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du Nord, August 4, 2006
USA & Standard Liege defender Oguchi Onyewu on his future at the club: "I have made the decision to stay here at least until the winter break."~ ~ ~ ~MLS officially announced a new deal with ABC/ESPN today for TV broadcasting. The biggest news from it is that the network will pay the league money (an undisclosed amount) to show the games. The interesting news is that the game of the week is being moved to Thursday night starting next season. My initial knee jerk reaction is that this is a bad move. On the other hand its not like they have had huge success on Saturday afternoon, so any attempt to make it work is fine with me. And while my guess is that this night was chosen because it is best for the network schedule, what kind of attendance will the stadiums draw? Who knows. I hope they get it right.~ ~ ~ ~The other announcement is that MLS teams will have a system in place to keep any players that come up through their junior/youth teams & sign them to their senior team, without having to put those players