Twitter has brought us plenty of breaking news since it's become one of the quickest ways to spread news, and the Wizards have done their fair share of it. Wizards President Robb Heineman has given fans some news today as he announced "verbal agreement on assistant coach. hopefully announe soon, after contract signed". Click to continue reading...

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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The rain squashed the practice portion of things, but Dave did get a quality sit-down with Kerry Zavagnin:

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Dynamo helping out during last year's blood drive.
If you have some free time this week, stop by one of the area Community Blood Center locations to donate blood and help save a life. This is the 3rd year we've teamed up with the CBC, and our fans are always very supportive. Check out the details at kcwizards. Click to continue reading...

U.S. National Team prior to match against Norway in 2006, featuring Kevin Hartman, Jimmy Conrad, Josh Wolff and Kerry Zavagnin among others.
Ahead of tomorrow's gigantic battle between the USA and Mexico at Azteca, Kristian Dyer of ESPN takes a look at the evolution of Landon Donovan and why no one can ever call him Landycakes again. Click to continue reading...

Kansas City Wizards President Robb Heineman announced Tuesday that Technical Director Peter Vermes will serve as the team's Interim Head Coach through the end of the 2009 season. Vermes was a founding member of Major League Soccer and a standout on the United States National Team. After retiring, Vermes became the Technical Director of Blue Valley Soccer Club before serving as the Head Coach of Click to continue reading...

KC will no longer be lead by Curt Onalfo. (Brian Stevens, WVH Photo Correspondent)

Turns out losing 6-0 can get you fired, but I'm sure that wasn't the only reason. According to a couple KC blogs (DTB and Back Post), Kansas City has fired head coach Curt Onalfo. Along with Onalfo, assistant coach, Kris Kelderman was also let go leaving Kerry Zavagnin and John Pascarella as the two remaining coaches.

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Thad over at The Back Post has the breaking news, with the press release coming soon, that Coach Onalfo has been dismissed by the Wizards. The move comes after the Wizards embarrassing 6-0 loss to Dallas on Sunday. Along with Onalfo being let go, assistant coach, Kris Kelderman was also let go. That leaves Kerry Zavagnin and John Pascarella as the two remaining coaches. Click to continue reading...

Davy Arnaud has been a consistent performer for the Kasnas City Wizards since entering MLS in 2002. Playing along the likes of Josh Wolff, Preki, Kerry Zavagnin and Chris Klein (all former US national teamers) in the KC midfield and attack, Arnaud developed versatility unique to most American attacking midfielders.

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After tomorrow night's match, nearly the entire team will appear Sunday at Heritage Soccer Park in Overland Park, Kan. during the Kansas City Invitational Tournament to launch our new relationship with Heartland Soccer Association. The first group will begin things at 12:30 p.m. CT, and the last group will wrap up around 6:30 p. Click to continue reading...

The great thing about living in Kansas City is I can finally go to little Wizard's promos and talk to players. Tonight I went to a combined SPCA and Wizard's event at a sports bar that was promoting dog night at the next Wizards home game. Wizard's long time player turned Assistant Coach Kerry Zavagnin and injured backup goalkeeper extraordinaire Eric Kronberg were sitting around chatting. Click to continue reading...

Just wanted to remind you all that the Swope Park Rangers will be facing UMKC today at 2:30 at our (and their) Swope Park Training Center. After that game, the front office staff (including technical staff members) will engage in a staff soccer match on the turf field at Swope. For details, including rosters for each team, view this post from last week. Click to continue reading...

Hillcrest Road has posted a quick recap of this past weekend's open tryouts. They have a good link to the list of players that made Day 2 of the tryouts. Some of the local players were able to advance to day two and some of the guys that I'd looked up elsewhere also made it. According to the Hillcrest Road link, about 10 of the players that participated in day 2 will be invited back to train with the first team at some time. Click to continue reading...

Zavagnin will now interact with fans again, this time teaching them how to coach more effectively.
Last week, the Wizards launched an innovative new program to help fans expand their coaching horizons. The License to Coach program was born out of the bus trip to and from Columbus for Leg 2 of our playoff series last November. Click to continue reading...

Zavagnin will now interact with fans again, this time teaching them how to coach more effectively.
Last week, the Wizards launched an innovative new program to help fans expand their coaching horizons. The License to Coach program was born out of the bus trip to and from Columbus for Leg 2 of our playoff series last November. Click to continue reading...

Thad over at The Back Post recently had a phone interview with the Wizards Technical Director, Peter Vermes. He had to divide the interview into three posts, but you can see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 on his blog. Part 1 deals mainly with new players. The team is looking at a couple players, and 1-2 may join the team for training down in Florida. Click to continue reading...

Blanco v. Hartman last year.
The Wizards Technical Staff, including Technical Director Peter Vermes, Head Coach Curt Onalfo, Assistant Coach Kris Kelderman and Assistant Coach Kerry Zavagnin (that's kind of weird to type), are in Ft. Lauderdale, FL tonight preparing for the start of the 2009 adidas MLS Player Combine. Click to continue reading...

Time to update the list of Wizards players that have appeared in 100 games for the Wizards. There was plenty of movement on the list, as Kerry Zavagnin, Davy Arnaud, Jimmy Conrad, and Jack Jewsbury made movement up the list. There was only 1 player who joined the list of players to play in 100 league games for the Wizards, and that was Sasha Victorine. Click to continue reading...

What most Wizards fans wanted to happen has happened. Kerry Zavagnin, who retired at the end of this past season, will be staying in Kansas City. Today came word that the Wizards have named Kerry Zavagnin an assistant coach with the team. Zavagnin fills the second assistant coaching position that had been left empty this past season after the departure of Chris Henderson to become the technical director of Seattle Sounders FC of MLS. Click to continue reading...

Zavagnin after his final regular-season home match in KC colors.
Long-time Wizards holding midfielder Kerry Zavagnin hung up his boots following the loss against Columbus in November. Now he has officially re-joined the organization as an assistant coach. Welcome back Kerry. We're happy you're staying. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards loss to the Crew on Saturday night brought the end to the career of one of the greatest Wizards players in history, Kerry Zavagnin. Zavagnin didn't have the flashy stats of the likes of Preki or the name recognition of Tony Meola, but he will certainly go down as one of the greatest in team history. Click to continue reading...

So it took us a bit to get this loaded on YouTube, with our upcoming playoff game and all, but here it is: The Kerry Zavagnin tribute played on the video screen at CommunityAmerica Ballpark before our home finale. Saturday will be Kerry's last home match ever in a Wizards uniform. If he plays in a postseason game this year, he'll break a tie with Nick Garcia for the most playoff games played in team history. Click to continue reading...

Stats from last night's 3-1 win over the New England Revolution.
Kerry Zavagnin's appearance was his 237th and final regular season appearance for the Wizards, a club record. He finished with 20,516 minutes played in league play, also a club record.
Davy Arnaud's goal was his 32nd goal in MLS play, breaking the tie with Mo Johnston for 3rd on that list. Click to continue reading...

Thad has posted this week's player interview with Herculez Gomez up on his blog. Gomez talks about the game winning goal against San Jose as well as how well he's fitting into the team. He's certainly fit in very well on the right wing, giving Davy Arnaud the chance to move into the center of midfield. Click to continue reading...

I cornered Kerry after practice on Thursday, I setup near the media cookies and he fell right into my trap. I had to of course ask him about the huge banner the Cauldron did for his last regular season game. That banner was awesome. I do not know who all worked on it but I know Jeff (Szazzy) coordinated it. Click to continue reading...

Here are four stories you need to read. Some of them were posted before we clinched a playoff berth, so give the authors some slack for that.
1. MLSnet.com piece from our friend Bob Rusert on Kerry Zavagnin and his fond regular-season farewell last weekend. Some very good, insightful quotes here from KZ and company. Click to continue reading...

That was fun. What a great night. I do not know where to begin...The fans were able to honor 2 of their favorite Wizards. Kerry Zavagnin's last regular season home game deserved a special display and it was delivered. This is part of the display before the game. Many Cauldron members posing with THE centerpice of Kerry's TIFO. Click to continue reading...

Amazing. That's the only way to describe. Claudio Lopez was simply fantastic tonight, as was the rest of the team. We outshot SJ 23-7. What a touching moment with Kerry Zavagnin before the match. Too bad we didn't score earlier so he could have come on toward the end. Check out the quotes and notables from tonight:
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS HEAD COACH CURT ONALFO
On the play of Claudio Lopez
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Thad has this week's player interview with Kerry Zavagnin up on his website. He also has an interview up with last week's winner of the player interview poll, Tyson Wahl.
With Zavagnin, Thad talks with him about the playoff chances for the Wizards, talking about the recent recovery of the team to get back into the playoff chase. Click to continue reading...

Kerry Zavagnin was the winner of the week 10 interview vote. He announced that this would be his last year back in August. He has not seen much playing time with the starters since then but has not complained. He has anchored the reserve team and continued to lead both by example and by words. At reserve games and scrimmages it is the norm to hear him directing his team. Click to continue reading...

Well, last Saturday's game was great, but we're already looking ahead to the upcoming game with San Jose. Saturday will be our fan appreciation night. Immediately after the match will be a 12-minute fireworks display, followed by an on-field autograph signing session with the entire team. We will also recognize Kerry Zavagnin at some point in the night for his great service to the team over the last nine years. Click to continue reading...

Last night on the Conrad Show, Hillcrest made his radio debut and at one point asked Jimmy which Wizards player would be the best on Dancing with the Stars. Jimmy said Kerry Zavagnin was the pick and even noted that Kerry had actually been approached by the show's producers about the possibility. Well, now you get to decide. Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the delayed post, here's the release about the match. On the Marinelli goal, I've seen elsewhere that Souter scored, but the refs said the initial fumble by Edwards went over the line and Souter pushed it in afterward. Enjoy the rest of the rundown.
KCW Reserves Defeat Toronto FC Reserves 6-0 Sunday
Kansas City Gets Hat Trick from Ivan Trujillo, Two Goals from Ryan Pore
MLS Reserve Division Match
Sunday, September 21, 2008 – 10:00 a. Click to continue reading...

The KC Wizards reserves had no problem taking down the Toronto FC reserves this morning out at the Wizards Swope Park training complex. Ivan Trujillo had a hattrick as the reserves beat Toronto 6-0 today. The first half for the game was fairly quiet, as the Wizards and Toronto didn't have many great chances. Click to continue reading...

Continuing with the new tradition started last week, we'll post the weekly press schedule here at Hillcrest Road. Check out all the places to hear your boys this week:
Tonight—8:00 p.m.— The Jimmy Conrad Show--Sports Radio 810
Wednesday—7:40 a.m.--Tyson Wahl phone interview--101. Click to continue reading...