Donovan to leave MLS and rejoin Leverkusen San Francisco Chronicle Donovan off to Germany Modesto Bee Donovan jolts Earthquakes, bolts San Jose for Germany--Oakland Tribune Time right for Donovan to depart--San Jose Mercury News A good first step--San Diego Union Tribune MLS: Salt Lake lands Rapids defender--Salt Lake Tribune Deutschland-bound--San Bernardino Sun Wizards And United To Compete In Champions Cup--WJLA, DC Soca Warriors meet Puerto Rico--Trinidad & Tobago Express And about one million other assorted AP mentions about Landon.
Most valuable to a big year: US coach Arena--Cleveland Plain Dealer Quote: "If a goal counts the same as a touchdown and a conversion, the U.S. kickers have outpointed the woeful Cleveland Browns 189-177, which is why their coach is secure and the one in Berea is not."
Interesting - the Jeff Stewart trade makes it seem liek Chivas gets yet another TI for their roster - they just may yet field an entire team of Chivas Guad players.
MLS: Salt Lake lands Rapids defender--Salt Lake Tribune It was an interesting trade between the two expansion teams. RSL get defender Jeff Stewart for an extra youth international slot in '05. So does this mean that you can also trade for an additional SI slot?
I thought the Champions Cup spots went to the MLS Cup winner & the Supporters Shield winner. Without that, it seems that any incentive to win the SS has gone out the window. Lee
Yes, they know hold 4 SI slots and 6 YI slots (TI's have been eliminated according to the latest MLS press release discussing the new roster rules). Johnny Walker in the nets and 10 Mexican field players......there you go. Scrounge up some green card holding hispanics to fill out the rosters and they are done.
Torres already is one of those, I think. Wonder if they'll try to trade Taylor and a SuperDraft pick for someone else's YI?
Arturo Torres is a local boy from Torrance, California. He is "a U.S.-born right-sided midfielder of Mexican descent." He is NOT a "Youth International." Torres becomes center of L.A. rivalry
Then he would would have said "Mexican national". Once again, Torres is a US citizen, as American as roast beef [w/ a chipotle glaze ] hasn't he gone to a U-23 camp at some point?
I don't know about the U-23 camp but he was a last-minute replacement at a full MNT camp last December:
Wait a minute... didn't we used to send three teams before?? The MLS Cup winner, the runner-up, and the SS.
Donovan Bids S.J. Goodbye - San Jose Mercury News So long, Landon - San Jose Mercury News Quakes, Ekelund to part ways - San Jose Mercury News
We've sent as many as four, but in some years the Champions Cup has more teams in it. There are only eight teams total now, so the U.S. gets two. In the past, when we've had only two teams MLS has said that the berth was earned by winning the Supporters Shield. However, by coincidence such teams have also been MLS Cup finalists or the MLS Cup winner and the Supporters Shield winner were one and the same, so now they're trying to say that they've always done it this way (having the MLS Cup finalists go). Yes and no depending on how you look at it.