qualifiers to deplete MLS
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In the battle between Major League Soccer and the national teams of several players over the coming weeks, there will be likely few winners.
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Clint Dempsey's days are numbered with the Revolution. Though he is contracted to Major League Soccer through the 2007 season, there is a strong chance he will move on before that.
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FOXBOROUGH -- San Jose Earthquakes coach Dominic Kinnear had just finished watching as two of his players, Brian Ching and Landon Donovan, scored for the United States in a 2-0 win over El Salvador in a World Cup qualifying match yesterday.
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The U.S. Soccer Federation ended its threat to use replacement minor leaguers in a World Cup qualifier next month, reaching an agreement Friday with the national team's union that calls for a pay increase in exchange for a no-strike pledge through 2005.
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El Salvador&#39;s national team began yesterday&#39;s World Cup qualifier at a disadvantage, conceding size and speed to the United States and fielding far fewer top-level professionals.
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The European summer is barely over, the Olympic Games have come and gone, and still soccer&#39;s insatiable thirst for do-or-die intensity revs up toward the qualification for the 2006 World Cup.
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With so many World Cup Qualifiers played, teams with many international players will be most affected. Of course, we are talking about Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United, whose players flew all over Europe to play in international matches.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The Revolution have become specialists in making a final sprint at the end of the MLS season, timing their run to near perfection in the last four years.
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David Beckham plays soccer.  Sort of.  Some companies claim to be open source.  Sort of.  Here's why both are bad for the game.
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At least six national teams will be playing matches in California this month. The US, though, will not be among them.
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A labor dispute between the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and players has halted World Cup preparations and could result in the national team using replacement players for the Feb. 9 opening of the final round of qualifying in Trinidad &amp; Tobago.
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Most Major League Soccer teams have announced playoff dates and are spending the final weeks of the regular season planning and promoting.
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The US national team has started preparations with replacement players for the final round of World Cup qualifying. A group of more than 20 players joined coach Bruce Arena at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., to begin practice yesterday, but the US Soccer Federation has not released names.
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The two division leaders in Major League Soccer â D.C. United in the East and Houston in the West â and New England have clinched playoff berths.
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The long-awaited deadline is set. If the league and the union can't hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement in this last round of talks that started secretly in Toronto on Wednesday, commissioner Gary Bettman will pull the plug.