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Cucho Hernandez, Darlington Nagbe among five Crew players selected for MLS All-Star Game
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The Crew will have five players in the MLS All-Star Game, which is set to take place at Lower.com Field on July 24. That ties the club record set in 1999 when Brian McBride, Thomas Dooley, Robert Warzycha, Stern John and Brian Maisonneuve made the squad.
This year, forwards Cucho Hernandez and Diego Rossi , midfielder Darlington Nagbe and defenders Rudy Camacho and Steven Moreira were named to the 30-player MLS roster, which will be coached by the Crew's Wilfried Nancy. The Crew are sending the most players, with Inter Miami close behind with four, including Lionel Messi .
Crew players (from left) Steven Moreira, Diego Rossi and Rudy Camacho are three of the team's five representatives headed to the 2024 MLS All-Star Game.
Hernandez, Rossi, Camacho and Moreira were among Nancy's coach's selections, while Nagbe was one of Don Garber's two commissioner picks. None of Columbus' five players were among the 12 players voted onto the roster by fans.
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"This is not easy because there are many, many good players," Nancy said before the roster was announced. "And to be fair to us, I should put many players of ours, because they did a good job last year and this year also regarding the competition that we've had. So, this is not an easy exercise, but I'm going to try to do it in an honest way."
Crew forward Cucho Hernandez, left, has made his first MLS All-Star game, while midfielder Darlington Nagbe, right, is going back after also representing the Crew in 2020 and Portland Timbers in 2016.
This marks the first all-star appearances for Hernandez, Camacho and Moreira. Rossi made the team in 2019 and 2021 with Los Angeles FC. Nagbe represented the Crew in 2020, and made his first appearance in 2016 with the Portland Timbers .
The MLS all-stars will face Mexico 's Liga MX all-stars.
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Who won the fans' MLS All-Star Game vote?
Out of the 30 players on this year's roster, 12 were voted in by fans. Here are the fan-selected players:
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Maarten Paes , goalkeeper ( FC Dallas ))
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Jordi Alba , defender (Inter Miami)
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Justen Glad , defender ( Real Salt Lake )
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Aaron Herrera , defender ( D.C. United )
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Miles Robinson , defender ( FC Cincinnati )
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Luciano Acosta , midfielder (FC Cincinnati)
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Sergio Busquets , midfielder (Inter Miami)
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Riqui Puig , midfielder (Los Angeles Galaxy)
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Cristian Arango , forward (Real Salt Lake)
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Chrisitan Benteke, forward (D.C. United)
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Lionel Messi, forward (Inter Miami)
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Luis Suarez , forward (Inter Miami)
Whom did Wilfried Nancy select for the MLS All-Star Game?
Out of the 30 players on this year's roster, 16 were selected by Nancy. Here is the list of his selections:
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Roman Burki, goalkeeper (St. Louis City SC)
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Hugo Lloris , goalkeeper (Los Angeles FC)
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Rudy Camacho, defender ( Columbus Crew )
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Thiago Martins , defender ( New York City FC )
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Steven Moreira, defender (Columbus Crew)
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Luca Orellano , defender (FC Cincinnati)
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Keegan Rosenberry , defender ( Colorado Rapids )
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Mathieu Choiniere, midfielder ( CF Montreal )
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Evander de Silva Ferreira, midfielder (Portland Timbers)
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Ryan Gauld , midfielder ( Vancouver Whitecaps )
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Robin Lod , midfielder ( Minnesota United )
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Hany Mukhtar , midfielder ( Nashville SC )
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Federico Bernardeschi , forward ( Toronto FC )
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Denis Bouanga , forward (Los Angeles FC)
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Cucho Hernandez, forward (Columbus Crew)
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Diego Rossi, forward (Columbus Crew)
Whom did Don Garber select for the MLS All-Star Game?
MLS commissioner, Garber, was able to make two selections of his own:
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Hector Herrera, midfielder ( Houston Dynamo )
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Darlington Nagbe, midfielder (Columbus Crew)
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Cucho, Nagbe highlight five Crew players going to MLS All-Star Game
