The Seattle Sounders won’t be diving in the standings after Week 26. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about Blas Perez inside the box.

Toronto FC and D.C. United continued their winless ways on Saturday. The two played to a 1-1 draw at RFK Stadium. The Chicago Fire had no issues in that department.The club captured an all-important 1-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City at home.

But some tough competition kept all of the aforementioned parties from making the list of best and worst from Week 26.

Read on to find out why.

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Have you ever wondered which actor would play you were anyone to ever make a movie of your life? Well, these eight Major League Soccer players, including some of the biggest stars in the league, are already set with prominent lookalike actors already waiting in the wings.

Here are eight MLS players and their celebrity actor lookalikes.

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More than 67,000 eyes will be fixated on Seattle in MLS Week 26. But there are four other stories that also warrant the attention of your eyesight this weekend.

The midweek action picked up with a battle between a pair of Western Conference elites. The Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake ended a thrilling 90 minutes in a 3-3 draw. Both teams remain separated by three points in the standings.

FC Dallas snatched three points of their own. A 3-1 victory over Chivas USA snapped the club's 11-game winless streak.

Nine matches will follow this weekend. But with so much action on tap, what warrants your attention in Week 26?

Read on to find out.

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This Sunday, Clint Dempsey really gets welcomed back to Major League Soccer.

After a somewhat underwhelming start to life with the Seattle Sounders—by his lofty standards, at least—the United States international will be the focus of attention as his side host the Portland Timbers in one of the bigger rivalry games of the season.

Over 66,000 fans are expected to descend on CenturyLink field for the contest, making it the biggest home crowd (at club level at least) that Dempsey will have ever played in front of.

Dempsey told the official MLS website this week:

I can’t even imagine what it’s going to be like when the whole stadium is completely packed and they are behind us.

We’ll feed off that energy and we’ll make sure we give everything we have to let them go home happy.

Winning one game is not the sum total of all the Sounders' fanbase started hoping for after signing Dempsey, however—they now have far bigger goals in mind. In that spirit, we make some predictions for Dempsey's much-vaunted MLS return.

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Since arriving in Major League Soccer three years ago, Thierry Henry has become one of the most contentious players in the league.

On the one hand, Henry can appear disinterested in games and has struggled come playoff time, scoring only one goal in six MLS playoff games.

On the other hand, he has scored 14 and 15 goals in the last two seasons, respectively, and has repeatedly shown his class with some of the best goals in MLS history.

Here are five of his best.

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The dust has settled. Clint Dempsey is plying his trade for the Seattle Sounders.

Unfortunately, his two games in the Emerald City have not given a fair sample as to how head coach Sigi Schmid might deploy him when Seattle have a full side.

In Dempsey’s first match, the team’s other Designated Player Obafemi Martins was forced out of action early due to injury. In Deuce’s second match, a 3-1 loss to the Houston Dynamo, both Martins and strike partner Eddie Johnson were missing because of Martins’ fitness and EJ’s disciplinary suspension.

A lack of a fully loaded Sounders side has seen Dempsey float about the field at his will, picking and choosing the times he wishes to drop deep and create from midfield.

Even though Seattle have not had a full complement of players, Schmid should continue to allow Dempsey to play with this type of freedom of movement.

Sure, Dempsey can play as an outside winger. He has done it before at both the club level and for the USMNT in the past. He is effective at it, too, crossing with precision and lively enough to skip past defenders on the flank.

He is also able to play as a true striker, stationed firmly on the opposition’s last man with the single intention of harassing the center-backs and scoring goals.

Those positions are too limiting for a player of Dempsey’s status, though. The Sounders are paying him too much money, and he has too much talent to be bogged down by one singular role.

One has to imagine that a big factor in Dempsey’s decision to return to Major League Soccer was because he wanted to evolve his game a step further. Instead of being a smaller piece of a puzzle in the English Premier League, playing in MLS offered Dempsey the option to be the most talented player on his club.

With that comes the responsibility of shouldering the burden of both playmaking and scoring, two skills Dempsey possesses in spades. Playing with this sort of pressure will not only offer the Sounders more options in attack but it also helps Dempsey prepare for the World Cup in Brazil where he will certainly be counted on to both score and assist.

Once Dempsey's tactical role is firmly established, his performance in MLS can be fairly judged. 

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While David Beckham will forever be the stick that others are measured by in terms of their impact on Major League Soccer, players who starred in the biggest European leagues have been coming to MLS for years.

From Barcelona and Bulgarian national team legend Hristo Stoichkov to modern-day stars like Thierry Henry and Robbie Keane, MLS has a rich history of top-notch talent.

Here are eight more players who've had big careers in Europe that may be headed to MLS one day.

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Welcome to the first edition of the Home Guard, a weekly review of Major League Soccer players in the US Men’s National Team player pool.

Any current fantasy starting XI for the USMNT in Brazil will include 4-7 MLS players. This means MLS players will have a profound impact on the Nats’ performances in Brazil.

Much like the ubiquitous Americans “abroad” features, we’ll look at the players' club performances for the past week, provide some metrics courtesy of MLSsoccer.com, and assess how that player’s performance affected his chances of making the final World Cup roster and the overall quality of the USMNT.

The MLS/USMNT player pool will consist of any current MLS player who was either capped in 2013 or whose name appeared on any of the last three USMNT rosters.

If you think there is an MLS player who could figure into coach Juergen Klinsmann’s plans for Brazil, drop me a note in the comments and I’ll consider adding their name to the Home Guard.

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The 2013 Major League Soccer season is entering the home stretch with the playoff races in both conferences starting to heat up. As teams prepare to get themselves enough points to make the playoffs and put themselves in position for a solid postseason run, let's take a look at the 20 best players in the league right now.

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Three was the magic number in Major League Soccer this weekend. 

Three managers were ejected from matches, three players netted a brace, and Robbie Keane scored three goals against Real Salt Lake. 

As for how the number three relates to this week's Bleacher Report MLS Power Rankings, the new No. 1 club jumped three spots into the top slot. 

Read on to see who claimed the No. 1 position in the latest B/R MLS Power Rankings. 

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