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The Major League Soccer Players Union has released the
salary
figures of individual players for the upcoming 2009 season. Look for
more analysis of these numbers in coming days, but for now, here are the 25
highest-paid players in MLS this year, ranked by their total guaranteed
compensation.
| Rank |
Name |
Club |
Salary |
| 1 |
David Beckham* |
Los Angeles Galaxy |
$6,500,000.04 |
| 2 |
Cuauhtemoc Blanco* |
Chicago Fire |
$2,943,702 |
| 3 |
Juan Pablo Angel* |
New York Red Bulls |
$1,798,000 |
| 4 |
Freddie Ljungberg* |
Seattle Sounders FC |
$1,314,000 |
| 5 |
Landon Donovan* |
Los Angeles Galaxy |
$900,000 |
| 6 |
Guillermo Barros Schelotto* |
Columbus Crew |
$775,000 |
| 7 |
Luciano Emilio* |
D.C. United |
$758,857.14 |
| 8 |
Shalrie Joseph |
New England Revolution |
$450,000 |
| 9 |
Christian Gomez |
D.C. United |
$430,000 |
| 10 |
Taylor Twellman |
New England Revolution |
$420,000 |
| 11 |
Brian McBride |
Chicago Fire |
$385,333.33 |
| 12 |
Darren Huckerby |
San Jose Earthquakes |
$385,000 |
| 13 |
Dwayne DeRosario |
Toronto FC |
$357,000 |
| 14 |
Amado Guevara |
Toronto FC |
$323,750 |
| 15 |
Chad Marshall |
Columbus Crew |
$320,000 |
| 16 |
Carl Robinson |
Toronto FC |
$315,000 |
| 17 |
Pablo Vitti |
Toronto FC |
$303,000 |
| 18 |
Pablo Mastroeni |
Colorado Rapids |
$300,500 |
| 19 |
Kasey Keller |
Seattle Sounders FC |
$300,000 |
| 20 |
Jeff Cunningham |
FC Dallas |
$267,500 |
| 21 |
Fred |
D.C. United |
$257,000 |
| 22 |
Justin Mapp |
Chicago Fire |
$255,000 |
| 23 |
Jaime Moreno |
D.C. United |
$250,000 |
| 24 |
Ricardo Clark |
Houston Dynamo |
$248,050 |
| 25 |
Bobby Convey |
San Jose Earthquakes |
$244,500 |
* Designated Player
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