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Missing Out (Post 2009 Update)

Climbing the Ladder (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

What follows is a list of the men who have played the most games in the MLS regular season without playing in an MLS Cup, updated through the 2009 season. Most Regular Season Games Played Without Playing in an MLS Cup (includes games through 2009 season) Games Prev Rank 1 Cunningham, Jeff 317 2 2 Kreis, Jason 305 1 3 Chung, Mark 284 3 4 Mastroeni, Pablo 257 5 5 Kotschau, Ritchie 244 4 6 Clark, Mike...

Conrad Named Humanitarian of the Year

Down the Byline (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Wizards captain, Jimmy Conrad has been named Co-MLS Humanitarian of the Year along with Chicago Fire midfielder Logan Pause. Conrad had won the award for his work being a spokesperson for Athletes Against Autism and the Child Protection Center. He's also helped with the UN's Nothing but Nets campaign. Congratulations to Conrad on winning the award, yet another award to add to his long list of awards...

• Conrad And Pause Share Humanitarian Award - The Soccer Daily

Some News for Wed Nov 4, 2009

du Nord (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

STARTERS Got this note yesterday from a great reader named Anthony who lives in Glasgow: Have you heard of any fans making the trip to Bratislava for the Nov 14 game? I haven't heard anything and US Soccer hasn't even released info about tickets, but I got a cheap flight from Edinburgh to Bratislava so I'm going for the weekend in hopes I can get a ticket there and looking to meet up w any other US...

2009 MLS Expansion Draft Preview #2

Climbing the Ladder (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009

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. As of right now, I'm projecting nine players to graduate after the season: Alston,...

Always Protected, 2006-08

Climbing the Ladder (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009

I think the most important part of this post is this link . That's a link to Wikipedia and their page on the 2006 MLS Expansion Draft , the one where Toronto was selecting players. I noticed while writing the previews for this year's draft that there was nowhere to find all the lists of protected players for the 2006 draft, as MLS just released a list of available players. I've been working on it,...

Football Americana Week 23: Lethal Dube fires Revs into contention

Some People Are On The Pitch (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009

Another week in Major League Soccer, and yet more drama. The play-off picture is continuing to take shape, with one or two sides making a late run into the all-important wildcard spots. To top it off, the Red Bulls got a win! Week 23 got going at Toyota Park last Wednesday, where LA Galaxy shrugged off the previous week's home defeat against Seattle to beat Chicago Fire . Jovan Kirovski took advantage...

2009 Expansion Draft Preview - Eastern Conference

Climbing the Ladder (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009

Who will Peter Nowak and the Philadelphia Union take? Who will each team protect? I don't know, but I'll give it my best guess three months before everyone really starts focusing on it. You remember the rules, don't you? I'm assuming they'll stay the same as the past three years: 11 players can be protected, must protect three foreigners, GA players are exempt. Important links: 2008 draft results (&...

Chicago Fire loses SuperLiga final

FootBall Haven (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009

There was a big prize at stake Wednesday night at Toyota Park. And it wasn't the trophy for the final of the 3-year-old SuperLiga, a tournament including four teams from Major League Soccer and four from the Mexican league first division, all of whom weren't quite good enough last year to qualify for the 2009 CONCACAF Champions League. It was the $1 million that went to the winning team. "Put...

Some News for Thu Jul 23

du Nord (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009

STARTERS Well, that's not the way it was supposed to go: Oguchi Onyewu made his AC Milan debut last night coming on as a second half sub, then promptly slipped on a banana peel and got badly burned for a goal. Oof. It's all good from here on out though. TEAM USA GOLD CUP Tonight - Semifinal Match: -Thu Jul 23 USA v Honduras Venue: Soldier Field - Chicago IL dN Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America previews...

CONCACAF Gold Cup Quarterfinal #2: USA 2-1 Panama (aet)

The Flat Back Four (Free subscription) | 07/19/2009

FOXSports.com reported the match like this, PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Worn down and undermanned, the United States found a way to rally. Now the Americans remain in position to win their third straight CONCACAF Gold Cup. Kenny Cooper converted a penalty kick in the 105th minute, giving the two-time defending champions a 2-1 victory over Panama and a semifinal berth against Honduras, which beat Canada 1-0...

MLS Players on Gold Cup Rosters

Fantasy Premier League (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009

Canada Kevin Harmse (Chivas USA - just traded from Toronto FC ) Andrew Hainault (Houston) Dejan Jakovic (DC United) Will Johnson (Real Salt Lake) Ali Gerba (Toronto) ** Dwayne De Rosario and Adrian Serioux - opted to stay behind with Toronto FC. Costa Rica Gonzalo Segares (Chicago Fire) Greneda Shalrie Joseph (New England, injured ) Jamaica Donovan Ricketts (LA Galaxy) Tyrone Marshall (Seattle) Andy...

US goes with backups for Gold Cup

Fantasy Premier League (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009

Looks like there are more MLS players being picked than were announced in the preliminary roster . Via Yahoo! Sports : Goalkeepers: Jon Busch (Chicago Fire), Troy Perkins (IK Start, Norway), Luis Robles (Kaiserslautern, Germany) Defenders: Steve Cherundolo (Hannover, Germany), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City), Clarence Goodson (IK Start, Norway), Jay Heaps (New England), Chad Marshall (Columbus), Michael...

U.S. Gold Cup Roster

Going to the Mat (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009

With the success of the U.S. at the Confederations Cup, the U.S. has selected a team of relatively young players to compete in the Gold Cup. GOALKEEPERS: Jon Busch (Chicago Fire), Troy Perkins (IK Start), Luis Robles (FC Kaiserslautern) DEFENDERS: Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Clarence Goodson (IK Start), Jay Heaps (New England Revolution), Chad Marshall (Columbus...

USA Gold Cup Roster

du Nord (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009

The first game is against Grenada on Sat Jul 4 at Qwest Field in Seattle. USA roster: G: Jon Busch - Chicago Fire Troy Perkins - Valerenga Luis Robles - FC Kaiserslautern D: Steve Cherundolo - Hannover 96 Jimmy Conrad - Kansas City Wizards Clarence Goodson - IK Start Jay Heaps - New England Revolution Chad Marshall - Columbus Crew Michael Parkhurst - FC Nordsjaellands Heath Pearce - Hansa Rostock M:...

The du Nord Gold Cup Player Pool

du Nord (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009

Assuming that many of the USA players who are on the World Cup qualifying and Confederations Cup rosters will not be on the Gold Cup team, here is my pool of players that I see the 23 Gold Cup players coming from. There are 78 here in total. Who should or should not be in my list, and who would be your first 11? FORWARDS (12) Jozy Altidore - Villarreal Edson Buddle - Los Angeles Conor Casey - Colorado...