes/AP Photo.  
The details of the squad the US will travel with to Barbados this weekend for the second leg of their World Cup qualifying tie has been pretty fairly mum. Snooping around south Florida soccer circles while the National Team is in town I can […]

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Tonight on ESPN 2 at 9pm ET the two time defending champion Houston Dynamo will face the three time defending runners-up the New England Revolution. Sounds mouthwatering, right? Wrong!
The following key players are missing thanks to World Cup qualifiers:
HOUSTON:
Brian Ching (USA)
Dwayne DeRossario (Canada)
Pat Onstad (Canada)
NEW ENGLAND:
Shalrie Joseph (Greneda)
Khano Smith (Bermuda)
Kenny Mansally (Gambia)
and of course […]

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My experience at Wembley Stadium the other night for the US-England game was outstanding. Not only because of the atmosphere and enthusiasm around international football at England’s National Stadium and throughout London (Although I will point out that this visit reinforced a long held belief of mine having visited both cities on multiple occasions that […]

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The United States National Team enters a month long frenzy this week in London with a friendly at Wembley against England. A week later the National Team will take on Spain in Madrid and then return for match against Argentina in New Jersey. That will be followed by a two leg CONCACAF qualifying tie with […]

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Chalk this up to MLS’ unconscionable decision to continue play right through FIFA international blackout dates. Bob Bradley today named the squad for next Wednesday’s match at Wembley Stadium in London (A match I will be attending) and the team is missing several standards of the US setup including Pablo Mastroeni, Maurice Edu, Frankie Hedjuk […]

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