Seattle's Kasey Keller is a finalist for numerous Major League Soccer awards, including
goalkeeper of the year. (photo by Jonathan Ingraham/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
Major League Soccer released the finalists for the league's 2009 awards today. The winners will
be announced starting Wednesday and ending Nov.
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So TFC's mlsnet site features an interview with starting keeper Stefan Frei. We learn important
tidbits of information like how Frei doesn't "...like spiders at all. Spiders, snakes and sharks."
Right. Opposing clubs take note. Oh, there's also some stuff in there about how moving away from
home made him homesick.
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Darrius Barnes is currently leading the way for the rookies. (Getty Images)
Its finally Friday, though I will admit this week has flown by for me due to it being a four-day
work week and things being fairly steady on both the regular job front and this place. I had
planned to do more than what had been posted today but I blame the weird rainy weather here in
Dallas for me not getting around to some of it.
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And those words are: Getting it done.
One week after giving up the most goals in team history, the Los Angeles Galaxy put together
perhaps their most complete game of the season (though the Fire game at Toyota Park is in the
running), shutting out a talented Toronto FC side to become only the fourth team in MLS history to
record a shut-out immediately after giving up six goals.
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If you didn't watch the Colorado Rapids' 3-2 loss to Toronto on Saturday, don't be fooled by the
score. This was no five-goal explosion of offense. It was a 1-1 struggle blown open by two quick
Toronto goals midway through the second half.
Substitute Michael Holody scored his first Major League Soccer goal in his second Major League
Soccer game, but by that time (the 89th minute), the deed was done.
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Colorado Rapids striker Omar Cummings puts a bicycle kick on goal in the second half of the
team's 1-0 victory over Toronto FC on Saturday. (photos by Tom
Auclair/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
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Colorado striker Conor Casey wasn't supposed to be at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday
night.
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The King's Club. The White Ballet. The Galacticos (but not the Landycakes version).
Rumour has it that one of the world's most storied clubs is coming to town on August 7th. They are
so special that MLSE has agreed to lay down real grass over the turf for the game in order to
protect the precious knees of their numerous stars.
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If the thought of having Rodney Wallace suit up as the U.S. national team's starting left back
one day gets you excited as a USA fan, you shouldn't give up on that possibility actually taking
place.
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If the thought of having Rodney Wallace suit up as the U.S. national team's starting left back
one day gets you excited as a USA fan, you shouldn't give up on that possibility actually taking
place.
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The season is roughly 33% done, so I figured I'd go through and give out some awards from the first
bit of the 2009 season. Remember, these are based on form to date, not overall historic ability.
It's all for fun, so here we go...
33% MVP: Kasey Keller
Honourable Mention: Landon Donovan, Amado Guevara, Brian McBride
Is it any coincidence that both of Seattle's losses came in matches without Kasey Keller (well, he
was sent off about 25 minutes into their first loss).
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It's gonna be difficult not to vote for Dwayne De Rosario for player of the week. ...
D-Ro is one of ColoradoSoccerNow's favorite players, and there are few things in Major League
Soccer that I like better than seeing De Rosario doing his post-goal chicken dance. He did it twice
on Saturday, and both goals warranted it.
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Here's my ballot for North American Soccer Reporters player-of-the-month voting:
PLAYER NAME: Brian McBride, Chicago Fire
SECOND: Conor Casey, Colorado Rapids
COMMENTS: Four goals in the month appears to be the standard in April.
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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.
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I've previewed every single MLS club - except ours. Time to start previewing Toronto FC. I'm
obviously going to go a bit more in-depth with our own team than I did with the other MLS clubs. As
you could probably tell by the title of this post, I'm going to start with our goalkeepers.
Depth Chart: Greg Sutton / Stefan Frei / Brian Edwards
It took us three seasons, but we finally have some goalkeeping depth.
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With the SuperDraft only a SuperWeek away from SuperTakingPlace, I thought I'd collect some of the
random bits and bytes dancing around the electronic ether, keeping DC United implications firmly at
the fore. Let's get started with . . . Mad Mo Ready To Rumble . . . Why is conducting a mock draft
in MLS such a pointless, masturbatory waste of reason and gray cells?
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While the list of MLS Combine invitees has been released, you cannot get a real sense of how the
2009 MLS Draft might shake out until you see the Generation adidas players that will be in the
mix.
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While the list of MLS Combine invitees has been released, you cannot get a real sense of how the
2009 MLS Draft might shake out until you see the Generation adidas players that will be in the
mix.
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