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    Gaven glitters in loss to Revs

    By Marc Connolly
    ESPN Soccernet.com

    Monday, November 3, 2003

    EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- He's playing a man's game as a teenager and is getting paid for it, but Eddie Gaven is not LeBron James. Never will be, either. He's also not Freddy Adu, as no one is expecting the 17-year-old MetroStar to be a worldwide commodity or be the type of crossover superstar that helps lift soccer's popularity in the U.S. Gaven has enough trouble getting his nameplate on a stall in place of the piece of tape with his name written in Sharpie above a chair that currently signifi ...

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