Guevara Leads East Win
Freddy Adu didn’t have a problem sitting on the sideline during the first half of the MLS All-Star game at Washington.
That’s because the 15-year-old rookie sensation had an ideal vantage point to watch Armado Guevara verify his stature as the league’s leading scorer.
Guevara, who plays for the MetroStars, scored twice in a two-minute span of the first half Saturday to carry the Eastern Conference past the West, 3-2.
Adu, who plays for D.C. United, started the second half and thrilled the announced crowd of 21,378 with some sharp moves with the ball. But none of his shots came close to getting past goalkeeper Kevin Hartman of the Galaxy.
Adu, who has two goals in seven games since joining the league in April, was a special pick by Commissioner Don Garber.
Although Adu had no bearing on the game, one of his teammates did. Alecko Eskandarian of D.C. United kicked a left-footed shot into the left corner of the net in the 74th minute to make it 3-1. Dallas’ Jason Kreis scored in the 89th minute for the West on a 20-foot shot that bounced off the right post.
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Andriy Shevchenko deflected in a free kick in the 90th minute and AC Milan beat Manchester United, 9-8, on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie at East Rutherford, N.J., sending the English FA Cup champion home from its three-game U.S. exhibition tour without a victory.
The late equalizer frustrated Manchester United, which lost to Bayern Munich on penalty kicks July 25 in Chicago and lost to Glasgow Celtic, 2-1, in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
The game was the first of two in the United States for AC Milan, which plays Chelsea on Monday in Philadelphia.
The game drew an announced crowd of 74,511 to Giants Stadium, about 4,500 fewer than Manchester United’s appearance last year when it played Juventus. United averaged 62,682 for its three games, down from the 67,885 it attracted last year on its U.S. tour.
