RSL's Harris, Forko join national teams
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Real Salt Lake's Atiba Harris and Willis Forko will be unavailable to help their team seek its third straight victory at Houston this weekend, after being called up to their respective national teams.

Harris could miss two games while playing for his native St. Kitts & Nevis team in its effort to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games in China. The team plays the Dominican Republic and Haiti in the next eight days, in the first round of the Caribbean Zone Qualifying Tournament in Basseterre, St. Kitts.

Forko will be seeking his first international appearance for Liberia when it plays a meaningless qualifying game for the 2008 African Nations Cup against host Rwanda in Kigali on Sunday. Both Liberia and Rwanda already have been eliminated from the African Nations Cup finals next summer.

The defender is expected back in time to join RSL at Toronto on Sept. 15, though he has not played since June 14 because of injury and the renovation of the team's back line.

RSL already was going to be without backup goalkeeper Chris Seitz, who has been called up to the U.S. national soccer team, in advance of its exhibition game against No. 1 Brazil on Sunday in Chicago.

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