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No major news out today, but here are some quick hits news wise for you on your Friday.
Sporting KC vs LA game time changed
Sporting KC's match up with LA on April 7th at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park has changed times and
stations. Yesterday the team announced that the game would now kick off 1 hour earlier at 3pm
Central time.
Continuing on with the caps trend, here's the updated stats for caps as a member of the SKC
Wizards. First is the caps that a player got while with KC, the second number is goals scored in
those caps.
Josh Wolff - USA - 38 - 6
Jimmy Conrad - USA - 28 - 1
Preki - USA - 26 - 4
Roger Espinoza - Honduras - 21 - 3
Kerry Zavagnin - USA - 21 - 0
Eddie Johnson - USA - 20 - 3
Shavar Thomas - Jamaica - 19 - 0
Chris Klein - USA - 17 - 3
Gary Glasgow - Trinidad & Tobago - 16 - 1
Khari Stephenson - Jamaica - 15 - 3
Scott Sealy - Trinidad & Tobago - 14 - 1
Tony Meola - USA - 12 - 0
Craig Rocastle - Grenada - 9 - 0
Sunil Chhetri - India - 9 - 5
Stephane Auvray - Guadeloupe - 8 - 1
Davy Arnaud - USA - 7 - 1
Kei Kamara - Sierra Leone - 6 - 0
Nick Garcia - USA - 6 - 0
Uche Okafor - Nigeria - 6 - 0
Onandi Lowe - Jamaica - 3 - 2
Mike Sorber - USA - 3 - 0
Miklos Molnar - Denmark - 3 - 0
Teal Bunbury - USA - 2 - 1
Mark Chung - USA - 2 - 0
Jermaine Hue - Jamaica - 2 - 0
Peterson Joseph - Haiti - 1 - 0
Chris Henderson - USA - 1 - 0
Steve Pittman - USA - 1 - 0
Digital Takawira - Zimbabwe - Unknown
Unfortunately I've still been unable to find a source for Digital Takawira's caps for Zimbabwe
while with Kansas City, I've tried contacting the FA and the CAF, but have struck out in both
instances.
Roger Espinoza has started the offseason fairly busy. Espinoza played yesterday for the Honduran
national team as they took on Serbia in a friendly in Honduras. Espinoza started and went the full
90 minutes in Honduras' 2-0 win over their fellow World Cup 2010 qualifier. Honduras scored their
first goal in the 4th minute through Georgie Welcome.
It appears that two Sporting KC players will be playing this weekend. Roger Espinoza was apparently
called up by Honduras for their friendly on Monday against Serbia. The call up was made before KC's
season ended and I've been unable to find any updates since the initial roster was released on the
2nd of November stating whether Espinoza was still participating or not.
Another day of international duty for Sporting KC players today. Four players had national team
duty today, three of them started. The one to not start, didn't even appear for his country, as
Teal Bunbury didn't make the bench again for the United States in their 1-0 loss to Ecuador tonight
in New York.
Roger Espinoza put in another solid performance for Honduras going 74 minutes, but Honduras fell to
the US 1-0 tonight down in Miami on a nice finish by Clint Dempsey. Sporting KC's other player
involved in this game, Teal Bunbury, did not make the 18 man US roster for the game tonight.
Espinoza played the role that he's made his own for Honduras as of late.
There is another international break coming up on the weekend of October 10th and the list of
players called up for games are starting to come out. One Sporting KC player has already been
called up. Roger Espinoza has been called up by the Honduran team for their two friendlies on the
8th and the 11th.
Lots of international team news was announced today, and 4 Sporting KC players were affected.
First, Kei Kamara's call up for the Sierra Leone national team was confirmed by the team today,
although I think Kamara tweeting last night that he'd been called up was proof enough that he'd
been called up for their African Cup of Nations qualifier against Egypt at home.
Sporting KC midfielder, Roger Espinoza looks set to miss the upcoming game against the LA Galaxy
over Labor Day weekend. This is because Espinoza has been called up by the Honduran national team
for a pair of friendlies against Colombia and Paraguay. Honduras starts this international break
with a game in New York at Red Bull Arena against Colombia on the 3rd of September before heading
down to Honduras for a friendly against Paraguay on the 6th.
Shavar Thomas and Roger Espinoza both started for their respective national teams today in
friendlies. Thomas and Jamaica were in China to take on the Chinese. Thomas started and played the
full 90 minutes after apparently missing his original flight from Kansas City and only arriving in
the country over night.
Another international break is coming up this next week, and two Wizards players have been called
up to their respective national teams for the games this week. Roger Espinoza and Shavar Thomas
will be joining their respective national teams for friendlies this next week. Espinoza will be
joining the Honduran national team in Miami for a friendly in Miami against Venezuela.
Some big milestones this week, Michael Harrington with a big appearance milestone, and Teal Bunbury
with a goal milestone for the team.
Michael Harrington made his 150th appearance in all competitions for KC. He's the 13th player to
hit that mark.
His appearance also tied him with Chris Brown for 12th place on the list for appearances in all
competitions.
Sporting KC extended their team record unbeaten run to 14 games last night as for once KC came out
of the gates fast and took the game to Real Salt Lake immediately. Directly from the kickoff KC was
attacking and almost found net as Michael Harrington played a great cross in to Omar Bravo who
headed wide of the goal.
Once again Kansas City gave up a first half goal, and once again the Wizards waited until late to
pull out an equalizer and salvage their unbeaten run and a point, tying the New England Revolution
1-1 last night. It makes the 4th time in the past 5 league games (and 5th in the last 7) that KC
has allowed the first goal early and had to fight back to get a draw.
Sporting Kansas City got their 9 game home stand started the right way last night against Toronto
FC, scoring 3 first half goals and added a fourth in the second to defeat the reds 4-2 at
LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. The way the game started though, it looked like the result could have
gone the other direction.
Not many stats for this week, but here are the stats.
Roger Espinoza made his 75th league appearance for KC, he's the 28th player to hit that mark.
Kansas City extended their unbeaten run on the season to 11 games, the second longest in team
history as they came from behind again to tie the Rapids 1-1 at LiveSTRONG Sporting Park. With all
the schedule congestion, Peter Vermes made two changes to his lineup that took on Portland on the
weekend. Teal Bunbury and Kei Kamara stepped back into the starting lineup for CJ Sapong and Milos
Stojcev.
Honduras put up a strong effort against Mexico down in Houston tonight, but in extra time Mexico
proved too much, scoring twice to advance to the finals in LA where they will take on the USA who
topped Panama. Espinoza playing in a more advanced roll than he does with Sporting KC, and had some
very good plays setting up a few potential scoring chances for the Hondurans.
Roger Espinoza got his first minutes of the Gold Cup, starting for Honduras in their Gold Cup
quarterfinal against Costa Rica. Espinoza started and played 80 minutes before making way for Carlo
Costly. The Honduras defeated the Costa Ricans on penalty kicks 4-2 after finishing the game tied
1-1. Espinoza helped to set up the Honduran goal, sending a long ball over the top to Javier
Portillo.
Shavar Thomas and Roger Espinoza were both on the bench for their respective national teams last
night in their Group B encounter. Neither player made it into the match that Jamaica won 1-0 on a
Noel Valladares own in the 35th minute. Jamaica advanced out of Group B as the group winners and
will play the second place team out of Group C, which could be the United States.
Only one of Sporting Kansas City's Gold Cup call ups made the field tonight. Shavar Thomas started
and played the full game for Jamaica as they took out Guatemala 2-0 thanks to two goals by Demar
Phillips. The Jamaicans now sit on top of their group as the only team to win both of their games
with a plus 6 goal difference.
The new MLS All Star game rules state that teams can now only have 6 players up for selection in
the fan vote for the All Star game. Today the list of candidates was released, including the
Sporting KC 6 players. The KC players are Davy Arnaud, Omar Bravo, Matt Besler, Teal Bunbury, Roger
Espinoza, and Kei Kamara.
Shavar Thomas and Jamaica got their Gold Cup campaign off to a good start last night with a 4-0 win
of Craig Rocastle and Grenada. Both players started their game for their respective teams. Thomas
helped anchor the Jamaican defense which completely shut down Grenada. Rocastle on the other hand
was subbed at half time after getting injured in a collision in the first half of the game.
Roger Espinoza earned his 16th cap of his international career over the weekend playing for
Honduras in Houston against El Salvador. Espinoza came on as a substitute in the 54th minute. At
that point Honduras had a 2-0 lead over El Salvador, but two goals in the span of 3 minutes saw El
Salvador tie the game at 2-2.
Last week Peter Vermes said that 5 Sporting KC players would be called up for this summer's Gold
Cup. Today we found out that only 4 were actually called up. Roger Espinoza and Craig Rocastle we'd
heard about last week. Today we learned the other two official call ups. Stephane Auvray and Shavar
Thomas were the other two called up.
Here are some stats from last night's game.
In the 51st minute, Davy Arnaud moved past Preki and into 3rd place for the most minutes played in
all competitions. Arnaud finished the game wtih 20,677 minutes played.
Roger Espinoza made his 50th start for KC. He's the 34th player to hit that mark for KC.
After Peter Vermes gave the word yesterday that Roger Espinoza had been called up by Honduras for
this summer's Gold Cup. Today official word came from the Honduran federation confirming that
Espinoza will miss time for KC as he goes and plays with his national team. Espinoza is the only
player from MLS to get called up for the tournament, leaving behind Marvin Chavez of FC Dallas and
Andy Najar of DC, both of whom were not named to the roster.
During today's weekly press conference, Peter Vermes confirmed that all 5 of the players that
Sporting KC fans thought would be called up for this year's Gold Cup have in fact been called up.
We'd heard that Craig Rocastle was called up yesterday, and that Roger Espinoza was available for
selection.
Well the first of what will be four or five announcements of Sporting KC players heading to the
Gold Cup appears to have been made. Based on an article out of Honduras, it appears that defender,
Roger Espinoza has been named to at least the preliminary roster for Honduras for this summer's
tournament.
Another away game, another 3 goals given up, and another red card. These are things that are
becoming way to common when talking about the Wizards games. The only difference with this game
from the previous is the fact Sporting KC played solid for most of the game. For the first time I
don't feel like SKC beat themselves in this game.
The weather might not have been the best for a game, but it would be hard to blame the poor play
from both teams solely on that. The Crew showed why they have only scored 4 goals the entire
season. And the Wizards showed why they have given up more goals than any other team.
Formation
Vermes decided after the embarrassment in Vancouver that he would go with the exact same line up
for this game.
Here are your Sunday after stats.
In the 34th minute, Roger Espinoza hit the 5,000 minute mark in all competitions.
In the 11th minute, Michael Harrington moved past Jose Burciaga and into 13th place for the most
minutes played in all competitions, he finished the game with 10,704 minutes played.
A 10 game road trip is not an ideal way to start a season! But, the Wizards scheduled this on
their own. They knew they would have to travel to some hostile environments and need to get
points pick up points in order to avoid falling too far back in the standings. After picking up 3
points against Chivas and almost stealing a point against Chicago while playing down a man I
expected a positive result from the trip to Vancouver.
Here's your stats for this week.
Matt Besler's goal was his first professional goal.
Besler's goal was also the 50th scored by KC against the Fire in all competitions.
Roger Espinoza started his 50th game in all competitions for KC, he's the 38th player to hit that
mark for KC.
Talked with Roger after his workout last Friday...Roger after the World Cup with his Honduras
jersey and flag...
With Sunil Chhetri still technically a member of Sporting KC and India getting ready to kick off
their AFC Asian Cup campaign tomorrow against Australia, I figured it was a good time to update the
list of most capped players in a Wizards uniform. There's been no change at the top of the list, as
Josh Wolff and Jimmy Conrad are the top players on the list.
