Former Kansas City Wizard great Preki is back in the coaching ranks in the United States. After leaving the Sacramento Republic for what looked like a job in England, Preki has been without a job for a couple years now. He'll be back coaching in the USL next spring though as today Preki was named the new head coach of St.
Back when Preki resigned as head coach of the Sacramento Republic of the USL, the announcement had stated that he was headed to England to take a position. At the time that had shot him to the top of the list to take over the position at Leicester City in the Premier League. In the end though Preki didn't get that job, and since then, people have been wondering, "where is Preki?
It was a really weird day in news for former KC players. The news centers around the club's all time leading scorer, and probably the greatest player to play for the club, Preki. First early in the day, bookies in England made Preki the favorite to replace Nigel Pearson as manager at Premier League side, Leicester City at 3/1 odds.
Since his release from Middlesbrough, former KC forward, Kei Kamara has been looking for a club. There were rumors of a return to MLS, except he couldn't return to MLS until January. This week, Kamara has been on trial with Championships side, Wolverhampton. Unfortunately Kamara is leaving Wolves without a contract after work permit questions came out.
Active without a club or unknown Jose Burciaga Julio Cesar Doug DeMartin Birahim Diop Edson Elcock Mauro Fuzetti Willy Guadarrama Aaron Hohlbein Mike Jones Jonathan Leathers Scott Lorenz Amir Lowery Akeem Priestly Scott Sealy Ryan Smith Diego Walsh
MLS Davy Arnaud - Montreal - Dressed but did not play in Montreal's 2-1 win over DC.
The greatest player to ever wear a KC uniform is back in the coaching ranks. Earlier this week, the new Sacramento USL-Pro side announced that Preki would be their first coach for their inaugural season in 2014. Preki has been out of the professional coaching ranks since being fired by Toronto FC. Here's the rest of this week's update.
The voting for the midfielders in Sporting KC's "Best XI" has finished up and with that done I'm taking a look at how I selected my team for the Best XI. The first thing I immediately noticed when going in to make my picks was the fact that after selecting three defenders, we were selecting five midfielders, setting up a Bob Gansler-esk 3-5-2 lineup for the Best XI team.
With the all star game on Wednesday this past week, I thought I'd take a look at the last time a Kansas City player scored in the all star game and the only time a KC player has been named the all star game MVP.
In 1999, KC was suffering through their worst season in club history, but KC still had two players named to the all star team for the Western Conference as Alexi Lalas and Preki were named to the team in San Diego.
For Throw Back Thursday this week I thought I'd go through all the hattricks in KC's history before last night's four goal performance by Dom Dwyer against FC Dallas.
The first hattrick in KC history actually didn't come until the team's third season, when Digital Takawira hit a second half hattrick for KC in their 3-1 win over New England on May 16th of 1998.
On May 2nd, 1996, the then KC Wiz played at the time, the highest scoring MLS game in the league's short history. Against the Columbus Crew at Arrowhead Stadium, KC came from behind to top the Crew 6-4.
Played in front of 8,848, KC jumped out to an early 1-0 lead thanks to a rocket of a shot by Mark Chung after a patented cut back by Preki drew three defenders to him in the fifth minute.
This is a good day to be a Toronto FC supporter. In one fell swoop Toronto has added a vast quantity of soccer and MLS intelligence to the Front Office....
"The Teflon Tom"
There was a great temptation today to go back and simply re-post whatever it was that we wrote when
Mo Johnston "moved upstairs", John Carver "stepped down", Chris Cummins was axed, Preki was sacked
and Nick Dasovic was tossed aside. We could have done that - but pressing "Ignore" in spellcheck
every time "Anselmi" popped up would have been exhausting.
TFC makes some coaching moves that are are as difficult to decipher as the old Soviet Politburo
used to be. Thoughts on BDK's, Brennan's & Mariner's new jobs.
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When Chivas USA owner revealed on Tuesday that former Chivas USA head coach Preki was once offered Mexican national team star Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez, only to turn him down for not being good enough, the story made plenty of waves.
Sources tell SBI Vergara took some liberties with the truth when re-telling that story.
Continuing the stats for appearances and minuts against each team, today it is Colorado. Being one of the original teams in the league with KC, these two have played a number of times. Less so in recent seasons since KC's move to the East. So the top players on this list are players from KC's early years.
Even the most hardened of Bah! Humbuggards would be melted by the alluring, warm smile of former TFC manager Predrag "Preki" Radosavljevic. When he wasn't grinding out draws with eleven men back, dispatching talented players elsewhere for drone-like replacements or blaming "Canadian guys", Preki was lighting up a room with his friendly, charming manner.
Cummins, Carver, Preki, Winter and Dasovic - Live at The BandshellEvery year around
this time, a long-honoured tradition takes place at Toronto's Exhibition Place. No it's not when
Toronto FC is mathematically eliminated form the playoffs (you correct cynics!) but rather the
Canadian National Exhibition.
Not Aron's best look...By all accounts, Aron Winter was a very bright football mind -
and more importantly, a true gent. Things just didn't go the way he wanted, or we wanted for that
matter, at Toronto FC. Whether the lion's share of the blame lies with Winter, with the toxic TFC
Front Office or a combination of both - we'll never likely know.
Keeping the memory of Raivis Hscanovics alive since 2010TORONTO VS. D.C.
UNITED 　 BMO FIELD - SATURDAY 4PM ET TV: SPORTSNET ONTARIO-----RADIO: THE FAN 590
　 THE KICKABOUT:
No matter the result, this one practically writes itself.
Reaction to Jack McInerney's omission from All-Star Game roster. Details from Sunday's Union reserves/academy scrimmage with Chelsea U-23s. Klinsmann says US wants to send Costa Rica a signal in final Gold Cup group game. More news.
The Portland Timbers wanted Caleb Porter, and the second-year MLS club has reportedly gotten the
coach they set out to hire as their permanent replacement for John Spencer.
Portland radio station KPAM 860 reported on Tuesday night that Portland would announce Porter as
the team's new head coach on Wednesday.
3/4/13 - The Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame today announced its 2013 class, marking the induction of five players and one coach. Preki, Kai Haaskivi, Zoltan Toth, Brian Quinn, Mike...
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3/4/13 - The Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame today announced its 2013 class, marking the induction of five players and one coach. Preki, Kai Haaskivi, Zoltan Toth, Brian Quinn,...
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3/4/13 - The Indoor Soccer Hall of Fame today announced its 2013 class, marking the induction of five players and one coach. Preki, Kai Haaskivi, Zoltan Toth, Brian Quinn, Mike Stankovic, and...
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Welcome to tonight's In-Game Blog for the match between the U.S. Men's National Team and Brazil.
We'll have all the information on this international friendly for the USA, including lineups,
pre-game facts and in-game notes from Landover.
U.S. goalkeeping legend Kasey Keller has traded in his boots for a microphone and will be part of
the ESPN broadcast team for tonight's match against Brazil. With the U.S. looking for only its
second ever win against Brazil, it's serendipidous to have the man who recorded a clean sheet in
the USA's first and only victory.
If you followed Major League Soccer in the ten years from 1996 to 2005, the name Preki (or lesser knownPredrag Radosavljević) should bring back great memories; especially for those living in Kansas City, while not forgetting the rest of the Nation, when he scored for the United States against Brazil in the 1998 World Cup.
Goodbye old friend. Goodbye old friend's wispy 'stache.TORONTO VS.
MONTREAL AMWAY CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SEMI-FINAL 2ND LEG (0-0 AGGREGATE) 　 BMO FIELD - WEDNESDAY 8PM ET TV: SPORTSNET ONTARIO
　 THE KICKABOUT:
What started a year and a half ago so optimistically could very well end with a whimper at the end
of the Canadian Championship's ("The Cank" to its friends) semi-final.
