Foreign Imports: 15 Players Who Should Join the MLS

We recommend the following 15 soccer players to join the MLS and finally garner a little respect for our domestic league.

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Following David Beckham's L.A. experiment, Thierry Henry is poised to become the next international soccer superstar to come to the U.S. and join Major League Soccer. Since every great immigrant story starts with the Statue of Liberty, let us paraphrase its inscription on behalf of the MLS: "Give us your aging, your benched, your huddled millionaires yearning for playing time, the wretched refuse of big-name European teams. Send these, the discarded, the has-beens to us, we lift our lamp beside the goalposts!" With that, we recommend the following 15 soccer players to join the MLS and finally garner a little respect for our domestic league...

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Ronaldinho

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Freddy Adu

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Raul

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Rafael Marquez

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Juan Roman Riquelme

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Ahn Jung-hwan and Nakata Hidetoshi

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Ruud van Nistelrooy

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Stephen Appiah

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Ronaldo

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Francesco Totti

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Luca Toni

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Ryan Giggs

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Guti Hernandez

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El Hadji Diouf

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