the Major League Soccer All-Stars who will play former
German league champions, Bayern Munich.
Apart from the Seattle Sounders player, English players
Jermain Defoe, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Australian Tim
Cahill and Ireland's Robbie Keane were also named in MLS
All-Stars.
Martins, who was not invited by coach Stephen Keshi for the
just concluded 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, has scored 16
goals in 35 games for the Seattle Sounders and was
announced in a 23-player roster that will be drawn upon
when the elite MLS lineup faces the 2013 European
Champions League winners on 6 August at Portland,
Oregon.
* Martins
Wright-Phillips, a striker for the New York Red Bulls, leads
MLS with 16 goals in 18 matches, while Defoe has 11 goals
for Toronto in his first MLS season after leaving Tottenham.
Cahill, a Red Bulls midfielder, netted two World Cup goals
last month for the Socceroos, while Keane, the Irish captain
and all-time scoring leader with 53 goals, has 43 goals in
three MLS seasons for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
France boasts two MLS all-Stars in Red Bulls forward Thierry
Henry and 2012 MLS Defender of the Year Aurelien Collin
for reigning MLS champion Sporting Kansas City.
* Bayern Munich players
Other internationals on the roster included Cuban midfielder
Osvaldo Alonso, Canadian midfielder Will Johnson and
Argentine midfielder Diego Valeri of Portland and Mexican
forward Erick Torres of Chivas USA.
Clint Dempsey of Seattle and Landon Donovan of the
Galaxy lead the Americans in the MLS lineup, which also
includes US World Cup midfielder Michael Bradley of
Toronto, Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez, Seattle defender
DeAndre Yedlin, Kansas City midfielder Graham Zusi and
Salt Lake midfielder Kyle Beckerman.
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