web.mlsnet.com - 11/20/2007
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NEW YORK -- Recently hired head coach Frank Yallop will have to make a lot of choices when molding the San Jose Earthquakes, Major League Soccer's 14th team. That all begins as the Earthquakes are stocked with their first 10 players when MLS holds the 2007 Expansion Draft on Wednesday, Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. ET.
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Expansion Draft Guesses & List
Black Panther : A Soccer Blog —
Today Major League Soccer is holding it's expansion draft for the new San Jose Earthquakes. The new eQuakes will have 10 rounds to choose a player from the 13 existing teams. They can only choose one from each team. 3 teams will get through the expansion draft without loosing any players. A list of the players they've left exposed is below.
The question is, who will they pick? It's hard to say who Frank Yallop will go for. Is he being pressured to get results the first year? Or is the team looking at other recent expansion teams, going for 7 - 8 wins, and looking to make sure a good team is in place for a making the play-offs in their second year?
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Dynastic Dynamo and Other News
The Kin of Fish —
Did you really think DeRo would be kept from making an impact? Houston's big-time, big-game striker Dwayne DeRosario did what he usually does; score a huge goal, as the Dynamo rallied past the Buffalo Bill-like New England Revolution 2-1 in last Sunday's MLS Cup in DC. Houston not only became the first back-to-back MLS Cup champ since the Scum did it in 1996-97, but the core of this Dynamo team (which was the Earthquakes before their '06 move to Texas) has now won four MLS Cups together, matching DC United. SI's Grant Wahl has a great summary of the game here ...
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Major League Soccer News 11/20/2007
On Wednesday morning West Coast time, the next version of the San Jose Earthquakes will begin to take shape when the MLS Expansion Draft occurs. As part of the process this time around, Major League Soccer's 14th team will be comprised of one -- and ...
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