With the preliminary roster for the U.S. Men's National Team being released earlier this week, nine Major League Soccer players were included. With training camp at Princeton beginning on Monday, six teams will lose USMNT players and two other teams will lose players (Andrew Boyens of New Zealand and New York Red Bulls, and Roger Espinoza of Honduras and Kansas City Wizards).

The biggest loss for any MLS team is obvious. The Los Angeles Galaxy are losing Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle. To show what a big part these two play, the Galaxy are promoting the game versus Toronto FC on Saturday as a send-off game.

The good news for the Galaxy is that they do have Alan Gordon. The 28-year old is experienced and is going to have to get the job done up front for the Galaxy in the goal scoring department. Mike Magee will also be looked to to but some balls in the back of the net.

The midfield loss of Donovan will not be too severe, as the Galaxy has MLS veterans in Clint Mathis, Eddie Lewis, and Chris Klein.

As for the other eight teams that will lose a player to World Cup rosters, only two teams will lose multiple players (Columbus and Chivas USA) and one team has not even seen their player in uniform (Blaise Nkufo in Seattle).

Let's start with Chivas USA and Columbus, who both lose two key players for the next month. Jonathan Bornstein and Sacha Kljestan will leave Chivas after the game against the Crew on Saturday. The biggest loss for the club will be Bornstein at the back. Starters Mariano Trujillo and Michael Umana will still be in the back line while Ante Jazic, Dario Delgado, and Marcelo Saragosa need to step up in Bornstein's absence.

Columbus is losing Chad Marshall and Robbie Rogers after their match against Chivas on Saturday. With the depth that the Crew have, these two players should be easily replaced. The Crew already have solid defenders in Gino Padula and Frankie Hejduk so all the other defenders have to do is not screw up. Rogers' loss is also not too big of a deal because the goal-scoring prowess of Guillermo Barros Schelotto is still there, as well as the youngster Steven Lenhart, who has started the past few games.

The other teams feeling a loss will be FC Dallas (Heath Pearce), Houston Dynamo (Brian Ching), Real Salt Lake (Robbie Findley), Kansas City Wizards (Roger Espinoza), New York Red Bulls (Andrew Boyens), and Seattle's Blaise Nkufo will join the team after his World Cup is over with Switzerland.

Houston and RSL will not have too much difficulty replacing their players, especially Houston, who has played without Ching for most of the season. The other three teams should also have no problem filling in the roster spot of their World Cup players.

All in all, the biggest impact that the World Cup rosters will have is in Los Angeles, where the Galaxy will be down three stars (including the injured David Beckham). The question surrounding the Galaxy will be how they fare in their four games before the World Cup (at Dallas, at Columbus, vs. Houston, at RSL), which are not pushovers.

Read more MLS news on BleacherReport.com

Source: Click Here