Forgot to make this post yesterday, but Wizards head athletic trainer, Chet North has been named
MLS Athletic Trainer of the Year. Thad over at The Back Post has a great interview up with North
that you can check out as well.
North is the only person with the Wizards organization who has been there since the first season 14
years ago.
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The Back Post 07 November @ 12:59 AM EST
Chet North of the Kansas City Wizards was named the MLS Head Athletic Trainer of the Year. I was
finally able to get Chet to sit still for an interview. He discusses a little bit of everything:
including what it takes to earn the award, the ownership, the MLS Cup team and players. Chet is the
only person that has been with the Wizards organization since the first year.
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The Back Post 07 November @ 12:36 AM EST
Kansas City Wizards defender Jimmy Conrad received his second honor of the year for his
off-the-field contributions to the Kansas City community. MLS W.O.R.K.S., Major League Soccer's
community outreach initiative, and the U.S. Soccer Foundation, the Major Charitable Arm of Soccer
in the United States, announced Friday that Conrad and Chicago Fire midfielder Logan Pause were
selected to receive
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Wizards captain, Jimmy Conrad has been named Co-MLS Humanitarian of the Year along with Chicago
Fire midfielder Logan Pause. Conrad had won the award for his work being a spokesperson for
Athletes Against Autism and the Child Protection Center. He's also helped with the UN's Nothing but
Nets campaign.
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Kansas City Wizards defender Jimmy Conrad and Chicago fire midfielder Logan Pause share the 2009
MLS Humanitarian of the Year award. Conrad is a spokesperson for Athletes Against Autism and the
Child Protection Center along with participating in the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign.
Pause participates in the Passback Program, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Garth Brooks Foundation and
the Joshua Center in Chicago.
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For those wanting to keep up with the potential future of the Kansas City Wizards, the Wizards
Juniors U18 and U16 teams are getting ready to kick off their first season in the US Soccer
Development Academy. The season runs from November to May. Both teams begin their season on the
road down in Texas on the 21st of this month.
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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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Tom Soehn's term as Head Coach of DC United has come to a close Monday evening when he met with
Kevin Payne and the rest of the head honchos in the DC United front office. Tom Soehn did not await
the decision from Kevin Payne and left on his own terms.
Now the decision comes down to who is next to step up and be the new DC United Head Coach?
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The Back Post 04 November @ 10:47 AM EST
Save of the year voting is now open. Wizards keeper Kevin Hartman is nominated 3 times. Week 8,
week 11 and my favorite week 32.Go vote for Kevin!!
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The possibilities for for the Wizards 2010 home schedule are starting to come into view. Earlier
this week, the T-Bones came out with their schedule for the 2010 season, meaning we know what dates
the Wizards won't be at home due to baseball being played at CAB. We also know that the Wizards
won't be playing any games at all from June 10th through June 25th due to the announcement that the
league will take off during the group stages of the World Cup this coming summer.
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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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Tom Soehn will not be back as head coach of D.C. United after removing his name from
consideration to be retained upon the conclusion of his current contract at the end of the calendar
year.
D.C. United failed to make the playoffs for a second straight season, but it did enjoy success
under Soehn, who helped guide the team to a Supporters Shield in 2007 and U.
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Tom Soehn will not be back as head coach of D.C. United after removing his name from
consideration to be retained upon the conclusion of his current contract at the end of the calendar
year.
D.C. United failed to make the playoffs for a second straight season, but it did enjoy success
under Soehn, who helped guide the team to a Supporters Shield in 2007 and U.
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Got this from over at Hillcrest Road, and figured I'd pass it on cause it's pretty cool. The
Wiz(ards) are one of 3 soccer teams nominated in the poll on the ESPN blog, Uni Watch, for the
worst soccer uniforms. While the Wiz(ards) have plenty of potential nominees (as seen by the photo
below), it's the 96-97 jerseys that are nominated in this competition.
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In case you missed it last week, here is the final Access United episode of 2009. Host Tony
Limarzi recaps the final regular season game against the Wizards, talks to a few of the guys about
the future of the club and provides the Top Ten D.C. United Moments of 2009.
What was your favorite moment of the season?
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Here are some more stats for you as the Wizards season is now over. Unfortunately most of them are
depressing. You'll be seeing more stats this week as I get the information finalized.
KC scored 33 goals this season, tying the 99 and the 01 Wizards for the lowest scoring team in
Wizards history.
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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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It was retro night. A jersey from each year was worn in the front row of the Cauldron...Singing
during the game...After the Wizards first goal...The Cauldron was here...A little smoke...The Big
A.. Flag after a goal...Always good to see kids in the Cauldron...More shots here
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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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Deep Cuts took a brief hiatus yesterday, for a couple of different reasons: one, I was forced to do
The Man's bidding with no real break, and two, the Internet failed to deliver anything of real...
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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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The Major League Soccer regular season is finished and the playoffs are starting this week. It
was an interesting regular season which included new franchise Seattle making the playoffs and
leading the league in home attendance. Other clubs such as the New York Red Bulls struggled all
year and were the worst team in the league.
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Could the 2010 MLS season be in a little bit of danger next season? It seems like it could be a
possibility, as the current collective bargaining agreement is up in January. According to former
Wizard, Nick Garcia in the Toronto Sun (yes I know the Sun is a tabloid), players have been told to
put money back for this year just in case.
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The Wizards held their season end media session Tuesday. There was way too much info to transcribe
and too much for my poor video camera to hold so I am posting the audio of the interviews for
everyone to hear. Each interview was long enough that I broke them into two files.First up is Josh
Wolff, he set a career high for goals and possibly nose bleeds.
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Before David Beckham popularised this art, goals from the halfway line were spectacular but rare.
Since then, there have been more and more outrageous goals scored by really talented
footballers.
Just recently, a college university freshman from SMU scored a 95-yard goal which bounced over the
opposition goalkeeper and into net.
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The gears in many front offices haven't ground to a halt just yet. digest their future and
ponder what moves to make this offseason. Coaching is one obvious place to start, and for the teams
that failed to make the playoffs, now is the time to question who will be on the sidelines again in
2010.
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EPL Talk 28 October @ 04:30 AM EST
I've lost track of the number of times Americans ask me where I'm from, and I mention Wales only
to hear the next follow-up question, which is "Where is Wales? Is that part of England?"
While most US residents get an F in geography (not just from me, but from many scholars), I've
found that soccer fans living in the United States are far smarter than average Americans for the
following reasons:
- Time difference wizards.
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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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With the season now over, the Wizards have some questions to ask about the team itself and the
front office. One of the most important questions revolves around technical director and interim
coach, Peter Vermes. Where, if anywhere in the organization will Vermes be next year? Will he be
back in the dual role of technical director and coach?
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In what can be conservatively called a Bad season, Kansas City came back to tie D.C. United and
kill their chances of moving into the playoffs.
Kansas City started with a different look using Kamara and Zoltan at the same time but kicking
Kei off to the wing and leaving Zoltan up top with Josh Wolff; yes an improvement but not by much
since Wolff did look slow on a couple of breakaways.
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Wow, what a save by Hartman around the 2:18 mark!
This announcer needs to trademark is line, "It's in the NET... It's in the NET!"
JM
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