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VEGAS WANT MLS TEAM

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Las Vegas is hungry for a professional soccer team and they are so eager on accomplishing this task that the officials of the city are trying to undermine and work out plans to build a downtown soccer stadium by assembling the stadium with 4 possible and different park projects.

The Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman as well as a number of other authorities and supporters of the stadium has already displayed their intentions on making it happen after completing their bid to become the 24th MLS club but they will also have to compete against Minneapolis and Sacramento for that spot.

Alan Snel is a sport business reporter and he revealed details concerning the current situation as he stated that the latest package which has been constructed by Las Vegas includes a total bond of $45 million and also includes money for parks.

“I guess, politically speaking, to make it more palatable they combined the stadium subsidy with park projects that number three or four different projects,” Snel said.

However, according to the City Councilman Bob Beers, he believes that the package which was launched by Las Vegas includes revenue bonds which are more expensive higher interest rate and at the moment he is not interested in voting for that team due to the structure of the bond but Bob finds that Sacramento has a far more attractive plan and the city has demonstrated that they are ready to have a professional soccer team that is prepared enough to enter the MLS.

The board of governors and directors of the MLS have to meet up and talk about the next franchise team that will be entering the American League on December 6 and further details will be revealed at that time.

DRAW

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Seattle Sounders and LA Galaxy were involved in a 1-1 draw, which gave Real Salt Lake a great opportunity to go top of the table once again. The team was coming into the match against San Jose after having suffered a 2-0 defeat against Seattle Sounders in the previous week. Hence, there was a need for three points from Jason Kreis’ perspective because Seattle have the advantage of having matches in hand over Real Salt Lake. The team needed to win this match against San Jose in order to have a chance of winning the title, but they blew the chance after a 2-1 defeat.

Lenhart scored either side of a goal from Javier Morales in the first half to give the away team three points. All the goals in a match were scored between 18 minutes and 21 minutes in a frantic period. At the end of the day, though, it was Real Salt Lake who were disappointed with the result especially because it was home encounter. After the match, Morales tried to lift his teammates by saying that this result does not mean the end of the day, but it does give Seattle a great chance to win the title.

He has admitted that winning the title from this position will be tough.

“It’s a little bit hard. We have to be realistic. Right now it’s going to be hard. Seattle has more points than us in fewer games than us. Now we have to focus and improve our soccer and our team. If we want to be in the MLS Cup, we have a lot of work,” said Morales. “I probably still won’t be ready to throw in the towel on the Supporters’ Shield. But perhaps I will,” said Kreis after the match. Real Salt Lake will next be playing against Vancouver.

TIME FOR CHANGE

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LA Galaxy manager Bruce Arena has said that it is about time he thought about the change in the penalty taking specialist within the team. This decision by the manager came after the second penalty of the season for Landon Donovan. The US international recently returned to first team action after taking a four month sabbatical from the game. However, he has missed the two penalties that he has received since returning to first-team action. The missed penalties have proven to be extremely costly for the team, which has made manager Arena look at this aspect.

Donovan’s latest miss came in the match against Houston Dynamo. The miss proved to be extremely costly as Galaxy have gone on to lose both matches 1-0. Arena has pointed out to this fact and has stated that he will probably assigning a different player for the penalty taking duties from next match onwards. Robbie Keane could become the designated penalty taker for LA Galaxy, as he has a great experience and record of converting penalties from his days stretching back to Tottenham. MLS Golden Boot co-leader Mike Magee, though, has said that it is a very high price for Donovan to pay for his two misses.

“I’m not doing the job, so someone else is going to have to do it, but aside from that, we’ve got to play better. Certainly, goals change games, and I could have made a difference and changed the game, but it happens and you have to move on,” said Donovan. “Never good to miss a penalty kick. We’re probably going to have to change that. He’s missed two in two games that we’ve lost, 1-0. Not good, so we probably need to make a change there,” said Arena. LA Galaxy are seven points behind leaders FC Dallas in the Western Conference table.