[MLS] On the first eight-game Saturday in league history, there’s another double-dip of Western Conference contenders; home openers for the Fire, Revs anddefending champion Real Salt Lake; and Game 1 of an I-95 rivalry between D.C. United and expansion Philadelphia Union. Here are five things to look for during the Saturday action … WEEK 3: […]
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French invasion in the works
[MLS] Is Major League Soccer ready to parlez-vous français? According to Paris magazine France Football, ThierryHenry, rumored to be headed to the New York Red Bulls, is just one of many French stars who could be headed to MLS this summer. PatrickVieira and Robert Pires, who like Henry played on France’s 1998 World Cup championship […]
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Youngsters thrust into spotlight
[MLS] An abbreviated Saturday schedule of just three games nevertheless produced some intriguing subplots for the second weekend of MLS 2010. Young strikerMacoumba Kandji showed he is maturing with New York. Goalie Andy Dykstra has been thrust into a tough spot atChicago. Meanwhile, D.C. United must sort out its defensive problems before its big match […]
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Ream steadies Red Bull backline
[MLS PLAYER SPOTLIGHT] Tim Ream followed in a long tradition of soccer All-Americans at Saint Louis University when his2009 All-American honor was the 75th in Billiken history. But few would have figured him to have had a bigger impact than any other rookie over the first two weeks of the MLS season. Taken with the […]
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Revs' Kenny Mansally tops Saturday's Three Stars
[MLS] Only three MLS games were played the day before Easter as two away teams posted wins and no home team earned a victory. Conference leaders New York andLos Angeles are the only teams at 2-0. Kenny Mansally leads Saturday’s Three Stars with two late goals for New England in its 2-0 win at D.C. […]
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What They're Saying
“Nobody wants to a part of a record like that.” — New York assistant Richie Williams, who filled in for ailing head coach Hans Backe, on the Red Bulls’ 27-game winless streak in MLS regular-season away matches that was snapped Saturday when they won, 1-0, at Seattle. (AP)
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Red Bulls tempt Lehmann to join Henry in MLS
Former Arsenal teammates Jens Lehmann and Thierry Henry might be reunited in Major League Soccer with the NewYork Red Bulls. Lehmann, the former German national team goalie, is now 40 and set to retire at the end of the season with VfB Stuttgart, but the Red Bulls have offered him a one-yearcontract. Henry has one more […]
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Red Bulls: Waiting for the DP
By Paul Gardner For the second game in a row, the Red Bull fans have voted goalkeeper Bouna Condoul as their player of the game. I believe that’s who the votersare — no one, even among the Red Bull staff, seemed very sure. It should be noted that these were home games for the Red […]
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RSL's Javier Morales leads Saturday's Three Stars
[MLS] Soccer America introduces Saturday’s Three Stars. Each week it will honor the three stars of Saturday’s MLS action. This week’s No. 1 Star is Real SaltLake’s Javier Morales, who had two goals and an assist in the defending champion’s 3-0 demolition of the San Jose Earthquakes. For more on Morales’ exploits andand Saturday’s other […]
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What to look for on Saturday
At a Quakes training session Friday a colleague asked me if it felt like the MLS season started a month ago, and reflecting on all the CBA stuff I’d read and written during that time I feltcompelled to agree, with a caveat. Once games commenced, as occurred Thursday when the expansion teams of 2009 and […]