[MLS] Real Salt Lake’s quest to repeat as MLS champion takes it into the home of the last team to achieve that feat when it plays at Houston Thursday (9 p.m.ET, ESPN2). Home Depot Center rivals Los Angeles and Chivas USA conclude the ESPN2 doubleheader with a 11 p.m. ET kickoff. All four teams have […]
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QUICK TAKE: Nick Rimando
[MLS] Real Salt Lake goalie Nick Rimando helped his team to the 2009 league title with back-to-back shootout wins in the semifinals and MLSCup. RSL travels to Houston on Thursday after opening its 2010 season by winning in San Jose, 3-0. Rimando explains to Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney why last year’s crown was nofluke. Dating […]
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RSL makes club history
Defending MLS champ Real Salt Lake started its 2010 campaign with a 3-0 win at San Jose — which marked the first time in the club’s six-year history that it won its season opener. Moreover, RSLwas a miserable 0-4-1 and had been outscored 14-1 in road openers. “It is a nice little statistic we can […]
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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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2010 team-by-team rosters
[MLS] Teams continue to make moves as the 2010 MLS season opens. Toronto signed Croatian-Argentine midfielder MartinSaric and goalie Jon Conway and waived Brian Edwards. New England signed former Rev Khano Smith and Serbian midfielder Marko Perovic. For all 2010 numerical rosters, based on the latest information, including career MLS games andgoals … Note: r=rookie. […]
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SA RANKINGS: Chivas USA goalkeeping duo stands out
[MLS] Heading into the 15th MLS season, Soccer America will rank each team at each position. First up, the goalkeepers. The keepers for each teamare ranked for experience, competence, and depth. The backups, of which there may be more than one per team, also figure into the evaluations and are listed if they have MLS […]
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Moreno leads D.C. United to Carolina Cup title
[MLS] Jaime Moreno, MLS’s all-time leading goal scorer, scored two more goals to give him all five goals in threevictories and lead D.C. United to a 2-0 win over host Charleston Battery that gave it the Carolina Challenge Cup championship for the first time in five appearances on Saturday night before a crowd of5,036. The […]
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D.C. United, RSL win in Challenge Cup
[MLS] D.C. United took over first place in the Carolina Challenge Cup by winning its second straight game, and defending MLS champion Real Salt Lake moved intosecond place by beating the host Charleston Battery in matches played Wednesday night. Jaime Moreno scored the only goal of the game to give D.C. a 1-0 win over […]
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The West's solid backbone
[MLS] Western Conference teams defended better in 2009 than those in the East. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney explains why and grades thecentral defenses of MLS Western Conference teams going into the 2010 season. Chivas USA’s signing of Costa Rican international defender Michael Umana should make it eventougher to score against one of the Western Conference’s […]
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RSL promises 16-year-old Gil comfortable transition
[MLS] Real Salt Lake traded an international slot, a 2011 second-round draft pick, and 25 percent of any future transfer fee to Kansas City for the rights to16-year-old midfielder Luis Gil, who starred for the USA at the U-17 World Cup last November and went to the Wizards in a weighted lottery Monday after signing […]