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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.

So Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Draft has just concluded. It was a bit more lively than Stage 1 but still not hugely impactful. Most teams passed outright with the Los Angeles Galaxy taking a starring role by adding four players and picking up two of their own players again.

Unsurprisingly the Portland Timbers passed on Stage 2 and also passed on selecting their own players once again.

Graham Zusi is now the only player to appear in all 18 of KC's games this year.

Zusi made his 7th USOC appearance, tying him with Diego Gutierrez for 14th on that list.

Zusi made his 5th USOC start, tying him with Pore, Burciaga, Tony Moela, Gomez, Oshoniyi, Peter Vermes, and Aurelien Collin.

By JOEY SAMUEL

The Portland Timbers are back for year two in Major League Soccer, and they are hoping a new star striker, along with another year of experience, can put them over the hump and into the playoffs.

Portland came close to making the playoffs in their debut season last year, finishing just four points shy of the tenth and final spot.

Another former SKC Wizards Update, plenty of player movement this week. Jonathan Leathers, Rauwshan McKenzie, and Ryan Pore are now without clubs after not being selected in the second stage of the re-entry draft. They're joined by Shavar Thomas who also wasn't selected. Also looking for a new club, is Stephane Auvray whose was let go by the Red Bulls.

Here is this week's former SKC Wizards update for you. No really big news this week when it comes to former Wizards, so here's the update.

Active without a club or unknown
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Eddie Johnson
Michael Kraus
Ryan McMahen
Michal Mravec
JT Murray
Anthony Noriega
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson

MLS
Davy Arnaud - Montreal - Season is over.

Another week of former SKC Wizards updates. The MLS season is over, but there's been a lot of busy stuff going on this week. Today the league announced the players entered into the Re-entry draft, plenty of former players are available, including Adam, Cristman, Taylor Graham, Frankie Hejduk, Jonathan Leathers, Rauwshan McKenzie, Kurt Morsink, Ryan Pore, and Scott Sealy.

Here's your former SKC Wizards update for this week. Lots of news, including 6 new former Wizards. Jeferson, Scott Lorenz, Craig Rocastle, Seth Sinovic, Ryan Smith, and Milos Stojcev are all now classified officially as former Wizards. Also in the news is the movement of Tyson Wahl, who was traded from Seattle to Montreal for allocation money.

The votes are in and this is what we came up with:

1. Kalif Alhassan
2. Eric Alexander
3. Eric Brunner
4. Futty Danso
5. Diego Chara
6. Sal Zizzo
7. Jake Gleeson
8. Jorge Perlaza
9. Kenny Cooper
10. Jack Jewsbury
11. Troy Perkins

More after the jump

Here are the actual numbers:

Player Yes No Rank On the list Eric Alexander 13 3 2 Yes Kalif Alhassan 22 4 1 Yes Freddie Braun 0 10 20 No Adin Brown 0 11 20 No Chris Taylor 2 8 14 No Kevin Goldthwaite 0 10 20 No Spencer Thomspon 0 10 20 No Brian Umony 0 7 20 No Rodrigo Lopez 0 7 20 No Peter Lowry 0 7 20 No Ryan Pore 0 9 20 No Eddie Johnson 1 8 18 No Steve Purdy 1 8 18 No Eric Brunner 7 0 6 Yes Futty Danso 7 0 6 Yes David Horst 2 5 14 No Mike Chabala 3 4 13 No Rodney Wallace 2 5 14 No Lovel Palmer 2 5 14 No Diego Chara 8 0 3 Yes Jack Jewsbury 5 3 10 Yes Sal Zizzo 5 3 10 Yes Jorge Perlaza 8 0 3 Yes Kenny Cooper 6 2 9 Yes Bright Dike 5 3 10 No Troy Perkins 8 0 3 Yes Jake Gleeson 7 1 6 Yes Editors Picks

Here are the rest of the editors picks

Player Will's List To Protect Ryan's List To Protect Andy's List To Protect William's List To Protect Troy Perkins Yes Yes Yes Yes Kevin Goldthwaite No No No No Mike Chabala No Yes No No Eric Brunner Yes Yes Yes Yes Darlington Nagbe Auto Auto auto Auto Sal Zizzo No Yes No No Peter Lowry No No No no Bright Dike No No No no Eddie Johnson No No No no Kalif Alhassan Yes No Yes Yes David Horst Yes Yes Yes Yes Jack Jewsbury Yes Yes Yes Yes James Marcelin Yes No Yes no Jorge Perlaza No Yes Yes Yes Eric Alexander Yes No No no Rodrigo Lopez No No No no Jake Gleeson Yes Yes Yes Yes Diego Chara Yes Yes Yes Yes Rodney Wallace No No No no Ryan Pore No No No no Adin Brown No No No no Steve Purdy No No No no Brian Umony No No No no Chris Taylor No No No no Freddie Braun No No No no Lovel Palmer no No No no Spencer Thompson No No No no Kenny Cooper Yes Yes Yes Yes Futty Danso Yes Yes Yes Yes

This week's former SKC Wizards is up for you. A couple former Wizards could be on the move. Sunil Chhetri is apparently getting ready to go on trial with Scottish club Rangers. Chhetri's had trials in England previously, but had been unable to earn a work permit. Not sure how that will change this time.

The MLS season is winding down. Here's this week's former SKC Wizards update.

Active without a club or unknown
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Eddie Johnson
Michael Kraus
Ryan McMahen
Michal Mravec
JT Murray
Anthony Noriega
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ryan Smith
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson

MLS
Stephane Auvray - New York - Came off the bench and played 74 minutes in New York's 2-1 loss to LA.

This week's former Wizards update is out, congrats to Kevin Friedland and the NSC Minnesota Stars on winning the NASL championship this past week. Here's the rest of this week's update.

Active without a club or unknown
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Eddie Johnson
Michael Kraus
Ryan McMahen
Michal Mravec
JT Murray
Anthony Noriega
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ryan Smith
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson

MLS
Stephane Auvray - New York - Dressed but did not play in New York's 1-0 loss to LA.

Here is this week's former Wizards update.

Active without a club or unknown
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Eddie Johnson
Michael Kraus
Ryan McMahen
Michal Mravec
JT Murray
Anthony Noriega
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ryan Smith
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson

MLS
Stephane Auvray - New York - Dressed but did not play in New York's 1-0 win over Philadelphia.

Active without a club or unknown
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Eddie Johnson
Nikos Kounenakis
Michael Kraus
Ryan McMahen
Michal Mravec
JT Murray
Anthony Noriega
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ryan Smith
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson

MLS
Stephane Auvray - New York - Came off the bench and played 7 minutes in New York's 2-0 loss to KC.

A week of very little action for former SKC Wizards due to the international break this week, but there were some games this past week involving former players. Here is this week's update.

Active without a club or unknown
Chris Brunt
Doug DeMartin
Mauro Fuzetti
AJ Godbolt
Willy Guadarrama
Santiago Hirsig
Eddie Johnson
Nikos Kounenakis
Michael Kraus
Ryan McMahen
Michal Mravec
JT Murray
Anthony Noriega
Ofori Sarkodie
Sam Scales
Ryan Smith
Ivan Trujillo
Lance Watson

MLS
Stephane Auvray - New York - No game this week.

The game was Peter Vermes' 100th game in charge of KC in all competitions.

The own goal tonight was the first own goal that Colorado have conceded against KC.

With 6 goals, Teal Bunbury is the 5th leading scorer for KC against the Rapids all time.

Bunbury has scored 6 of KC's last 13 goals against the Rapids in all competitions since Bunbury came into the league.

Chance Myers and Aurelien Collin are the only two players to start every game in all competitions this year.

Myers, Collin, Matt Besler, and Graham Zusi are the only 4 players to appear in every game so far this season.

Three players, Jon Kempin, Konrad Warzycha, and Dom Dwyer made their professional debut.

We're about a week and a half away from the MLS Superdraft in Kansas City. It's the first of two drafts for the league, with a supplemental draft following a week later. KC have their natural 16th pick in the 1st round of the Superdraft, and then have the 30th selection in the second round. That selection came from FC Dallas in the trade that sent Kevin Hartman to Dallas.

"Please be careful of Eddie Johnson," Coach John Spencer announced just before a 7v7v7 scrimmage at Jeld-Wen Field, as Johnson laughed sheepishly and shrugged. "You touch him, he bleeds."

Indeed, Eddie Johnson did make his triumphant return to the training pitch on Tuesday, wearing protective headgear as a precaution after the concussion he suffered earlier in the year.

A Question Answered Concerning Ryan Pore

The MLS released the list of players available in round 2 of the re-entry draft. If you look at the list the Montreal Impact actually do have a player listed, Ryan Pore. Apparently the loan was actually a trade.

Welcome to the 2011 MLS Expansion Draft! We've covered the event quite extensively already here on Stumptown Footy, but now here's the real deal. Who will the Montreal Impact take? Could Ryan Pore be on his way out? No more need to speculate as the event kicks off.

I'll be following the event live and updating the thread here with the picks as they come in, as fast as I can.

Wednesday's MLS Expansion Draft provides the Montreal Impact a chance to build the foundation for its MLS roster, and the club will have some decisions to make based on how much it wants to spend and which direction it wants to go off the bat.

Designated Players Julian de Guzman, Andres Mendoza, Mustapha Jarju, Branko Boskovic, Frank Rost, Milton Caraglio, Omar Bravo and Jeferson are all free for the taking (although Rost is likely to return to Germany after a few-month stay with New York), giving the Impact the option to make a major investment immediately.

Already two trades have become known. Ryan Smith goes to Chivas USA for 1st and 3rd Round Supplemental draft picks. That's picks 43 and 81 overall. so we're talking no-risk, flyer types in a draft that constantly adds more picks. Also, it came out today that the Portland Timbers loan of Ryan Pore also included an international slot and a promise from the Montreal Impact that they wouldn't take a player who ended the year on Portland's active roster.

Ryan Pore, Steve Purdy, and Eddie Johnson come on down! You are the next contestants on the Protected List! Check out previous entries here.

How it works:

• For each player we will post a front page article highlighting a specific players pros/cons and any stats (if available)
• Vote by posting a Yes (to Protect) or No (don't Protect) in the subject of a comment, then explain why in the message
• We (the editors) will keep track of all the yes/no votes for each player
• At the end of the whole roster we will total up the results and post the community's Protected list
• Your list will be compared to the list of each contributing editor
• The only player we will not be voting on is Darlington Nagbe as he is automatically protected based on his Generations Adidas Status.

Crikey! That's quite the title right? Well it has to be. Today's TTB is dedicated to an event which is just about to happen. We won't hear much of it in the lead up or probably even after, but it's coming. Essentially it's the US bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup.

The reason why I dedicated today's news round up to it is because there's a fantastic article below which I think every MLS fan should read.

Ryan Pore Invited to Montreal Impact Camp

No big surprise here, but it looks like Ryan Pore has been invited to the Montreal Impact's camp to see if he'd fit in with the team next year.

This is not big surprise, obviously. Pore went to Montreal in the summer and proceeded to play in 11 games (10 starts) and score 7 goals with 1 assist.

There was a time when I liked a couple players in the MLS Re-Entry Draft for the Seattle Sounders to pick up in Stage Two and talk into less money. First Bobby Boswell renegotiated with the Houston Dynamo and then Bobby Convey went to Sporting Kansas City at a cut rate (rumors say 200K$). Now the list of available players is absent of the really appealing names.