Prodigy Adu Learns His Trade at DC United
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Teenager Freddy Adu, America's most  talked about soccer player, has hardly set the league alight  with his skills in his first season.
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Peter Nowak has played in two MLS Cups &#151; he liked the first a lot better &#151; and gets another crack at the championship this year. The rookie coach will guide D.C. United in Sunday's title game against Kansas City.
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D.C. United begins preseason workouts Monday at RFK Stadium by introducing four new players to a team that jettisoned six regulars and several reserves in the offseason.
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D.C. United  bolsters its thin defensive corps by acquiring veteran central back Gonzalo MartÃÂ­nez from Colombian club Millonarios.
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Freddy Adu scores on a free kick, but Chris Klein responds with a second-half goal as D.C. United and Real Salt Lake play to a 1-1 tie Saturday night.
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In the first years of MLS play, the Revolution were usually mismatched when they visited D.C. United, the team taking on a spoiler role while United was basically warming up for the playoffs.
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United will grab someone with the fourth pick in the second round of in Friday's MLS draft and then wait until the very end to make the final selection in the four-round draft.
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U.S. soccer's most expensive player,  teenage prodigy Freddy Adu, has won his cybersquatting case  against a man who claimed to be preparing a fan-based Web Site,  an international arbitrator ruled on Thursday.
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Patrick Nyarko, a forward from Ghana who last month led Virginia Tech to its first appearance in the NCAA semifinals, is leaving school a year early to sign with MLS.
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With many of the stars on the U.S. national team playing with Major League Soccer clubs this weekend, some of the younger players got a chance to show they can contribute in international play.
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Despite a strong pull desire to finish hisdegree, Partick Nyarko decided to turn pro and enter the MLS after a head-turning junior year at Virginia Tech.
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All those dollars invested in a 14-year-old boy are now paying off. He did not mess up his team. The league did not mess him up. Having played in 32 of his team&#39;s 33 games, Adu is a force.
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D.C. United offers Argentine midfielder Christian Gomez a new contract that would keep MLS's reigning most valuable player in Washington through at least 2008.
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Dennis Wise will help Newcastle to sign players and develop their academy in his new role at the club.
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Playing without Jaime Moreno, D.C. United calls on midfielder Fred to provide a spark and he does, assisting on the game-winning goal by Christian Gomez, above, in a 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake thatÃÂ clinches a playoff berth.
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If Kansas City switches conferences next year when MLS realigns due to expansion, teams such as DC United will certainly become more familiar with the Wizards.
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D.C. United has acquired 5-foot-4, 145-pound forward Franco Niell, 24, on a one-year loan from Argentinos Juniors, a first-division club in Buenos Aires.