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ASN Morning Read: Rubin Rubio Rises Above the Rest
The young American prospect gets the feature treatment; the Major League Soccer Players Union releases the list of salaries and chaos ensues; did you get burned by Landon Donovan?
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
April 11, 2014
7:31 AM
You might not know Rubio Rubin but you should learn about the 18-year-old forward who joined Utrecht last summer. What's that? Oh yeah, we do have a lengthy piece about the player who will join Tab Ramos' U-20 squad at the Dallas Cup: “My Dad is a die-hard Mexican fan. He always gave me the nudge that, ‘You can have the option to one day play for Mexico.' But I always told my Dad that would never happen because I was born in America and it’s in my heart 100% that I want to play for my country—which is the United States. I just love my country so much and it’s red, white, and blue for me. It’s the best feeling. I’ve been with the youth national teams and it’s amazing to wear the crest.”
Here you will find a list of Major League Soccer player salaries. You will learn many things, like the fact that Michael Bradley is the highest paid player and Clint Dempsey is No. 3. You will also see tweets about said salaries. Many, many tweets:
In this video, Mike Petke, Jimmy Conrad, Robin Fraser, Jay Heaps and Eddie Pope talk about getting burned by Landon Donovan. It's very, very fun.
The quote of the day comes from this story about Alejandro Bedoya: "After scoring a headed goal against another giant, Monaco, in a 3-1 loss last weekend, he received a text message from U.S. assistant coach Andy Herzog, who asked that he save some of those goals for the national team."
What are they saying about Oguchi Onyewu? All sorts of things.
