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Sources: MLS to change policy

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06:42 AM ET 09.05 | The mess that Major League Soccer finds itself in this weekend with a number of teams -- including Toronto FC -- playing with depleted rosters because of international call-ups for World Cup qualifying games has forced league bosses to look at changing the rules for 2009, Sun Media has learned. Sources inside the MLS office in New York told Sun Media this week that the league's competition committee meeting scheduled for later this month has re-jigged its agenda to sort out how to keep such international matches from disrupting games again next season. "That will be the No. 1 item on the agenda," the source said. This comes after Tom Anselmi -- COO at TFC's parent Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. -- personally called MLS deputy commissioner Ivan Gazidis to seek a postponement of tomorrow's game against Chivas USA at BMO Stadium. Anselmi and the rest of the TFC front office expressed concern this week that the team will be without nine of 11 starting players for the match. But Gazidis turned down the request, citing conflicts with television contracts that had to be honored.

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