The MLS All-Star game has come to Utah! Tonight the best of Major League Soccer will face off against Everton at 7:30 PM local time at Rio Tinto Stadium.
It will be an exciting event and the soccer fans here in Utah are pumped up! The game features some of the best players in North America (and beyond)...Blanco, Donovan, Keller, Ching, Davis, Holden and Freddie Ljungberg. There will also be 3 players from our hometown team, ReAL Salt Lake: Kyle Beckerman, Will Johnson and Javier Morales.
The Everton team, which finished 5th in the EPL last year, is making its 2nd trip to Utah in 3 years. They lost to RSL two summers ago, 2-0 in an exhibition match played here at Rice-Eccles Stadium on the Utah campus. Everton features U.S. goal keeper, Tim Howard, and Australian forward Tim Cahill.Utah soccer fans are getting used to big-time events...we've had the U.S. women play against Ireland in 2003...the U.S. qualifier against Costa Rica in 2005...Real Madrid came out in 2006 to play RSL...and now the MLS All-Star game...
As Landon Donovan said in today's Deseret News: "(Rio Tinto Stadium is) beautiful and the crowd is great," Donovan said. "Salt Lake has always been good to us with the national team. I like the fans there. They're savvy and knowledgeable."
Watch tonight on ESPN2!
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