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Will David Beckham and Landon Donovan be celebrating on Sunday? (Getty Images)
This is a game I’ve gone back and forth with all week. Two western conference squads meeting in the league final is going to be interesting. Not many had picked both the LA Galaxy and Real Salt Lake to make ...
Soccer
Los Angeles Galaxy
MLS Cup
David Beckham
Landon Donovan
Robbie Findley
Real Salt Lake
Just when we were beginning to wonder if this TOA league would really get off the ground with just seven clubs they go and add two more. Yup, now they are up to nine as Inside Minnesota Soccer has learned they have snatched two prime USL teams away with Tampa Bay rejoining the group and now a ...
Soccer
Miami FC
Minnesota Thunder
Toronto will certainly protect their stars but who won't be protected? (Getty Images)
The 15h and final club in our expansion draft speculation lists is Toronto FC. Yesterday they announced Preki as their new head coach and his first big task will be helping General Manager Mo Johnston with ...
Soccer
Toronto FC
Philadelphia Union
We can't imagine Fredy Montero will be left exposed, who will join him in the protected list? (Getty Images)
Only a couple more clubs left to preview here for the expansion draft. Now we turn our attention to a previous expansion club, one that has set the standard for all expansion clubs to ...
Soccer
Seattle Sounders FC
Philadelphia Union
Fredy Montero
Thanks to the Red Bull Reader for posting this latest time-lapse video of Red Bull Arena construction. Boy I can’t wait to see a game at this place.
Red Bull Arena construction time-lapse: May 2009 from Red Bulls Reader on Vimeo .
Soccer
Red Bull Arena
New York Red Bulls
Will San Jose lose one of their players in the expansion draft? (Getty Images)
Today is the final day in our expansion draft coverage/speculation/etc. as we look at three clubs. First up this morning is the San Jose Earthquakes. Later on today I will have Seattle Sounders FC and Toronto FC ...
Soccer
San Jose Earthquakes
Philadelphia Union
Landon Donovan was named the 2009 MLS MVP. (LA Galaxy)
The 2009 Major League Soccer MVP was announced today and the result isn’t going to shock most of you as LA Galaxy star Landon Donovan takes home the award.
For the first time in his career, Donovan took home the league’s ...
Soccer
Los Angeles Galaxy
Landon Donovan
Major League Soccer
New England Revolution
Shalrie Joseph
RSL made it to MLS Cup this year, but who will they protect for another run in 2010? (Getty Images)
Our second club for the day as we get closer to finishing out our look at each 15 MLS clubs before next week’s expansion draft. Earlier in the day we took a look at the lowly New York ...
Soccer
Real Salt Lake
Philadelphia Union
MLS Cup
2009 NCAA Men's Tournament Bracket
The 2009 NCAA Men’s Soccer Tournament kicked off earlier today and while games are going on right now I felt it was worth previewing a little bit to give you all a heads up about who and what is out there to see. Some players have been mentioned on ...
Soccer
Thanks for The 24th Minute for posting this video. For those of you like me that don’t want to wait for the press conference later on to see Preki introduced as Toronto’s next coach, TFCTV has you all covered.
Soccer
Preki
Toronto FC
Yesterday ended the long and difficult road that is World Cup qualifying. The 32-team field is set and while we won’t know until next month what the groups are it does present a good time to discuss each team and how they got there.
(Note: I hope this is a start of many more World Cup ...
Soccer
World Cup
Preki is headed north to Toronto FC. (Getty Images)
Former Chivas USA head coach Preki will be introduced as Toronto FC’s fourth head coach.
Preki led Chivas USA to the playoffs in all three seasons he was head coach, but he will be looking to improve on three first round exits.
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Soccer
Preki
Toronto FC
Club Deportivo Chivas USA
Juan Pablo Angel will definitely be protected, but who will join him? (Getty Images)
Moving forward yet again on our quest to preview all 15 MLS clubs before the 2009 expansion draft next week. Today we turn our focus to the New York Red Bulls.
Protected
Available
Exempt
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Soccer
New York Red Bulls
Philadelphia Union
Juan Pablo Angel
Consider this the Evening Links and Thoughts for the night. I’m a bit busy at work at the moment so things just didn’t come together like I wanted today. Plus I’m still in shock over the Henry handball from the France-Ireland game earlier.
Evening Links and Thoughts ...
Soccer
MLS Cup
France
Major League Soccer
We know Steve Nicol stands to lose one quality player, who will it be? (Getty Images)
While the rest of the world is waiting for a couple World Cup qualifiers to finish up here we move forward here with our expansion draft coverage. Earlier in the day we discussed the LA Galaxy, now we take ...
Soccer
New England Revolution
Philadelphia Union
Houston had another strong season behind Brian Ching. (Getty Images)
Dominic Kinnear teams always compete, always and the 2009 edition of the Houston Dynamo looked very similar to the ones we’ve seen win league titles over the last few years. Even though the Dynamo lost their big star ...
Soccer
Houston Dynamo
Brian Ching
Stuart Holden
Ricardo Clark
Dominic Kinnear
Geoff Cameron
The mix of young and old make the Galaxy a tough team to figure out for the expansion draft. (Getty Images)
We are quickly working our way through the 15 MLS clubs as we gear up for next week’s expansion draft. The new kids on the block, the Philadelphia Union will get to select 10 ...
Soccer
Los Angeles Galaxy
Philadelphia Union
New England Revolution
David Beckham
Montreal inches closer to a MLS expansion bid.
By now we’ve all seen the lovely quote from MLS commissioner Don Garber yesterday about future league expansion.
“We’ve had productive conversations with Montreal to be our 19th team,” said Garber.
With all the issues ...
Soccer
New York Red Bulls
Houston Dynamo
Columbus Crew
Guillermo Barros Schelotto
FC Dallas
Ricardo Clark
Jimmy Conrad and Josh Wolff will certainly be protected in the upcoming expansion draft. (WVH Photo Correspondent Brian Stevens)
Staying with the two-a-day structure for the expansion draft lists, earlier in the day we looked at the Houston Dynamo now we turn our focus to the Kansas City ...
