Red Bull Arena sold out for MLS Eastern Conference Championship

HARRISON, N.J – Red Bulls goalkeeper Luis Robles Thursday was named the Major League Soccer goalkeeper of the Year.

Fans are the blood that flows through the veins of any professional sports franchise, and the NY Red Bulls will have plenty of it pumping in two weeks’ time.

Robles is the second goalkeeper in team history to win the award. In doing so, he won the majority of votes from the three groups of voters: MLS club management, media, and MLS players.

The 31-year-old Robles played every minute in the MLS season for the Red Bulls this year and helped the club notch the league’s best goal differential. Current Everton keeper Tim Howard was the MLS goalkeeper of the year with the then-MetroStars in 2001. He made 86 saves and recorded nine shutouts with a 1.26 goals-against average while the Red Bulls allowed the fewest goals in the Eastern Conference.

The Red Bulls have sold out the second leg of the Eastern Conference final of the MLS playoffs, the Daily News has learned, selling 25,219 tickets.

His latest accomplishment is shutting out D.C. United in both legs of the Eastern Conference Semifinals and he’ll man the posts in the Eastern Conference Final that starts Sunday.