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Time for another year of wishes for 2012. Here's a look of what I am wanting and wishing to see in
2012.
1. Silverware - Is anything else really that important? I want silverware, as Robb Heineman put it
tonight on Twitter, #paintthewall. I want to add more stuff to the wall that shows our
accomplishments.
Three Sporting KC players have been called up by Jurgen Klinsmann for the upcoming US Men's
national team camp in Phoenix and Los Angeles. Teal Bunbury returns to the US national team, having
been a part of the quite a few of Klinsmann last few squads, although he's yet to make an
appearance for the national team under the new manager.
With the season now over, it's time to take a look at my year end awards for Sporting KC. As last
year, members of the media got to vote on MVP, Defensive player of the year, and Humanitarian of
the year. The team awards saw Jimmy Nielsen bring home MVP, Matt Besler bring home defensive player
of the year , and Kei Kamara bring home Humanitarian of the Year for the second year in a row.
Sporting Kansas City had a big opportunity to get themselves into a more favorable playoff position
on Saturday when the 3rd place Houston Dynamo came to town. The Wizards grabbed the opportunity and
took full advantage of it defeating the Dynamo 3-0 at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. KC set out from the
offset and took the game to the Dynamo, controlling play extremely well early on.
Only a few months ago, Sporting KC was sitting around the bottom of the Eastern Conference, and the
questions about the team were very loud. Now, after last night's 1-0 win over DC United, Kansas
City now sits in second place in the East, 4 points behind first place Columbus, with the Crew
still having to travel to KC.
photo courtesy Jarred Donalson
Here are some stats from last night's game.
Soony Saad made his first MLS appearance for KC, he's the 11th player to make their first MLS
appearance with KC this season. He's the 12th in all competitions.
Saad's goal was his first for Sporting KC, he becomes the youngest goal scorer in Sporting KC
history, topping Yura Movsisyan, who was 19 and 266 days when he scored.
Here are your Thursday After Stats for last night's Open Cup game.
Michael Harrington made his 148th appearance for KC in all competitions, breaking his tie with
Diego Gutierrez for 13th place on that list.
Harrington also made his 11th appearance in all Open Cup competitions, moving him into a tie with
Preki for 4th on that list.
Last night Peter Vermes selected a squad well capable of defeating the Richmond Kickers and
advancing in the US Open Cup. The team's starting back line for the past few games was starting,
the midfield had 3 players that have all gotten plenty of first team minutes in league play, and
the forward line had 2 players that have represented their national team.
Here's stats for last night's game.
Omar Bravo's goal was his 3rd against Chivas USA, that ties him for the most goals in league play
against Chivas with Davy Arnaud and Jose Burciaga.
Michael Harrington made his 147th appearance in all competitions for KC, tying him with Diego
Gutierrez for 14th place on that list.
Sporting Kansas City extended their unbeaten run to 8 league games, 10 in all competitions as they
scored two early goals against the Portland Timbers, saw a wonder goal from Darlington Nagbe, and
then held on late to win 2-1 to move into fourth place in the Eastern Conference. Early on Portland
had some of the better possession, but it was Aurelien Collin who almost found the opener in the
8th minute off a free kick from Graham Zusi, his header going just wide of the post.
I have to say that I was probably a little more optimistic about this game after seeing the
pounding SKC gave FC Dallas. But, I was also a little worried that Vermes was going to go back to
his beloved 4-3-3 formation that hasn't worked well. But, when I saw that Omar Bravo was going to
replace Stojcev (who was suspended) I was again excited.
Here are stats from yesterday's US Open Cup game.
That's the first time we've won by 5 goals since our 6-1 win over Des Moines in the US Open Cup on
8/3/2005.
That's the first time we've scored 5 against an MLS team since we beat Dallas 5-1 on 7/3/2004
The last time we beat an MLS team by 5 goals was 4/29/00 AT Colorado, 5-0.
Yes it was basically the New England Revolution reserves. Yes it wasn't a league game. But it felt
good tonight to get a win. And a big win it was. A mix of starters and reserves took it to the
Revolution, winning 5-0 thanks two a pair of braces from Chance Myers and CJ Sapong on a night when
it started to rain right before kickoff and continued to rain throughout the game.
Sporting KC's reserves, the Swope Park Rangers, moved to 1-1-1 on the reserve league season after
drawing 1-1 in Chicago today against the Fire reserves. One time rumored KC signing Christian
Nazarit, got the opener for the Fire in the 11th minute. KC had some chances to equalized and
finally did in the 40th minute.
The Swope Park Rangers picked up their first win of the reserve league season today, defeating Real
Salt Lake 2-0 at Swope Park. Chance Myers had a first half brace and Eric Kronberg picked up the
shutout for KC in the victory. Check out the highlights and reaction below.
KC has struggled to score goals this preseason, having scored a grand total of five in their
previous six games. Last night in Tucson though, Sporting KC broke for six against the Arizona
Sahuaros in their 6-1 win over the Arizona side. KC's line up was made up of players that are
likely to all be on the Swope Park Rangers this year, the team's reserve side.
So today turned out to be a fantastic day for the SKC Wizards didn't it? It was a virtual turd
sundae for Sporting KC. Two loses in preseason games today to Houston and the US Under 18 team. In
the Dynamo game, KC lost 3-1, falling behind 3-1 before a late consolation from Chance Myers. The
first goal was an own goal by Daneil Cyrus.
So the first day of preseason is in the books, and unfortunately I was unable to make it. This blog
doesn't pay the bills so I was at work while preseason was going on. But the rest of the KC soccer
blogosphere was there today and there is plenty of information that you can look at. I doubt I'll
be able to make it out to a practice before the team heads down to Arizona, but there is certainly
plenty to look over.
