Who will Chivas protect this year? (Getty Images)

Yesterday we started our look at the expansion draft and who teams will and won't protect for this month's upcoming draft. The Philadelphia Union get ten players to pick from and this year will be as tough as any to predict who will stay and who will be left exposed.

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Seattle Sounders 0 Chivas USA 0

Seattle Coach Sigi Schmid threw out the first pitch Friday at the Mariners-Yankees game. (AP Photo)

Ghastly offense (as usual), generally excellent defense (as is customary) gave Chivas USA the road point today.

Marcelo Saragosa excepted, of course, after throwing the most blatant kung fu kick at a soccer game since Eric Cantona.

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Part two of the expansion draft preview. The Eastern conference was covered yesterday, and can be found here.
CHIVAS USA
Protected Available Exempt Jonathan Bornstein Chukwudi Chijindu
Justin Braun Yamith Cuesta
Bobby Burling Jim Curtin
Maykel Galindo Jorge Flores
Sacha Kljestan Kevin Harmse
Michael Lahoud Ante Jazic
Jesse Marsch
Dan Kennedy
Paulo Nagamura
Eduardo Lillingston
Shavar Thomas
Gerson Mayen
Zach Thornton
Jesus Padilla
Mariano Trujillo Lance Parker
Ante Razov
Maicon Santos
Marcelo Saragosa
Bojan Stepanovic
Claudio Suarez
Carey Talley
Lawson Vaughn
Sasha Victorine
Cesar Zamora
If this list of players seems larger than normal to you, then you're right. Click to continue reading...

One more addition before the weekend slate of games. This time Chivas USA is the one doing the adding.

Brazilian forward Maicon Santos, who has trained with the club since August 3 comes to the club on loan from Brazilian club Bonsucesso. He will be eligible to play Saturday against Toronto.

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He's 25-year-old Brazilian forward Maicon Santos, who has trained with the club since Aug. 3.

Santos comes on loan from Brazilian club Bonsucesso and is eligible to play Saturday against Toronto.

"Maicon is a strong forward who can give us a spark in the attacking third," said Chivas USA Coach Preki, who desperately needs to bolster an anemic attack (last week he signed young striker Jesus Padilla from CD Guadalajara).

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Recall that we mentioned that this player had a very good training day with Chivas USA. (Click here for my original post and update here). Well, it looks like it was good enough to get him a spot on the team.
From the Chivas USA Front Office, the team announced today that it has acquired 25-year-old Brazilian forward Maicon Santos on loan from Bonsucesso Futebol Clube of Brazil. Click to continue reading...

The Red Bulls are on a losing streak. Seriously. But Chivas USA, who started the season off rather dominantly, with a squad of relative unknowns, has fallen back down to Earth. The Goats have lost their last five games in a row, recording no goals in a franchise worst 320 minutes. Meanwhile, the Red Bulls scoring woes will only continue, with Juan Pablo Angel and Macoumba Kandji out for this game.

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Finally, Toronto FC have found a way to eliminate a Puerto Rico Islander -terminate his contract. TFC announced the release of defender Marco Velez after 38 appearances for the club. The enigmatic 29 year old was capable of the odd solid game but all too often was caught on the wrong end of a defensive blunder. Click to continue reading...

Just days after talks with us had broken down, defender Chris Pozniak signed with cross-country rivals Vancouver Whitecaps.
After Kevin Harmse was traded to Chivas, Pozniak was spotted training with us and many, myself included, hoped he would be set for a return to TFC. It wasn't to be however, as apparently we were having "salary cap" issues. Click to continue reading...

Chivas USA made some player personnel moves Friday ahead of Saturday's derby against the Galaxy in Carson.

To wit:
*Defender Bobby Burling was removed from the disabled list. Burling, 24, went on the DL after undergoing sports hernia surgery March 5, less than two weeks before Chivas USA's season opener.

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Canadian players are on the move this week. First it was Lars Hirschfeld signing with FC Energie Cottbus in Germany. Now it's David Edgar, Josh Simpson, Chris Pozniak and Kevin Harmse.

After much speculation as to where he would end up, David Edgar has finally left Newcastle and signed a 4 year deal with EPL newcomers Burnley.

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REAL SALT LAKE VS. TORONTO FC
Rio Tinto Stadium - Saturday 9:30PM EST
TV: Rogers Sportnet / RADIO: The Fan590
Toronto move into a new stage of the season that sees them spending far too much time on the road for any supporters' liking. That's some top level scheduling Mr. Click to continue reading...

Toronto FC has traded midfielder Kevin Harmse to Chivas USA in exchange for allocation money, the teams announced on Wednesday. The move was made at the player's request, according to a statement from TFC director of soccer Mo Johnston.
"Kevin requested a move back to the U.S.," said Johnston. Click to continue reading...

Yes...Kevin Harmse.
In one of the most one-sided trades in the history of world sport, Toronto FC sent Kevin Harmse to Chivas USA yesterday in exchange for some allocation money. I've heard that his wife/girlfriend was American and wanted to go back - looks like Harmsey might be a little whipped. Click to continue reading...

As we wait with bated breath for the announcement of the Gold Cup roster at some point today and continue to bask in the glorious 2-0 of yesterday, let's see what stories are pinging the FBF satellite... Kevin Harmse goes back to LA, but this time... Click to continue reading...

Here's a trade that went rather unmentioned yesterday. Toronto FC traded defender Kevin Harmse to Chivas USA in exchange for allocation money.

Toronto continues their summer clear out of their roster, making this the third forth player to be released or traded away. Harmse has a MLS home still unlike Johann Smith, Rohan Ricketts and Gregg Sutton who were released from their contracts earlier this month.

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Harmse heads back to LA.
The South African journeyman defender/midfielder will be headed back to the Los Angeles Sunshine to play against the rival club he used to play for there:
Courtesy of the Canadian Press:

TORONTO — Toronto FC has traded Canadian international midfielder Kevin Harmse to Chivas USA.

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Apparently South African-born Canadian Kevin Harmse was homesick - for Southern California.

Chivas USA acquired the 24-year-old defensive midfielder from Toronto today for allocation money.

"Kevin is a strong, technical player who can play in both midfield and defense," said Chivas USA Coach Preki.

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According to CanadaSoccer.com, we're only going to be missing two players during the Gold Cup. None of Dwayne De Rosario, Adrian Serioux, or Nana Attakora are included in Stephen Hart's side, but Kevin Harmse and Ali Gerba are.
Looks like it was club over country for DeRo and Serioux.
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According to the CONCACAF website, we could be missing five players during the Gold Cup (assuming Ali Gerba signs). Stephen Hart has named his 30-man preliminary squad ahead of the tournament, and included are Dwayne De Rosario, Adrian Serioux, Nana Attakora, Kevin Harmse, and Ali Gerba. Here is the full 30-man squad. Click to continue reading...

I've got two words for you in the aftermath of the Galaxy's second victory of the year, on the road in Toronto.

And those words are: Edson Buddle.

Two appearances in the last two games, both with less than 30 minutes to go in the match and two goals displaying heads-up play and clinical finishing.

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As Toronto FC see off USL Canadian rivals the Vancouver Whitecaps with a 1-0 win in their first Nutrilite Canadian Championship match, interim head coach Chris Cummins couldn't be happier.

Speaking after the game Cummins gave great praise to Nana Attakora-Gyan and Kevin Harmse: "I thought Nana and Kevin were fantastic in their first starts of the season.

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Of all people...Kevin freakin' Harmse. After scoring just 2 minutes in, I was hoping we'd put a few more goals in, but it wasn't to be. Nonetheless, a win is a win and three points are three points. This year's Nutrilite Canadian Championship is a must-win in my eyes, so I'm content with a clean sheet at home to open things up. Click to continue reading...

For the second straight game, Chris Cummins and Nick Dasovic ran the sidelines for us. The sudden resignation of John Carver was the talk of the team before this one - I didn't even get around to a match preview.
The 4-3-3 worked again, as we beat the Kansas City Wizards for the second time this season. Click to continue reading...

The Houston Dynamo formally announced the signing of 22 year-old Canadian international defender Andrew Hainault today. After Will Johnson last summer, Hainault is the second young promising Canadian to come to MLS and not be considered by Mo Johnston.
Hainault is a centre half, something we're in desperate need of. Click to continue reading...

Finally - a rumour about an incoming centre half, albeit from MLS Rumors. According to the source of this rumour, 28 year-old Ecuadorian international defender Jose Luis Perlaza is on trial with us. He was in Ecuador's 2006 FIFA World Cup squad, and recently released from Centro Deportivo Olmeido. Click to continue reading...

I'm back at my home laptop, more than two hours since the end of today's game, and I am still chilled to the bone. Whether this is due to that delightful lakeside climate or the frozen style of the team has yet to be determined. The personal mistake by the lake today was the lack of long underwear on my non-Calvin Klein frame. Click to continue reading...

I believe I have come up with the perfect headline to match the picture at the top of this blog (which I stole from Krazy Kanadian over at torfc.com). 10 points to me. In case you don't recognize the three players, they are TFC's Marco Velez, along with FC Dallas' Jeff Cunningham (unfortunately he used to play for TFC), and Adrian Serioux, who in this picture did not know that he would be anchoring Toronto's defense in the teams' next meeting.

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Facing a massive player shortage for their next game, Toronto FC head coach John Carver is lashing out at league officials for their refusal to schedule games around FIFA international dates. In all, nine TFC players have been called up for international duty this weekend, a testament to the talent that the club boasts, but also a real problem heading into this weekend's home game against Chivas USA. Click to continue reading...

Carver released a team update yesterday in what feels like a heads up for bad things to come on Saturday. Thanks to that piss poor call by Jorge Gonzalez (I'm not going to drop that one any time soon) Edu's out, leaving a hole in the mid-field. Dichio is still seriously concussed so we're still lacking solid striking capability.

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Time to get in a quick pregame post before tonight's 8:30 pm (ET) kickoff:

TFC is fresh off two draws, one respectable, one not so much. We all felt the frustration of the tie in beautiful British Columbia, where we were hoping to exact a measure of revenge following our first home defeat of the season against the Whitecaps on July 1st.

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Trying to keep my positive side up - at least TFC have a chance to finish strong against Montreal later this month. It is simple, win and they're in. In, of course, is to be the Canadian club champs and play in the Concacaf Champions League. Yet judging by the performance in Vancouver, the negatives could easily get to you. Click to continue reading...

It would have been nice to be there, but .....following the game on MLS Match Tracker and then discovering that Larry Milson was live blogging on the Globe (until the 65th minute ????) was all this fan could do.
Julius James scored the TFC goal in the game.
Jeff Cunningham missed his penalty kick, please make this guy toast. Click to continue reading...

The New England Revolution reserves fell 2-1 to Toronto Sunday morning, giving up an 87th minute goal just seconds after they had an easy chance to take the lead. With the loss, the Revolution reserves fell to 1-4-2 on the season, while Toronto improved to 4-2-0.

The Toronto FC reserves caused the Revolution backline problems early, with the speedy Jeff Cunningham and Andrea Lombardo up top.

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Rating: 5 (Very good)
Multiple sources are reporting that the LA Galaxy have traded Kevin Harmse to Toronto FC. Harmse a Canadian International has been rumored to have been a target of the Toronto club for some time. Click to continue reading...