Last night the Wizards hosted a presentation on their World Cup bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup
for members of the "new media" aka blogs. Due to other commitments, I was unable to attend the
event, but Thad over at The Back Post did attend and has TONS of great information about the bid
over on his blog.
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Happy Veterans Day out there to all of you who have served as a member of the military. Special
shout-out to blogger Thad, a former Marine. Today is a fine day to check out our post from earlier
this year when the Wizards visited Whiteman Air Force Base.
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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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Dude has some RIPPED legs.
Today, new acquisition Kei Kamara trained with the team for the second time. He is a big, powerful
guy with a fun personality. Thad over at The Back Post did a video interview with him after
training. Make sure to head over there for details on why Kei choose #23 among other things.
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The Wizards have had another trialist in this week, and if a poster on bigsoccer is correct, the
player is Zahui Thierry from the Ivory Coast. Thierry has played for both the U-17 and U-20 Ivory
Coast national team. It would appear that in the 2008 season, he scored 2 goals for African Sports
Academy, his club team.
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For those that missed it earlier today, Peter Vermes was officially named the Wizards interim coach
for the rest of this season. Also in the announcement, Wizards color commentator, Zoran Savic, was
named an assistant coach. Vermes will be in charge for the rest of the season as KC looks to find a
permanent head coach.
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Technical Director/Interim Head Coach Peter Vermes speaking to Jimmy Conrad and Kurt Morsink at
this morning's training session.
PV speaking to the media at this morning's press conference.
Look at all those cameras. Watch the news tonight (and read the Star and the Kansas city Kansan's
site) for coverage from today's presser.
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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.
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Rauwshan McKenzie battles with the Galaxy's Alan Gordon last weekend.
Today, a few stories came out after Zoltan's introduction press conference yesterday. Terez Paylor
of the KC Star chimes in, focusing on the language barrier. The Kansas City Kansan's Nick Sloan
offered up his version of the story.
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Picture courtesy of the Back Post author and photog extraordinaire Thad Bell. Check out his blog
and his photo site.
Zoltan was officially introduced to the KC media today at our weekly press conference. It ran on
Metro Sports at 3 p.m., but check the listings to see if it replays over the next few days.
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Zoltan
Zoltan Hercegfalvi has officially been added to the Kansas City Wizards roster with the receipt of
his P-1 Visa and International Transfer Certificate. Zoltan, which will appear on the back of his
#20 jersey, will be available for selection immediately as soon as he is deemed fit enough to
contribute.
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Ouch!
It was the play of all plays. It was something Kevin Hartman had never seen in his long MLS career.
It was pretty darn hilarious. Check out Thad Bell's recount of Aaron Hohlbein being nutmegged while
being...nut...megged yesterday after training.
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Wow, a whole week day without a post? Shame on Hillcrest. With training yesterday morning and
immediate departure for New England, we slacked yesterday. Apologies! There's a big secret we can't
yet tell you. But it's not much of a secret I guess.
Also, big props to Thad at The Back Post for his new video interviews.
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I stopped by practice today, but was a little late to see Zoltán Hercegfalvi practicing for the
Wizards today, but Thad over at The Back Post was earlier and got some photos of Hercegfalvi
practicing with the team in a small scrimmage. As you can see by the photo below, Hercegfalvi will
be wearing number 20 for the Wizards.
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I was unable to make practice today due to other commitments, but Thad over at The Back Post was
and has news of a new player out at practice for the Wizards today. No news on who the player is,
but could it be the lower division Spanish player or the Hungarian player mentioned in a Star
article recently?
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This week, Rauwshan McKenzie and Chance Myers were the two top vote getters in the poll here and on
The Back Post. So this week, Thad was able to get an interview with both second year players.
Check out both the McKenzie and the Myers interviews over at The Back Post.
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After not having an interview poll last week, the poll returns this week. This week we have three
players for you to choose from. Remember to vote both here and at The Back Post. Here are this
week's 3 players.
Josh Wolff - Took over captain duties when Jimmy Conrad was off the field, played every minute in
SuperLiga.
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For those of you that missed Thad's post over at The Back Post yesterday, the last remaining wall
at Bannister Mall came down yesterday. The mall is now completely gone. Over the next few weeks and
months, they'll be cleaning up the site and breaking up the pad and in ground walls. Here's my
album for this week of the nothingness that is left.
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Here are this week's player interviews with this week's poll winners. This week both Herculez Gomez
and Aaron Hohlbein were interviewed. Check them out. Sorry for the short post on this.
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Time for this week's player interview poll. With a good performance against the Revolution, it was
hard to pick just 3 players to put in the poll, so this week we have 5 players to choose from.
Herculez Gomez - Gomez has a strong game, helping create 2 of the 3 goals against the Revs.
Aaron Hohlbein - Scored his second goal of the season.
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This week's player interview poll winner was forward, Abe Thompson, who came off the bench and
played 30 minutes in the Wizards 2-0 loss to Columbus. Yesterday after the scrimmage against the
Des Moines Menace, Thad caught up with Thompson and was able to get this week's interview. Thompson
talked about getting into the game last week.
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Time for you to vote on who you would like to see interviewed this week. Here are your choices for
this week:
Kevin Hartman - Another man of the match worthy match for the Wizards' goalkeeper.
Abe Thompson - Came off the bench and set up probably the Wizards best chance against the Crew.
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Kevin Souter was this week's winner of the poll for who should be interviewed this week. Wednesday
after practice Thad was able to talk to Souter. Souter talks about getting back onto the field and
the injury that hampered him from getting a chance to get onto the field sooner this year. He
talked about his connection to LA in that his first appearance ever was against LA as was his first
start this year.
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After the game in LA this past weekend, it's time to pick who you would like to see interviewed
this week. Remember to vote both here and at The Back Post. Here are your choices this week.
Kevin Souter - First appearance of the season.
Davy Arnaud - Returns to the scorers sheet this weekend.
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Yesterday after the Wizards game against the Brass, Thad and I had a chance to interview this
week's poll winner, Michael Kraus, and runner up, Roger Espinoza. Kraus talked about what he needs
to do to get more playing time with the first team. He talked about his versatility and how that
helps him on the field (he played right back against the Brass).
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After this week's game against Chivas, it's time for another player interview poll. This week there
are four players to vote on, most of whom haven't been on too many of these polls.
Roger Espinoza - Honduran midfielder is starting to get starts for the Wizards now and looks to be
in the plans for not only the Wizards but Honduras.
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Today before the press conference, Thad was able to get a good interview with Wizards captain,
Jimmy Conrad. In a portion of it, Conrad talked about SuperLiga. One of the major complaints in the
past had been the "$1 million prize" for the teams and how that was misleading, as the players
actually didn't split $1 million, instead they split a small portion of that amount.
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This week's poll winner was Wizards' rookie, Matt Besler. Today Thad was able to interview him and
get the interview up. Besler talks about the game against Columbus, the switch at half time from a
left back to the center back position and how he handled that adjustment. He also talks about the
upcoming game against Real Salt Lake and a little of what they expect from that game.
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After having last week off with no interview, it's time again to vote for who you'd like to see
interviewed this week. You can vote both here and at The Back Post. Here are this week's
nominees.
Josh Wolff - Goal scorer in both of KC's games this past week.
Matt Besler - Rookie defender moved from left back to center back in the last game.
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The winner of this past week's player interview poll was the Wizards' right back, Lance Watson. Out
at practice yesterday, Thad from The Back Post and I were able to speak with Watson for a few
minutes. Watson talks about being in the starting lineup now and his contribution to the team. He
talks about winning the ball back after he loses it, relating it to his former play as a
midfielder.
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Who should be interviewed this week? Remember to vote both here and at The Back Post and to leave
your questions in the comments section.
Lance Watson - Seems to have locked down the right back spot.
Roger Espinoza - Honduran international got his first start of the season.
Jack Jewsbury - Suffered a concussion in Thursday's game and missed Sunday.
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The winner of this week's player interview poll was MLS player of the week, Josh Wolff. Thad was
able to get a nice log interview with Wolff yesterday after practice that he actually had to divide
into 2 parts for posting. Here's part 1 and part 2. Wolff talks about the second half against
Chicago and what changed from the first half.
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Wow, late 1st post of the day! After a long, tough (ha) morning of attending practice, Hillcrest
was forced (ha) to step into a meeting and has thus been unable to hit up the blog so far today.
I'll try to make up for it! Don't forget everyone that the Jimmy Conrad Show tonight will be
broadcast live from the Plaza 810 Zone.
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KC pulled off the come back and ended up with a 2- 2 draw in Chicago yesterday, now it's time for
you to vote for who you'd like to see interviewed this week from the game. This week you have 3
choices.
Kevin Hartman - Kept KC in the game with saves and secured the point with his late save on Rolfe.
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The winner of this week's player interview poll was Herculez Gomez. The interview with him is now
up over on The Back Post. Gomez talked about the Seattle game, the play that led to Kasey Keller's
red card. He talks about the second half of the Seattle game and the team getting a little
complacent.
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