Tony Meola's first professional head coaching gig lasted all of nine months, the former star goalkeeper for the Kansas City Wizards was fired this past week by NASL side, the Jacksonville Armada. Meola was named head coach of the club in November of 2015 and had led the Armada to a 2-10-6 record so far in the combined spring and fall season. Of teams that have played both the spring and the fall, that's the worst record in the league. He was the team's fourth head coach in their very short history and also served as the club's technical director during that time as well.
Also this week, Teal Bunbury and Kei Kamara both scored for the New England Revolution as they advanced to the 2016 US Open Cup final beating the Chicago Fire 3-1 on Tuesday night. They'll play the winner of tonight's game between the LA Galaxy and FC Dallas.
Here is the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Vicente Arze
Jamar Beasley
Pablo Escobar
Brian Fekete
Jeferson
Neven Markovic
Victor Munoz
Akeem Priestley
Jordi Quintilla
Brendan Ruiz
Matt Taylor
MLS
Jalil Anibaba - Houston - Started and played 90 minutes in Houston's 1-0 loss to Montreal.
Teal Bunbury - New England - Did not dress in New England's 4-1 loss to Toronto. Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in New England's 3-1 USOC win over Chicago.
Servando Carrasco - Orlando City - Started and played 90 minutes in Orlando's 3-1 loss to Seattle.
Aurelien Collin - New York - Started and played 90 minutes in New York's 3-0 win over Antigua GFC. Came off the bench and played 60 minutes in New York's 2-2 draw with LA.
Marcel de Jong - Vancouver - Started and played 90 minutes in Vancouver's 2-0 loss to Colorado.
Amadou Dia - Montreal - Did not dress in Montreal's 1-0 win over Houston.
Herculez Gomez - Seattle - Dressed but did not play in Seattle's 3-1 win over Orlando.
Michael Harrington - Chicago - Started and played 90 minutes in Chicago's 3-1 loss to RSL. Started and played 89 minutes in Chicago's 3-1 USOC loss to New England.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - Started and played 90 minutes in Portland's 2-1 win over Dragon. Started and played 90 minutes in Portland's 3-0 win over KC.
Kei Kamara - New England - Started and played 80 minutes in New England's 4-1 loss to Toronto. Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in New England's 3-1 USOC win over Chicago.
Chris Konopka - Portland - Dressed but did not play in both of Portland's games.
Eric Kronberg - Montreal - Dressed but did not play in Montreal's 1-0 win over Houston.
Mikey Lopez - NYCFC - Dressed but did not play in NYCFC's 0-0 draw with San Jose.
Yura Movsisyan - Salt Lake - Did not dress in Salt Lake's 1-0 loss to Toronto. Dressed but did not play in RSL's 3-1 win over Chicago.
Amobi Okugo - Portland - Started and played 90 minutes in Portland's 2-1 win over Dragon. Started and played 90 minutes in Portland's 3-0 win over KC.
Tony Rocha - Orlando - Dressed but did not play in Orlando's 3-1 loss to Seattle.
CJ Sapong - Philadelphia - Started and played 90 minutes in Philadelphia's 2-2 draw with DC.
Tyson Wahl - Columbus - No game this week.
Sal Zizzo - New York - Did not dress in New York's 3-0 win over Antigua GFC. Came off the bench and played 58 minutes in New York's 2-2 draw with LA.
NASL
Bernardo Anor - Minnesota (loan) -Out injured.
Stefan Antonijevic - Tampa Bay - Did not dress in Tampa's 2-1 win over Fort Lauderdale.
Omar Bravo - Carolina - Started and played 72 minutes, scoring a goal in Carolina's 2-2 draw with Jacksonville.
Mechack Jerome - Jacksonville - Started and played 90 minutes in Jacksonville's 5-2 loss to Indy. Dressed but did not play in Jacksonville's 2-2 draw with Carolina.
Michael Kafari - Puerto Rico - Started and played 90 minutes in Puerto Rico's 1-0 loss to Edmonton.
James Marcelin - Carolina - Did not dress in Carolina's 2-2 draw with Jacksonville.
Rauwshan McKenzie - Oklahoma City - Did not dress in OKC's 1-1 draw with New York.
US
Christian Duke - Swope Park - Started and played 88 minutes in Swope's 1-1 draw with St. Louis. Game vs Tulsa was postponed.
Cyprian Hedrick - Oklahoma City - Started and played 90 minutes in OKC's 0-0 draw with Rio Grande Valley.
Ryan James - Rochester - Did not dress in Rochester's 1-0 loss to Richmond. Started and played 90 minutes in Richmond's 2-0 win over Wilmington.
Alex Martinez - Charlotte - Came off the bench and played 31 minutes in Charlotte's 1-1 draw with Charleston. Came off the bench and played 17 minutes in Charlotte's 2-2 draw with Bethlehem.
Michael Thomas - Oklahoma City - Started and played 90 minutes in OKC's 0-0 draw with Rio Grande Valley.
Yomby William - Richmond - Started and played 90 minutes in Richmond's 1-0 win over Rochester. Came off the bench and played 22 minutes in Richmond's 2-1 win over Montreal.
PDL
Adnan Gabeljic - San Francisco - Offseason.
Faik Hajderovic - St. Louis U23 - Offseason.
Indoor
Pat Healey - Baltimore - Offseason.
Mike Jones - Dallas - Offseason.
Boris Pardo - Missouri - Offseason.
International
Korede Aiyegbusi - FC Mashhad - Iran - Lost 2-0 to Saipa.
Scott Angevine - YPA - Finland - Defeated VIFK 1-0.
Claudio Bieler - Belgrano - Argentina - No game until 8/12.
Reinaldo Brenes - Belen Siglo XXI - Did not dress in Belen's 1-0 win over San Carlos.
Sunil Chhetri - Bengaluru - India - No game until 9/14.
Jorge Claros - Alajuelense - Costa Rica - Did not dress in Alajuelense's 1-1 draw with Cartagines.
Daneil Cyrus - W Connection - Offseason.
Toni Dovale - CD Leganes - Spain - No game until 8/22.
Luis Gil - Queretaro - Mexico - Did not dress in Queretaro's 0-0 draw with Chivas.
Will John - RoPS - Finland - Came off the bench and played 15 minutes in RoPS' 2-0 win over VPS.
Igor Juliao - Fluminense - Brazil - Did not dress in Fluminense's 2-2 draw with Internacional.
Igor Kostrov - Slavia-Mozyr - Belarus - Came off the bench and played 45 minutes in Slavia's 2-0 win over Naftan.
Luis Marin - CD Temuco - Chile - Started and played 90 minutes in Temuco's 3-1 loss to Deportes Iquique
Michal Mravec - RoPS - Finland - Came off the bench and played 7 minuets in RoPS' 2-0 win over VPS.
Krisztian Nemeth - Al-Gharafa - Qatar - Offseason.
Erik Palmer-Brown - Porto (loan) - Portugal - Did not dress in Porto's 2-1 loss to Desportivo Aves.
Pablo Punyed - IBV - Iceland - Started and played 90 minutes in IBV's 2-0 loss to Fjolnir. Started and played 90 minutes in IBV's 1-0 win over Vikingur Olafsvik.
Oriol Rosell - Belenenses (Sporting Club de Portugal)(loan) - Portugal - No game utnil 8/14
Soony Saad - Pattaya United (BEC Tero Sasana) - Started and played 90 minutes in Pattaya's 2-1 loss to Samut Prakan.
Daniel Salloi - Gyirmot FC Gyor (loan) - Hungary - Did not dress in Gyirmot's 4-0 loss to Videoton.
Peter Schmetz - Wuppertaler SV - Germany - Started and played 90 minutes in Wuppertaler's 2-2 draw with Fortuna Dusseldorf II. Started and played 90 minutes in Wuppertaler's 0-0 draw with Rot-Weiss Essen.
Yann Songo'o - Plymouth Argyle - Started and played 90 minutes in Plymouth's 3-0 loss to Luton Town. Started and played 90 minutes in Plymouth's 2-0 cup loss to Reading.
Kevin Souter - Deveronvale FC - Scotland - Started and played 60 minutes in Deveronvale's 2-1 win over Nairn County.
Martin Steuble - Ceres-La Salle - Philippines - Lost 2-1 to Green Archers.
Milos Stojcev - Atromitos - Greece - No game until 8/21
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Meola Named Jacksonville Coach and Technical Director - Former SKC Wizards Update
Last week's rumors have been confirmed this week as former Kansas City goalkeeper Tony Meola was given his first head coaching job, named the coach and technical director for NASL side, the Jacksonville Armada. Meola will take over the second year NASL franchise after their inaugural season saw them finish in 11th place, bottom of the entire league.
Here's the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Vicente Arze
Mitchell Cardenas
Brian Fekete
Michael Kafari
Neal Kitson
Jonathan Leathers
Kyle Miller
Lawrence Olum
Nelson Pizarro
Yann Songo'o
MLS
Davy Arnaud - DC - Season over.
Teal Bunbury - New England - Season over.
Servando Carrasco - Orlando City - Season over.
Aurelien Collin - Orlando City - Season over.
Daneil Cyrus - Chicago (Loan) - Season over.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - Season over.
Herculez Gomez - Toronto - Season over.
Michael Harrington - Colorado - Season over.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - Started and played 90 minutes in Portland's 3-1 win over Dallas.
Kei Kamara - Columbus - Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in Columbus' 2-0 win over New York.
Chris Konopka - Toronto - Season over.
Eric Kronberg - Montreal - Season over.
CJ Sapong - Philadelphia - Season over.
Khari Stephenson - San Jose - Season over.
Tyson Wahl - Columbus - Started and played 90 minutes in Columbus' 2-0 win over New York.
Sal Zizzo - New York - Started and played 90 minutes in New York's 2-0 loss to Columbus.
NASL
Stefan Antonijevic - Tampa Bay - Season over.
James Marcelin - Fort Lauderdale - Season over.
Rauwshan McKenzie - Atlanta - Season over.
Michal Mravec - Atlanta - Season over.
US
Christian Duke - Swope Park - Season over.
Adnan Gabeljic - Sacramento - Season over.
Cyprian Hedrick - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Mechack Jerome - Charlotte - Season over.
Alex Martinez - Charlotte - Season over.
Victor Munoz - Arizona - Season over.
Tony Rocha - Orlando - Season over.
Michael Thomas - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Yomby William - Richmond - Season over.
Indoor
Jamar Beasley - Tacoma - Played in Tacoma's 6-4 loss to Sonora.
Adnan Gabeljic - St. Louis - Did not play in St. Louis' 10-3 loss to Missouri.
Pat Healey - Baltimore - Had a goal and an assist in Baltimore's 11-1 win over Detroit.
Mike Jones - Dallas - Had a goal and an assist in Dallas' 5-4 loss to Las Vegas.
Boris Pardo - Missouri - Played in Missouri's 10-3 win over St. Louis and 9-5 win over Chicago.
International
Korede Aiyegbusi - AFC United - Sweden - Offseason.
Scott Angevine - KPV - Finland - Offseason.
Claudio Bieler - Quilmes - Argentina - Started and played 90 minutes in Quilmes' 1-0 loss to Olimpo.
Omar Bravo - Chivas - Mexico - Started and played 90 minutes in Chivas' 3-0 loss to Santos Laguna.
Reinaldo Brenes - AD Belen Siglo XXI - Costa Rica - No game this week.
Sunil Chhetri - Mumbai City - India - Started and played 90 minutes in Mumbai's 2-0 loss to Northeast United.
Jorge Claros - Qingdao Jonoon - China - Offseason.
Eloy Colombano - AD Berazategui - Offseason.
Toni Dovale - CD Leganes - Spain - Dressed but did not play in Leganes' 1-0 loss to Ponferradina.
Pablo Escobar - Cúcuta Deportivo - Colombia - Started and played 90 minutes in Cucuta's 2-1 loss to Atletico Nacional.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Tied Humble Lions 0-0.
Jeferson - Vasco da Gama - Brazil - Did not dress in either of Vasco's games.
Will John - RoPS - Finland - Offseason.
Peterson Joseph - Azam FC - Tanzania - Offseason.
Igor Juliao - Macaé - Brazil - Did not dress in Macae's 1-1 draw with Boa.
Igor Kostrov - Dinamo-Auto - Moldova - Started and played 83 minutes in Dinamo's 3-2 loss to Speranta Nisporeni.
Luis Marin - CD Palestino - Chile - Started and played 90 minutes in Palestino's 2-0 win over Colo Colo.
Neven Markovic - KS Lechia Gdansk - Poland - Started and played 90 minutes in Lechia's 3-0 loss to Cracovia Krakow.
Yura Movsisyan - Spartak Moscow - Russia - Did not dress in Spartak's 3-2 win over Krasnodar.
Akeem Priestley - Sheikh Russel KC - Bangladesh - Offseason.
Pablo Punyed - IBV - Iceland - Offseason.
Oriol Rosell - Sporting Club de Portugal - Portugal - Did not dress in Sporting's 2-1 win over Benfica.
Soony Saad - BEC Tero Sasana FC - Thailand - Did not dress in BEC's 5-0 loss to Suphanburi.
Peter Schmetz - Wuppertaler SV - Germany - No game this week.
Kevin Souter - Deveronvale FC - Scotland - Scored two goals in Deveronvale's 6-1 win over Clach.
Martin Steuble - Ceres-La Salle - Philippines - Offseason.
Milos Stojcev - Atromitos - Greece - Came off the bench and played 27 minutes in Atromitos' 1-0 loss to Asteras Tripolis.
Matt Taylor - Saarbrücken - Germany - Started and played 89 minutes, scoring a goal in Saarbrucken's 1-0 win over Kickers Offenbach.
Here's the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Vicente Arze
Mitchell Cardenas
Brian Fekete
Michael Kafari
Neal Kitson
Jonathan Leathers
Kyle Miller
Lawrence Olum
Nelson Pizarro
Yann Songo'o
MLS
Davy Arnaud - DC - Season over.
Teal Bunbury - New England - Season over.
Servando Carrasco - Orlando City - Season over.
Aurelien Collin - Orlando City - Season over.
Daneil Cyrus - Chicago (Loan) - Season over.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - Season over.
Herculez Gomez - Toronto - Season over.
Michael Harrington - Colorado - Season over.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - Started and played 90 minutes in Portland's 3-1 win over Dallas.
Kei Kamara - Columbus - Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in Columbus' 2-0 win over New York.
Chris Konopka - Toronto - Season over.
Eric Kronberg - Montreal - Season over.
CJ Sapong - Philadelphia - Season over.
Khari Stephenson - San Jose - Season over.
Tyson Wahl - Columbus - Started and played 90 minutes in Columbus' 2-0 win over New York.
Sal Zizzo - New York - Started and played 90 minutes in New York's 2-0 loss to Columbus.
NASL
Stefan Antonijevic - Tampa Bay - Season over.
James Marcelin - Fort Lauderdale - Season over.
Rauwshan McKenzie - Atlanta - Season over.
Michal Mravec - Atlanta - Season over.
US
Christian Duke - Swope Park - Season over.
Adnan Gabeljic - Sacramento - Season over.
Cyprian Hedrick - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Mechack Jerome - Charlotte - Season over.
Alex Martinez - Charlotte - Season over.
Victor Munoz - Arizona - Season over.
Tony Rocha - Orlando - Season over.
Michael Thomas - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Yomby William - Richmond - Season over.
Indoor
Jamar Beasley - Tacoma - Played in Tacoma's 6-4 loss to Sonora.
Adnan Gabeljic - St. Louis - Did not play in St. Louis' 10-3 loss to Missouri.
Pat Healey - Baltimore - Had a goal and an assist in Baltimore's 11-1 win over Detroit.
Mike Jones - Dallas - Had a goal and an assist in Dallas' 5-4 loss to Las Vegas.
Boris Pardo - Missouri - Played in Missouri's 10-3 win over St. Louis and 9-5 win over Chicago.
International
Korede Aiyegbusi - AFC United - Sweden - Offseason.
Scott Angevine - KPV - Finland - Offseason.
Claudio Bieler - Quilmes - Argentina - Started and played 90 minutes in Quilmes' 1-0 loss to Olimpo.
Omar Bravo - Chivas - Mexico - Started and played 90 minutes in Chivas' 3-0 loss to Santos Laguna.
Reinaldo Brenes - AD Belen Siglo XXI - Costa Rica - No game this week.
Sunil Chhetri - Mumbai City - India - Started and played 90 minutes in Mumbai's 2-0 loss to Northeast United.
Jorge Claros - Qingdao Jonoon - China - Offseason.
Eloy Colombano - AD Berazategui - Offseason.
Toni Dovale - CD Leganes - Spain - Dressed but did not play in Leganes' 1-0 loss to Ponferradina.
Pablo Escobar - Cúcuta Deportivo - Colombia - Started and played 90 minutes in Cucuta's 2-1 loss to Atletico Nacional.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Tied Humble Lions 0-0.
Jeferson - Vasco da Gama - Brazil - Did not dress in either of Vasco's games.
Will John - RoPS - Finland - Offseason.
Peterson Joseph - Azam FC - Tanzania - Offseason.
Igor Juliao - Macaé - Brazil - Did not dress in Macae's 1-1 draw with Boa.
Igor Kostrov - Dinamo-Auto - Moldova - Started and played 83 minutes in Dinamo's 3-2 loss to Speranta Nisporeni.
Luis Marin - CD Palestino - Chile - Started and played 90 minutes in Palestino's 2-0 win over Colo Colo.
Neven Markovic - KS Lechia Gdansk - Poland - Started and played 90 minutes in Lechia's 3-0 loss to Cracovia Krakow.
Yura Movsisyan - Spartak Moscow - Russia - Did not dress in Spartak's 3-2 win over Krasnodar.
Akeem Priestley - Sheikh Russel KC - Bangladesh - Offseason.
Pablo Punyed - IBV - Iceland - Offseason.
Oriol Rosell - Sporting Club de Portugal - Portugal - Did not dress in Sporting's 2-1 win over Benfica.
Soony Saad - BEC Tero Sasana FC - Thailand - Did not dress in BEC's 5-0 loss to Suphanburi.
Peter Schmetz - Wuppertaler SV - Germany - No game this week.
Kevin Souter - Deveronvale FC - Scotland - Scored two goals in Deveronvale's 6-1 win over Clach.
Martin Steuble - Ceres-La Salle - Philippines - Offseason.
Milos Stojcev - Atromitos - Greece - Came off the bench and played 27 minutes in Atromitos' 1-0 loss to Asteras Tripolis.
Matt Taylor - Saarbrücken - Germany - Started and played 89 minutes, scoring a goal in Saarbrucken's 1-0 win over Kickers Offenbach.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Meola Lead Candidate for Jacksonville Job - Former SKC Wizards Update
Tony Meola could be getting his first head coaching gig. The former KC goalkeeper and league MVP is apparently the leading candidate to take over the Jacksonville Armada of the NASL. Back in September, the Armada fired their head coach, Guillermo Hoyos, the club's first head coach. Now it appears that Meola could get his first crack at a coaching gig if things come off with the Armada.
Here's the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Vicente Arze
Mitchell Cardenas
Brian Fekete
Michael Kafari
Neal Kitson
Jonathan Leathers
Kyle Miller
Lawrence Olum
Nelson Pizarro
Yann Songo'o
MLS
Davy Arnaud - DC - Season over.
Teal Bunbury - New England - Season over.
Servando Carrasco - Orlando City - Season over.
Aurelien Collin - Orlando City - Season over.
Daneil Cyrus - Chicago (Loan) - Started and played 90 minutes in Trinidad's 2-1 win over Guatemala and in their 0-0 draw with the USA.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - Season over.
Herculez Gomez - Toronto - Season over.
Michael Harrington - Colorado - Season over.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - No game this week.
Kei Kamara - Columbus - No game this week.
Chris Konopka - Toronto - Season over.
Eric Kronberg - Montreal - Season over.
CJ Sapong - Philadelphia - Season over.
Khari Stephenson - San Jose - Season over.
Tyson Wahl - Columbus - No game this week.
Sal Zizzo - New York - No game this week.
NASL
Stefan Antonijevic - Tampa Bay - Season over.
James Marcelin - Fort Lauderdale -
Rauwshan McKenzie - Atlanta - Season over.
Michal Mravec - Atlanta - Season over.
US
Christian Duke - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Adnan Gabeljic - Sacramento - Season over.
Cyprian Hedrick - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Mechack Jerome - Charlotte - Season over.
Alex Martinez - Charlotte - Season over.
Victor Munoz - Arizona - Season over.
Tony Rocha - Orlando - Season over.
Michael Thomas - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Yomby William - Richmond - Season over.
Indoor
Jamar Beasley - Tacoma - Played in Tacoma's 7-2 win over Turlock, their 9-5 win over Sacramento, and their 4-3 win over Sacramento.
Adnan Gabeljic - St. Louis - Did not play in St. Louis' 9-7 loss to Chicago.
Pat Healey - Baltimore - Had 2 assists in Baltimore's 6-0 win over Syracuse.
Mike Jones - Dallas - Played in Dallas' 8-6 loss to Missouri.
Boris Pardo - Missouri -Played in Missouri's 8-6 win over Dallas and 11-1 win over Harrisburg.
International
Korede Aiyegbusi - AFC United - Sweden - Offseason.
Scott Angevine - KPV - Finland - Offseason.
Claudio Bieler - Quilmes - Argentina - No game this week.
Omar Bravo - Chivas - Mexico - Started and played 90 minutes in Chivas' 1-0 win over Atlas.
Reinaldo Brenes - AD Belen Siglo XXI - Costa Rica - Did not dress in Belen's 1-0 loss to Perez Zeledon.
Sunil Chhetri - Mumbai City - India - Dressed but did not play in Mumbai's 0-0 draw with Pune City. Started and played 90 minutes in Mumbai's 7-0 loss to Goa.
Jorge Claros - Qingdao Jonoon - China - Offseason.
Eloy Colombano - AD Berazategui - Drew San Telmo 2-2.
Toni Dovale - CD Leganes - Spain - Came off the bench and played 24 minutes in Leganes' 3-0 win over Alcorcon.
Pablo Escobar - Cúcuta Deportivo - Colombia - No game this week.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Defeated Boys Town 2-1.
Jeferson - Vasco da Gama - Brazil - No game this week.
Will John - RoPS - Finland - Offseason.
Peterson Joseph - Azam FC - Tanzania - Offseason.
Igor Juliao - Macaé - Brazil - Did not dress in Macae's 4-3 win over Atletico Go.
Igor Kostrov - Dinamo-Auto - Moldova - No game this week.
Luis Marin - CD Palestino - Chile - No game this week.
Neven Markovic - KS Lechia Gdansk - Poland - No game this week.
Yura Movsisyan - Spartak Moscow - Russia - No game this week.
Akeem Priestley - Sheikh Russel KC - Bangladesh - Offseason.
Pablo Punyed - IBV - Iceland - Offseason.
Oriol Rosell - Sporting Club de Portugal - Portugal - No game this week.
Soony Saad - BEC Tero Sasana FC - Thailand - Lost 1-0 to Bangkok United.
Peter Schmetz - Wuppertaler SV - Germany - Started and played 90 minute sin Wuppertaler's 3-1 win over TSV Meerbusch.
Kevin Souter - Deveronvale FC - Scotland - Started and played 68 minutes in Deveronvale's 1-0 win over Fraserburgh.
Martin Steuble - Ceres-La Salle - Philippines - Started and played 90 minutes in the Philippines' 2-0 loss to Bahrain. Started and played 90 minutes in the Philippines' 1-0 loss to Yemen.
Milos Stojcev - Atromitos - Greece - No game this week.
Matt Taylor - Saarbrücken - Germany - Started and played 88 minutes, scoring a goal in Saarbrucken's 3-0 win over Saar Saarbrucken.
Here's the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Vicente Arze
Mitchell Cardenas
Brian Fekete
Michael Kafari
Neal Kitson
Jonathan Leathers
Kyle Miller
Lawrence Olum
Nelson Pizarro
Yann Songo'o
MLS
Davy Arnaud - DC - Season over.
Teal Bunbury - New England - Season over.
Servando Carrasco - Orlando City - Season over.
Aurelien Collin - Orlando City - Season over.
Daneil Cyrus - Chicago (Loan) - Started and played 90 minutes in Trinidad's 2-1 win over Guatemala and in their 0-0 draw with the USA.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - Season over.
Herculez Gomez - Toronto - Season over.
Michael Harrington - Colorado - Season over.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - No game this week.
Kei Kamara - Columbus - No game this week.
Chris Konopka - Toronto - Season over.
Eric Kronberg - Montreal - Season over.
CJ Sapong - Philadelphia - Season over.
Khari Stephenson - San Jose - Season over.
Tyson Wahl - Columbus - No game this week.
Sal Zizzo - New York - No game this week.
NASL
Stefan Antonijevic - Tampa Bay - Season over.
James Marcelin - Fort Lauderdale -
Rauwshan McKenzie - Atlanta - Season over.
Michal Mravec - Atlanta - Season over.
US
Christian Duke - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Adnan Gabeljic - Sacramento - Season over.
Cyprian Hedrick - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Mechack Jerome - Charlotte - Season over.
Alex Martinez - Charlotte - Season over.
Victor Munoz - Arizona - Season over.
Tony Rocha - Orlando - Season over.
Michael Thomas - Oklahoma City - Season over.
Yomby William - Richmond - Season over.
Indoor
Jamar Beasley - Tacoma - Played in Tacoma's 7-2 win over Turlock, their 9-5 win over Sacramento, and their 4-3 win over Sacramento.
Adnan Gabeljic - St. Louis - Did not play in St. Louis' 9-7 loss to Chicago.
Pat Healey - Baltimore - Had 2 assists in Baltimore's 6-0 win over Syracuse.
Mike Jones - Dallas - Played in Dallas' 8-6 loss to Missouri.
Boris Pardo - Missouri -Played in Missouri's 8-6 win over Dallas and 11-1 win over Harrisburg.
International
Korede Aiyegbusi - AFC United - Sweden - Offseason.
Scott Angevine - KPV - Finland - Offseason.
Claudio Bieler - Quilmes - Argentina - No game this week.
Omar Bravo - Chivas - Mexico - Started and played 90 minutes in Chivas' 1-0 win over Atlas.
Reinaldo Brenes - AD Belen Siglo XXI - Costa Rica - Did not dress in Belen's 1-0 loss to Perez Zeledon.
Sunil Chhetri - Mumbai City - India - Dressed but did not play in Mumbai's 0-0 draw with Pune City. Started and played 90 minutes in Mumbai's 7-0 loss to Goa.
Jorge Claros - Qingdao Jonoon - China - Offseason.
Eloy Colombano - AD Berazategui - Drew San Telmo 2-2.
Toni Dovale - CD Leganes - Spain - Came off the bench and played 24 minutes in Leganes' 3-0 win over Alcorcon.
Pablo Escobar - Cúcuta Deportivo - Colombia - No game this week.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Defeated Boys Town 2-1.
Jeferson - Vasco da Gama - Brazil - No game this week.
Will John - RoPS - Finland - Offseason.
Peterson Joseph - Azam FC - Tanzania - Offseason.
Igor Juliao - Macaé - Brazil - Did not dress in Macae's 4-3 win over Atletico Go.
Igor Kostrov - Dinamo-Auto - Moldova - No game this week.
Luis Marin - CD Palestino - Chile - No game this week.
Neven Markovic - KS Lechia Gdansk - Poland - No game this week.
Yura Movsisyan - Spartak Moscow - Russia - No game this week.
Akeem Priestley - Sheikh Russel KC - Bangladesh - Offseason.
Pablo Punyed - IBV - Iceland - Offseason.
Oriol Rosell - Sporting Club de Portugal - Portugal - No game this week.
Soony Saad - BEC Tero Sasana FC - Thailand - Lost 1-0 to Bangkok United.
Peter Schmetz - Wuppertaler SV - Germany - Started and played 90 minute sin Wuppertaler's 3-1 win over TSV Meerbusch.
Kevin Souter - Deveronvale FC - Scotland - Started and played 68 minutes in Deveronvale's 1-0 win over Fraserburgh.
Martin Steuble - Ceres-La Salle - Philippines - Started and played 90 minutes in the Philippines' 2-0 loss to Bahrain. Started and played 90 minutes in the Philippines' 1-0 loss to Yemen.
Milos Stojcev - Atromitos - Greece - No game this week.
Matt Taylor - Saarbrücken - Germany - Started and played 88 minutes, scoring a goal in Saarbrucken's 3-0 win over Saar Saarbrucken.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
#TBT Kansas City's Worst Start to an MLS Season
With Sporting Kansas City off to their worst start to a season since the team started 0-3 in 1999, I figured I'd use this week's Throw Back Thursday to take a look at the start of the 1999 season and how Kansas City got to the point in that season of starting 0-3.
To get to the start KC had in 1999, we first need to look at the end of the 1998 season. To close out the 1998 season, the KC Wizards won just two of their final 10 games, going 2-8 with one shootout loss in that stretch (sound familiar? KC went 2-1-7 down the stretch in 2014). KC ended up losing their final three games, all by shutout, 1-0 to the Fire, 1-0 to Dallas, and 2-0 to San Jose. Kansas City finished bottom of the Western Conference, five points out of a playoff spot.
In the offseason, Kansas City made a big move, trading away MLS Best XI member, Mark Chung and goalkeeper, Mike Ammann to the NY/NJ Metrostars in exchange for US national team veterans, Alexi Lalas and Tony Meola. At the time both teams had to have felt good about the move, NY/NJ got themselves a very good midfielder and a goalkeeper who did quite well for KC in the 1997 before having a down 1998. KC meanwhile got two of the most recognizable US Soccer players of that time in Lalas and Meola, so hopes were renewed and high for the 1999, especially with the addition of 1990 World Cup veteran, Chris Henderson as well. Unfortunately, for both teams actually, things don't always turn out as planned as 1999 was a disaster for both.
The season took a big blow just days before the season started, Meola tore his ACL in practice (while playing in the field) and had to have an arthroscopic ACL reconstruction done that put him out for six months. On top of that, his back up, Chris Snitko hurt his back and would miss the first two games of the season. In their place, Kansas City brought in unknown Cesar Delgado for the season opener against the Dallas Burn in Dallas. Relatively little is known about Delgado, even by the club, for years his number had been represented as ?? on rosters because his actual number wasn't known/remembered. Needless to say the opener didn't go well as Delgado and the KC defense gave up four goals as the team fell in the opener 4-0. Once the team got back to KC, I remember hearing stories that the next day at practice, Delgado didn't practice with the team, instead they had him sit inside and watch the tape of the game in Dallas. Delgado was unceremoniously waived by the club and the team started their home opener against the Chicago Fire with veteran David Winner in goal. Winner had been in MLS since its inception, mainly as a backup, spending time with Columbus, New England, Chicago, and Miami before coming to KC in the 1999 season. Winner would go on to play in eight games for KC, but the opener against Chicago saw Winner give up three goals as the Fire won 3-0, putting KC at 0-2 and stretching their goalless streak to five straight games.
For the third game of the season, Kansas City had Snitko back and able to play, so he got the start ahead of Winner, but the losing streak continued as KC lost 1-0 at home to the New England Revolution. At this point the Wizards hadn't scored since the 80th minute of the team's 5-1 win over the San Jose Clash in the fourth to last game of the 1998 season, a span of 550 minutes as the team headed into their fourth game of the season against the same Clash team.
In the game against the Clash, Kansas City found themselves with a man advantage early on after San Jose's Caleb Porter (now Portland's coach) was sent off just after the half hour giving about 60 minutes to play with the advantage. KC couldn't take advantage of it though, and fell behind with a goal just before half time by Ronald Cerritos, who caused KC all sorts of problems throughout his MLS career. As the game rolled on it looked like KC was going to be shutout for the seventh straight game. In the 87th minute though, Chris Brown was able to get down the line, past his marker and roll a shot towards the far corner that was just a bit too far in front of Henderson, but the ball rolled into the net tying the game, and ending KC's shutout streak at 637 minutes. The game ended up going to a shootout where Cerritos and Eddie Lewis both scored while Nino Da Silva, Preki, Paul Wright, and Mo Johnston all missed (all had their efforts saved except Preki who put his effort wide). KC did catch a bit of a break in the shootout, Snitko got sent off during the shootout for a handball outside the box. Referee Kevin Stott though incorrectly allowed KC to bring in Winner to finish out the shootout.
After the game, things really came to a head as Meola and head coach Ron Newman traded jabs in the media with Meola saying that Newman didn't prepare the team to play San Jose during the week before the game, and Newman responding, calling out the goalkeeper for speaking publicly about it and stating his disgust with the comments.
On the surface, the quotes from Meola would seem to point towards a coach who has lost his locker room when players are that critical in the media about the coach. And sure enough, Newman "resigned" from his position later in the week. Newman was replaced by Ken Fogarty as the team's interim head coach. Fogarty was in charge of the club for 3 games, going 0-3 (1 a shootout loss), getting shut out two times before new head coach, Bob Gansler was hired. In his first game, Gansler led KC to its first win, 2-1 over the LA Galaxy. The season as a whole though didn't go well for KC, they finished the season 8-24, second worst in the league, just ahead of the previously mentioned Metrostars.
Hopefully KC can reverse the fortunes for their second worst start in team history here quickly. Below are the highlights of Newman's last game in charge, the 1-1(0-2) shootout loss to the San Jose Clash.
To get to the start KC had in 1999, we first need to look at the end of the 1998 season. To close out the 1998 season, the KC Wizards won just two of their final 10 games, going 2-8 with one shootout loss in that stretch (sound familiar? KC went 2-1-7 down the stretch in 2014). KC ended up losing their final three games, all by shutout, 1-0 to the Fire, 1-0 to Dallas, and 2-0 to San Jose. Kansas City finished bottom of the Western Conference, five points out of a playoff spot.
In the offseason, Kansas City made a big move, trading away MLS Best XI member, Mark Chung and goalkeeper, Mike Ammann to the NY/NJ Metrostars in exchange for US national team veterans, Alexi Lalas and Tony Meola. At the time both teams had to have felt good about the move, NY/NJ got themselves a very good midfielder and a goalkeeper who did quite well for KC in the 1997 before having a down 1998. KC meanwhile got two of the most recognizable US Soccer players of that time in Lalas and Meola, so hopes were renewed and high for the 1999, especially with the addition of 1990 World Cup veteran, Chris Henderson as well. Unfortunately, for both teams actually, things don't always turn out as planned as 1999 was a disaster for both.
The season took a big blow just days before the season started, Meola tore his ACL in practice (while playing in the field) and had to have an arthroscopic ACL reconstruction done that put him out for six months. On top of that, his back up, Chris Snitko hurt his back and would miss the first two games of the season. In their place, Kansas City brought in unknown Cesar Delgado for the season opener against the Dallas Burn in Dallas. Relatively little is known about Delgado, even by the club, for years his number had been represented as ?? on rosters because his actual number wasn't known/remembered. Needless to say the opener didn't go well as Delgado and the KC defense gave up four goals as the team fell in the opener 4-0. Once the team got back to KC, I remember hearing stories that the next day at practice, Delgado didn't practice with the team, instead they had him sit inside and watch the tape of the game in Dallas. Delgado was unceremoniously waived by the club and the team started their home opener against the Chicago Fire with veteran David Winner in goal. Winner had been in MLS since its inception, mainly as a backup, spending time with Columbus, New England, Chicago, and Miami before coming to KC in the 1999 season. Winner would go on to play in eight games for KC, but the opener against Chicago saw Winner give up three goals as the Fire won 3-0, putting KC at 0-2 and stretching their goalless streak to five straight games.
For the third game of the season, Kansas City had Snitko back and able to play, so he got the start ahead of Winner, but the losing streak continued as KC lost 1-0 at home to the New England Revolution. At this point the Wizards hadn't scored since the 80th minute of the team's 5-1 win over the San Jose Clash in the fourth to last game of the 1998 season, a span of 550 minutes as the team headed into their fourth game of the season against the same Clash team.
In the game against the Clash, Kansas City found themselves with a man advantage early on after San Jose's Caleb Porter (now Portland's coach) was sent off just after the half hour giving about 60 minutes to play with the advantage. KC couldn't take advantage of it though, and fell behind with a goal just before half time by Ronald Cerritos, who caused KC all sorts of problems throughout his MLS career. As the game rolled on it looked like KC was going to be shutout for the seventh straight game. In the 87th minute though, Chris Brown was able to get down the line, past his marker and roll a shot towards the far corner that was just a bit too far in front of Henderson, but the ball rolled into the net tying the game, and ending KC's shutout streak at 637 minutes. The game ended up going to a shootout where Cerritos and Eddie Lewis both scored while Nino Da Silva, Preki, Paul Wright, and Mo Johnston all missed (all had their efforts saved except Preki who put his effort wide). KC did catch a bit of a break in the shootout, Snitko got sent off during the shootout for a handball outside the box. Referee Kevin Stott though incorrectly allowed KC to bring in Winner to finish out the shootout.
After the game, things really came to a head as Meola and head coach Ron Newman traded jabs in the media with Meola saying that Newman didn't prepare the team to play San Jose during the week before the game, and Newman responding, calling out the goalkeeper for speaking publicly about it and stating his disgust with the comments.
On the surface, the quotes from Meola would seem to point towards a coach who has lost his locker room when players are that critical in the media about the coach. And sure enough, Newman "resigned" from his position later in the week. Newman was replaced by Ken Fogarty as the team's interim head coach. Fogarty was in charge of the club for 3 games, going 0-3 (1 a shootout loss), getting shut out two times before new head coach, Bob Gansler was hired. In his first game, Gansler led KC to its first win, 2-1 over the LA Galaxy. The season as a whole though didn't go well for KC, they finished the season 8-24, second worst in the league, just ahead of the previously mentioned Metrostars.
Hopefully KC can reverse the fortunes for their second worst start in team history here quickly. Below are the highlights of Newman's last game in charge, the 1-1(0-2) shootout loss to the San Jose Clash.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Kamara Returns to Action - Former SKC Wizards Update
Kei Kamara has been missing action for Middlesbrough for the last month or so with a knee injury. Today he returned to action, playing with Boro's U-21 team against Arsenal. In the game Kamara scored twice as Middlesbrough won 3-1 over the Gunners. Also in England, former defender, Yann Songo'o looks to be making a loan move during the current window. Songo'o has already turned down a loan move to Ross County in Scotland because he didn't want to go that far north. Now he's also been linked with a loan to another Scottish club, Kilmarnock. And while one of KC's greatest goalkeepers is getting into his new position in Oklahoma, another, Tony Meola is a candidate for another pro coaching job, he's a candidate for Jacksonville's NASL team.
Here's the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Jamar Beasley
Jose Burciaga
Julio Cesar
Edson Elcock
Brian Fekete
Aaron Hohlbein
Mike Jones
Scott Sealy
Khari Stephenson
Ivan Trujillo
Michael Thomas
Shavar Thomas
Diego Walsh
Konrad Warzycha
MLS
Davy Arnaud - DC - Offseason.
Bobby Convey - New York - Offseason.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - Offseason.
Michael Harrington - Portland - Offseason.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - Offseason.
Eddie Johnson - DC - Offseason.
Chris Konopka - Toronto - Offseason
Rauwshan McKenzie - Portland - Offseason.
Tyson Wahl - Columbus - Offseason
NASL
Stefan Antonijevic - Fort Lauderdale - Offseason.
USL
Cyprian Hedrick - Phoenix - Offseason.
Neal Kitson - Phoenix - Offseason.
Nelson Pizarro - Los Angeles - Offseason.
Mike Reidy - Rochester - Offseason.
Yomby William - Richmond - Offseason.
John Wilson - Charleston - Offseason.
PDL
Scott Angevine - Des Moines - Offseason
Other
Birahim Diop - New England Force
Indoor
Pat Healey - Baltimore - No game this week.
International
Korede Aiyegbusi - FC Haka - Finland - Offseason.
Vicente Arze - Sporting Charleroi - No game until 1/18.
Omar Bravo - Chivas - Mexico - Started and played 80 minutes in Chivas' 1-0 win over Chiapas.
Mitchell Cardenas - Atlético Coatzacoalcos - Mexico - Beat Felfines II 3-0.
Sunil Chhetri - Bengaluru - India - Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in Bengaluru's 5-3 Federation Cup win over Sporting Goa.
Eloy Colombano - UAI Urquiza - Argentina - No game until 1/24
Daneil Cyrus - W Connection - Trinidad - Started and played 90 minutes in W Connection's 2-1 win over Police FC.
Pablo Escobar - Cúcuta Deportivo - Colombia - Next game 1/24
Roger Espinoza - Wigan - England - Came off the bench and played 12 minutes in Wigan's 3-0 win over Bournemouth. Started and played 120 minutes in Wigan's 3-1 win over Milton Keynes Dons in the FA Cup.
Herculez Gomez - Tijuana - Mexico - Started and played 68 minutes in Tijuana's 1-0 win over Club America.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Suspended
Jeferson - AC Goianiense - Brazil - No game until 1/19.
Will John - AZAL - Azerbaijan - No game until 2/1
Kei Kamara - Middlesbrough - England - Out injured.
Igor Kostrov - Slavia - Belarus - Offseason.
Carlos Marinelli - Universidad San Martin - Peru - Offseason.
Neven Markovic - Servette FC - Switzerland - No game until 2/2
Yura Movsisyan - Spartak Moscow - Russia - No game til March.
Michal Mravec - Zilina - Slovakia - No games until February.
Akeem Priestly - RoPS - Finland - Offseason.
Pablo Punyed - Fylkir - Iceland - Offseason.
Yann Songo'o - Blackburn - England - Did not dress in either of Blackburn's games.
Milos Stojcev - Atyrau - Kazakhstan - Offseason.
Matt Taylor - Preußen Münster - Germany - No game until 1/25.
Here's the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Jamar Beasley
Jose Burciaga
Julio Cesar
Edson Elcock
Brian Fekete
Aaron Hohlbein
Mike Jones
Scott Sealy
Khari Stephenson
Ivan Trujillo
Michael Thomas
Shavar Thomas
Diego Walsh
Konrad Warzycha
MLS
Davy Arnaud - DC - Offseason.
Bobby Convey - New York - Offseason.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - Offseason.
Michael Harrington - Portland - Offseason.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - Offseason.
Eddie Johnson - DC - Offseason.
Chris Konopka - Toronto - Offseason
Rauwshan McKenzie - Portland - Offseason.
Tyson Wahl - Columbus - Offseason
NASL
Stefan Antonijevic - Fort Lauderdale - Offseason.
USL
Cyprian Hedrick - Phoenix - Offseason.
Neal Kitson - Phoenix - Offseason.
Nelson Pizarro - Los Angeles - Offseason.
Mike Reidy - Rochester - Offseason.
Yomby William - Richmond - Offseason.
John Wilson - Charleston - Offseason.
PDL
Scott Angevine - Des Moines - Offseason
Other
Birahim Diop - New England Force
Indoor
Pat Healey - Baltimore - No game this week.
International
Korede Aiyegbusi - FC Haka - Finland - Offseason.
Vicente Arze - Sporting Charleroi - No game until 1/18.
Omar Bravo - Chivas - Mexico - Started and played 80 minutes in Chivas' 1-0 win over Chiapas.
Mitchell Cardenas - Atlético Coatzacoalcos - Mexico - Beat Felfines II 3-0.
Sunil Chhetri - Bengaluru - India - Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in Bengaluru's 5-3 Federation Cup win over Sporting Goa.
Eloy Colombano - UAI Urquiza - Argentina - No game until 1/24
Daneil Cyrus - W Connection - Trinidad - Started and played 90 minutes in W Connection's 2-1 win over Police FC.
Pablo Escobar - Cúcuta Deportivo - Colombia - Next game 1/24
Roger Espinoza - Wigan - England - Came off the bench and played 12 minutes in Wigan's 3-0 win over Bournemouth. Started and played 120 minutes in Wigan's 3-1 win over Milton Keynes Dons in the FA Cup.
Herculez Gomez - Tijuana - Mexico - Started and played 68 minutes in Tijuana's 1-0 win over Club America.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Suspended
Jeferson - AC Goianiense - Brazil - No game until 1/19.
Will John - AZAL - Azerbaijan - No game until 2/1
Kei Kamara - Middlesbrough - England - Out injured.
Igor Kostrov - Slavia - Belarus - Offseason.
Carlos Marinelli - Universidad San Martin - Peru - Offseason.
Neven Markovic - Servette FC - Switzerland - No game until 2/2
Yura Movsisyan - Spartak Moscow - Russia - No game til March.
Michal Mravec - Zilina - Slovakia - No games until February.
Akeem Priestly - RoPS - Finland - Offseason.
Pablo Punyed - Fylkir - Iceland - Offseason.
Yann Songo'o - Blackburn - England - Did not dress in either of Blackburn's games.
Milos Stojcev - Atyrau - Kazakhstan - Offseason.
Matt Taylor - Preußen Münster - Germany - No game until 1/25.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Nielsen vs Meola
While watching Sporting KC lift MLS Cup, a thought went through my head regarding goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen. It's hard not to judge Nielsen's career with Kansas City compared to that of Sporting Legend, Tony Meola. Up until Nielsen's arrival, Meola appeared to be on an untouchable level among goalkeepers for Kansas City.
After four years here though I think Nielsen has equaled or bettered Meola for his time with Kansas City.
Statistically, Nielsen has bettered numbers that I wasn't sure another goalkeeper would reach. Playing a similar number of games as Meola (128 league for Nielsen vs 125 for Meola), Nielsen recorded more wins, 57 to 49, had more shutouts 45 to 37, and a lower goals against average .99 to 1.22.
In all competitions, Meola made more appearances than Nielsen 156 to 142, but Nielsen topped him in wins 65 to 63, shutouts, 52 to 47, and GAA .95 to 1.24.
Nielsen ends his career as the all time leader in MLS for goals against average for a goalkeeper with over 1,000 minutes played at .99. Meola meanwhile retired as the MLS all time leader in basically every category a goalkeeper could hold.
Award wise, Meola leads that category, winning goalkeeper of the year, comeback player of the year, league MVP and MLS Cup MVP all in 2000, where he set a number of a single season records. Nielsen topped many of those records in 2012 on his way to winning goalkeeper of the year in 2012. One he didn't top was Meola's single season shutout record of 16.
The other thing that both players will likely be judged on is their performance in the league's marquee game, MLS Cup. For me this one isn't an argument, although I've had people go the opposite way. For me, the better performance goes to Meola. Nielsen made some big saves, including two in the PK shootout, but I don't think you can top Meola's 10 save performance. While Nielsen made the two penalty stops, and the mystique of doing it with 2 broken ribs will surely help his argument, the rest of his game was not that good. He got beaten to the near post, which most goalkeepers will tell you is a cardinal sin, on RSL's goal, and was saved by the goalkeepers best friend, the post, on three other chances by Salt Lake. The first by Robbie Findley in a situation very similar to the one Findley scored on when the teams met in the regular season. The second a long range effort by Kyle Beckerman that bounced and hit the post, although Nielsen may have had it covered. The third he was left to watch Javier Morales' curling shot hit the base of the post and some how curl around the opposite post.
Now to be fair, Meola was also saved by his cross bar on an effort by Diego Gutierrez, oddly in a situation the exact opposite of Findley's miss for Salt Lake. Instead of coming off his line to attempt to punch a ball clear, Meola stayed at home, but Gutierrez missed.
In the end I think Nielsen will likely go down as the better keeper for KC, eventually taking his place as a Sporting Legend. But Meola is not that far behind Nielsen.
After four years here though I think Nielsen has equaled or bettered Meola for his time with Kansas City.
Statistically, Nielsen has bettered numbers that I wasn't sure another goalkeeper would reach. Playing a similar number of games as Meola (128 league for Nielsen vs 125 for Meola), Nielsen recorded more wins, 57 to 49, had more shutouts 45 to 37, and a lower goals against average .99 to 1.22.
In all competitions, Meola made more appearances than Nielsen 156 to 142, but Nielsen topped him in wins 65 to 63, shutouts, 52 to 47, and GAA .95 to 1.24.
Nielsen ends his career as the all time leader in MLS for goals against average for a goalkeeper with over 1,000 minutes played at .99. Meola meanwhile retired as the MLS all time leader in basically every category a goalkeeper could hold.
Award wise, Meola leads that category, winning goalkeeper of the year, comeback player of the year, league MVP and MLS Cup MVP all in 2000, where he set a number of a single season records. Nielsen topped many of those records in 2012 on his way to winning goalkeeper of the year in 2012. One he didn't top was Meola's single season shutout record of 16.
The other thing that both players will likely be judged on is their performance in the league's marquee game, MLS Cup. For me this one isn't an argument, although I've had people go the opposite way. For me, the better performance goes to Meola. Nielsen made some big saves, including two in the PK shootout, but I don't think you can top Meola's 10 save performance. While Nielsen made the two penalty stops, and the mystique of doing it with 2 broken ribs will surely help his argument, the rest of his game was not that good. He got beaten to the near post, which most goalkeepers will tell you is a cardinal sin, on RSL's goal, and was saved by the goalkeepers best friend, the post, on three other chances by Salt Lake. The first by Robbie Findley in a situation very similar to the one Findley scored on when the teams met in the regular season. The second a long range effort by Kyle Beckerman that bounced and hit the post, although Nielsen may have had it covered. The third he was left to watch Javier Morales' curling shot hit the base of the post and some how curl around the opposite post.
Now to be fair, Meola was also saved by his cross bar on an effort by Diego Gutierrez, oddly in a situation the exact opposite of Findley's miss for Salt Lake. Instead of coming off his line to attempt to punch a ball clear, Meola stayed at home, but Gutierrez missed.
In the end I think Nielsen will likely go down as the better keeper for KC, eventually taking his place as a Sporting Legend. But Meola is not that far behind Nielsen.
Friday, August 02, 2013
Sporting KC Launch Sporting Legends
One thing that I've felt has been missing from Sporting KC since the new stadium was built was some sort of hall of fame, or ring of honor, or something to honor those that had been a big part of this club in the past. Today, Sporting remedied that with the creation of the Sporting Legends initiative. The team also announced the first class. It will include arguably the greatest player to wear a KC uniform, Preki. He's the career leader in goals (71) and assists (98) in league play in his career. He's 4th all-time in terms of appearances with the club with 218 in league. He's also played the 5th most minutes in team history with 17,818 in league play. He also won two MVP awards in 1997 and 2003, still the only player to win two MVP awards in his MLS career.
The second inductee is still considered the greatest goalkeeper to play for the club, Tony Meola. Up until recently he was the team leader in wins in league play, having just been passed by Jimmy Nielsen. He's still appeared in the most league games among goalkeepers (125) and played the most minutes with 11,331 played in league play. He also won MLS MVP, MLS Goalkeeper of the year, MLS Best XI, and MLS Cup MVP all in the 2000 season helping to lead KC to MLS Cup.
The final inductee in the inaugural class is head coach, Bob Gansler. The team's longest serving head coach was here from 1999 through 2006 helping the team win all but one of their trophies in their history. Through his career, Gansler picked up 86 wins, obviously the most in KC, but also 7th all-time among head coaches.
Preki and Meola will both be recognized this weekend at half time of KC's game against the New York Red Bulls. Both were actually on the field delivering the trophy for the All Star Game this past Wednesday. Gansler will be recognized for his induction on October 11th, the date that the US team returns to KC to take on Jamaica.
Going forward, one Legend will be inducted each year. That will stretch out the process for a number of years. Players like Jimmy Conrad, Nick Garcia, Mo Johnston, Chris Klein, and Kerry Zavagnin all have to be on the short list for the next few years.
If there is one disappointment in this announcement, it's that Lamar Hunt is not in the original induction group. Without Hunt not only is there no Sporting KC Wiz(ards), there's also no MLS. I understand wanting to induct the people that they did in this class, but it is disappointing that Hunt was not included in the original class, like he probably deserves.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Former SKC Wizards Update
It's another week of former SKC Wizards updates. First, congratulations to two former Wizards. Tony Meola was officially inducted into the US Soccer hall of fame last week before the US game vs Brazil. Also, Alex Bunbury, father of current Wizard, Teal Bunbury, was named to Canada's all time starting XI. Here's the rest of this week's update.
Active without a club or unknown
Stephane Auvray
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Birahim Diop
Pablo Escobar
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Tom Gray
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Aaron Hohlbein
Jonathan Leathers
Carlos Marinelli
Ryan McMahen
Anthony Noriega
Ryan Pore
Sergei Raad
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson
MLS
Davy Arnaud - Montreal - No game this week.
Adam Cristman - LA - No game this week.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - No game this week.
Kevin Hartman - Dallas - No game this week.
Will Hesmer - Columbus - Out recovering from surgery.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - No game this week.
Eddie Johnson - Seattle - Did not play in Seattle's 5-0 win over Cal FC.
Chris Konopka - Philadelphia - Did not play in Philadelphia's 2-1 win over DC.
Rauwshan McKenzie - Chivas - Started and played 90 minutes in Chivas' 2-1 win over Carolina.
Kurt Morsink - DC - Did not play in DC's 2-1 loss to Philadelphia.
Scott Sealy - Dallas - No game this week.
Ryan Smith - Chivas - Came off the bench and played 7 minutes in Chivas' 2-1 win over Carolina.
Khari Stephenson - San Jose - Did not play in San Jose's 1-0 win over Minnesota.
Shavar Thomas - Montreal - No game this week.
Tyson Wahl - Montreal - No game this week.
Josh Wolff - DC - Started and played 64 minutes, scoring a goal in DC's 2-1 loss to Philadelphia.
NASL
Jose Burciaga - Atlanta - Did not play in Atlanta's 2-1 win over Edmonton.
Kevin Friedland - Minnesota - Started and played 90 minutes in Minnesota's 0-0 draw with San Antonio. Did not play in Minnesota's 1-0 loss to San Jose.
Scott Lorenz - Fort Lauderdale - Did not play in Fort Lauderdale's 3-1 win over Tampa.
Amir Lowery - Carolina - Started and played 90 minutes in Carolina's 2-1 win over Puerto Rico. Started and played 90 minutes in Carolina's 2-1 loss to Chivas.
Abe Thompson - Fort Lauderdale - Started and played 75 minutes, scoring a goal in Fort Lauderdale's 3-1 win over Tampa.
USL
Edson Elcock - Richmond - Started and played 84 minues in Richmond's 1-1 draw with Harrisburg. Came off the bench and played 10 minutes in Richmond's 1-0 win over Rochester.
Akeem Priestley - Dayton - Came off the bench and played 15 minutes in Dayton's 1-0 loss to Charleston. Did not play as Dayton beat Michigan 2-1.
Yomby William - Richmond - Did not dress in Richmond's 1-1 draw with Harrisburg. Did not dress in Richmond's 1-0 win over Rochester.
John Wilson - Charleston - Did not play in Charleston's 3-1 win over Pittsburgh. Did not play in Charleston's 1-0 win over Dayton.
PDL
Michael Kraus - FC Tucson - Started and played 90 minutes in Tucson's 1-0 win over Fresno. Started and played 82 minutes in Tucson's 1-0 win over BYU.
NPSL
Nelson Pizarro - San Diego Flash - Beat San Francisco 9-1.
Indoor
Jamar Beasley - Wichita Wings - Season is over.
Nick Garcia - Kansas Magic - Season is over.
Pat Healey - Baltimore Blast - Season is over.
Mike Jones - Illinois Piasa - Season is over.
JT Murray - Louisville Lightning - Season is over.
Boris Pardo - Comets - Season is over.
Yomby William - Norfolk SharX - Season is over.
Paul Wright - Anaheim Bolts - Season is over.
International
Vicente Arze - Diosgyor - Hungary - Season is over.
Omar Bravo - Cruz Azul - Mexico - Season is over.
Sunil Chhetri - Mohun Bagan - India - Season is over.
Eloy Colombano - Defensores de Cambaceres - Argentina - Season is over.
Daneil Cyrus - 1st FC Santa Rosa - Trinidad - Season is over.
Gary Glasgow - North East Stars - Trinidad - Season is over.
Herculez Gomez - Santos Laguna - Mexico - Started and played 80 minutes in the USA's 0-0 draw with Canada.
Zoltan Hercegfalvi - Vasas - Hungary - Season is over.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Season is over.
Jeferson - Bahia - Brazil - Play Athletico Mineiro today.
Will John - Vinogradar - Croatia - Season is over.
Mike Jones - FC Hjorring - Denmark - Not in season.
Neal Kitson - Northampton Town - England - Season is over.
Igor Kostrov - FC Tiraspol - Moldova - Season is over.
Yura Movsisyan - FC Krasnodar - Russia - Scored a goal in Armenia's 3-0 win over Kazakhstan.
Michal Mravec - FC Emmen - Netherlands - Season is over.
Pablo Punyed - Fjolnir - Iceland - Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in Fjolnir's 3-1 win over KA.
Craig Rocastle - Thrasyvoulos Fylis FC - Greece - Season is over.
Milos Stojcev - FC Akzhayik - Kazakhstan - No game this week.
Matt Taylor - SC Paderborn 07 - Germany - Season is over.
Diego Walsh - TOT SC - Thailand - Season is over.
Active without a club or unknown
Stephane Auvray
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Birahim Diop
Pablo Escobar
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Tom Gray
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Aaron Hohlbein
Jonathan Leathers
Carlos Marinelli
Ryan McMahen
Anthony Noriega
Ryan Pore
Sergei Raad
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson
MLS
Davy Arnaud - Montreal - No game this week.
Adam Cristman - LA - No game this week.
Luis Gil - Salt Lake - No game this week.
Kevin Hartman - Dallas - No game this week.
Will Hesmer - Columbus - Out recovering from surgery.
Jack Jewsbury - Portland - No game this week.
Eddie Johnson - Seattle - Did not play in Seattle's 5-0 win over Cal FC.
Chris Konopka - Philadelphia - Did not play in Philadelphia's 2-1 win over DC.
Rauwshan McKenzie - Chivas - Started and played 90 minutes in Chivas' 2-1 win over Carolina.
Kurt Morsink - DC - Did not play in DC's 2-1 loss to Philadelphia.
Scott Sealy - Dallas - No game this week.
Ryan Smith - Chivas - Came off the bench and played 7 minutes in Chivas' 2-1 win over Carolina.
Khari Stephenson - San Jose - Did not play in San Jose's 1-0 win over Minnesota.
Shavar Thomas - Montreal - No game this week.
Tyson Wahl - Montreal - No game this week.
Josh Wolff - DC - Started and played 64 minutes, scoring a goal in DC's 2-1 loss to Philadelphia.
NASL
Jose Burciaga - Atlanta - Did not play in Atlanta's 2-1 win over Edmonton.
Kevin Friedland - Minnesota - Started and played 90 minutes in Minnesota's 0-0 draw with San Antonio. Did not play in Minnesota's 1-0 loss to San Jose.
Scott Lorenz - Fort Lauderdale - Did not play in Fort Lauderdale's 3-1 win over Tampa.
Amir Lowery - Carolina - Started and played 90 minutes in Carolina's 2-1 win over Puerto Rico. Started and played 90 minutes in Carolina's 2-1 loss to Chivas.
Abe Thompson - Fort Lauderdale - Started and played 75 minutes, scoring a goal in Fort Lauderdale's 3-1 win over Tampa.
USL
Edson Elcock - Richmond - Started and played 84 minues in Richmond's 1-1 draw with Harrisburg. Came off the bench and played 10 minutes in Richmond's 1-0 win over Rochester.
Akeem Priestley - Dayton - Came off the bench and played 15 minutes in Dayton's 1-0 loss to Charleston. Did not play as Dayton beat Michigan 2-1.
Yomby William - Richmond - Did not dress in Richmond's 1-1 draw with Harrisburg. Did not dress in Richmond's 1-0 win over Rochester.
John Wilson - Charleston - Did not play in Charleston's 3-1 win over Pittsburgh. Did not play in Charleston's 1-0 win over Dayton.
PDL
Michael Kraus - FC Tucson - Started and played 90 minutes in Tucson's 1-0 win over Fresno. Started and played 82 minutes in Tucson's 1-0 win over BYU.
NPSL
Nelson Pizarro - San Diego Flash - Beat San Francisco 9-1.
Indoor
Jamar Beasley - Wichita Wings - Season is over.
Nick Garcia - Kansas Magic - Season is over.
Pat Healey - Baltimore Blast - Season is over.
Mike Jones - Illinois Piasa - Season is over.
JT Murray - Louisville Lightning - Season is over.
Boris Pardo - Comets - Season is over.
Yomby William - Norfolk SharX - Season is over.
Paul Wright - Anaheim Bolts - Season is over.
International
Vicente Arze - Diosgyor - Hungary - Season is over.
Omar Bravo - Cruz Azul - Mexico - Season is over.
Sunil Chhetri - Mohun Bagan - India - Season is over.
Eloy Colombano - Defensores de Cambaceres - Argentina - Season is over.
Daneil Cyrus - 1st FC Santa Rosa - Trinidad - Season is over.
Gary Glasgow - North East Stars - Trinidad - Season is over.
Herculez Gomez - Santos Laguna - Mexico - Started and played 80 minutes in the USA's 0-0 draw with Canada.
Zoltan Hercegfalvi - Vasas - Hungary - Season is over.
Jermaine Hue - Harbour View - Jamaica - Season is over.
Jeferson - Bahia - Brazil - Play Athletico Mineiro today.
Will John - Vinogradar - Croatia - Season is over.
Mike Jones - FC Hjorring - Denmark - Not in season.
Neal Kitson - Northampton Town - England - Season is over.
Igor Kostrov - FC Tiraspol - Moldova - Season is over.
Yura Movsisyan - FC Krasnodar - Russia - Scored a goal in Armenia's 3-0 win over Kazakhstan.
Michal Mravec - FC Emmen - Netherlands - Season is over.
Pablo Punyed - Fjolnir - Iceland - Started and played 90 minutes, scoring a goal in Fjolnir's 3-1 win over KA.
Craig Rocastle - Thrasyvoulos Fylis FC - Greece - Season is over.
Milos Stojcev - FC Akzhayik - Kazakhstan - No game this week.
Matt Taylor - SC Paderborn 07 - Germany - Season is over.
Diego Walsh - TOT SC - Thailand - Season is over.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Vermes, Zavagnin, and Six Other Former Wizards Up for Hall of Fame
Today, US Soccer came out with their list of candidates available for selection to the US Soccer Hall of Fame. On that list are two current coaches of Sporting KC. Head coach and technical director, Peter Vermes is on the list again, as is assistant coach, Kerry Zavagnin, in his first year of eligibility. Vermes is in the final year on the "player ballot", should he not be elected to the Hall of Fame this year, he will move to the veteran ballot next year.
Vermes and Zavagnin are joined by five other former Wizards players on the players ballot, and one other is available on the veterans ballot. Two other former Wizards are like Zavagnin and in their first year of eligibility. Joining Zavagnin is Jose Burciaga Jr. and Tony Meola in their first year of eligibility. The other 3 former Wizards players available are Mike Burns, Chris Henderson, and Roy Lassiter. Burns, like Vermes is in his final year of being eligible for election on the player's ballot. Should he not be elected, he'll join Vermes and Mike Sorber on the veterans ballot. Sorber joined the veterans ballot a few years ago.
Of the former Wizards players up for election, I think Meola is probably the leading candidate to get elected on this ballot. Meola was the starter for the US in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and has 100 caps for the US national team.
Vermes and Zavagnin are joined by five other former Wizards players on the players ballot, and one other is available on the veterans ballot. Two other former Wizards are like Zavagnin and in their first year of eligibility. Joining Zavagnin is Jose Burciaga Jr. and Tony Meola in their first year of eligibility. The other 3 former Wizards players available are Mike Burns, Chris Henderson, and Roy Lassiter. Burns, like Vermes is in his final year of being eligible for election on the player's ballot. Should he not be elected, he'll join Vermes and Mike Sorber on the veterans ballot. Sorber joined the veterans ballot a few years ago.
Of the former Wizards players up for election, I think Meola is probably the leading candidate to get elected on this ballot. Meola was the starter for the US in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and has 100 caps for the US national team.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Wizards at the World Cup
Wizards defender Roger Espinoza, became the 6th Wizards player to be named to a World Cup roster while playing for the Wizards. He becomes only the second Wizard to play for a foreign national team, following in the steps of Uche Okafor, who played for Nigeria in the 1998 World Cup in France. In the 4 World Cups that have taken place since the birth of the league in 1996, the Wizards have been represented at every one of them. In 1998 it was Okafor and Preki. In 2002, it was goalkeeper Tony Meola. For the 2006 World Cup Jimmy Conrad, Eddie Johnson, and Josh Wolff all went to Germany. Of those 5, only Meola did not make an appearance at the World Cup, as he was the US team's third keeper.
Fourteen other former Wizards players have made their country's World Cup roster before they came to play with the Wizards. The US is again the most well represented obviously, with Brian Bliss (90), Mike Burns (94, 98), Bob Gansler (as coach, 90), Chris Henderson (90), Frank Klopas (94), Alexi Lalas (94, 98), Mike Sorber (94), and Peter Vermes (90). Meola (90, 94) and Wolff (02) also played at World Cup's before coming to KC as well. Of the foreign national team players, Samuel Ekeme played for Cameroon in 94, Richard Gough (86, 90) and Mo Johnston (90) both appeared for Scotland in the World Cup. Claudio Lopez appeared for Argentina in 98 and 02. Molnar appeared in 98 for Denmark and Refik Sabanadzovic played for Yugoslavia in 90. Okafor also appeared for Nigeria in the 94 World Cup as well before joining KC.
Fourteen other former Wizards players have made their country's World Cup roster before they came to play with the Wizards. The US is again the most well represented obviously, with Brian Bliss (90), Mike Burns (94, 98), Bob Gansler (as coach, 90), Chris Henderson (90), Frank Klopas (94), Alexi Lalas (94, 98), Mike Sorber (94), and Peter Vermes (90). Meola (90, 94) and Wolff (02) also played at World Cup's before coming to KC as well. Of the foreign national team players, Samuel Ekeme played for Cameroon in 94, Richard Gough (86, 90) and Mo Johnston (90) both appeared for Scotland in the World Cup. Claudio Lopez appeared for Argentina in 98 and 02. Molnar appeared in 98 for Denmark and Refik Sabanadzovic played for Yugoslavia in 90. Okafor also appeared for Nigeria in the 94 World Cup as well before joining KC.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Capped Wizards Players
I've been trying to do some research on Wizards players that have been capped for their respective national teams. I think I've got the list of Wizards players all time that have been capped for their national teams. Not surprisingly, the top capped player is an American in Tony Meola. The highest capped non-American for the Wizards was Onandi Lowe of Jamaica and his 65 caps. Lowe also has the most international goals of a Wizards player, with 27 followed by Alex Bunbury. The highest American is a tie between Frank Klopas and Eddie Johnson with 12. Here is the list of most capped players divided by country and the number of goals they've scored for their national team.
USA
Tony Meola - 100
Alexi Lalas - 96 - 9
Chris Henderson - 79 - 3
Mike Burns - 75
Peter Vermes - 67 - 11
Mike Sorber - 67 - 2
Josh Wolff - 52 - 9
Brian Bliss - 44 - 2
Eddie Johnson - 41 - 12
Frank Klopas - 40 - 12
Roy Lassister - 30 - 4
Eric Eichman - 29 - 4
Preki - 28 - 4
Jimmy Conrad - 28 - 1
Mark Chung - 24 - 2
Chris Klein - 22 - 5
Kerry Zavagnin - 21
Mark Santel - 8 - 1
Herculez Gomez - 7 - 2
Davy Arnaud - 7 - 1
John Diffley - 7
John DeBrito - 6
Nick Garcia - 6
Yari Allnut - 5 - 2
Kevin Hartman - 5
Sasha Victorine - 4 - 1
Steve Pittman - 3
Matt McKeon - 2
Alan Prampin - 2
Ken Snow - 2
Diego Gutierrez - 1
Curt Onalfo - 1
Argentina
Claudio Lopez - 58 - 10
Cameroon
Samuel Ekeme - 32
Canada
Alex Bunbury - 64 - 16
Pat Harrington - 1
Denmark
Miklos Molnar - 18 - 2
Finland
Antti Sumiala - 36 - 9
Guadeloupe
Stephane Auvray - 14 - 1
Haiti
Josué Mayard - 17 - 2
Holland
Dave van den Bergh - 2
Honduras
Roger Espinoza - 9 - 3
Hungary
Zoltan Hercegfalvi - 3
India
Sunil Chhetri - 35 - 16
Jamaica
Onandi Lowe - 65 - 27
Jermaine Hue - 30 - 11
Wolde Harris - 28 - 7
Shavar Thomas - 27
Khari Stephenson - 26 - 3
Peter Isaacs - 15 - 4
Akeem Priestley - 3
Liberia
Dionysius Sebwe - 7
Nigeria
Uche Okafor - 31 - 1
Puerto Rico
Taylor Graham - 3 - 1
Russia
Igor Simutenkov - 20 - 9
Scotland
Richard Gough - 61 - 6
Mo Johnston - 38 - 14
Serbia and Montenegro
Vuk Rasovic - 5
Sierra Leone
Kei Kamara - 4
Trinidad and Tobago
Gary Glasgow - 53 -11
Scott Sealy - 25 - 2
Anthony Noriega - 5
Yugoslavia
Refik Sabanadzovic - 8
Zimbabwe
Vitalis Takawira - 26 - 12
My next project is to try and get the number of caps each player has while playing with the Wizards. This will be a little more difficult, especially for all the countries other than the USA. I've got that part basically done, but now it's on to try and get the rest of the former Wizards and how many times they've represented their country while a member of the Wizards. Some I do have taken care of, like the current Wizards I have done, but the older players are the ones that will take more work.
USA
Tony Meola - 100
Alexi Lalas - 96 - 9
Chris Henderson - 79 - 3
Mike Burns - 75
Peter Vermes - 67 - 11
Mike Sorber - 67 - 2
Josh Wolff - 52 - 9
Brian Bliss - 44 - 2
Eddie Johnson - 41 - 12
Frank Klopas - 40 - 12
Roy Lassister - 30 - 4
Eric Eichman - 29 - 4
Preki - 28 - 4
Jimmy Conrad - 28 - 1
Mark Chung - 24 - 2
Chris Klein - 22 - 5
Kerry Zavagnin - 21
Mark Santel - 8 - 1
Herculez Gomez - 7 - 2
Davy Arnaud - 7 - 1
John Diffley - 7
John DeBrito - 6
Nick Garcia - 6
Yari Allnut - 5 - 2
Kevin Hartman - 5
Sasha Victorine - 4 - 1
Steve Pittman - 3
Matt McKeon - 2
Alan Prampin - 2
Ken Snow - 2
Diego Gutierrez - 1
Curt Onalfo - 1
Argentina
Claudio Lopez - 58 - 10
Cameroon
Samuel Ekeme - 32
Canada
Alex Bunbury - 64 - 16
Pat Harrington - 1
Denmark
Miklos Molnar - 18 - 2
Finland
Antti Sumiala - 36 - 9
Guadeloupe
Stephane Auvray - 14 - 1
Haiti
Josué Mayard - 17 - 2
Holland
Dave van den Bergh - 2
Honduras
Roger Espinoza - 9 - 3
Hungary
Zoltan Hercegfalvi - 3
India
Sunil Chhetri - 35 - 16
Jamaica
Onandi Lowe - 65 - 27
Jermaine Hue - 30 - 11
Wolde Harris - 28 - 7
Shavar Thomas - 27
Khari Stephenson - 26 - 3
Peter Isaacs - 15 - 4
Akeem Priestley - 3
Liberia
Dionysius Sebwe - 7
Nigeria
Uche Okafor - 31 - 1
Puerto Rico
Taylor Graham - 3 - 1
Russia
Igor Simutenkov - 20 - 9
Scotland
Richard Gough - 61 - 6
Mo Johnston - 38 - 14
Serbia and Montenegro
Vuk Rasovic - 5
Sierra Leone
Kei Kamara - 4
Trinidad and Tobago
Gary Glasgow - 53 -11
Scott Sealy - 25 - 2
Anthony Noriega - 5
Yugoslavia
Refik Sabanadzovic - 8
Zimbabwe
Vitalis Takawira - 26 - 12
My next project is to try and get the number of caps each player has while playing with the Wizards. This will be a little more difficult, especially for all the countries other than the USA. I've got that part basically done, but now it's on to try and get the rest of the former Wizards and how many times they've represented their country while a member of the Wizards. Some I do have taken care of, like the current Wizards I have done, but the older players are the ones that will take more work.
Friday, January 01, 2010
Soccer America MLS All-Decade Team
With the end of 2009 lots of people are putting together lists on the "best of the decade" stuff. Soccer America has put out their MLS All-Decade team. The Wizards are represented pretty well on the list, with 2 current and 2 former Wizards on the team.
The only representative on the Best XI team is the Wizards current captain, Jimmy Conrad. Conrad was selected to the Best XI team 3 times and earned one Defender of the Year award in the decade. Goalkeepers Tony Meola and Kevin Hartman were named to the reserve squad. Meola was MLS MVP in 2000 and was a consistent performer for both KC and New York. Hartman became the MLS all time leader in most goalkeeping categories during this decade. Also on the list is the best player in Wizards history (and I don't think anyone can argue that point), Preki. While Preki was an MVP in this decade his only playing in half the decade is why he's likely not on the first team. There is one former Wizard who did not make the list that I thought probably deserved a mention. That player is Nick Garcia who has been in the league since 2000 and while he hasn't brought in the awards has been a strong defender in the league.
UPDATE: Had this pointed out to me as I missed it originally, but Diego Gutierrez is on the list as well. While he's only listed as being on Chicago, Gutierrez played for the Wizards from 02-05. During that time he was the club captain in 04 and 05 and won the US Open Cup.
The only representative on the Best XI team is the Wizards current captain, Jimmy Conrad. Conrad was selected to the Best XI team 3 times and earned one Defender of the Year award in the decade. Goalkeepers Tony Meola and Kevin Hartman were named to the reserve squad. Meola was MLS MVP in 2000 and was a consistent performer for both KC and New York. Hartman became the MLS all time leader in most goalkeeping categories during this decade. Also on the list is the best player in Wizards history (and I don't think anyone can argue that point), Preki. While Preki was an MVP in this decade his only playing in half the decade is why he's likely not on the first team. There is one former Wizard who did not make the list that I thought probably deserved a mention. That player is Nick Garcia who has been in the league since 2000 and while he hasn't brought in the awards has been a strong defender in the league.
UPDATE: Had this pointed out to me as I missed it originally, but Diego Gutierrez is on the list as well. While he's only listed as being on Chicago, Gutierrez played for the Wizards from 02-05. During that time he was the club captain in 04 and 05 and won the US Open Cup.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Hartman Sets Save Record
In stoppage time of the first half today in the game between Kansas City and Colorado, Kevin Hartman made his second save of the game and the 1,137th of his career became the MLS all time leader in saves, passing former Wizard Tony Meola for the record. Congrats to Kevin Hartman on the record.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Wizards Fantasy Draft Rounds 1 & 2
As I posted on Saturday, I started a Wizards history fantasy draft with a few friends of mine. Here is the first two rounds of the draft. The write ups on each pick are done by the drafter.
1(1). Team Shook - Preki - We were very excited to have the first pick in this draft, and we did a very thorough search to determine which player was deserving of the honor of the #1 pick.
We considered such stalwarts as Sergei Raad (who provided us with 22 heart-stopping minutes in 2006) and Yari Allnutt (still the only player in Wizards history to score a goal in every match he played in); as well as such fan favorites as Francisco Gomez (who else has been kind and thoughtful enough to give fans so many souvenir balls during the course of the games he played?).
But ultimately our search came back to the man in the middle with the virtually unpronounceable last name. Preki still holds (by a wide margin) every Wizards career scoring record with 71 goals, 98 assists for 240 points career points (next closest is 39/45/123 respectfully). Number 11 also holds the Wizards records for shots, shots on goal, is second in points per game, and is third in games played, games started, and minutes played for the Wizards franchise.
Preki also came up big in the playoffs, holding the career records for playoff goals (8) and playoff assists (4), and was a driving force of the offense as the Wizards won the 2000 MLS Cup. Preki is also one of only two Wizards to win MLS MVP awards (1997 and 2003), and the only player in MLS history to win multiple MVP awards and multiple scoring titles (also in 1997 and 2003).
By any measure, Preki (who played 9 seasons with the Wizards from 1996-2000 and 2002-2005) is the greatest player in Wizards history, and is deserving of the number one pick.
Perhaps if Yari Allnut had played in more than one game for the Wizards, he would have gotten more consideration...
1 (2). Team DTB - Tony Meola - With the second pick of the draft, Team DTB selects the only other Wizards player to ever win the MVP award. As I'd thought, the Shooks didn't pass on Preki, and honestly, who really could.
After a rough start to his KC career, where he missed most of the 99 season due to injury, came back with a vengeance in 2000, setting team and league records. Meola had 16 shutouts, a .92 GAA, along with winning Comeback Player of the Year, Goalkeeper of the Year, MLS Best XI honors, and MVP of the league and MLS Cup. Possibly the best single season in a Wizards players career. Meola holds basically every single team record for goalkeepers, games played (125), wins, (49), shutouts (37), and a GAA of only 1.22. He holds the same records for the Wizards in the playoffs as well, except for GAA, where he's only .01 out of first place in that category.
1 (3). Bravado FC - Mo Johnston - While the two previous selections are both solid, there is no player more important to the success of the Wizards franchise than Mo Johnston. He has demonstrated heart and courage beyond that of most players. By sacrificing his body, he helped create the goal that led the Wizards to the 2000 MLS Cup.
His presence in the attack will give us the spark that we need to prevail.
2 (1). Bravado FC - Miklos Molnar - Although Miklos played just one season with the Wizards - and not a full season at that - he showed a knack for finding goal that the strike force of today's squad would be well-served to notice. Even though he missed fully a third of the 2000 season on international duty with the Danish National Team, he scored the most game-winning goals of any player in MLS with six. Adding three playoff game winners cements his legacy in the minds of many Wizards fans and is good enough to warrant a second overall selection.
2 (2). Team DTB - Jimmy Conrad - The current Wizards captain will help lead our defense in front of Meola. Conrad has blossomed as a player while here in KC, going from an undrafted rookie, to captaining the national team last year. He's been a named MLS defender of the year, as well as being a multiple team MLS Best XI player.
2 (3). Team Shook - Nick Garcia - Nick is the all time leader in games played and minutes played for Kansas City and has been a rock in KC's defense for 8 years and on two cup championships(2000 and 2004) and also a leader on the team that went to MLS Cup 2004.
1(1). Team Shook - Preki - We were very excited to have the first pick in this draft, and we did a very thorough search to determine which player was deserving of the honor of the #1 pick.
We considered such stalwarts as Sergei Raad (who provided us with 22 heart-stopping minutes in 2006) and Yari Allnutt (still the only player in Wizards history to score a goal in every match he played in); as well as such fan favorites as Francisco Gomez (who else has been kind and thoughtful enough to give fans so many souvenir balls during the course of the games he played?).
But ultimately our search came back to the man in the middle with the virtually unpronounceable last name. Preki still holds (by a wide margin) every Wizards career scoring record with 71 goals, 98 assists for 240 points career points (next closest is 39/45/123 respectfully). Number 11 also holds the Wizards records for shots, shots on goal, is second in points per game, and is third in games played, games started, and minutes played for the Wizards franchise.
Preki also came up big in the playoffs, holding the career records for playoff goals (8) and playoff assists (4), and was a driving force of the offense as the Wizards won the 2000 MLS Cup. Preki is also one of only two Wizards to win MLS MVP awards (1997 and 2003), and the only player in MLS history to win multiple MVP awards and multiple scoring titles (also in 1997 and 2003).
By any measure, Preki (who played 9 seasons with the Wizards from 1996-2000 and 2002-2005) is the greatest player in Wizards history, and is deserving of the number one pick.
Perhaps if Yari Allnut had played in more than one game for the Wizards, he would have gotten more consideration...
1 (2). Team DTB - Tony Meola - With the second pick of the draft, Team DTB selects the only other Wizards player to ever win the MVP award. As I'd thought, the Shooks didn't pass on Preki, and honestly, who really could.
After a rough start to his KC career, where he missed most of the 99 season due to injury, came back with a vengeance in 2000, setting team and league records. Meola had 16 shutouts, a .92 GAA, along with winning Comeback Player of the Year, Goalkeeper of the Year, MLS Best XI honors, and MVP of the league and MLS Cup. Possibly the best single season in a Wizards players career. Meola holds basically every single team record for goalkeepers, games played (125), wins, (49), shutouts (37), and a GAA of only 1.22. He holds the same records for the Wizards in the playoffs as well, except for GAA, where he's only .01 out of first place in that category.
1 (3). Bravado FC - Mo Johnston - While the two previous selections are both solid, there is no player more important to the success of the Wizards franchise than Mo Johnston. He has demonstrated heart and courage beyond that of most players. By sacrificing his body, he helped create the goal that led the Wizards to the 2000 MLS Cup.
His presence in the attack will give us the spark that we need to prevail.
2 (1). Bravado FC - Miklos Molnar - Although Miklos played just one season with the Wizards - and not a full season at that - he showed a knack for finding goal that the strike force of today's squad would be well-served to notice. Even though he missed fully a third of the 2000 season on international duty with the Danish National Team, he scored the most game-winning goals of any player in MLS with six. Adding three playoff game winners cements his legacy in the minds of many Wizards fans and is good enough to warrant a second overall selection.
2 (2). Team DTB - Jimmy Conrad - The current Wizards captain will help lead our defense in front of Meola. Conrad has blossomed as a player while here in KC, going from an undrafted rookie, to captaining the national team last year. He's been a named MLS defender of the year, as well as being a multiple team MLS Best XI player.
2 (3). Team Shook - Nick Garcia - Nick is the all time leader in games played and minutes played for Kansas City and has been a rock in KC's defense for 8 years and on two cup championships(2000 and 2004) and also a leader on the team that went to MLS Cup 2004.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Wizards News Dump
So I have some random Wizards news to report today. So here it goes.
Wizards coach Curt Onalfo was on Around the League in 90 Minutes, on the Champions Soccer Radio Network. He gives a really good, candid interview with Gary Richards and Peter Brown, including giving more information about new Wizards signing, Eloy Colombano, and some of the things about him that impressed Onalfo. You can listen to the interview, along with the rest of the show by clicking on the Play Channel Now under Around the League here, and choose the show for today's date (August 14, 2007). They also have more background on Onalfo here.
The Wizards Weekly report came out today. Some good information about Wizards player appearances and upcoming games, but the information in it that I want to touch on is the first bit of information. Jose Burciaga Jr. spent his off week down in New Orleans helping with a US Soccer clinic down there. Jose has been very active in the community this year and he's now spread beyond the KC area to help out other kids around the country. This trip has probably earned him the Wizards Humanitarian of the Year award for this season.
I missed this bit of news live, but it's being discussed right now on bigsoccer.com starting with post 207. Apparently Kevin Keitzman on Sports Radio 810 here in KC was talking about the Wizards stadium. The rumor that Keitzman has heard is that the Wizards will be playing at Community American Ballpark. CAB is where KC's minor league baseball team, the T-Bones play. Unfortunately, according to later posts in the thread, it does not look possible without changes to the outfield wall, and with the T-Bones playing in the summer as well it's going to be nearly impossible to make the changes. This is different than the situation in DC where United plays at RFK Stadium, home to the Washington Nationals. The difference is that RFK was built as a multi-use facility for both baseball and football, so it's easier to fit their field in that stadium.
Now, for a bit of former Wizards news. Former Wizard Josh Wolff will be on the US Men's roster for the upcoming friendly against Sweden in Göteborg. This is Wolff's first call up to the national team since leaving the Wizards for 1860 Munich. Another former Wizard, Tony Meola, is still looking to play, and he'll now be plying his trade in the Major Indoor Soccer League for the expansion New Jersey Ironmen.
Wizards coach Curt Onalfo was on Around the League in 90 Minutes, on the Champions Soccer Radio Network. He gives a really good, candid interview with Gary Richards and Peter Brown, including giving more information about new Wizards signing, Eloy Colombano, and some of the things about him that impressed Onalfo. You can listen to the interview, along with the rest of the show by clicking on the Play Channel Now under Around the League here, and choose the show for today's date (August 14, 2007). They also have more background on Onalfo here.
The Wizards Weekly report came out today. Some good information about Wizards player appearances and upcoming games, but the information in it that I want to touch on is the first bit of information. Jose Burciaga Jr. spent his off week down in New Orleans helping with a US Soccer clinic down there. Jose has been very active in the community this year and he's now spread beyond the KC area to help out other kids around the country. This trip has probably earned him the Wizards Humanitarian of the Year award for this season.
I missed this bit of news live, but it's being discussed right now on bigsoccer.com starting with post 207. Apparently Kevin Keitzman on Sports Radio 810 here in KC was talking about the Wizards stadium. The rumor that Keitzman has heard is that the Wizards will be playing at Community American Ballpark. CAB is where KC's minor league baseball team, the T-Bones play. Unfortunately, according to later posts in the thread, it does not look possible without changes to the outfield wall, and with the T-Bones playing in the summer as well it's going to be nearly impossible to make the changes. This is different than the situation in DC where United plays at RFK Stadium, home to the Washington Nationals. The difference is that RFK was built as a multi-use facility for both baseball and football, so it's easier to fit their field in that stadium.
Now, for a bit of former Wizards news. Former Wizard Josh Wolff will be on the US Men's roster for the upcoming friendly against Sweden in Göteborg. This is Wolff's first call up to the national team since leaving the Wizards for 1860 Munich. Another former Wizard, Tony Meola, is still looking to play, and he'll now be plying his trade in the Major Indoor Soccer League for the expansion New Jersey Ironmen.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Capped Wizards
Another statistical entry from me today. I don't really remember where I got this idea from, but it's one that I liked so I thought I'd research it.
With the Gold Cup starting, Eddie Johnson will have the chance to add more caps to his resume. When the roster came out, I started to wonder what Wizards player has the most caps for his national team. So I began to look around seeing what info I could find. Using US Soccer.com I was able to get pretty much every single US player that has played a game for the US. It was then a matter of searching for other federations and wikipedia pages to find the information on Wizards who had represented countries other then the US. Through my research, I found that Wizards players have represented 14 different countries. While I was not always able to get exact numbers, or some times even numbers at all, all these current and former Wizards have represented their national team.
USA
Tony Meola - 100 Caps
Alexi Lalas - 96 caps, 9 goals
Chris Henderson - 79 caps, 3 goals
Mike Burns - 75 caps
Peter Vermes - 67 caps, 11 goals
Mike Sorber - 67 caps, 2 goals
Josh Wolff - 48 caps, 9 goals
Frank Klopas - 40 caps, 12 goals
Brian Bliss - 34 caps, 2 goals
Roy Lassister - 30 caps, 4 goals
Eric Eichmann - 29 caps, 4 goals
Preki - 28 caps, 4 goals
Mark Chung - 24 caps, 2 goals
Eddie Johnson - 24 caps, 9 goals
Chris Klein - 22 caps, 5 goals
Kerry Zavagnin - 21 caps
Jimmy Conrad - 21 caps, 1 goal
Mark Santel - 8 caps, 1 goal
John Debrito - 6 caps
Nick Garcia - 6 caps
Yari Allnut - 5 caps, 2 goals
Kevin Hartman - 5 caps
Sasha Victorine - 4 caps, 1 goals
Steve Pittman - 3 caps
Alan Prampin - 2 caps
Diego Gutierrez - 1 cap
Curt Onalfo - 1 cap
Cameroon
Samuel Ekeme - 32 caps
Canada
Alex Bunbury - 65 caps, 16 goals
Denmark
Miklos Molnar - 18 caps, 2 goals
Finland
Antti Sumiala - 38 caps, 9 goals
Jamaica
Onandi Lowe - 65 caps, 19 goals
Wolde Harris - 25 caps(at least), 3 goals (at least)
Khari Stephenson - 21 caps, 3 goals
Shavar Thomas - 12 caps
Jermaine Hue - ??? caps, 2 goals (at least) (I was unable to find any good evidence of how many caps he has, if you know of a location, let me know)
Netherlands
Dave van den Bergh - 2 caps
Nigeria
Uche Okafor - 34 caps
Russia
Igor Simutenkov - 20 caps, 9 goals
Scotland
Richard Gough - 61 caps, 6 goals
Mo Johnston - 38 caps, 14 goals
Serbia and Montenegro
Vuk Rašović - 10 caps
Trinidad and Tabago
Gary Glasgow - 49 caps, 11 goals
Scott Sealy - 21 caps, 2 goals
Yugoslavia
Refik Šabanadžović - 8 caps
Zimbabwe
Vitalis Takawira - 26 caps, 12 goals
With that done, who is the most capped while a member of the Wizards? Here's the list of players and their number of caps while wearing Wizards blue.
Josh Wolff - USA - 38 caps, 6 goals
Preki - USA - 26 caps, 4 goals
Kerry Zavagnin - USA - 21 caps
Jimmy Conrad - USA - 21 caps, 1 goal
Chris Klein - USA - 17 caps, 3 goals
Gary Glasgow - Trinidad - 16 caps, 1 goal
Scott Sealy - Trinidad - 15 caps, 1 goal
Eddie Johnson - USA - 13 caps, 1 goal
Tony Meola - USA - 9 caps
Nick Garcia - USA - 6 caps
Mike Sorber - USA - 3 caps
Mark Chung - USA - 2 caps
Chris Henderson - USA - 1 cap
Steve Pittman - USA - 1 cap
Miklos Molnar - Denmark - 1 cap
The rest of these players I know or am pretty sure have played for their national team while with the Wizards but can't find exact numbers
Onandi Lowe - Jamaica
Vitalis Takawira - Zimbabwe
Wolde Harris - Jamaica
Khari Stephenson - Jamaica
Shavar Thomas - Jamaica
Uche Okafor - Nigeria
Jermaine Hue - Jamaica
With the Gold Cup starting, Eddie Johnson will have the chance to add more caps to his resume. When the roster came out, I started to wonder what Wizards player has the most caps for his national team. So I began to look around seeing what info I could find. Using US Soccer.com I was able to get pretty much every single US player that has played a game for the US. It was then a matter of searching for other federations and wikipedia pages to find the information on Wizards who had represented countries other then the US. Through my research, I found that Wizards players have represented 14 different countries. While I was not always able to get exact numbers, or some times even numbers at all, all these current and former Wizards have represented their national team.
USA
Tony Meola - 100 Caps
Alexi Lalas - 96 caps, 9 goals
Chris Henderson - 79 caps, 3 goals
Mike Burns - 75 caps
Peter Vermes - 67 caps, 11 goals
Mike Sorber - 67 caps, 2 goals
Josh Wolff - 48 caps, 9 goals
Frank Klopas - 40 caps, 12 goals
Brian Bliss - 34 caps, 2 goals
Roy Lassister - 30 caps, 4 goals
Eric Eichmann - 29 caps, 4 goals
Preki - 28 caps, 4 goals
Mark Chung - 24 caps, 2 goals
Eddie Johnson - 24 caps, 9 goals
Chris Klein - 22 caps, 5 goals
Kerry Zavagnin - 21 caps
Jimmy Conrad - 21 caps, 1 goal
Mark Santel - 8 caps, 1 goal
John Debrito - 6 caps
Nick Garcia - 6 caps
Yari Allnut - 5 caps, 2 goals
Kevin Hartman - 5 caps
Sasha Victorine - 4 caps, 1 goals
Steve Pittman - 3 caps
Alan Prampin - 2 caps
Diego Gutierrez - 1 cap
Curt Onalfo - 1 cap
Cameroon
Samuel Ekeme - 32 caps
Canada
Alex Bunbury - 65 caps, 16 goals
Denmark
Miklos Molnar - 18 caps, 2 goals
Finland
Antti Sumiala - 38 caps, 9 goals
Jamaica
Onandi Lowe - 65 caps, 19 goals
Wolde Harris - 25 caps(at least), 3 goals (at least)
Khari Stephenson - 21 caps, 3 goals
Shavar Thomas - 12 caps
Jermaine Hue - ??? caps, 2 goals (at least) (I was unable to find any good evidence of how many caps he has, if you know of a location, let me know)
Netherlands
Dave van den Bergh - 2 caps
Nigeria
Uche Okafor - 34 caps
Russia
Igor Simutenkov - 20 caps, 9 goals
Scotland
Richard Gough - 61 caps, 6 goals
Mo Johnston - 38 caps, 14 goals
Serbia and Montenegro
Vuk Rašović - 10 caps
Trinidad and Tabago
Gary Glasgow - 49 caps, 11 goals
Scott Sealy - 21 caps, 2 goals
Yugoslavia
Refik Šabanadžović - 8 caps
Zimbabwe
Vitalis Takawira - 26 caps, 12 goals
With that done, who is the most capped while a member of the Wizards? Here's the list of players and their number of caps while wearing Wizards blue.
Josh Wolff - USA - 38 caps, 6 goals
Preki - USA - 26 caps, 4 goals
Kerry Zavagnin - USA - 21 caps
Jimmy Conrad - USA - 21 caps, 1 goal
Chris Klein - USA - 17 caps, 3 goals
Gary Glasgow - Trinidad - 16 caps, 1 goal
Scott Sealy - Trinidad - 15 caps, 1 goal
Eddie Johnson - USA - 13 caps, 1 goal
Tony Meola - USA - 9 caps
Nick Garcia - USA - 6 caps
Mike Sorber - USA - 3 caps
Mark Chung - USA - 2 caps
Chris Henderson - USA - 1 cap
Steve Pittman - USA - 1 cap
Miklos Molnar - Denmark - 1 cap
The rest of these players I know or am pretty sure have played for their national team while with the Wizards but can't find exact numbers
Onandi Lowe - Jamaica
Vitalis Takawira - Zimbabwe
Wolde Harris - Jamaica
Khari Stephenson - Jamaica
Shavar Thomas - Jamaica
Uche Okafor - Nigeria
Jermaine Hue - Jamaica
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