As you may have heard by now, we are opening up seating on the west side of Gillette Stadium starting in 2011. You can check out the full details from today’s announcement here, or visit 2011midfielders.com for more information.

Also, Jeff Lemieux interviewed Zack Schilawski, Chris Tierney and Darrius Barnes to get their thoughts. Check it out below.

Revolution midfielder and 2010 AT&T All-Star selection Shalrie Joseph visited the NASA facilities with fellow MLS All-Stars and Manchester United on July 27, 2010 in Houston, Texas. Check out the photos below.
Photos by Thomas B. Shea / MLS

Two familiar faces will be missing when the Revs return to training on Tuesday morning here at Gillette Stadium, but for good reason. Yesterday, both Shalrie Joseph and Kevin Alston traveled south to Houston to take part in the festivities leading up to the 2010 AT&T MLS All-Star game which will take place on Wednesday night, July 28 at Reliant Stadium (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2 and Telefutura). Once again, the MLS All-Stars will be testing themselves against one of the world’s top clubs, with English Premier League powerhouse Manchester United providing the opposition this year.

While this is Joseph’s seventh consecutive all-star selection, it’s the first for Alston, so both approach the game with a different perspective. I spoke with both Joseph and Alston last week to get their thoughts about their all-star selections, and you can watch that video here.

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It is an absolutely glorious day here in Chicago, where tonight the Revs will take on the archrival Fire in the second game of the group stage of SuperLiga 2010. Normally of course this would be a video piece breaking down the particulars of tonight’s match, but certain circumstances (slightly earlier kickoff, no traveling video editor on this trip) mean today’s Revolution Soccer GameDay will come to you in blog form instead. I know it’s difficult for those of you out there who are always just so thrilled to see my face (hi Mom!) but for today this’ll have to do. We’ll be back with video ahead of the final group game against Morelia on Tuesday.

As for this evening’s game, it’s a pivotal meeting which will ultimately set up the situation for those final group matches on Tuesday. If both the Revs and Morelia win tonight, those clubs will be guaranteed spots in the SuperLiga 2010 semifinals and they’ll be left to battle it out for first and second place on Tuesday. If that’s not the case, then we’ll at least know whether the Revs need a win or a draw – and if they need the other result to go their way – to seal a berth in the last four of the tournament.

So now that we have an idea of the importance of tonight’s match, let’s see what we’re dealing with this evening …

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I’m getting some pretty spotty internet coverage in my hotel room (it’s not like Chicago is a major city or anything, right?) so I’ll keep this short for the time being. The bottom line is the Revs have arrived in Chi-town ahead of tomorrow night’s SuperLiga 2010 Group B match against the rival Fire with a travel party consisting of the 17 players who dressed on Wednesday night against Pumas plus Khano Smith, who has sufficiently recovered from a right ankle sprain.

With a win tomorrow night at Toyota Park, the Revs could clinch a spot in the SuperLiga 2010 semifinals and they’ll undoubtedly be eager to continue the run of form which has seen them win their last two matches, both via shutout. I spoke with some of the guys after training on Thursday afternoon, and here are a few of the quotes I got from them which didn’t make the preview (which you can read here).

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I just posted a preview on revolutionsoccer.net (you can read it here) taking a look at the Revolution’s participation in SuperLiga 2010 and focusing on tomorrow night’s game against Mexican Primera División club Pumas UNAM. As is almost always the case, I included quotes gathered throughout the week from head coach Steve Nicol and some of the Revs players. But there were just too many quality quotes this week to include them all in the preview, so I thought this would be a good place to share some of those which didn’t make it into my story.

Most of these quotes revolve around the rivalries SuperLiga has embraced between the MLS and Mexican teams, with thoughts from Nicol, Shalrie Joseph, Pat Phelan, Seth Sinovic and Darrius Barnes.

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