Yesterday we learned the rules for this year's expansion draft, where the Philadelphia Union will
select 10 players from the 15 current MLS teams to help to begin their process for building their
roster. The Wizards are allowed to protect 11 players and 3 of the team's 4 international players
will have to be protected.
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Buy Claudio Lopez's or any other players jersey here.
Four hours remain in the game-worn jersey auction. All proceeds to to a good cause, so click here
and bid on your favorite player's jersey!
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Voting for the AT&T Goal of the Year and Degree Men Save of the Year awards ends TODAY. Get your
last-minute votes in and help Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud and Kevin Hartman in their quest for an
end-of-season Play of the Year honor.
Goal of the Year voting
Save of the Year voting
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WVHooligan 17 November @ 03:18 PM EST
Jimmy Conrad and Josh Wolff will certainly be protected in the upcoming expansion draft. (WVH
Photo Correspondent Brian Stevens)
Staying with the two-a-day structure for the expansion draft lists, earlier in the day we looked
at the Houston Dynamo now we turn our focus to the Kansas City Wizards.
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The Back Post 17 November @ 12:00 PM EST
The voting for the AT&T Goal of the Year and Degree Men Save of the Year awards ends tomorrow. Get
your last-minute votes in and help Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud and Kevin Hartman in their quest for
an end-of-season Play of the Year honor.
Goal of the Year voting
Save of the Year voting
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Major League Soccer will be announcing its 2009 MLS Best XI later this afternoon and while some
of the picks are easy to make, some others will be very difficult.
Picking this year's forwards was especially tough, with a half dozen worth candidates for the
Best XI nod.
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Major League Soccer will be announcing its 2009 MLS Best XI later this afternoon and while some
of the picks are easy to make, some others will be very difficult.
Picking this year's forwards was especially tough, with a half dozen worth candidates for the
Best XI nod.
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Speaking of highlights, don't forget to vote for Davy Arnaud or Claudio Lopez for the AT&T Goal of
the Year award and for Kevin Hartman for the Degree Men Save of the Year award.
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The Wizards had 4 goals up for Goal of the Year, and 2 of those goals have made it to the final 10,
one from each Davy Arnaud and Claudio Lopez. Arnaud's goal is his blast from the first game of the
season against Toronto. Lopez's goal is his shot from midfield that looped in over Donovan
Ricketts.
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That's right folks, both Davy Arnaud and Claudio Lopez remain in the running for the AT&T Goal of
the Year. Kevin Hartman is also a finalist for the Degree Men Save of the Year. Help them win the
first end-of-season Play of the Year award in Wizards history!
Vote for Goal of the Year
Vote for Save of the Year
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For those clubs already in the thick of the offseason -- and after last weekend, the tally grew
to 11 -- there are plenty of issues to wrestle with. Some clubs, like D.C. United, New York Red
Bull and Toronto FC, high on the list is finding a head coach for next season.
One club checked head coach off the list, as the Kansas City Wizards named Peter Vermes as their
top man.
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So now that the passion/disappointment has simmered a bit after a below mediocre season, I
figured I's sit and look at the team as a whole and write about what I thought should happen for
2010.
Peter Vermes = Technical Director: After 3 seasons in this position I
feel Vermes has done a less than stellar job.
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First of all, go vote for the AT&T Goal of the Year and Degree Men Save of the Year awards. Both
Arnaud and Lopez are up twice for the Goal of the Year honor and Hartman is up three times for the
Save of the Year award. You can find links to the highlights of these plays at previous posts
below.
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The Back Post 04 November @ 11:03 AM EST
Vote for Claudio or Davy. They both are nominated twice. Claudio's goals include his beautiful free
kick in week 10 against Chivas and week 19's shot from the middle of the field against LA. Davy's
goals include the week 1 blast against Toronto and the week 13 goal against New England. I have
hard time deciding my favorite.
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Year end award nominees are coming out, and while no Wizards players are up the big awards, 3
Wizards are nominated for 2 awards.
Davy Arnaud and Claudio Lopez are both up twice for goal of the year. Arnaud's first blast against
Toronto on the opening week of the season is one of his two nominated goals.
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Attackers Davy Arnaud and Claudio Lopez are both up twice for the AT&T Goal of the Year award. Davy
is nominated for his long-range, left-footed bomb in Week 1 and a give-and-go and give-and-go
effort in Week 13. Lopez is up for his free kick in Week 10 and his past-the-halfline bomb in Week
19.
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Major League Soccer's playoff hopefuls went into the season finale with a whole host of
possibilities ahead of them. And without wishing to put too fine a point on it, they all crapped
the bed. Here's what happened in a spectacular, surprising and decisive Week 32, the final week of
the MLS regular season for 2009.
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A few of the Wizards players had career years this year. Here's a list of the players that are in
at least their second year in the league and the career highs they hit this year.
Josh Wolff reached a career high in goals (11), games started (27), and minutes played in league
play (2,348).
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The Wizards have handed out their year end awards, and it's now time for me to hand out my end of
the year awards to Wizards players. I'm going to hand out the same awards I did last year, I'm also
adding a Performance of the Year award to the best single game performance by a player this
season.
Rookie of the Year
Matt Besler
Not really a surprise, it was either going to be Besler or Graham Zusi getting this years award,
and I don't think that Zusi got enough time this year to be considered for the award.
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Yeah I'm almost a week behind on this, but was thinking the team may actually announce more winners
than just MVP, Golden Boot and Humanitarian of the Year. Anyways, this year, the award winners
consisted of 2 players, Josh Wolff and Jimmy Conrad.
Wolff won both the MVP award and the Golden Boot.
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Before the last game, a few players and front office people came out to the tailgates to socialize
and drop off some "refreshments". Adam Cristman is injuried so he was out there...Kevin Souter,
currently on the DL and doing a great job as a fill in broadcaster stopped by also. Here is posing
with Mike of Down the Byline fame.
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Let's just post the press release:
Kansas City Wizards goalkeeper Kevin Hartman received MLS Save of the Week honors for the final
week of the 2009 MLS regular season for an outstanding save to deny D.C. United's Ben Olsen.
Hartman won two MLS Save of the Week awards on the season, taking home the honor in Week 11 and
Week 32.
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WVHooligan 29 October @ 09:22 AM EST
Jimmy Conrad and Josh Wolff lead the way in 2009 for Kansas City. (WVH Photo Correspondent Brian
Stevens)
The bandwagon was getting bigger for this club going into 2009. Many folks had hoped this was
the year the Kansas City Wizards would get over the hump and make a big splash in the eastern
conference.
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From Landon Donovan's volley against New England to Claudio Lopez's strike against L.A., 2009 has
seen a superb batch of goals.
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The Wizards season is over, but the Player of the Month for October needs to be handed out. My year
end awards will also be coming out soon as well. In October the Wizards went 0-2-2, scoring 5 goals
and allowing 8 goals during that time frame. Here are a few candidates for October.
Claudio Lopez - Lopez had a goal and an assist in October, setting up Zoltann Hercegfalvi's goal in
Houston and scored the game tying PK against DC.
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Du Nord 26 October @ 04:25 PM EST
STARTERSDon Garber will take calls on Fox Football Fone-In show on Mon Oct 26 from 6-8pm Central. Jesse
Marsch of Chivas USA is also scheduled to appear.
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Minnesota Thunder GM Djorn Buchholz has left the team to become CEO of the Austin Aztex. On a
personal note Buchholz has been a fantastic person to deal with at the team and will be greatly
missed by me as a fan of the team.
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Kevin Hartman made his 100th start in all competitions for the Wizards. He's the 19th Wizard to hit
that mark.
The 33 goals scored by the Wizards in league play, ties for the lowest goal output in team history.
The 1999 and the 2001 Wizards both scored 33 league goals.
Claudio Lopez's goal was his 13th in league play for the Wizards, moving him into a tie for 12th
place all time with Matt McKeon, Jose Burciaga, and Sasha Victorine.
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The Wizards ended the 2009 season without a playoff berth, but they went out by helping to kill DC
United's season. Along with other results around the league, KC's 2-2 draw with DC last night
eliminated DC from making the playoffs as well. A late penalty kick by Claudio Lopez proving to be
the tying goal.
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Well, the comeback was a nice one that severely hampers D.C. United's playoff hopes. Claudio's
stoppage-time PK sent the crowd here at CAB into a frenzy on Fan Appreciation Night. Check out the
notables below for more, including info on Kamara's first goal for KC and Zusi's first MLS
assist.
Notables:
• Kansas City finished the season 0-1-2 against D.
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Talked with Claudio Lopez after practice yesterday. He may have misunderstood one question but
overall he did great with doing it in English.We talked about Argentina qualifying, coaching and
his thoughts for the future.
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Giants Stadium's clumsy run in MLS comes to a merciful conclusion Saturday
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Today will be one of the really memorable days in Major League Soccer's 14 years.
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It's bad enough we have had a horrible season. It's bad enough that we played basically the same
lineup that has given us little to cheer about throughout the season (with Zusi and Zoltan being
the exceptions). Saturday we decided to give the Sounders some help by giving away 3 goals on big
mistakes.
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An article on Soccer by Ives has quotes from Wizards #7 Claudio Lopez about the tough go of
qualifying for Argentina thus far. He remains a popular player in Argentina and with Argentine
media, and will also do a live shot today at 3 p.m. CT for Fox Sports Argentina about tonight's
monumental game in Uruguay.
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By KILLIAN O'CONNOR
As Argentina stands on the brink of failure to qualify for the World Cup, former striker Claudio
Lopez looks on in disbelief.
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