No Love For Clint Mathis

Well Kinnear did one thing that I expected and one that I didn’t. He added 3 Houston players to the All Star roster (Onstad, Davis, and Ching), I would have much rather seen Clark added than Ching or Davis, but after all the USMNT duty he has had I can understand his coach wanting to rest him. With Brian McBride being out I can see him bringing in Ching as a target forward, and it would be hard to ignore the impact Fredy Montero has made so that one isn’t too bad. Not sure I understand the Davy Arnaud pick, there are a lot of midfielders on this team 8 and only 4 defenders (he also added Jhon Kennedy Hurtado from Seattle). It looks like he caved in and while the comish took the RSL picks, hoping not to get booed next week, he left the pandering to the Seattle fans to Kinnear.

Here is the roster as it stands for the MLS All Stars:

Goalkeeper:
Kasey Keller (Seattle Sounders FC)*, Pat Onstad (Houston Dynamo)&

Defenders:
Geoff Cameron (Houston Dynamo)*, Wilman Conde (Chicago Fire)*, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado (Seattle Sounders FC)&, Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew)*

Midfielders:
Davy Arnaud (Kansas City Wizards)&, Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake)+, Cuauhtémoc Blanco (Chicago Fire), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo)&, Stuart Holden (Houston Dynamo)*, Shalrie Joseph (New England Revolution)*, Freddie Ljungberg (Seattle Sounders FC)*, Javier Morales (Real Salt Lake)+

Forwards:
Conor Casey (Colorado Rapids)*, Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo)&, Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy)*, Fredy Montero (Seattle Sounders FC)&

* Denotes selection to First XI Team (Blanco replaced De Rosario as alternate in First XI)
+ Denotes a Commissioner’s Selection
& Denotes Coach’s Selection

This should be an interesting side but I still expect one or two players might not show up due to injury, the Arnaud pick is to replace GBS (Guillermo Barros Schelotto) who is out with a hamstring injury. Well back to work.

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