Los Angeles Galaxy's Robbie Keane and Real Salt Lake defender Jamison Olave (4) try to avoid each other during their MLS Western Conference final at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, Sunday. — UPI LOS ANGELES – David Beckham and Robbie Keane helped LA Galaxy beat Real Salt Lake 3-1 in the Western Conference championship game Sunday, setting up a league-deciding MLS Cup clash against Houston Dynamo. Houston beat Sporting Kansas City 2-0 earlier on Sunday to win the Eastern Conference title in a fiercely-contested encounter in Kansas City, but the Dynamo was deserved winner after grabbing control of the game from the early stages. Landon Donovan gave Galaxy the lead with a 23rd minute penalty and after Alvaro Saborio equalized two minutes later, Beckham's curling cross found the head of Mike Magee to put it 2-1 ahead in the 58th minute. With Real pushing for the equalizer, Irishman Keane took advantage of the gaps at the back and sealed the win in the 68th minute. Real, with defender Jamison Olave back in the starting lineup after a picking up a quad injury in the Western semifinals, had its chances with Kyle Beckerman hitting the post just before half-time. Galaxy, which lost to Real in the 2009 MLS Cup, had the best regular season record and cruised past the New York Red Bulls in the Major League Soccer conference semifinals. Beckham could be playing his last season in Los Angeles with his lucrative five-year contract set to expire at the end of this campaign but he said he was focusing on the Cup, not his future. “I'm a Galaxy player right now. I'm 36-years-old and I still enjoy soccer,” he told reporters. “Right now we're focused on the Cup. We don't want to get too carried away. We did that a couple years ago and paid for it.” In Kansas City, Andre Hainault scrambled Houston in front in the 53rd minute after Jermaine Taylor got on the end of an Adam Moffat free kick. Davis has been the single most infDynamo, MLS champions in 2006 and 2007, made sure of the victory in the 87th minute when Honduran forward Carlo Costly broke clear and blasted home confidently. Galaxy will host Dynamo in the league decider on Nov. 20. FIFA lifts Myanmar ban Football's governing body FIFA said Monday that it has lifted a ban on Myanmar's participation in the 2018 World Cup, but that a fine imposed over the violence wrought by the Asian state's supporters stays. A 2014 World Cup qualifier between Myanmar and Oman in July was abandoned after home fans in the Yangon stadium pelted the pitch with rocks, shoes and water bottles. FIFA confirmed the score at the time of interruption of the game at 2-0 for Oman, who had won the first leg of the game at the same score. Beyond the 2014 World Cup, FIFA had also banned Myanmar from the following World Cup, and imposed a fine of 25,000 francs (20,561 euros; $27,758) on the team. But on Monday, FIFA said it “decided that the appeal lodged by the Myanmar Football Federation be partially upheld.”
