[MLS ATTENDANCE] Three of the seven Week 9 games drew announced attendance of more than 20,000. Seattle again disappointed its large loyal following with a 1-0loss — one of the week’s four games that featured only one goal. Houston drew its biggest crowd of the season and downed D.C. United, 2-0. Houston drew 24,471 fans, […]
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What They're Saying
“You can tell Bruce [Arena] I am not playing for free anytime soon.” — The Los Angeles Galaxy’s Landon Donovan on Oguchi Onyewu‘s pledge to forego ayear of earnings after missing most of this season with AC Milan. (Washington Post SoccerInsider)
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Who needs Donovan and Buddle?
[MLS] The Los Angeles Galaxy and Columbus Crew are still unbeaten but both have two players headed off to the U.S. World Cup training camp. Even without Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle, the Galaxy shouldn’t miss a beat. Chad Marshall andRobbie Rogers won’t be with Crew Thursday when it visits Red Bull Arena with a […]
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The West is best in MLS
[MLS] A crowded eight days of play concluded Saturday with seven games. The Red Bulls fell but the Galaxy is still unbeaten, and FC Dallas – winless aweek ago – is on a two-game winning streak. Here are six items of note from the eight matches played in Week 7, when Landon Donovan reminded us […]
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Donovan puts on show in Seattle
[MLS] Landon Donovan showed he’s still the main man with Los Angeles, scoring one goal and assisting on the other threegoals to lead the unbeaten Galaxy to a 4-0 win at Seattle. Donovan earned Soccer America’s top honors in its Saturday’s Three Stars awards, ahead of San Jose’s BobbyConvey and Toronto FC’s O’Brian White. 1. […]
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What We're Watching … Survival of the fittest
[MLS] There will be plenty of tired legs this weekend in MLS; six teams play their third game in eight days following a slate of four midweek matches.Colorado and Kansas City sit out this Saturday. There are two tasty Western Conference matchups; in Seattle, the Sounders play the unbeaten Galaxy, and with LA out of […]
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What we're watching … on Big Wednesday
[MLS] Reeling D.C. United gets a chance on national television to atone for its shocking loss on the opening weekend of the season, and Texas rivals Houstonand FC Dallas meet for the second and last time this season as part of a midweek MLS quadruple-header. Here are some points of interest to follow … D.C. […]
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The Challenge of Change: Where it's working, where not
By Ridge Mahoney Replacing a head coach, overhauling a roster, or both, are really the only ways a team can improve, but change in and of itself is no guarantee, asseveral struggling teams are proving this season. In a few places, notably New York, the train is headed down the right track; not so for […]
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MLS Goal of the Week – According to Me
By Paul Gardner Nineteen goals in eight games was the MLS harvest over the weekend. Hardly prolific scoring — the average was 2.4 per game, which is about normal inthis low-scoring era. I suppose the good news is that there were no 0-0 ties. San Jose beat Colorado 1-0, but the other seven games all […]
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Speedsters deliver in Week 6
[MLS] There may be parity in MLS, but conference leaders New York and Los Angeles continue to win, while D.C. United and FC Dallas don’t seem capable ofbeating anybody except themselves. Here are six items of note from the eight matches played last Saturday … SPEED WINS. After running into blind alleys anddouble-teams often in […]