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    Both Houston and D.C. could struggle in CCC first leg

    By Jeff Carlisle

    Tuesday, March 11, 2008

    Not too long ago, one of the annual rites of spring was watching MLS sides stub their collective toe in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. When they weren't losing to some of the region's more unfancied teams, MLS clubs were usually getting slaughtered by the big boys from Mexico. But in 2007, the pendulum began to swing back in favor of America's league. Both D.C. United and the Houston Dynamo progressed to the semifinals before suffering narrow defeats to Mexican opposition, thus bumping up the l ...

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