2004 MLS All-Star Game

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Event	2004 Major League Soccer season
MLS West MLS East 2 3
Date	July 31, 2004
Venue	RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Man of the Match	Amado Guevara (MLS East)
Referee	Michael Kennedy
Attendance	21,378
Weather	Clear, 85°F

The 2004 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 9th Major League Soccer All-Star Game, played on July 31, 2004 at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. between the Eastern Conference All-Stars and Western Conference All-Stars. The Eastern Conference earned the victory after a hard-fought 3-2 win over the West.

Overview

Landon Donovan has the ball while surrounded by Eddie Pope, Jim Curtin and Frankie Hejduk

The game was originally scheduled to be between the MLS All-Stars against Real Madrid at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Once the Spanish team instead decided to play friendlies in Japan, they opted out of the game in the United States and MLS was forced to change the All-Star Game's format.^[1] The MLS All-Stars eventually played Real Madrid at their home stadium Santiago Bernabéu in the 2005 Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu.^[2]

Legends game

Prior to the All-Star Game, a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the 1994 FIFA World Cup saw the U.S. Team that played the Cup against played a selection of international MLS veterans in two 25-minute halves.^[3] The game finished 2-2, with Raúl Díaz Arce and Mauricio Cienfuegos tying the game in the second-half after the Americans built a lead with Eric Wynalda and Hugo Perez.^[4]

U.S. 1994 World Cup Squad

• Tony Meola, Mike Burns, Alexi Lalas, Cle Kooiman, Thomas Dooley, John Harkes, Hugo Pérez, Tab Ramos, Eric Wynalda, Frank Klopas Cobi Jones, Juergen Sommer, Mike Sorber, Marcelo Balboa, Paul Caligiuri, Fernando Clavijo.
• Coach: Bora Milutinović

MLS International Stars

• Jorge Campos, Mike Emenalo, Richard Gough, Martín Vásquez, Frank Yallop, Mauricio Cienfuegos, Marco Etcheverry, Peter Nowak, Mauricio Ramos, Carlos Valderrama, Robert Warzycha, Raúl Díaz Arce, Carlos Hermosillo, Luis Hernández, Mo Johnston, Giovanni Savarese.
• Coach: Bruce Arena

Match details

2004 MLS All-Star Game

July 31, 2004

20:00 EST

MLS West	2–3	MLS East
Ching 43' Kreis 89'	Report	Guevara 20', 22' (pen.) Eskandarian 74'

RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.

Attendance: 21,378

Referee: Michael Kennedy

MLS West

MLS East

GK 1 Pat Onstad  46' DF 4 Chris Albright DF 12 Jeff Agoos  73' DF 14 Cory Gibbs  46'  73' DF 31 Jimmy Conrad MF 15 Andreas Herzog  46' MF 23 Richard Mulrooney  46'  73' MF 6 Ronnie O'Brien  73' FW 24 Brian Ching  46' FW 5 Landon Donovan FW 20 Carlos Ruiz  73' Substitutes: GK 22 Kevin Hartman  46' MF 16 Kerry Zavagnin  46' MF 11 Chris Klein  46' FW 9 Jason Kreis  46' MF 7 Jovan Kirovski  46' DF 25 Pablo Mastroeni FW 99 Josh Wolff DF 13 Danny Califf Manager: Sigi Schmid

GK 13 Henry Ring  46' DF 2 Frankie Hejduk DF 33 Jim Curtin DF 25 Robin Fraser DF 23 Eddie Pope  46' MF 14 Chris Armas  46' MF 24 Eddie Gaven  46'  81' MF 20 Amado Guevara  81' FW 30 Dema Kovalenko FW 99 Jaime Moreno FW 3 Damani Ralph  46' Substitutes: GK 1 Jon Busch  46' MF 12 Steve Ralston  46' MF 5 Shalrie Joseph  46' FW 17 Pat Noonan  46' FW 9 Freddy Adu  46' FW 11 Alecko Eskandarian  46' DF 8 Ryan Nelsen MF 15 Clint Dempsey MF 16 Ben Olsen Manager: Piotr Nowak

References

1. Trusdell, Brian (June 17, 2004). "USATODAY.com - Without Real Madrid, MLS All-Stars revert to East vs. West format". Usatoday30.usatoday.com. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
2. http://espnfc.com/columns/story?id=340377&root=mls&cc=3888 ^{[dead link‍]}
3. "News Archive".
4. "East All-Stars, Heat Are Winners at RFK". washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2004. Retrieved June 8, 2022.

External links

• 2004 MLS All-Star Game Recap