Major League Soccer announced the 18-man roster that will take on the Celtic FC in the 2007 MLS All-Star Game on July 19 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Colorado and a few names must have been left inside the ballot box from the 2006 roster.
Goalkeepers: Matt Reis (New England Revolution), Kevin Hartman (Kansas City Wizards)
Defenders: Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution), Eddie Pope (Real Salt Lake)
Midfielders: Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo), Christian Gomez (D.C. United), Cobi Jones (Los Angeles Galaxy), Shalrie Joseph (New England Revolution), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids), Ronnie O'Brien (Toronto FC), Juan Toja (FC Dallas)
Forwards: Juan Pablo Angel (Red Bull New York), Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Eddie Johnson (Kansas City Wizards)
Kevin Hartman? Are you serious? How is he selected over Houston's Pat Onstad or Chivas USA's Brad Guzan? Hartman is ranked ninth in the league in GAA (1.47) among keepers with 11 or more games played. And how is it the best defense in MLS (Houston) doesn't have a single defender representing them on the roster?As for the commissioner picks of Eddie Pope and Cobi Jones, I understand why they were selected, but maybe we could have bumped the roster up to 20, so that the nod to two once great players didn't take up the spots of two player who are playing great right now.
Besides Jones, the midfield selections were pretty decent with the exception of Ronnie O'Brien, who isn't having the kind of season he had last year. Either Steve Ralston or Guillermo Barros Schelotto would have made more sense instead.
Finally, Briang Ching's selection is undefendable and those idiot fans that voted for him (as well as the idiot press, idiot coaches and idiot players) should be smacked upside their head with a day-old mackerel. Where is Maykel Galindo or Taylor Twellman or even Andy Dorman? Even douchebag Jeff Cunningham has more goals and has had a bigger impact on his team in the first half of the season. Ching's selection is a joke and makes a mockery of ... oh wait, why I am I gettin all upset. It's the All-Star game. The MLS equivalent to a high school student government election. Voters didn't care that Ching has done next to nothing this year, he must have promised to put a Coke machine in the cafeteria.
Oh well, we'll still beat Celtic.
Click here for MLS press release
2 comments:
I agree with you...I mean seriously Hartman...the better options are listless. I am some what hurt that only one on my DC United men were selected although; I'm not disappointed or surprised its our fearless Argentine Gomez. PS. love your blog name
I have to laugh at all the US dismissive comments about Celtic. There is not 1 player in this MLS All Star list who would make it as a regular for Celtic ...bench warmers at best.
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