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When Marcus Tracy passed on Major League Soccer's last offer, and decided to skip the MLS Combine and Draft for a chance at European soccer, he wasn't expected to wait too long to find interest from abroad.

 

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When Marcus Tracy passed on Major League Soccer's last offer, and decided to skip the MLS Combine and Draft for a chance at European soccer, he wasn't expected to wait too long to find interest from abroad.

Chris Rolfe will be headed to Europe in January, after the 26-year-old Chicago Fire and US men's national team striker signed a pre-contract to join fellow Yank Marcus Tracy at Aalborg BK in Denmark.

Aalborg Boldspilklub, commonly referred to as Aalborg BK or is a Danish football team located in Aalborg. They play in the Danish Superliga and have won three Danish Superliga championships and two Danish Cup trophies. AaB were the first Danish football team to ever have knocked out an Italian team in the European competitions when they [.

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A quick reminder: before we go into Gold Cup semifinal matters, we have a few Americans attempting to help their clubs into the third qualifying round of the first edition of the Europa League today.Ryan Guy and St. Pat's Maltese showdown at Valetta kicks off in a couple of hours with the tie knotted at ones from the first leg.

Galatasaray will play against Kobol on July 16 and 23 in the second round of UEFA Europa League qualifiers.
Here is how UEFA.com evaluated the draw:
Tobol may have been handed the toughest draw in the second qualifying round, where they take on Galatasaray, but FK Slavija Sarajevo did not have an easy ride either, drawing last season's UEFA Champions League group stage battlers Aalborg BK.

A massive number of clubs are involved in the Second Qualifying Round (80 in total).

The winners of the 23 First Qualifying Round ties were joined in this round by a further 57 clubs that includes the domestic cup winners from the national associations ranked 30 to 53 in the UEFA coefficient, the runners-up from the associations ranked 19 to 34, the third-placed sides from the associations ranked 16 to 21, the fourth-placed sides from the associations ranked 10 to 15 and the fifth-placed sides from the associations ranked 7 to 9.

At the beginning of September, Chris Rolfe announced that he would be leaving the Fire in January to join Danish club Aalborg BK. Rolfe, who tried to negotiate an extension with the Fire for two years before signing with Aalborg, said his decision to leave MLS was motivated by a few things - one of which was money.