Three Sounders, no Timbers so far on MLS All-Star team

World Cup fans will love the way the MLS All-Star Game is shaping up.

Timbers fans, however, might need to leave their club loyalty at home when they go to Providence Park on Aug. 6 to watch the MLS All-Stars take on Bayern Munich.

In the first step in naming the roster that will battle the German power, Major League Soccer on Wednesday announced the Fan XI, players selected by an online vote of fans. Three members of the Fan XI are Seattle Sounders: Clint Dempsey, DeAndre Yedlin and Obafemi Martins. No Portland Timbers are among the Fan XI, but at least one member of the host club seems likely to be on the final roster for the All-Star Game.

The MLS Fan XI includes eight members of the United States team that competed in Brazil: Dempsey, Yedlin, Matt Besler and Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City), Kyle Beckerman and Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake), Omar Gonzalez (Los Angeles Galaxy), and Michael Bradley (Toronto FC). The other three members of the Fan XI played in previous World Cups: Landon Donovan (Los Angeles) for the USA, Thierry Henry (New York) for France and Martins for Nigeria.

Bayern Munich’s roster features 14 players who represented their countries in Brazil. Among them are seven members of Germany’s World Cup championship team, including Mario Götze who scored the Cup-winning goal.

Timbers coach Caleb Porter will coach the MLS All-Stars. On Saturday he is scheduled to announce the other seven members of the game-day roster at halftime of the ESPN2 broadcast of the match between Sporting Kansas City and Los Angeles. Porter will select the game day roster for the All-Star Game from a pool of the Fan XI, the two picks by commissioner Don Garber, and players that have received at least two votes from their fellow players.

While 18 are on the game day roster, a total of 32 players are honored as MLS All-Stars, per the collective bargaining agreement.