How does this look for a best XI lineup. Â This is the group that was named to the MLS best XI for this 2009 season. Â Only a single player from the best XI will be represented in the MLS Cup this Sunday. Â That is of course Landon Donovan US player of the decade.

Conor Casey Jeff Cunningham

Dwayne De Rosario Landon Donovan Stuart Holden Shalrie Joseph Freddie Ljungberg

Geoff Cameron Wilman Conde Chad Marshall

Zach Thornton

So what do you think, is this a good lineup?

MLS Cup 2009

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Real Salt Lake (#4 East) vs LA Galaxy (#1 West)

The semi-final tonight between Real Salt Lake and the Chicago Fire was a wild one. Â Some people might say 120 minutes with no scoring is a boring game but this was far from boring.

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Columbus Crew (#1 East) vs Real Salt Lake (#5 West)
Game 1: Saturday October 31st 5:30 PM @ Salt Lake
Game 2: Thursday November 5th 7:00 PM @ Columbus (ESPN2)
Regular Season Series tied 1-1

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Chicago Fire (#2 East) vs New England Revolution (#3 East)
Game 1: Saturday October 31st 3:00 PM @ New England (Fox Soccer Channel)
Game 2: Saturday November 7th 7:30 PM @ Chicago (Fox Soccer Channel)
Regular Season Seried tied 0-0-2

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LA Galaxy (#1 West) vs Chivas USA (#4 West)
Game 1: Sunday November 1st 4:00 PM @ Chivas (ESPN2)
Game 2: Sunday November 8th 6:30 PM @ Galaxy (ESPN2)
Regular Season Series: Galaxy lead 2-0-1

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Houston Dynamo (#2 West) vs Seattle Sounders FC (#3 West)
Game 1: Thursday October 29th 9:00 PM (ESPN2) @ Seattle
Game 2: Sunday November 8th 2:00 PM
Regular Season Series: Seattle lead 1-0-1

This post is from the Major League Soccer Fan Blog
MLS Cup Playoff Schedue is set

Related posts:

1. MLS 2008 Playoff Schedule and Predictions
2. 2008 TV Schedule
3. Updated playoff race

The Fire joined the 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs tonight with a victory over Chivas USA. A single point would have put them in, but they ended up with a 1-0 victory on an own goal scored by Eduardo Lillingston in the 67th minute.

Here is the updated standings:

49 Columbus
45 Los Angeles
45 Houston
45 Chivas USA
45 Chicago
44 Seattle
40 Colorado
39 Toronto FC
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39 FC Dallas
39 New England
39 D.

Chivas USA and Seattle Sounders FC both have guaranteed themselves a spot in the 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs. They are joining defending champions Columbus Crew along with Houston Dynamo and LA Galaxy.

That leaves 3 positions up for grabs on the last weekend of the year. Those 3 spots that are up for grabs will have 7 teams possibly still alive to grab one of them.

Three teams have booked their spots in the 2009 Major League Soccer playoffs. The defending champions Columbus Crew are in and currently leading the whole league with 46 points and even a game in hand over several of the teams chasing them. At 44 points the champions of 2006 and 2007 Houston Dynamo are in.

You might be looking for a place to watch USA vs. Mexico coming up in about 15 minutes. Â This is kinda late notice but better late than never.

You should be able to watch the game here live:

http://envivo.terra.com/deportes/live/259-eu/

I have Dish Network and I will be recording the game on channel 838.

Here is the Major League Soccer single table at the all star break. Â It isn't uncommon to see Houston on the top along with FC Dallas and San Jose near the bottom.

This table doesn't take into effect any of the games that will be taking place today. Â Ten teams will be seeing action later today while there is only one game tomorrow.

Kenny Cooper is leaving Major League Soccer to join the former home of Kansas City Wizards striker Josh Wolff. Cooper will join 1860 Munich for reportedly somewhere a little over $1 million.

What is FC Dallas going to do without Cooper? Without Cooper on the team Jeff Cunningham is the leading scorer with 4 goals on the season.

MLS All Stars 3 1 Chivas (Mexic0)

MLS All Stars 4 1 Fulham (England)

MLS All Stars 1 0 Chelsea (England)

MLS All Stars 2 0 Celtic (Scotland)

MLS All Stars 3 2 West Ham United (England)

MLS All Stars ? ? Everton FC (England)

Wednesday night the MLS All Stars look to continue their perfect record when they've faced off against other professional teams from around the world.

Shakeup on the single table standings!

31 Houston
28 Seattle
27 Los Angeles
27 Chivas USA
25 Chicago
25 Toronto FC
24 Colorado
24 D.C. United
24 Columbus
20 Kansas City
20 Real Salt Lake
17 New England
17 FC Dallas
13 San Jose
10 New York

This post is from the Major League Soccer Fan Blog

Related posts:

1. The Major League Soccer single table I used to try to keep the MLS single table.

Several MLS teams took place in the 3rd round of the US Open Cup today. A few of those teams will play again in the 4th round several will not.

Defending MLS Champions Columbus Crew went to OT and then to PKs against the always dangerous Rochester Rhinos. The Rhinos came out on top in PKs at 5-3 to move on.

I used to try to keep the MLS single table up to date here, but quit doing that after last year. I was too often several games behind and sometime would forget to update it for a whole week. It was not very reliable so I quit doing it. Today I started to miss the single table so I put together a very simple one.

I just got my profile set up at www.footbo.com - social networking for football fans by football fans. Something between my cable modem and my computer is going really slow this evening so I haven't been able to get around the site as much as I would like yet, but I look forward to exploring it soon.

The official MLS website has a nice little pub guide that tries to list the pubs that are very soccer friendly. We all know it can be tough to find a bar that you can watch a soccer game at with sound. Usually you get some weird looks if you ask for Fox Soccer Channel. So this is a great idea to have a pub guide.