2015 MLS All-Star Game
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| Event | 2015 Major League Soccer season | ||||||
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| Date | July 29, 2015 | ||||||
| Venue | Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Colorado | ||||||
| Most Valuable Player | Kaká (MLS All-Stars) | ||||||
| Referee | Ismail Elfath (United States) | ||||||
| Attendance | 18,671 | ||||||
The 2015 Major League Soccer All-Star Game, the 20th annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game, took place on July 29, 2015 (9 p.m. EDT, 7 p.m. local time) at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in the Denver suburb of Commerce City, Colorado, the home of the Colorado Rapids. The game was televised live on Fox Sports 1 and UniMás in the United States, and TSN and RDS in Canada.
Tottenham Hotspur made their first appearance in the MLS All-Star Game, and were also the first Premier League club to appear in the match since Chelsea in 2012.
Kaká was named MVP.
As of July 29, 2015 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Notes:
The league commissioner Don Garber used his two picks to select two players who had never played a single minute in MLS at the time of selection in the two former England internationals Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard who had only officially joined the league on July 8. This provoked outrage from fans, the media and other players, the league eventually agreed to select two extra players to be given all-star bonuses.
The league's top scorer, Kei Kamara, was omitted from the Fan XI and responded by saying "It’s simple as it goes: you’re either a US national team player or you’re a DP to be on there. I’m neither one of those. If I get called up, I’ll be lucky." The top 10 in the fan vote included 8 players who have represented the US national team alongside Kaká and David Villa with Nigerian international Obafemi Martins also being selected via virtual performances in FIFA 15.
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