2004 MLS All-Star Game

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The game was originally scheduled to be between the MLS All-Stars against Real Madrid at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Once the Spanish team instead decided to play friendlies in Japan, they opted out of the game in the United States and MLS was forced to change the All-Star Game's format.{{cite web|last=Trusdell |first=Brian |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/mls/2004-06-17-allstar-format_x.htm |title=USATODAY.com - Without Real Madrid, MLS All-Stars revert to East vs. West format |publisher=Usatoday30.usatoday.com |date=2004-06-17 |accessdate=2022-06-08}} The MLS All-Stars eventually played Real Madrid at their home stadium Santiago Bernabéu in the 2005 Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu.http://espnfc.com/columns/story?id=340377&root=mls&cc=3888 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}

Prior to the All-Star Game, a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the 1994 FIFA World Cup saw the U.S. Team that played the Cup against played a selection of international MLS veterans in two 25-minute halves.{{cite web|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ID/25609/|title = News Archive}} The game finished 2-2, with Raúl Díaz Arce and Mauricio Cienfuegos tying the game in the second-half after the Americans built a lead with Eric Wynalda and Hugo Perez.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30367-2004Jul31.html?nav=rss_sports/leaguesandsports/mls |title=East All-Stars, Heat Are Winners at RFK |work=washingtonpost.com |date=2004-08-01 |accessdate=2022-06-08}}

;U.S. 1994 World Cup Squad

• Tony Meola, Mike Burns, Alexi Lalas, Cle Kooiman, Thomas Dooley, John Harkes, Hugo Pérez, Tab Ramos, Eric Wynalda, Frank Klopas Cobi Jones, Juergen Sommer, Mike Sorber, Marcelo Balboa, Paul Caligiuri, Fernando Clavijo.
• Coach: Bora Milutinović

;MLS International Stars

• Jorge Campos, Mike Emenalo, Richard Gough, Martín Vásquez, Frank Yallop, Mauricio Cienfuegos, Marco Etcheverry, Peter Nowak, Mauricio Ramos, Carlos Valderrama, Robert Warzycha, Raúl Díaz Arce, Carlos Hermosillo, Luis Hernández, Mo Johnston, Giovanni Savarese.
• Coach: Bruce Arena

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|date=July 31, 2004

|time=20:00 EST

|event = 2004 MLS All-Star Game

|team1=MLS West {{flagicon|USA}}

|score=2–3

|report=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120727030859/http://www.mlssoccer.com/history/allstar/2004 Report]

|team2={{flagicon|USA}} MLS East

|goals1=

• Ching {{goal|43}}
• Kreis {{goal|89}}

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• Guevara {{goal|20||22|pen.}}
• Eskandarian {{goal|74}}

|stadium=RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.

|attendance=21,378

|referee=Michael Kennedy

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120727030859/http://www.mlssoccer.com/history/allstar/2004 2004 MLS All-Star Game Recap]

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