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Thierry Henry named MLS Player of the Week

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Steven Sandor
– 03/26/2012

Through the first two weeks of the season, the MLS players of the week weren’t exactly household names — Portland’s Kalif Alhassan and Seattle’s David Estrada.

Well, no such worries with the current edition of the Player of the Week. New York Red Bull Thierry Henry, the brightest soccer star in the biggest media market in MLS, got the POTW nod after the votes from the North American Soccer Reporters were counted.

Henry and teammate Kenny Cooper each scored twice Sunday as the Red Bulls trounced the Colorado Rapids 4-1. But Henry gets the nod as, not only did he score twice, but he was the provider of Cooper’s first goal with a wonderful through ball that pierced the Rapids’ defence.
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The 11′s super-duper MLS 2012 season preview

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Steven Sandor
– 03/07/2012

The 11’s Steven Sandor, Mark Polishuk and Aman Dhanoa held a virtual round table, discussing how they foresaw the 2012 MLS season.

Will the Galaxy repeat? Will any of the three Canadian teams make the playoffs? Who will be the MVP?

We tallied up our votes, and came up with our list of how the teams will finish, who will win MLS Cup and who will be the league’s MVP. No need to play the season, now. We have it all figured out.
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Nyassi scores for Impact in draw with Atlas

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Steven Sandor
– 01/26/2012

The Montreal Impact got a goal from Sanna Nyassi, and wrapped up the team’s pre-season tour of Mexico with a 1-1 draw against Club Atlas.

The Impact finished with a win, a draw and a loss to the Mexican sides — which included Chivas Guadalajara and Estudiantes Tecos, who take up the bottom two spots in the current Mexican League table. Also in there was a 7-0 win over Iteso University.

Nyassi, who had the honour of replacing the injured Conor Casey in the Colorado Rapids’ front line after the elite striker went down with injury, converted a set-up from ageless veteran Eduardo Sebrango, who is looking to crack the MLS roster after coming out of retirement to play in NASL in 2011.
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Classy Robbo set to return to Canadian soil

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Steven Sandor
– 01/20/2012

One of the classiest players to ever wear a Toronto FC jersey is coming back to Canada — to take over as an assistant coach with the Vancouver Whitecaps.

The Whitecaps announced today that Toronto FC day-one player and ex-co-captain Carl Robinson will become an assistant coach in Vancouver. Robinson and Jake DeClute were added to coach Martin Rennie’s staff on Friday.

“Carl and Jake are great additions to the club, as both bring a unique skill set that will complement our current staff,” said Rennie. “Carl has played the game at the highest levels and has a strong understanding of Major League Soccer. Meanwhile, Jake has risen through the North American soccer coaching ranks, while also bringing coaching experience from his time in Scotland, and has also shown a keen eye for talent.”
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Expansion Draft: Impact ignores Ching’s retirement threat

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Steven Sandor
– 11/23/2011

Brian Ching vowed to retire if the Impact chose him in the expansion draft.

Montreal Impact coach Jesse Marsch showed the entire league that he doesn’t respond well to threats.

Brian Ching, scorer of 77 career regular-season goals, made it public that he would rather retire than be plucked off Houston’s roster and go to the Impact. What did Marsch do? He made Ching the first pick of expansion draft.

Now, the questions are: Will Ching back down? Will he retire? Or will the Impact make a deal that sends him back to Houston?

“We’d be delighted to have him,” Marsch said after the team had announced its 10 picks and a couple of subsequent trades.

“When you see the list, Brian’s name sticks out.”
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Real Salt Lake gets a scare, while MLS Cup holders fizzle

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Steven Sandor
– 11/03/2011

Canadian midfielder Will Johnson will play in the MLS Western Conference Final; but his Real Salt Lake had to survive a furious charge from the Seattle Sounders.

Holding a 3-0 lead over the Sounders after the first leg of the conference final, RSL was all but assured a spot in the next round. But, in front of a raucous crowd in ah-so-stereotypical Pacific Northwest drizzle, the Sounders came oh so close to a comeback for the MLS history books on Wednesday night. In the end, the aggregate score was 3-2 RSL, but Seattle scuffed some chances and had what looked to be a sure goal cleared away from danger.

Johnson’s Real Salt Lake crew was without two of its defensive linchpins – Javier Morales and Nat Borchers — both injured in the first leg.
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Hainault’s goal the Canadian highlight from Sunday MLS playoff action

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Steven Sandor
– 10/31/2011

Andrew Hainault

Andrew Hainault gave his team’s MLS playoff campaign a major kick-start.

The Canadian national-team defender cored the opening goal of the Houston Dynamo’s playoff campaign, a header off a Brad Davis free kick in the sixth minute of their Eastern Conference semifinal. The Dynamo would go on to take the road leg of their match-up with the Philadelphia Union by a 2-1 count.

Hainault’s goal was the highlight of a day filled with MLS playoffs incidents that would turn the heads of Canadian soccer fans.
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Colorado goes from Western underdogs to Eastern favourites

By
Steven Sandor
– 10/28/2011

Gary Smith

Could the Colorado Rapids do it again?

With a 1-0 win over the Columbus Crew in Thursday’s wild-card playoff game the Colorado Rapids now cross over to the Eastern Conference and face Sporting Kansas City Sunday in the first leg of their two-game series.

Does this script sound familiar? Last year, Colorado scraped into the playoffs as a low seed, crossed over to the East, and then went on to the MLS Cup — which it won.
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MLS playoff system makes Wednesday sudden-death game a tough sell

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Steven Sandor
– 10/27/2011

Major League Soccer launched its new playoff format on Wednesday with the first of its two wild-card play-in games. Thanks to goals from Joel Lindpere and Thierry Henry, the New York Red Bulls beat FC Dallas 2-0 — eliminating the Hoops from the post-season just a week after Toronto FC went into Texas and knocked Dallas out of the CONCACAF Champions League.

The review of the playoff game itself? Meh.

The fact that just 10,017 people showed up at Pizza Hut Park to cheer on FC Dallas is troubling. And, it’s a sign MLS can learn some lessons on how much time is actually needed to generate interest in a one-and-done playoff game between lower seeds.
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Anibaba wins final Player of the Week award for the 2011 MLS regular season

By
Steven Sandor
– 10/24/2011

Jalil Anibaba

The Chicago Fire isn’t heading to the MLS playoffs, but the team did provide the league with its final Player of the Week for the 2011 regular season.

Rookie defender Jalil Anibaba got the nod after the votes from the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters was counted. Anibaba scored twice in Chicago’s season-ending 3-2 win over the Columbus Crew.

And while the Fire’s players are cleaning out their lockers, Anibaba did have a major impact on the playoff race. With the loss, Columbus fell in the Eastern Conference standings and will have to play in the Wild Card playoffs — a road date in Colorado. And, beating the defending MLS Cup champs in the mile-high Rocky Mountain altitude is a terrible ask.
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