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Set to begin another salary cap-governed year in Major League Soccer, one would expect a bit of
turnover for every team. After only two full seasons of existence, 54 players have graced the
Philadelphia Union roster (55 if you include Danny Cepero's one-game emergency goalkeeping bench
stint), and only 5 remain of the original cast.
Since it'd been a few days without a post I figured I'd give you a second post today as well on
stats. This time it's all competition goal scorers for Sporting KC in their history. First here are
some previous years for you.
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
On the list this year we add two new players to the list this season, other than that we see no
movement on the list this year.
The post from yesterday regarding the youngest and oldest players to ever appear for Sporting KC
was spawned by the fact that earlier this year, Soony Saad, on his debut became the youngest goal
scorer in the Wizards history when he scored against the Portland Timbers on his 19th birthday.
With that in mind, here are the youngest and oldest goal scorers in KC's history.
Since the season ended (and actually probably before that) I'd been working on a project to find
the youngest and oldest players to appear for Sporting KC throughout their history. I finished that
project up earlier this past week. And to start off my updating of all the stats that I do, I
figured I'd start with a new one.
Lots of good stats from the game last night, including a landmark goal by Teal Bunbury.
In 6 games at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, this is KC's first win there. It was KC's first win in
Colorado since 6/9/2004 when Josh Wolff scored a 90th minute penalty kick.
Teal Bunbury's two goals were only the 3rd time in team history a KC player has scored multiple
goals in the playoffs, the other two times, Miklos Molnar in 2000 and Davy Arnaud in 2004.
Playoffs feel so good.
Last night was the 12th league win, and 15th in all competitions this year, the most since 2004
when the team had 14 league wins and 20 in all competitions.
Teal Bunbury scored his 14th league goal, breaking his tie with Matt McKeon, Jose Burciaga, Sasha
Victorine, and Claudio Lopez and moving into a tie with Jack Jewsbury for 13th on that list.
Omar Bravo's and Kei Kamara's 2 goals tie them with Eddie Johnson and Davy Arnaud for the most
goals against TFC. Funny note, only Johnson has scored in multiple games against them, the other 3
got their 2 goals in single games.
Kamara's goal was also his 30th in MLS play of his career.
Kamara's two goals moves him past Jack Jewsbury and Chris Brown into 11th place for the most league
goals for KC.
Not a lot of stats from this Wednesday's game in Philadelphia, but here are your stats.
Michael Harrington made his 142nd appearance in all competitions for KC, breaking his tie with
Francisco Gomez for 14th place on that list.
It was also Harrington's 125th league appearance, tying him with Tony Meola for 11th on that list.
In the 19th minute, Michael Harrington hit the 10,000 minute mark for Sporting KC. He finished the
game with 10,071 minutes played. He's the 12th player to hit that mark.
Harrington also made his 141st appearance in all competitions for KC tying him with Francisco Gomez
for 14th place on that list.
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.
Tonight, Real Salt Lake begins it's attempt to become the first team since the 2000 LA Galaxy to
win the CONCACAF Champions' League/Cup. A US team has made the finals for the first time since the
format changed for the 2008-2009 season. The first even since LA's run to the finals in 2000, when
the entire tournament was hosted in Los Angeles.
Here are some stats from yesterday's 3-3 draw with Vancouver.
Kei Kamara's goal was his 12 league goal for KC, moving him past Francisco Gomez and Paul Wright
and into a tie with Igor Simutenkov, Miklos Molnar, and Chris Henderson for 17th on that list.
Davy Arnaud made his 250th appearance in all competitions for KC.
Continuing my stats updating for the 2010 season, here are the top goal scorers in all competitions
for KC through the 2010 season. First is previous years so you can see the progression of the goal
scorers.
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
There's only one addition to this list goal wise that wasn't on the list from earlier today, and
that's Teal Bunbury's goal in the US Open Cup qualifier against Colorado.
Time to start catching up on all my post season stat information. Here is the list of top scorers
through the 2010 season. First here are the previous years for you if you want to see how the list
has progressed.
1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009
There wasn't a whole lot of movement on the list this year for KC as a lot of the players on the
list have moved on, but there are still a few active players on the list.
