KICKETTE 19 November @ 11:40 AM EST
Victoria Beckham, her short trousers and fabu shoes, go for a stroll in London.
Cristophe Metzelder, his (ex) Julia Godicke and their daughter spotted at the airport.
Sacha Kljestan (of USMNT and Chivas fame) has a girlfriend in the semi-finals for the Victoria's
Secret angel's competition.
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With the Houston Dynamo knocked out of the MLS playoffs, Ricardo Clark and Stuart Holden were
called in for the friendly against Denmark on Wednesday. Neither are a surprise, having forced
their way into the national team setup at this stage in their career. The other two call ups, Jose
Francisco Torres and Edgar Castillo were a welcome sight -- though news also came out that Torres
declined for personal reasons.
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Major League Soccer will be announcing its 2009 MLS Best XI later this afternoon and while some
of the picks are easy to make, some others will be very difficult.
Picking this year's forwards was especially tough, with a half dozen worth candidates for the
Best XI nod.
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Major League Soccer will be announcing its 2009 MLS Best XI later this afternoon and while some
of the picks are easy to make, some others will be very difficult.
Picking this year's forwards was especially tough, with a half dozen worth candidates for the
Best XI nod.
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An injury-riddled, star-lacking USMNT team lost 1-0 to Slovakia over the weekend. I didn't watch,
so I don't have much to add.
Seems like a fair result on the road. Here's the tweaked lineup for the upcoming Denmark friendly:
GOALKEEPERS: Brad Guzan, Marcus Hahnemann, Troy Perkins.
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Dont forget: We'll find out who the Galaxy play next Sunday at MLS Cup in Seattle - Real Salt
Lake or Chicago Fire - at 5 p.m. on Fox Soccer Channel.
(AP Photo)
A below-strength U.S. team lost 1-0 to Slovakia today in Bratislava, Chivas USA's Jonathan
Bornstein being called for what was a very harsh penalty decision in the 26th minute (I think this
is the moment, above, he 'brought down" Vladimir Weiss).
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WVHooligan 11 November @ 07:32 AM EST
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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Marcus Hahnemann is back in the US MNT roster with his new ride (hint: it's his bike don't get
you hopes up for a pimped out 1970s army tank or something), but first, the best news of the week
from The AP:
U.S. forward Charlie Davies was released from a Washington hospital on Tuesday nearly a month
after a car accident killed a fellow passenger.
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WVHooligan 10 November @ 02:55 PM EST
Chivas USA was a surprise early on in 2009, but they faded quickly in the summer months. (Getty
Images)
It seems like every season or so we get one club that comes out hot to start the season then to
only fade in the summer. In 2009 it was Chivas USA who was just that club as they went 7-2-3 to
start the first couple months of the season.
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Bob Bradley didn't call up those guys with league commitments in the MLS playoffs, which explains
why a few familiar names aren't included.
GOALKEEPERS: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Troy
Perkins (Valerenga)
DEFENDERS: Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes), Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover),
Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City), Clarence Goodson (IK Start), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus), Chad Marshall
(Columbus), Heath Pearce (FC Dallas), Jonathan Spector (West Ham)
MIDFIELDERS: Michael Bradley (Borussia Moenchengladbach), Clint Dempsey (Fulham), Benny Feilhaber
(Aarhus), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA), Dax McCarty (FC Dallas), Robbie Rogers (Columbus)
FORWARDS: Jozy Altidore (Hull), Conor Casey (Colorado), Jeff Cunningham (FC Dallas), Eddie Johnson
(Fulham)
How about that EJ/Cunningham forward pairing.
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Chivas USA's Jonathan Bornstein and Sacha Kljestan, as well as former Goat Brad Guzan, were
named to the 22-player U.S. squad today for games Saturday against Slovakia (10 a.m. Fox Soccer
Channel and Galavision) and Denmark four days later (no TV by the sound of it).
From U.S. Soccer::
The U.
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Yes, that is no typo. Thanks to a striker pool as thin as a wafer due to both injuries and MLS
playoffs reaching their peak, Bob Bradley has his hands tied when it comes to available players for
Saturday's friendly against Slovakia. Landon Donovan is unavailable because of the Los Angeles
Galaxy's playoff triumph, while a fringe player such as Robbie Findley also misses out thanks to
success.
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Project 2010 09 November @ 12:49 PM EST
US Soccer has announced the roster for the upcoming friendlies vs. Slovakia (11/14) and Denmark
(11/18).
GK: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton), Troy Perkins
(Valerenga).
DEF: Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes), Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Steve Cherundolo
(Hannover), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Clarence Goodson (Start), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus
Crew), Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew), Heath Pearce (FC Dallas), Jonathan Spector (West Ham).
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WVHooligan 09 November @ 09:15 AM EST
I guess the late season run for FC Dallas helped cash things in for a couple guys as Bob Bradley
named a handful of FC Dallas players to his 22-man roster for the Slovakia friendly later this
month.
Also the loss of Columbus in the playoffs meant callups for a few Crew players as well.
To me though the big news may be the re-call of Eddie Johnson, someone we haven't seen called
into action in a very long time.
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MLS Golden Boot winner Jeff Cunningham, veteran goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann and Fulham striker
Eddie Johnson are three of the 22 players called up by Bob Bradley for Saturday's friendly against
Slovakia.
Bradley called in a mostly full-strength squad of available players, with Tim Howard and Landon
Donovan among those not called in for this match.
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MLS Golden Boot winner Jeff Cunningham, veteran goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann and Fulham striker
Eddie Johnson are three of the 22 players called up by Bob Bradley for Saturday's friendly against
Slovakia (10am, Fox Soccer Channel).
Bradley called in a mostly full-strength squad of available players, with Tim Howard and Landon
Donovan among those not called in for this match.
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Galaxy 1 Chivas USA 0
Game story
The Houston Dynamo are up next at 8 p.m. Friday in the Western Conference Championship. (live
ESPN2).
Notable: This will be the first ever postseason meeting between the Galaxy and Dynamo (the
former Earthquakes, of course), which advanced to the Conference Championship today with a 1-0
aggregate goal series win over the Seattle Sounders.
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I, too, am removing my name from consideration for DC United's head coaching position.
Bill has his own take on the nominees. That reminds me, I need to fill out my MLS awards
ballot.
Quote: Voting will close on Monday, October 26 at Noon ET. Oops.
Well, the good news is, you won't be able to blame me for any of this year's winners.
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Sunny and 80 degrees here at the under populated Home Depot Center.
Kick off has apparently been pushed back to 2:25 p.m. to accommodate TV if you're wondering.
It's the same starting lineup this afternoon that both teams fielded for the respective MLS
season finales.
Here's Arena's team: Donovan Rickettts, Sean Franklin, Gregg Berhalter, Omar Gonzalez, Todd
Dunivant, Chris Birchall, David Beckham, Dema Kovalenko, Mike Magee, Edson Buddle, Landon
Donovan.
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Chicago Fire 1 Chivas USA 0
Game story
Another drab, missed opportunity for Chivas USA.
They are masters of the bleeding obvious over at Chivas USA public relations, BTW:
Chivas USA now owns a record of 13-10-6 (W-L-T), and remains tied atop the Western
Conference with the Houston Dynamo and the LA Galaxy with 45 points.
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WVHooligan 22 October @ 01:15 PM EST
Sacha Kljestan and Chivas head to Chicago to face the Fire. (Getty Images)
It is simple for each club, keep winning and good things happen. All the Chicago Fire needs to
do tonight is win (or even draw) and they are in the playoffs. As for Chivas a win tonight and a
win over the weekend could turn into a Supporter's Shield trophy.
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Game story.
Highlights
Notable: Chivas USA are undefeated in their last six games.
But they also haven't scored more than two goals in a game all season long.
MLS standings
Quotable:
"I tried to warn the group (that) there is no easy games.
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Chivas USA 1 Earthquakes 0
Maykel Galindo has put Chivas USA one-up after just seven minutes, after chasing down a long
Sacha Kljestan ball that completely split the defense. Galindo outraced two defenders and put the
ball past goalkeeper Andrew Weber from about 12 yards.
It's Galindo's fourth goal of the season and Kljestan's third assist.
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Game story.
Playoff tickets are on sale starting at $15. Call 1-877-CHIVAS-1.
Chivas USA - Zach Thornton, Carey Talley, Yamith Cuesta, Claudio Suarez (Mariano Trujillo 46),
Ante Jazic, Jesus Padilla (Jesse Marsch 46), Michael Lahoud (Eduardo Lillingston 55), Paulo
Nagamura, Sacha Kljestan, Justin Braun, Maykel Galindo,
Substitutes Not Used: Chukwudi Chijindu, Jon Conway, Jorge Flores, Shavar Thomas
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MIKE JACOBS 06 October @ 06:26 AM EST
Bob Bradley is being dealt a dilemma for the final two World Cup qualifiers for the CONCACAF region
- win 1 and your in, but with a number of players sitting on yellow cards, if any of them
accumulate another card in a US loss in Honduras on Saturday, they would not be able to play in the
all-important final qualifying match against Costa Rica the following week.
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Here are the Twitterverse Players League groups, A through G, after Friday night's draw. If you
want to listen to the recorded audio of the draw, the podcast is available for download by clicking
here.
GROUP A Charlie Davies Taylor Twellman Carl Robinson Brian Jordan
GROUP B Danny Dichio Dwayne DeRosario Danny Cruz Hunter Freeman
GROUP C JozyAltidore17 Alecko Eskandarian Michael Chabala Brad Knighton
GROUP D Sacha Kljestan Robbie Rogers Kei Kamara Bobby Rhine
GROUP E Brian Ching Bobby Boswell Lee Nguyen Vincenzo Bernardo
GROUP F Stuart Holden Rohan Ricketts Brian Namoff Chris Tierney
GROUP G Freddy Adu Giuseppe Rossi Edson Buddle Joe Cannon
GROUP H Maurice Edu Brad Guzan Jim Brennan Taylor Graham
Voting begins Monday, October 5th, with groups A through D.
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The lack of form by midfielder Sacha Kljestan has been one of the talking points of the season
for Chivas USA. I took a look at the issue in today's column.
I had a few quotes left over that didn't get in the column for space reasons.
Here's Preki on what the club is doing to support him:
"We're doing as a staff and the guys in the locker room whatever it takes to get him
where he needs to be.
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WVHooligan 28 September @ 01:36 PM EST
Just as the playoff race gets hot, the goals of the week get hotter. Something about a playoff
race that makes the goals just a little bit better if you ask me.
Order of goals: Jamie Moreno, Ramon Sanchez, Ryan Johnson, Sacha Kljestan, Juan Pablo Angel,
Dwayne De Rosario, Chad Barret, Brian McBride, Jeff Cunningham, Eddie Gaven, Fredy Montero, and
Shalrie Joseph.
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Sacha Kljestan missed an injury time penalty and Chivas USA missed out on three
points as they tied 1-1 against the New York Red Bulls, Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in
Carson, Calif.
ASN's Tony Bruce attended the game and filed the following report.
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CD Guadalajara 2 Chivas USA 0
I "watched" this one on TV and this description of the alleged action by reporter Phil Collin is
apt: "The first half was like a family reunion with everyone sitting in the living room trying to
dream up something to talk about."
Still, that didn't prevent a Chivas USA player from suffering a potentially serious injury (bet
Preki is thrilled with that).
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kenn.com 22 September @ 11:59 AM EST
I missed this when it happened, but, luckily, Dan was there for me.
"I'd scrap the playoffs and gladly take what projects out* to be tied for fourth place in the
overall standings with Chicago," Sacha Kljestan didn't say.
There's this notion, perpetuated by people who have an insane love for how things are done in
countries they've never visited, that if you scrap MLS' conference-based setup and the playoffs,
that everything will be just hunky-dory.
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Sacha Kljestan did the impossible over the weekend. He got me to cheer for Chivas USA making the
playoffs. Hell, I hope they win MLS Cup now.
Wait! I can explain!
Sorry, another Rocky Horror reference. I should stop that.
In the rapid-fire interview FSC does, "Six Impossible Questions Before Halftime," Sacha Kljestan
was asked, "What would you do if you were commissioner for a day?
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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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Time to revisit my projections of who will be protected and who will be left available. What's
changed in the past month? For last month's review, click here.
A few days ago I posted about when players graduate from Generation Adidas status, which is highly
relevant to this topic. Check out that post for further info.
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The Netminder 16 September @ 11:29 AM EST
MLS rosters are finally frozen. Here's a look at how much each team has changed since March.
Also worth checking is something that can shake up a roster without a personnel decision: the
injury list.
CHICAGOHasn't changed much since the beginning of the season except for the departure of unhappy defender
Bakary Soumare to Europe.
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