By DAN KARELL Brek Shea will soon be returning to Dallas, Texas this summer for the first time since his January proceed to England. Only this time, heall maintain the oppositionas top. Sheaas club Stoke City announced this week that they can have a ten-day pre-season tour in the U.S., including a match against Hamilton Academical Dallas. But the Major League Soccer club and the English Premier League club established the friendly fit on Thursday, giving Shea and fellow U.S. internationalas Geoff Cameron and Maurice Edu a chance to play against familiar resistance. aIf there is one market today where we are able to produce our own report, then it's to be America because of the existence of three US internationals in our squad,a Stoke City leader Tony Scholes told the clubas site. aThe transfer of Shea therefore offered a chance for us to perform a against his former membership which can be where we are heading as part of this tour.a The English team is going to be arriving in the U.S. on July 22, with the match against FC Dallas to occur on July 27. Stoke also spent last year trained in the U.S., playing matches against Sporting Kansas City, the Columbus Crew, and USL Pro part Orlando City. Below are a few more stories to find you up around MLS: ARGENTINOS JUNIORS CONFIRM LABA TRAVEL Though the team have yet to formally confirm it, it seems more and more probable that Toronto FC have accomplished a exchange of a Argentina U-20 midfielder. Argentine club Argentinos Juniors declared on their website on Wednesday evening that they'd arranged for the transport of Matias Laba with TFC and that the 21-year-old could be on his method to Canada to accomplish his new deal with MLS. Amazement are always looking to improve the squad and Laba is an amazing player,a Toronto boss Ryan Nelsen told MLSSoccer.com. aSo if he joins the Toronto squad, I will be much more than happy.a Laba played for Juniors last Monday, getting sent off in the minute of a loss to Tigre. In the summer of 2011, the Villa Raffo native featured for the Argentine squad in five fits at the U-20 World Cup in Columbia, as well as playing with the Argentina U-22 squad at the Pan American Games in October of 2011. FIRE DEFENDER THOMPSON FINED AND STOPPED The MLS Disciplinary Committee reported on Thursday that Chicago Fire defense Wells Thompson has been fined an undisclosed amount and stopped one match for a areckless challenge that endangered the safety of his opponent.a Thompson was presented with a card in the 12th second of last Saturdayas match against Columbus. The Wake Forest solution was late in a challenge against Crew midfielder Agustin Viana, sending Viana off his feet with a slip handle. Thompson may provide the suspension this Sunday if the Fire look at the Montreal Impact. SPORTING SELL OUT ALL TIME Passes In a remarkable success for the league and the membership, Sporting Kansas City introduced on Wednesday that they had bought the residual time tickets for in 2013, filling up the allotment of 14,000 seats. Contemplating that Sporting Park just contains 18,467 seats complete, that means the membership have was able to provide just under 76 per cent of their seats to just season ticket holders. Entering Saturdayas against Portland, Sporting have out of stock their previous 19 games. This summer, Sporting Park can host the 2013 MLS All Star Game, in addition to an integral World Cup qualifying match this drop against Jamaica. a'a' What would you make of these stories? Excited to see Brek Shea play in Dallas? Do you think Laba can be quite a difference maker for TFC? Do you trust Thompsonas suspension? Discuss your thoughts below.
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