[MLS SPOTLIGHT] U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann did not take kindly to the news that his captain, Clint Dempsey, was handed an automatic two-game suspension and fined an undisclosed amount for hitting Toronto FC defender MarkBloom in the crotch in last Saturday’s nationally televised MLS game. The suspension handed down by MLS’s disciplinary committee for what was adjudged to be violent conduct means Dempsey willmiss the Sounders’ next two scheduled games before the USA-Mexico friendly April 2 in Glendale, Ariz.

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