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. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Goalkeeper Kevin Hartman has three nominees up for the Degree Men Save of the Year honor. His stops from Week 8, Week 11 and Week 32 are among 40 nominees for the award. Go vote here to help narrow the field to the top 10 saves of the year for another round of voting. The top 10 saves will be announced November 11. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Join us next Tuesday, November 3 at The Sports Radio 810 Zone in Leawood for a UEFA Champions League watch party. Watch Atlético Madrid take on Chelsea starting at 1 p.m. CT on Fox Soccer Channel. There will be prize give-aways, and fans will be able to get all the insight on the game from Nate Bukaty from Sports Radio 810 WHB as well as midfielders Davy Arnaud and Jack Jewsbury. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Davy Arnaud signing autographs after the San Jose game last season.
Saturday night's match against D.C. United will serve as Fan Appreciation Night for the 2009 season. For the second-straight year, we will host a full-team autograph session on the field at CAB after the match. The Police will be playing the Fire Department on the field after the game, so you can enjoy that while autographs are taking place. Click to continue reading...

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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Kansas City dropped a 3-2 result to Seattle Sounders FC tonight at CAB after falling behind early and surrendering a late lead. The Wizards had been eliminated from playoff contention earlier in the day by other results but could have put Seattle's playoff future in question with a win. As it turned out, Sounders FC clinched a playoff berth after a great performance from Designated Player and #10 Freddie Ljungberg. Click to continue reading...

It took a lot longer than I think many people expected it to, but the Wizards are now officially eliminated from the playoff race. The Wizards were eliminated before they even took the field against Seattle after Toronto's win over Salt Lake yesterday. Still it wouldn't have mattered, as the Wizards blew another lead and once again lost at home, this time to Seattle, 3-2 last night. Click to continue reading...

I decided not to comment on our 2-0 loss against Chivas since my arguments are the same as the Houston tie except for the Zoltan goal. This week we didn't even score and it would seem that playing those players in a slump (Wolff, Arnaud, Jewsbury) has brought nothing good.

The game did have a horrible offside non-call on the first Chivas goal, but in all honesty should be blamed on the assistant and not the ref (Mike Kuhn has all the evidence, and the video is clear also).

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In the second minute last night, Jack Jewsbury moved past Tony Meola and into 9th place for the most minutes played in MLS play for the Wizards, Jewsbury finished the game with 11,420 minutes played.
Josh Wolff made his 110th league start for the Wizards, tying him with Jose Burciaga for 11th on that list. Click to continue reading...

Talked with Davy at practice today. Click to continue reading...

Yes Kansas City played better yesterday than their last game against Colorado; yes they could have won to keep the slim playoff hopes alive. But NO we didn't win; no we didn't finish off a team that played almost 70 minutes a man down and missing one of their best players; no, we aren't that much better with Peter Vermes than we were with Curt Onalfo; and no Peter Vermes should NOT survive the house cleaning that should take place in KC this offseason.

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It's getting close to just saying "let's prepare for 2010". After today's result down in Houston, the Wizards playoff hopes get even more faint. Up a man for over 70 minutes, the Wizards had to fight back from a goal down to salvage a draw against the Houston Dynamo this afternoon.
KC came out and tried to push the game from the start getting into Houston's end multiple times early on. Click to continue reading...

Needing a win against a depleted Colorado team on their 3rd game in one week the Wizards earned a point at home and basically kissed their playoff aspirations good bye. Only winning out and getting a lot of help will keep KC from watching the MLS playoffs from home.

So the Wizards, in their typical "must win" situation, playing a team on their 3rd game this week, which was missing at least 4 starters, finished the game with 4 defenders and a holding mid and not getting a goal.

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The Wizards playoff hopes were slim coming into last night's game against Colorado, and with the 0-0 draw and the way other results went around the league, slim is packing their bags right now. KC was the more dominate team throughout the game, and looked the more likely to get the goal throughout the game, but could not find the net. Click to continue reading...

Random notes from the Colorado Rapids' third draw in nine days, a 0-0 tie with the Kansas City Wizards on Saturday night at Community America Ballpark:

SIZE MATTERS: The official dimensions of the pitch at Dick's Sporting Goods Park are 120 yards long by 80 yards wide. In contrast, the fields surrounding Dick's are 110 by 70.

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The Wizards have a chance tomorrow to make up more ground on the pack ahead of them and get even closer to the MLS playoffs this year. Tomorrow, the Wizards take on the Colorado Rapids, who are currently 8 points ahead of the Wizards and currently in the playoffs. Colorado comes into the game on the backs of 2 1-1 draws with San Jose, both on late penalty kick goals by the leagues leading scorer, Conor Casey. Click to continue reading...

Jimmy Conrad had a night to remember, and at the same time a night to forget. At the end the Wizards kept their hopes alive with a come from behind win against Dallas that puts them 7 points behind the last playoff spot with 5 games left.

The night started with the Wizards trying to win their first game at home since June 12th (yes, a 3 month drought, including Superliga).

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Josh Wolff's goal was his 10th in league play, tying a career high.
It was also Wolff's 82nd in all competitions, tying him with Cobi Jones for 14th on that list.
Wolff's goal was his 40th in league play for the Wizards, breaking a tie with Chris Klein for second on that list.
It was also Wolff's 43rd in all competitions for KC, tying him with Chris Klein for 3rd on that list. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards still are very unlikely to qualify for the playoffs this year, but they're not going down this year without a fight. KC came back from being a goal down to take all 3 points last night out at Community America Ballpark against Dallas, winning 3-2. Jimmy Conrad picked up the winner after having a howler of a night in the defensive third of the field giving the ball away for both of Dallas' goals last night. Click to continue reading...

Last time KC and Dallas faced each other the Wizards took in 6 goals, alot of embarrassment and Curt Onalfo lost his job. Today, KC is looking for payback.

KC will be missing Jack Jewsbury who in all honesty needs a timeout since his level of play, just like Davy Arnaud's has been sub par.

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This weekend, the Wizards welcome FC Dallas to Kansas City in what is a must win for both teams if they want to make the playoffs this year. Both teams can only barely see the playoffs and getting 3 points tomorrow night out at CAB will be big for either team. Dallas comes into this game having put another half a dozen on the board, this time out in LA against the Galaxy. Click to continue reading...

In a battle of teams sitting at the bottom of the Eastern Conference the Wizards made the most of a huge Jorge Rojas mistake to score the only goal in a game where the winning team just made one less mistake than the loser.

A Josh Wolff goal that came off a Claudio Lopez breakaway rebound allowed the Wizards to come home with 6 points out of a possible 9 in this 3 game East coast swing.

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Josh Wolff's goal was his 71st career MLS goal, tying him with Ronald Cerritos for 14th on the all time MLS scorers list.
It was Wolff's 5th MLS (and in all competitions) goal against New York in his Wizards career, tying him with Preki and Chris Klein for the most goals by a Wizard against New York. Click to continue reading...

Back again. I missed out on commenting about our victory last Saturday against New England which brought some renewed enthusiasm to the KC faithful. This was mainly due to the fact that there was way too much soccer to watch with the WC qualifiers over the weekend. A good dose of soccer overload which was great

I did watch the game against NE but did not really get overly excited because KC really needed to get a streak going after the string of goaless games before one could cheer wholeheartedly and think about a turn around.

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Most eyes may have been on Port of Spain last night, but there was still an important MLS match last night as Kansas City traveled to face D.

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Most eyes may have been on Port of Spain last night, but there was still an important MLS match last night as Kansas City traveled to face D.

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Face facts. The reason we won this match is because Davy Arnaud, given two chances with the goal at his mercy, twice pushed the ball wide of the post. Yes, there were other 'Zards who had chances, some of them even pretty good, but Arnaud's two were... Click to continue reading...

Kansas City had all the chances in the world last night to not only take 1 point from their game in DC, but to take all 3. Unfortunately poor finishing from the Wizards, particularly Davy Arnaud ended up costing KC as they fell 1-0 to DC last night. KC could have been on top inside the first five minutes, as Claudio Lopez picked out Arnaud with a low cross, but Arnaud's one time effort was right at Josh Wicks in the DC net and easily saved. Click to continue reading...

United kicks off its five game homestand tonight by taking on the Kansas City Wizards (7:30 p.m. ET, Comcast SportsNet HD). The playoff picture right now is a little messy, but a few wins over the five games at RFK Stadium will go a long way towards securing a spot in the post-season.

As you likely know, the team will be without Marc Burch (ankle surgery on Sunday) and Dejan Jakovic (bi-lateral hernia repair) for the next 2-3 weeks.

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Funny how when you score all these stats come up. Anyways, TONS of stats from last night's game, plenty of them have to do with Josh Wolff and his performance.
Josh Wolff's second goal last night, was the Wizards 600th in league play. KC is the 7th MLS team to hit that mark. Wolff also scored the team's 400th goal back in 2005 against Colorado. Click to continue reading...