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Real Salt Lake has signed Costa Rican forward Alvaro Saborio for the 2010 Major League Soccer season. Saborio was contracted to Swiss club Sion, but has more recently been on loan to English club Bristol City. The club announced the move Saturday and financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Saborio has already joined [...]

The soft opening of the new Red Bulls Arena has been postponed. The New York Red Bulls announced Saturday that heavy rain and high wind caused it to postpone a game between its Under-18 Academy team and the United States Under-17 Men’s National Team. Red Bulls managing director Erik Stover said the inclement weather made [...]

Kasey Keller wants to make sure fans who hear about a possible strike in Major League Soccer understand the current standoff is about player rights and not salaries. “This is truly a case of guys who could make more money going out and getting a job, but they’re trying to live out the dream,” Keller [...]

The Chicago Fire has signed Dutch forward Collins John, a free agent and former striker for Fulham. The 24-year-old John began his professional career in 2002 with FC Twente, scoring 11 goals in 35 games before being sold to Fulham FC in January 2004. He scored 20 goals in 95 games for Fulham from 2004-07, [...]

Defender Adrian Serioux has been traded from Toronto FC to the Houston Dynamo for a third-round draft pick in 2011. The 30-year-old two goals and one assist in 26 games last season. A Toronto native, he played on Houston’s first championship team in its inaugural season of 2006. He has one goal in 19 games [...]

The New York Red Bulls have signed goalkeeper Greg Sutton. New York general manager Erik Soler thinks the Canadian can push Bouna Coundoul for the starting job. Sutton joins New York after three seasons with Toronto FC, where he made 33 starts. He had seven shutouts. Before that, Sutton was a fixture for the Montreal [...]

The New York Red Bulls have acquired Welsh former national midfielder Carl Robinson from Toronto FC for a fourth-round pick in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. The Red Bulls announced the move Thursday. They say Robinson will be added to the roster pending a visa approval. The 33-year-old Robinson has appeared in 74 games with Toronto [...]

Major League Soccer players voted to strike if a new labor contract isn’t agreed to before the season opener on March 25. The league’s first collective bargaining agreement, a five-year deal, originally was set to run out Jan. 31 but was extended twice while negotiations continued. It expired Feb.

Chivas USA midfielder Sasha Victorine has retired from Major League Soccer after 10 seasons because of recurring injuries. Chivas USA made the announcement Wednesday. He joined the team at the trade deadline in 2008, and had two goals and two assists in 2008 and last season. Victorine also played for the Los Angeles Galaxy and [...]

Negotiators for Major League Soccer management and players have ended two days of talks and agreed to keep up discussions with the federal mediation service. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, convened talks Tuesday and Wednesday. The next session has not been set.