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Cutting Crew: Busch, Retiz, Becerra All Waived
The Columbus Crew this week waived three players in an attempt to meet Major League Soccer's 28-man, March 1 roster deadline.
The Crew, last place a season ago in MLS, will cut ties with goalkeeper Jon Busch, midfielder Jose Retiz, and forward-turned-defender Ivan Becerra.
Busch, 30, made just 17 league appearances for the Crew the past two seasons as a result of injuries. The former Hershey Wildcats star joined the Yellow and Black in 2002, emerging as the club's starter. Busch made 74 league and playoff appearances from 2002 to 2004, and he was named a MLS All-Star in 2004.
Retiz, 28, looks set to quit professional football altogether after 21 appearances in 2006, his only season with the Crew. The Acapulco native joined Columbus from Mexican outfit Santos Laguna but told The Columbus Dispatch this week he will move to California, where he can earn more money by coaching and working construction.
"I thanked them for the chance they gave me," Retiz told the Dispatch. "It’s a pride thing more than anything else, because I hate to leave a last-place team."
Becerra, meantime, is only 22 years old and looks set to join a USL side to further his career.
"At this point it’s about playing games," Becerra told the Dispatch. "I wouldn’t mind staying, but being on the bench and playing in reserve games in not going to help me much."
Becerra, who has yet to make his MLS debut, was on the Crew's reserve team last year after being drafted in the third round of the MLS Supplemental Draft.
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