(Portland, OR)  --  Portland Timbers midfielder Darlington Nagbe is nearing obtaining United States citizenship.  The "Washington Post" reports the paperwork should be completed sometime in September.  The Timbers star, in his fifth season in MLS after playing collegiately at Akron University for Caleb Porter, was born in Liberia and after being uprooted by the civil war in that country, eventually moved to Ohio as a child.  He says he would have interest in playing for the US national team.