The MetroStars have waived Eduardo Hurtado, the Ecuador international who scored 17 goals and 17 assists in 55 games for the team since arriving from the L.A. Galaxy in April 1998. The MetroStars announced that they needed to trade or release an international player by Dec. 1 in order to comply with Major League Soccer’s limit on foreign-born players. (They are adding GermanyÆs Lothar Matthaeus for the 2000 season.) But HurtadoÆs release comes as no surprise; newly appointed Metros coach Octavio Zambrano was at the GalaxyÆs helm when Hurtado was traded to the MetroStars for Wellington Sanchez.