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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Sending a negative message to any player — and obviously to U.S. players — that signing with MLS isn't going to be good for their career or good for their form is incredibly detrimental to MLS."
- Don Garber, MLS commissioner
— ESPN
FACT OF THE DAY
Major League Soccer's highest-paid player is Clint Dempsey at $6.6 million per year for four years. ECON
— ESPN
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Jurgen Kinsmann won the World Cup with the German national as a player in what year?
A:1990
Fifa.com
THE MORNING BREW
Garber-Klinsmann dispute misses the point of US Soccer's initiative
Donovan was infamously left off the U.S. national team roster for this summer's World Cup by coach Jurgen Klinsmann. The issue was brought up again by MLS Commissioner Don Garber, who scheduled a teleconference in which he blasted Klinsmann over comments about key national team players suffering career declines after moving to MLS teams. He further scrutinized the decision to leave Donovan off the World Cup roster.
Midfielder Landon Donovan played his last match in a United States national team uniform Oct. 10. He will retire at the end of this Major League Soccer season as the all-time leading scorer on the U.S. national team. He also holds the all-time scoring and assist records in MLS.
Klinsmann called former AS Roma midfielder Michael Bradley's move to Toronto FC last summer a "huge disappointment" because the level at which Bradley is expected to perform has drastically lowered. Roma
is a team that placed near the top of the Italian league last year and is competing for the title this season.
U. S. midfielder Clint Dempsey spent five years starting for Fulham FC in the English Premier League before transferring to another English club, Tottenham Hotspur, in August 2012. Dempsey then signed a multi-million dollar contract with MLS' Seattle Sounders in August 2013. Klinsmann was extremely critical of the move at the time and repeated the criticism a few weeks ago in press conferences ahead of national team friendlies, which prompted Garber to call Klinsmann's comments "detrimental" to MLS and
"personally infuriating" in the teleconference.
There has been a lot of talk about MLS becoming a much better league compared with the rest of the leagues in recent years, but it is an objective fact that MLS is not comparable to any top European leagues that Bradley or Dempsey came from at this point in time
First of all, the financial resources that European teams have are mammoth compared to MLS' salary cap. European clubs have the best coaching and the best players in the world as a result, and it will take time for MLS to catch up. The current salary cap in MLS is reportedly $3.1 million and the maximum salary for one player is $387,500, but MLS teams can sign three Designated Players who do not count against the cap. The highest-paid player in MLS currently is Clint Dempsey at $6.6 million per year. These numbers
are pocket change for a club like AS Roma, which currently pays only four players less than $387,000.
Most importantly, Garber's vilification of Klinsmann ignores the purpose of the U.S. national team altogether. Klinsmann wants his
players playing at the highest levels. The national team competed against the best players in the world in the World Cup, and it would help to have players that consistently performed at that level on their club teams.
Garber was out of line with these comments. Klinsmann had not criticized the league itself or Garber on a personal level; he had simply identified the difficulties of his best players moving to clubs that would not continue their growth.
This week in athletics
Edited by Ben Carroll
Monday
Women's Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate All Day Kiawah Island, S.C.
Tuesday
Women's Golf
Palmetto
Intercollegiate
All Day
Kiawah Island, S.C.
Wednesday No events
Thursday
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No events
Friday
Women's Tennis
Houston Invitational
TBA
Houston
Saturday
Cross Country
Big XII Championships
10 a.m.
Lawrence
Sunday
Royals fall to Giants, return to Kansas City for Game 6
Women's Rowing Head of the Hooch TBA Chattanooga, Tenn.
@GJMelia
GJ MELIA
The San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-0 in Game 5 of the 2014 World Series and take a 3-2 series lead heading into Game 6 in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday.
The night began with the teams exchanging hits in the first inning, before the Giants opened the scoring in the second inning.
Rightfielder Hunter Pence singled, then first baseman Brandon Belt reached on a bunt. Both runners advanced on a flyout, and shortstop Brandon Crawford's RBI groundout scored Pence from third base.
San Francisco added to its lead in the fourth inning, again
off the bat of Crawford. This time it was a single to center, driving in third baseman Pablo Sandoval from second.
Royals' starter James Shields allowed two runners to get on base in the bottom of the fifth inning, but was bailed out by an impressive catch by right fielder Lorenzo Cain.
Shields pitched six innings, allowing two runs on eight hits with four strikeouts.
In the eighth inning, Sandoval and Pence were able to reach on Royals' reliever Kelvin Herrera. Herrera was then replaced by reliever Wade Davis.
Giants' right fielder Juan Perez hit a deep triple to center, emptying the bases off of Davis. Perez was then driven in by Crawford, his third RBI
of the game, making it 5-0 San Francisco.
Bumgarner improved to a 4-0 career record in the World Series, with a 0.29 career ERA. That is the lowest for a pitcher ever, minimum 25 innings pitched.
Giants' starter Madison Bumgarner pitched a complete game shutout, recording eight strikeouts and giving up only four hits.
Game 6 will start at 7:07 p.m. central time Tuesday night.
If the Giants win Tuesday, they will clinch their third World Series in five years. The Royals will try to force a Game 7 that would be played on Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fans put up a K sign after a strikeout by San Francisco Giants' Madison Bumgarner during the fifth inning of Game 5 of the World Series against the Kansas City Royals on Sunday in San Francisco.
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