I thought a list of the most recent foreign stars that are coming to MLS might be fun.  The season is almost over and we've got a long winter to wonder what next year will bring.  Lets start early and see what mls-rumors.net has for us!

Allessandro Del Piero

He just turned 34, this guy is a legend and supposedly going to play for New York Red Bulls.

I was just reading The U.S. soccer fan's Bill of Rights at sportsillustrated.com and one of them gave me an idea. Here is number 6 from their list:

6. The Right to First-Class Sports-Fan Citizenship. Every soccer fan in the United States has experienced this: You walk into a bar hoping to watch a match, but the bartenders have all five TVs tuned to a midseason baseball game.

What Major League Soccer team do you think would have the most season ticket sales. If you based your guess on success on the field you might guess that Houston, New England or DC United might have the biggest season ticket sales. You'd be terribly wrong. The LA Galaxy have the 2nd largest number which is a far distance from the top team.

I noticed that some teams don't show up on the TV schedule many times so I decided to count them up. Below is a table of how many times each team will be seen in my house (all the games on FSC/ESPN/ABC). I'm not surprised to the the Galaxy up there, but I am a little bit surprised to see the Columbus Crew one step above defending champions Houston Dynamo.

I only put the ESPN and Fox Soccer Channel games on this list because that is what I'll get to see in English. All times are Central time zone. Get the full schedule here.

Saturday, Mar 29
Houston Dynamo at New England Revolution, 6:30, FSC
Los Angeles Galaxy at Colorado Rapids, 8:30, FSC

Thursday, Apr 03
New England Revolution at Chicago Fire, 7:00, ESPN2
San Jose at Los Angeles Galaxy, 9:30, ESPN2

Saturday, Apr 05
Columbus Crew at New York Red Bulls, 6:30, FSC/FSE

Thursday, Apr 17
Columbus Crew at D.

I guess MLS is going to be changing its name due to the realtors use of the MLS acronym. Read the full story here.

They actually had me going for a second, but then I got to the 2nd sentence and it clicked. Should have noticed the category that post was put into right away.

I don't know how I came across this weird article, but it is interesting at least. I don't understand exactly the point of it all, but oh well.  I suppose a lot of time there is not point to anything on this site either.

http://85896.blogspot.com/2007/11/major-league-soccer-then-now.html

The finalists for the 2007 player awards have been announced. Here they are along with my choices for the winners.

Panasonic Goalkeeper of the Year Finalists
Brad Guzan - Chivas USA
Pat Onstad - Houston Dynamo
Matt Reis - New England Revolution

I don't think many people give Matt Reis much of a chance of winning this one.

I read this evening on the Sports Card Forum that Upper Deck is going to be producing a 100 card set representing the 2007 MLS season. Sounds cool but why only 100 cards in the set. Assuming each and every team had only 11 players that ever played, 13 teams in the leage, works out to be 143 starters when each team plays a game.

So how does the challenge work?

Before the weekend we get some not so exciting matchups.

Wednesday red hot DC United host 2nd to the bottom Real Salt Lake. Weird things can happen, but not in this game, DC should win eassily.

Thursday nite ESPN2 brings us another Galaxy game, another SuperClasico. Chivas are pretty hot right now and the Galaxy are in dead last place.

Juan Pablo Angel hasn't even had time to stop and think about why he chose to come play in Major League Soccer. He hasn't looked back and is very happy with his decision to come to play in the United States.

Angel scored the first, and game winning, goal versus Celtic in the MLS All Star Game last nite which the MLS All Stars went on to win 2-0.

Two more lower league teams dropped two more MLS teams out of the US Open Cup. The Seattle Sounders beat Chivas USA 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals and will eventually face the Colorado Rapids. The Carolina RailHawks beat Chicago Fire 1-0 and will go on to face the Richmond Kickers in the quarterfinals.

Major League Soccer teams have not fared too well in this years US Open Cup.

Toronto will host the 2008 MLS All Star game at the brand new BMO Field. For a fifth year the format on the MLS All Star game will be the MLS All Stars versus a high power international team. Coming up soon the MLS All Stars will take on Celtic. In the past years the MLS All Stars played against Chelsea, Fulham and CD Guadelajara. The MLS All Stars have won each of these games so far.

Well kinda. He was in LA yesterday and was officially introduced to the media and fans at a press conference yesterday morning. Everyone is over-reacting, including ESPN.

I do hope this does work out well for the Galaxy and more importantly the whole league and even more just soccer in the US in general. But we have to wait and see if that is the case.

This might be what was expected at the beginning of the season. I still remember the excitement of that first Wizards game of the year when they went to DC and beat DC United 4-2. The season has a lot of promise, and it kept going good for the Wizards.

Now aparently anyone can beat them. They've dropped 3 strait games, including a 1-0 loss to DC today and DC United is winning now.