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(W-L-T) LEAD TIED TRAIL SCORE ALLOWCOL 1-0-0 4-1-0 0-5-0 5-1-0 0-5-0KC 3-1-0 4-0-0 0-2-0 6-1-0 1-2-0
COLORADO RAPIDS SPORTING KANSAS CITY Date Score (Gms since) Date Score (Gms since)Home win 4/28/2012 COL 4, CHV 0 (0) 4/14/2012 KC 1, RSL 0 (1)Road win 5/06/2012 COL 2, DAL 0 (1) 4/18/2012 KC 3, VAN 1 (2)Home loss 4/21/2012 COL 1, LA 2 (1) 5/05/2012 KC 0, MTL 2 (0)Road loss 5/16/2012 COL 0, DC 2 (0) 5/12/2012 KC 1, CHI 2 (0)Tie game 10/14/2011 COL 0, RSL 0 (12) 10/01/2011 KC 1, SJ 1 (12)Shutout for 5/06/2012 COL 2, DAL 0 (1) 4/14/2012 KC 1, RSL 0 (4)Shutout vs. 5/16/2012 COL 0, DC 2 (0) 5/05/2012 KC 0, MTL 2 (1)
Rapids WWLWLLLWLWLSporting KC WWWWWWWLLL
GOALS SCORED IN GAME GP 0 1 2 3 4+ TOT AVGCOL 11 3 3 4 0 1 15 1.36KC 10 2 5 1 2 0 13 1.30
GOALS ALLOWED IN GAME GP 0 1 2 3 4+ TOT AVGCOL 11 4 2 4 0 1 14 1.27KC 10 5 3 2 0 0 7 0.70
GOALS SCORED Total 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90COL 15 0 1 1 4 3 6KC 13 0 3 3 3 2 2
GOALS ALLOWED Total 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90COL 14 2 4 2 3 2 1KC 7 0 2 1 1 1 2
GOALSCORING RECORD
GOALS BY INTERVALS
RECORD AT HALFTIME RECORD WITH FIRST GOAL
THE LAST TIME
GAME-BY-GAME: WON/LOST/TIED
RAPIDS G: 3 3 players tiedA: 3 Mullan/RiveroSHT: 29 Cascio/CummingsSOG: 13 CummingsFC: 17 LarentowiczFS: 16 CascioOF: 8 CummingsC: 4 LarentowiczE: 1 Larentowicz
SPORTINGG: 4 KamaraA: 6 ZusiSHT: 46 KamaraSOG: 20 KamaraFC: 18 Espinoza/Kamara FS: 23 KamaraOF: 5 SapongC: 3 Collin/MyersE: 0
TEAM LEADERS
GP W-L-T PTS GF GA Rapids 11 5-6-0 15 15 14at home 4 3-1-0 9 9 2
Sporting 10 7-3-0 21 13 7on road 5 3-2-0 9 6 4
2012 SEASON RECORDS
LEAGUE HEAD-TO-HEADALL-TIME (49 meetings): Rapids 17 wins (3 shootout), 65 goals … Sporting 20 wins (1 shootout), 83 goals … Ties 12
AT COLORADO (25 meetings): Rapids 14 wins (2 shootout), 41 goals… Sporting 4 wins (1 shootout), 30 goals… Ties 7
LAST YEAR (MLS):5/28: COL 1, KC 1 (Casey 13 – Smith 75)7/6: KC 1, COL 1 (Zusi 62 – Casey 32)
4Larentowicz
18Pickens
32Cascio
3Moor 21
Zapata
2Freeman
11Mullan 10
Rivero
34Marshall
9Casey
23Castrillon
1Nielsen
11Convey
7Myers
8Zusi
23Kamara
2Harrington
17Sapong
55Julio Cesar
32Sassano
78Collin
5Besler
COLORADO RAPIDS2 Hunter Freeman (DF)3 Drew Moor (DF)4 Jeff Larentowicz (MF)5 Joseph Nane (MF)6 Anthony Wallace (DF)8 Eddie Ababio (DF)9 Conor Casey (FW)10 Martin Rivero (MF)11 Brian Mullan (MF)12 Quincy Amarikwa (FW)13 Steven Emory (MF)14 Omar Cummings (FW)15 Wells Thompson (MF)16 Ross LaBauex (MF)17 Ian Joyce (GK)18 Matt Pickens (GK)19 Andre Akpan (FW)20 Jamie Smith (MF)21 Luis Zapata (DF)22 Marvell Wynne (DF)23 Jaime Castrillon (MF)24 Kohei Yamada (MF)25 Pablo Mastroeni (MF)27 Kosuke Kimura (DF)28 Davy Armstrong (MF)29 Scott Palguta (DF)31 Steward Ceus (GK)32 Tony Cascio (FW)34 Tyrone Marshall (DF)37 Edu (FW)39 Harrison Henao (MF)
SPORTING KC1 Jimmy Nielsen (GK)2 Michael Harrington (DF)3 Korede Aiyegbusi (DF)4 Kevin Ellis (DF)5 Matt Besler (DF)6 Paulo Nagamura (MF)7 Chance Myers (DF)8 Graham Zusi (MF)9 Teal Bunbury (FW)11 Bobby Convey (MF)12 Konrad Warzycha (FW)13 Lawrence Olum (DF)14 Dom Dwyer (FW)15 Roger Espinoza (MF)16 Seth Sinovic (DF)17 C.J. Sapong (FW)18 Eric Kronberg (GK)19 Peterson Joseph (MF)20 Shawn Singh (DF)21 Jon Kempin (GK)22 Soony Saad (FW)23 Kei Kamara (FW)24 Cyprian Hedrick (DF)32 Luke Sassano (DF)37 Jacob Peterson (MF)55 Julio Cesar (DF)78 Aurelien Collin (DF)88 Michael Thomas (MF)
ROSTERSPROBABLE LINEUPS
REFEREE: Edvin Jurisevic.SAR (bench): Paul Scott; JAR (opposite): Jeremy Hanson;
4th: Landis Wiley
RAPIDSSat. May 26 Montreal
Sat. June 16 at VancouverWed. June 20 San JoseSat. June 30 Portland
UPCOMING MATCHES
COLORADO RAPIDS v SPORTING KANSAS CITY(May 19, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, 7 p.m. MT)
INJURY REPORTS
DISCIPLINARY SITUATION
INTERNATIONAL DUTY
SUSPENDED: KC: Roger EspinozaWARNINGS (suspended next yellow card): COL: Jeff Larentowicz
none
COLORADO RAPIDS – OUT: DF Anthony Wallace (L Achilles tear); MF Pablo Mastroeni (headaches); MF Ross LaBauex (sports hernia); DF Marvell Wynne (R hamstring strain); FW Omar Cummings (L ankle sprain); PROBABLE: FW Conor Casey (L Achilles tear); MF Jamie Smith (R ACL tear) … SPORTING KANSAS CITY – OUT: GK Eric Kronberg (lower back strain); QUESTIONABLE: FW Jacob Peterson (L quad strain); PROBABLE: GK Jon Kempin (L quad contusion)
SPORTINGSun. May 27 San JoseSat. June 16 Toronto FCWed. June 20 at Seattle
Sat. June 23 at Philadelphia
GOALS SCOREDMINUTES PER GOAL
RIGHT FOOTLEFT FOOTHEADERS
OTHER
OPEN PLAYCROSS
CORNERREBOUND PENALTIES
DIRECT FROM FREE KICKFREE KICK (INDIRECT)
OWN GOALS
INSIDE GOAL AREAINSIDE PENALTY AREA
OUTSIDE PENALTY AREA
F A 13 7 69 129
6 2 1 3 5 2 1 0
5 2 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 1
6 2 7 3 0 2
F A 15 14 66 71
8 5 4 6 3 3 0 0
9 9 2 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
3 4 9 10 3 0
WHERE THE GOALS COME FROM
HOW SCORED
TYPE OF PLAY
DISTANCE
RAPIDS SPORTING
COLORADO RAPIDS v SPORTING KANSAS CITY(May 19, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, 7 p.m. MT - MLS Game 104)
2012 CAREERNo. Player Pos Ht Wt Birthdate Birthplace GP GS G A GP GS G A1 Jimmy Nielsen GK 6-3 200 08/06/1977 Aalborg, Denmark 10 10 0 0 70 70 0 02 Michael Harrington DF 6-0 170 01/24/1986 Greenville, NC 3 2 0 0 141 121 5 133 Korede Aiyegbusi DF 5-5 155 07/15/1988 London, England 0 0 0 0 8 2 0 04 Kevin Ellis DF 5-9 160 06/30/1991 Kansas City, MO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 05 Matt Besler DF 6-0 170 02/11/1987 Kansas City, MO 10 10 0 0 82 78 2 26 Paulo Nagamura MF 5-8 154 03/02/1983 Sao Paulo, Brazil 7 1 0 0 164 145 9 147 Chance Myers DF 6-0 165 12/07/1987 Thousand Oaks, CA 10 10 0 2 69 47 0 48 Graham Zusi MF 5-10 160 08/18/1986 Orlando, FL 10 10 1 6 74 44 7 149 Teal Bunbury FW 6-2 175 02/27/1990 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 7 1 0 0 62 34 14 511 Bobby Convey MF 5-9 150 05/27/1983 Philadelphia, PA 10 10 1 1 174 162 12 3112 Konrad Warzycha FW 6-1 190 02/14/1989 Zabrze, Poland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 013 Lawrence Olum DF 6-2 185 07/10/1984 Nairobi, Kenya 4 0 0 0 5 0 0 014 Dom Dwyer FW 5-9 180 07/30/1990 Cuckfield, England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 015 Roger Espinoza MF 5-11 160 10/25/1986 Puerto Cortes, Honduras 10 10 0 1 97 77 2 1016 Seth Sinovic DF 5-9 170 01/28/1987 Kansas City, MO 8 8 0 1 48 46 0 117 C.J. Sapong FW 6-2 185 12/27/1988 Manassas, VA 10 9 3 0 44 31 8 518 Eric Kronberg GK 6-5 210 06/07/1983 Santa Rosa, CA 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 019 Peterson Joseph MF 5-8 132 04/24/1990 Port-au-Prince, Haiti 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 020 Shawn Singh DF 5-9 145 05/05/1989 Bakersfield, CA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 021 Jon Kempin GK 6-1 170 04/08/1993 Overland Park, KS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 022 Soony Saad FW 5-10 165 08/17/1992 Dearborn, MI 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 023 Kei Kamara MF 6-3 186 09/01/1984 Kenema, Sierra Leone 10 10 4 2 155 115 38 1524 Cyprian Hedrick DF 6-0 185 10/06/1989 Duala, Cameroon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 032 Luke Sassano DF 6-0 170 10/14/1985 Orinda, CA 1 0 0 0 48 30 1 037 Jacob Peterson MF 5-10 165 01/27/1986 Portage, MI 7 0 0 0 145 82 9 1055 Julio Cesar MF 6-1 170 11/18/1978 Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil 9 9 0 0 36 34 2 278 Aurelien Collin DF 6-2 169 03/08/1986 Enghien-les-Bains, France 10 10 3 0 33 31 6 088 Michael Thomas MF 5-10 190 03/08/1989 Olathe, KS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
HEAD COACH : Peter Vermes 11/21/1966 W34 L31 T21
SPORTING KANSAS CITY
2012 CAREERNo. Player Pos Ht Wt Birthdate Birthplace GP GS G A GP GS G A 2 Hunter Freeman DF 5-11 170 01/08/1985 Tyler, TX 3 2 0 0 110 94 2 63 Drew Moor DF 6-0 165 01/15/1984 Dallas, TX 11 11 1 0 204 192 14 34 Jeff Larentowicz MF 6-1 175 08/05/1983 Pasadena, CA 10 10 1 0 185 176 21 115 Joseph Nane MF 6-2 185 03/12/1987 Mbalmayo, Cameroon 0 0 0 0 21 10 0 08 Eddie Ababio DF 5-10 170 01/01/1988 Kumasi, Ghana 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09 Conor Casey FW 6-1 190 07/25/1981 Dover, NH 3 1 0 0 106 89 48 1310 Martin Rivero MF 5-9 160 11/13/1989 Roldan, Santa Fe, Argentina 7 7 1 3 7 7 1 311 Brian Mullan MF 5-7 155 04/23/1978 Mineola, NY 11 11 0 3 290 262 27 5212 Quincy Amarikwa FW 5-9 180 10/29/1987 Bakersfield, CA 3 0 1 0 56 8 4 313 Kamani Hill FW 6-0 175 12/28/1985 Berkeley, CA 8 1 3 1 8 1 3 114 Omar Cummings FW 5-10 165 07/13/1982 Old Harbor, Jamaica 10 10 3 1 130 101 36 2615 Wells Thompson MF 5-10 155 11/25/1983 Winston-Salem, NC 7 1 0 1 136 72 7 716 Ross LaBauex MF 5-9 150 12/05/1988 Chicago, IL 2 1 0 0 18 6 0 017 Ian Joyce GK 6-3 200 07/12/1985 Kinnelon, NJ 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 018 Matt Pickens GK 6-3 200 04/05/1982 Washington, MO 11 11 0 0 133 131 0 019 Andre Akpan FW 6-0 190 12/09/1987 Grand Prairie, TX 5 0 0 0 18 5 1 020 Jamie Smith MF 5-8 164 11/20/1980 Alexandria, Scotland 0 0 0 0 46 37 4 1321 Luis Zapata DF 5-10 170 04/24/1989 Cali, Colombia 11 11 0 0 11 11 0 022 Marvell Wynne DF 5-9 171 05/08/1986 Pittsburgh, PA 8 8 0 0 160 153 2 1523 Jaime Castrillon MF 5-11 185 04/05/1983 Medellin, Colombia 11 11 3 1 11 11 3 124 Kohei Yamada MF 5-7 143 01/08/1989 Hyogo, Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 025 Pablo Mastroeni MF 5-10 170 08/29/1976 Mendoza, Argentina 2 2 0 0 318 308 7 2627 Kosuke Kimura DF 5-9 155 05/14/1984 Kobe, Japan 9 9 0 2 114 106 3 828 Davy Armstrong MF 5-10 150 11/03/1991 Aurora, CO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 029 Scott Palguta DF 6-2 190 08/23/1982 Toms River, NJ 0 0 0 0 48 29 2 031 Steward Ceus GK 6-6 205 03/26/1987 West Haverstraw, NY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 032 Tony Cascio MF 6-0 172 03/28/1990 Mesa, AZ 11 10 2 1 11 10 2 134 Tyrone Marshall DF 6-2 195 11/12/1974 Kingston, Jamaica 6 4 0 0 327 288 16 2137 Edu FW 6-0 185 01/10/1979 Sao Paulo, Brazil 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 039 Harrison Henao MF 5-9 155 02/19/1987 Bello, Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HEAD COACH : Oscar Pareja 08/10/1968 W5 L6 T0
COLORADO RAPIDS
MLS GAME INFORMATION
COLORADO RAPIDS vs SPORTING KANSAS CITY DICK’S SPORTING GOODS PARK, Commerce City, Colo.
May 19, 2012 (WEEK 11, MLS Game #104) 7 p.m. MT (Altitude; KSMO) The Colorado Rapids return home for the first time in nearly a month, playing host to Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. The Rapids concluded their three-game road swing at midweek, a 2-0 loss to D.C. United. Sporting are looking to put the brakes on a three-game losing streak after a seven-game winning run to open the season, last time out falling 2-1 on the road to the Chicago Fire. REFEREE: Edvin Jurisevic. SAR (bench): Paul Scott; JAR (opposite): Jeremy Hanson; 4th: Landis Wiley MLS Career: 43 games; FC/gm: 22.4; Y/gm: 3.7; R: 4; pens: 5 INJURY REPORT: COLORADO RAPIDS – OUT: DF Anthony Wallace (L Achilles tear); MF Pablo Mastroeni (headaches); MF Ross LaBauex (sports hernia); DF Marvell Wynne (R hamstring strain); FW Omar Cummings (L ankle sprain); PROBABLE: FW Conor Casey (L Achilles tear); MF Jamie Smith (R ACL tear) … SPORTING KANSAS CITY – OUT: GK Eric Kronberg (lower back strain); QUESTIONABLE: FW Jacob Peterson (L quad strain); PROBABLE: GK Jon Kempin (L quad contusion) INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none SUSPENDED: KC: Roger Espinoza (through May 20) WARNINGS: SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: COL: Jeff Larentowicz SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: COL: Jaime Castrillon … KC: Aurelien Collin, Chance Myers HEAD-TO-HEAD ALL-TIME (49 meetings): Rapids 17 wins (3 shootout), 65 goals … Sporting 20 wins (1 shootout), 83 goals … Ties 12 AT COLORADO (25 meetings): Rapids 14 wins (2 shootout), 41 goals… Sporting 4 wins (1 shootout), 30 goals… Ties 7 LAST YEAR (MLS): 5/28: COL 1, KC 1 (Casey 13 – Smith 75) 7/6: KC 1, COL 1 (Zusi 62 – Casey 32)
This is the only league meeting between the clubs this season. The last three league meetings between the clubs have been 1-1 draws, two in Commerce City and the first
meeting ever at Livestrong Sporting Park (last July 6). Kansas City hasn’t won in Colorado since 2004, a 3-1 win at Invesco Field at Mile High. All-time at Dick’s
Sporting Goods Park, the Rapids have won two of the five meetings, with three draws. The Rapids have not won at Kansas City since 2002, a 2-1 win at Arrowhead Stadium. Sporting have won
seven of the 11 meetings since with four draws. The teams also met in the Western Conference Semifinals a year ago, Sporting winning both legs 2-0 to
advance 4-0 on aggregate. Coaches record: Oscar Pareja vs. KC: first game … Peter Vermes vs. COL: P5 W1 L0 D4
COLORADO RAPIDS The Colorado Rapids completed their long road swing with a defeat, coming off a layoff with a 2-0 loss to D.C. United on Wednesday evening at RFK Stadium. The Rapids are in fifth place in the Western Conference with 15 points from 11 games. LAST MATCH
United took the lead in the 25th minute. Lewis Neal picked up a loose ball in midfield with space to roam, and made his way towards goal before picking out Dwayne De Rosario’s run from the right. The Canadian international slipped a shot past Matt Pickens from inside the area.
The home side finished off the match on the hour. Neal picked up a loose clearance and sent a cross in for Branko Boskovic, and the resulting header was saved by Pickens. But Hamdi Salihi was right there to knock in the rebound from close range.
Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja made two changes to the side that recorded a 2-0 win at FC Dallas. Hunter Freeman came in at right back for Kosuke Kimura, and Conor Casey started in attack for Omar Cummings.
COLORADO RAPIDS (4-3-1-2): Matt Pickens - Hunter Freeman, Drew Moor, Tyrone Marshall, Luis Zapata, Brian Mullan (Kamani Hill 46), Jeff Larentowicz, Jaime Castrillon (Wells Thompson 78) - Martin Rivero - Tony Cascio, Conor Casey (Edu 65).
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TEAM NEWS The Rapids concluded their three-game road swing with two losses in three games. They now return home for
five out of the next six games, with only a trip to Vancouver ahead before early July. Conor Casey made his first start since July 16, 2011, when he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon 38 minutes
into a match at Seattle. He had appeared in two of the last three matches as a substitute. “Conor is in the process. He’s still in the preseason mode since he was out of the training. Now he’s getting
back,” said Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja. “Today we were planning on giving him a half, maybe a little bit more. He was up, supporting up top, and that’s important for the group. By the end, you want to keep him on the field, but we have a quick turnaround with a game on Saturday. We have to be progressive with Conor. It’s a process for him, and he’s going to need a couple games.”
Said Casey: “It felt good. It was nice to know I got 60 minutes or so. It was good to be out there. I was looking to get a good run in and sweat. Physically, it’s all positive. The minutes were good. I didn’t feel too bad at the end, so that’s good. I’m really excited about that, and getting back in the swing of it.”
With Omar Cummings still sidelined with an ankle sprain, Pareja paired Casey with rookie Tony Cascio as he remained with a duo up top.
“It was fantastic [getting Casey back]. He’s a natural forward, he’s a natural player,” said midfielder Jeff Larentowicz. “He’s got tremendous skill on the ball, and that’s something we’ve lacked from the start of the year. I thought he did well tonight.”
Recent signing Edu made his MLS debut, coming on for the final 25 minutes. “It’s hard to say how long [it will take to adapt]. We’ve got to adapt these guys into the team, and it’s a process for us. We’ve got to be patient with the new players and faces that come to the team, and it’s going to take a little while,” Pareja said. “I think this happened today already with the group, it helped and provided some depth. We hope the competition will give them what they need to be ready.”
The Rapids were forced into a change at halftime when Brian Mullan was forced off, replaced by Kamani Hill. “I think the coaches have to depend on the players that have been in there every week. That’s me, that’s Drew
[Moor], that’s the guys that have been around for a while,” said Larentowicz. “At the moment, we’re not holding it all together. It’s difficult for the players coming in. It shouldn’t be difficult for us to hold it in together. At the moment, we’re not doing a great job on the road, we’re having difficulty scoring goals, but the season goes on.”
SPORTING KANSAS CITY Sporting Kansas City lost for a third consecutive match, the Chicago Fire coming from behind for a 2-1 win Saturday evening at Toyota Park. Sporting have 21 points from 10 matches, now in second place in the Eastern Conference. LAST MATCH
Sporting KC opened the lead in the 31st minute when Roger Espinoza pulled back a rolling pass from the right corner and Bobby Convey lashed it home first-time from the heart of the penalty area.
But it all went pear-shaped for the visitors over the final half-hour. First, just after the hour, defender Aurélien Collin took down Dominic Oduro in the penalty area, and Grazzini buried the ensuing penalty kick.
A minute later, SKC went a man down after Roger Espinoza was sent off by referee Jose Carlos Rivero for an elbow to Grazzini’s face.
Sporting were able to hold out until the 81st minute, when Patrick Nyarko picked Kei Kamara's pocket just outside the six-yard box on the end line. Nyarko sent the ball into the path of an onrushing Oduro, and he bundled the ball over the line from six yards out for the winner.
Sporting head coach Peter Vermes made no changes to the team that dropped a 2-0 decision to the Montréal Impact at Livestrong Sporting Park.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY (4-2-3-1): Jimmy Nielsen - Chance Myers, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler (Lawrence Olum 88), Michael Harrington - Julio Cesar, Roger Espinoza (sent off 62) - Kei Kamara, Graham Zusi, Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 78) - C.J. Sapong (Teal Bunbury 74).
TEAM NEWS Sporting scored a goal for the first time in 235 minutes, but still saw their losing slide reach three games. Two
of the three losses have been on the road. “I think for the first 60 minutes we were an excellent team but obviously some things happened that changed
the outcome of the game and we’ll be ready for the next one. That’s what we have to do,” said Sporting manager Peter Vermes.
Said goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen: “I think we were back on track today compared to last week where we were not very happy with our performance against Montreal. We showed we are a good team again and we just have to build from that. We played with discipline today and we talked about that before the game. It’s very important you are quick in your position and you play from there. I think we were very well organized and we did a good job, and worked hard for each other.”
Bobby Convey scored his first goal since coming to Sporting in the offseason from the San Jose Earthquakes.
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“I thought Bobby did a great job of coming in from left to right. It was a great service to the top on the box as opposed to inside where the goalkeeper or defense can get to it or where all the players are recovering to,” Vermes said. “He made the correct run, it was the right ball and I think it was a great finish, great timing. … It was a good action that we work on quite a bit.”
Sporting will face at least one lineup decision with Roger Espinoza suspended for the Colorado match after his red card. Over the entirety of the season, Vermes has had to make just two changes in the first 10 games.
“You could say Luke Sassano,” Vermes said. “You could say Paulo Nagamura. You could put Jacob Peterson in the middle. You could go completely different and play a little more defensive. There are a lot of ways to deal with it.”
Michael Harrington returned to play left back for a second consecutive match, while Seth Sinovic – who started the first eight games of the season there – played in the reserve match Sunday in Chicago.
“I think it was good for him, because it was a real game. He got to feel what it was like to get stuck in, go for headers and things like that. They didn’t really care that he had a cast on, because they’re not on his team. They don’t care if he gets hurt again,” said Vermes.
2012 COLORADO RAPIDS STATISTICS (5-6-0, 15 pts.) UNF POS PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E 23 M Jaime Castrillon 11 11 932 3 1 15 8 15 13 0 0 3 0 14 F Omar Cummings 10 10 812 3 1 29 13 6 10 8 1 1 0 13 F Kamani Hill 8 1 277 3 1 12 5 1 3 1 1 0 0 32 M Tony Cascio 11 10 856 2 1 29 11 15 16 4 0 1 0 10 M Martin Rivero 7 7 601 1 3 16 5 5 10 1 32 1 0 12 F Quincy Amarikwa 3 0 53 1 0 4 3 1 3 0 1 0 0 4 M Jeff Larentowicz 10 10 868 1 0 16 4 17 14 0 0 4 1 3 D Drew Moor 11 11 990 1 0 6 2 8 10 3 0 1 0 11 M Brian Mullan 11 11 939 0 3 7 1 12 14 3 15 1 0 27 D Kosuke Kimura 9 9 735 0 2 2 0 8 5 0 0 1 0 15 M Wells Thompson 7 1 154 0 1 3 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 19 F Andre Akpan 5 0 23 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 9 F Conor Casey 3 1 111 0 0 5 0 4 1 2 0 0 0 37 F Edu 1 0 25 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 D Hunter Freeman 3 2 210 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 16 M Ross LaBauex 2 1 79 0 0 0 0 5 4 1 0 0 0 34 D Tyrone Marshall 6 4 343 0 0 3 1 7 0 0 0 2 0 25 M Pablo Mastroeni 2 2 150 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 18 G Matt Pickens 11 11 990 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 22 D Marvell Wynne 8 8 720 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 0 1 0 21 D Luis Zapata 11 11 990 0 0 1 0 7 13 0 0 0 0 8 D Eddie Ababio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 M Davy Armstrong 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 G Steward Ceus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 M Harrison Henao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 G Ian Joyce 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 M Joseph Nane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 D Scott Palguta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 M Jamie Smith 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 D Anthony Wallace 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 M Kohei Yamada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Team totals 11 11 990 15 13 149 55 126 131 23 50 18 1 Opponent totals 11 11 990 14 13 134 55 131 126 32 52 23 2 GAME-WINNING GOALS: Tony Cascio 2, Drew Moor 1, Omar Cummings 1, Jaime Castrillon 1 GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: Martin Rivero 2, Brian Mullan 2, Kosuke Kimura 1 PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: Jeff Larentowicz 1-1, Omar Cummings 0-1 COLORADO RAPIDS INDIVIDUAL GOALKEEPING UNF POS GOALKEEPER GP GS MIN SHTS SV GA GAA PG PA W L T SO 18 G Matt Pickens 11 11 990 55 42 14 1.27 0 0 5 6 0 4 Team totals 11 11 990 55 42 14 1.27 0 0 5 6 0 4 Opponent totals 11 11 990 55 40 15 1.36 1 2 6 5 0 3 * = Played with other teams in 2012. Only Colorado Rapids statistics listed here.
2012 SPORTING KANSAS CITY STATISTICS (7-3-0, 21 pts.) UNF POS PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E 23 M Kei Kamara 10 10 900 4 2 46 20 18 23 3 2 1 0 78 D Aurelien Collin 10 10 869 3 0 13 4 17 8 3 0 3 0 17 F C.J. Sapong 10 9 736 3 0 21 9 12 14 5 0 0 0 8 M Graham Zusi 10 10 865 1 6 24 7 13 11 2 41 1 0 11 M Bobby Convey 10 10 779 1 1 5 2 2 5 0 26 0 0 7 D Chance Myers 10 10 900 0 2 9 1 14 10 0 0 3 0 15 M Roger Espinoza 10 10 872 0 1 18 4 18 20 0 1 1 1 16 D Seth Sinovic 8 8 719 0 1 4 0 5 12 1 0 1 0 5 D Matt Besler 10 10 898 0 0 2 0 3 4 1 0 1 0 9 F Teal Bunbury 7 1 183 0 0 10 1 8 2 1 0 1 0 2 D Michael Harrington 3 2 181 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 55 M Julio Cesar 9 9 720 0 0 5 1 10 8 0 0 2 0 6 M Paulo Nagamura 7 1 187 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 1 2 0 1 G Jimmy Nielsen 10 10 900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13 D Lawrence Olum 4 0 47 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 37 M Jacob Peterson 7 0 102 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 D Luke Sassano 1 0 14 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 D Korede Aiyegbusi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 F Dom Dwyer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 D Kevin Ellis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 M Peterson Joseph 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 G Jon Kempin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 G Eric Kronberg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 F Soony Saad 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 D Shawn Singh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88 M Michael Thomas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Own-goals received 1 Team totals 10 10 900 13 13 160 49 127 127 16 71 17 1 Opponent totals 10 10 900 7 2 100 25 127 127 33 35 18 1 GAME-WINNING GOALS: C.J. Sapong 2, Kei Kamara 2, Graham Zusi 1, Aurelien Collin 1 GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: Graham Zusi 4, Chance Myers 1, Kei Kamara 1, Bobby Convey 1 PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: Kei Kamara 0-1 SPORTING KANSAS CITY INDIVIDUAL GOALKEEPING UNF POS GOALKEEPER GP GS MIN SHTS SV GA GAA PG PA W L T SO 1 G Jimmy Nielsen 10 10 900 25 19 7 0.70 2 2 7 3 0 5 Team totals 10 10 900 25 19 7 0.70 2 2 7 3 0 5 Opponent totals 10 10 900 49 36 13 1.30 0 1 3 7 0 2 * = Played with other teams in 2012. Only Sporting Kansas City statistics listed here.
COLORADO RAPIDS 2012 SCHEDULE DAY DATE OPPONENT RESULT ATT. W-L-T POS. PTS NOTES: Sat. Mar. 10 Columbus W 2-0 14,746 1-0-0 T1 3 COL: Moor (44) Amarikwa (89) Sun. Mar. 18 at Philadelphia W 2-1 19,074 2-0-0 0 6 COL: Castrillon (56) Cascio (62); PHI: Pajoy (67) Sun. Mar. 25 at New York L 1-4 21,024 2-1-0 0 6 COL: Cummings (77); NY: Henry (3,53) Cooper (6,89) Sun. Apr. 1 Chicago W 2-0 13,152 3-1-0 T1 9 COL: Cummings (58) Hill (92+) Sat. Apr. 7 at Real Salt Lake L 0-2 16,870 3-2-0 3 9 RSL: Saborio (20) Espindola (57) Sat. Apr. 14 at Seattle L 0-1 38,360 3-3-0 T5 9 SEA: Scott (63) Sat. Apr. 21 Los Angeles L 1-2 19,152 3-4-0 T6 9 COL: Cummings (63); LA: own goal (21) Donovan (39) Sat. Apr. 28 Chivas USA W 4-0 10,969 4-4-0 T5 12 COL: Cascio (50) Hill (82,93+) Larentowicz (84) Wed. May 2 at New England L 1-2 6,149 4-5-0 0 12 COL: Castrillon (21); NE: Sene (27) Cardenas (39) Sun. May 6 at FC Dallas W 2-0 11,702 5-5-0 0 15 COL: Castrillon (61) Rivero (74) Wed. May 16 at D.C. United L 0-2 11,593 5-6-0 5 15 DC: De Rosario (25) Salihi (60) Sat. May 19 Sporting KC Sat. May 26 Montreal Sat. June 16 at Vancouver Wed. June 20 San Jose Sat. June 30 Portland Wed. July 4 Vancouver Sat. July 7 at Seattle Sat. July 14 FC Dallas Wed. July 18 at Toronto FC Sat. July 21 at Real Salt Lake Sat. July 28 Seattle Sat. Aug. 4 Real Salt Lake Sat. Aug. 11 at FC Dallas Sat. Aug. 18 Chivas USA Sat. Aug. 25 at San Jose Fri. Aug. 31 at Portland Wed. Sept. 5 Portland Sun. Sept. 16 at Los Angeles Sun. Sept. 23 at Vancouver Sun. Sept. 30 Los Angeles Sat. Oct. 6 San Jose Sat. Oct. 20 at Chivas USA Sat. Oct. 27 Houston SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2012 SCHEDULE DAY DATE OPPONENT RESULT ATT. W-L-T POS. PTS NOTES: Sat. Mar. 10 at D.C. United W 1-0 16,314 1-0-0 1 3 KC: Sapong (93+) Sat. Mar. 17 New England W 3-0 19,777 2-0-0 T1 6 KC: Zusi (28) Kamara (39) Sapong (47) Sun. Mar. 25 FC Dallas W 2-1 15,161 3-0-0 1 9 KC: Collin (49+) Kamara (88); DAL: Villar (25) Sun. Apr. 1 at Chivas USA W 1-0 13,372 4-0-0 1 12 KC: Sapong (47) Sat. Apr. 7 Los Angeles W 1-0 20,323 5-0-0 1 15 KC: Kamara (40) Sat. Apr. 14 Real Salt Lake W 1-0 19,422 6-0-0 1 18 KC: Collin (63) Wed. Apr. 18 at Vancouver W 3-1 15,382 7-0-0 1 21 KC: Collin (24) own goal (51) Kamara (65); VAN: Le Toux (79) Sat. Apr. 21 at Portland L 0-1 20,438 7-1-0 1 21 POR: own goal (41) Sat. May 5 Montreal L 0-2 20,404 7-2-0 1 21 MTL: Martins (30) Bernier (64) Sat. May 12 at Chicago L 1-2 14,159 7-3-0 1 21 KC: Convey (31); CHI: Grazzini (61) Oduro (81) Sat. May 19 at Colorado Sun. May 27 San Jose Sat. June 16 Toronto FC Wed. June 20 at Seattle Sat. June 23 at Philadelphia Fri. June 29 Chicago Wed. July 4 at Montreal Sat. July 7 Houston Sat. July 14 at Columbus Wed. July 18 at Houston Sat. July 21 New England Sat. July 28 Columbus Sat. Aug. 4 at New England Sat. Aug. 11 D.C. United Sat. Aug. 18 at Toronto FC Sun. Aug. 26 New York Sat. Sept. 1 Toronto FC Fri. Sept. 14 Houston Wed. Sept. 19 at New York Sat. Sept. 22 at Montreal Fri. Sept. 28 Chicago Sun. Oct. 7 at Columbus Sat. Oct. 20 at New York Wed. Oct. 24 Philadelphia
COLORADO RAPIDS INDIVIDUAL HIGH GAMES (2012) Goals 2 Kamani Hill 04/28/2012 vs. CHV W 4-0 Assists 2 Kosuke Kimura 03/10/2012 vs. CLB W 2-0 2 Brian Mullan 05/06/2012 at DAL W 2-0 Shots 6 Omar Cummings 04/21/2012 vs. LA L 1-2 Shots on Goal 3 Omar Cummings 04/01/2012 vs. CHI W 2-0 3 Omar Cummings 04/21/2012 vs. LA L 1-2 Fouls Committed 5 Ross LaBauex 03/25/2012 at NY L 1-4 5 Jeff Larentowicz 04/28/2012 vs. CHV W 4-0 Fouls Suffered 5 Tony Cascio 03/25/2012 at NY L 1-4 5 Jeff Larentowicz 04/01/2012 vs. CHI W 2-0 5 Brian Mullan 04/07/2012 at RSL L 0-2 Offside 3 Omar Cummings 03/25/2012 at NY L 1-4 Saves 8 Matt Pickens 05/16/2012 at DC L 0-2 Shots Faced 10 Matt Pickens 05/16/2012 at DC L 0-2 Goals Allowed 4 Matt Pickens 03/25/2012 at NY L 1-4
TEAM HIGH GAMES (2012) Goals 2 03/10/2012 vs. CLB W 2-0 2 03/18/2012 at PHI W 2-1 2 04/01/2012 vs. CHI W 2-0 Assists 3 04/01/2012 vs. CHI W 2-0 Shots 23 05/06/2012 at DAL W 2-0 Shots on Goal 9 04/01/2012 vs. CHI W 2-0 9 05/06/2012 at DAL W 2-0 Fouls Committed 18 03/18/2012 at PHI W 2-1 Fouls Suffered 20 03/25/2012 at NY L 1-4 Corner Kicks 11 05/06/2012 at DAL W 2-0 Offside 5 03/25/2012 at NY L 1-4 Saves 8 05/16/2012 at DC L 0-2 Shots Faced 10 05/16/2012 at DC L 0-2 Goals Allowed 4 03/25/2012 at NY L 1-4
TEAM LOW GAMES (2012) Shots 4 04/14/2012 at SEA L 0-1 Shots on Goal 1 04/07/2012 at RSL L 0-2 1 04/14/2012 at SEA L 0-1 Fouls Committed 7 04/01/2012 vs. CHI W 2-0 7 04/07/2012 at RSL L 0-2 Fouls Suffered 6 04/28/2012 vs. CHV W 4-0 Corner Kicks 2 03/18/2012 at PHI W 2-1 2 04/14/2012 at SEA L 0-1 Offside 0 03/18/2012 at PHI W 2-1 0 05/02/2012 at NE L 1-2 Saves 0 05/06/2012 at DAL W 2-0 Shots Faced 0 05/06/2012 at DAL W 2-0
SPORTING KANSAS CITY INDIVIDUAL HIGH GAMES (2012) Goals 1 12 times Assists 2 Graham Zusi 03/25/2012 vs. DAL W 2-1 Shots 11 Kei Kamara 03/25/2012 vs. DAL W 2-1 Shots on Goal 5 Kei Kamara 03/25/2012 vs. DAL W 2-1 Fouls Committed 5 Kei Kamara 04/07/2012 vs. LA W 1-0 Fouls Suffered 5 Kei Kamara 04/21/2012 at POR L 0-1 Offside 2 Kei Kamara 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 2 C.J. Sapong 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 2 Aurelien Collin 05/05/2012 vs. MTL L 0-2 Saves 6 Jimmy Nielsen 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 6 Jimmy Nielsen 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 Shots Faced 6 Jimmy Nielsen 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 6 Jimmy Nielsen 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 6 Jimmy Nielsen 05/12/2012 at CHI L 1-2 Goals Allowed 2 Jimmy Nielsen 05/05/2012 vs. MTL L 0-2 2 Jimmy Nielsen 05/12/2012 at CHI L 1-2
TEAM HIGH GAMES (2012) Goals 3 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 3 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 Assists 3 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 3 03/25/2012 vs. DAL W 2-1 Shots 27 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 Shots on Goal 9 03/25/2012 vs. DAL W 2-1 Fouls Committed 16 03/10/2012 at DC W 1-0 Fouls Suffered 16 04/21/2012 at POR L 0-1 Corner Kicks 11 04/14/2012 vs. RSL W 1-0 11 05/05/2012 vs. MTL L 0-2 Offside 4 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 4 05/05/2012 vs. MTL L 0-2 Saves 6 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 6 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 Shots Faced 6 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 6 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 6 05/12/2012 at CHI L 1-2 Goals Allowed 2 05/05/2012 vs. MTL L 0-2 2 05/12/2012 at CHI L 1-2
TEAM LOW GAMES (2012) Shots 8 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 8 05/12/2012 at CHI L 1-2 Shots on Goal 2 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 2 04/21/2012 at POR L 0-1 Fouls Committed 9 04/07/2012 vs. LA W 1-0 9 05/05/2012 vs. MTL L 0-2 Fouls Suffered 10 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 Corner Kicks 4 03/17/2012 vs. NE W 3-0 4 04/18/2012 at VAN W 3-1 Offside 0 03/10/2012 at DC W 1-0 0 04/01/2012 at CHV W 1-0 0 04/14/2012 vs. RSL W 1-0 Saves 0 03/25/2012 vs. DAL W 2-1 0 04/01/2012 at CHV W 1-0 0 04/07/2012 vs. LA W 1-0 0 05/05/2012 vs. MTL L 0-2 Shots Faced 0 04/01/2012 at CHV W 1-0 0 04/07/2012 vs. LA W 1-0
2011 COLORADO RAPIDS VS. SPORTING KANSAS CITY (0-0-2) UNF POS PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E CP 9 FWD Conor Casey 2 2 180 2 0 4 2 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 34 DEF Tyrone Marshall 2 2 180 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 19 FWD Andre Akpan 1 0 33 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 FWD Omar Cummings 1 1 82 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 21 FWD Caleb Folan 2 0 25 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 DEF Kosuke Kimura 2 2 180 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 16 MID Ross LaBauex 2 2 138 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 0 2 0 0 4 MID Jeff Larentowicz 2 2 180 0 0 2 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 25 MID Pablo Mastroeni 2 2 120 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 DEF Drew Moor 2 2 180 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 5 MID Joseph Nane 2 0 72 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 23 MID Sanna Nyassi 2 1 70 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 18 GK Matt Pickens 2 2 180 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 MID Wells Thompson 2 2 180 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 6 0 0 0 22 DEF Marvell Wynne 2 2 180 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ----------- Team totals 2 2 180 2 1 15 5 23 22 3 7 5 0 0 Opponent totals 2 2 180 2 1 28 7 22 23 8 6 3 0 0 GAME-WINNING GOALS: None GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: None PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: None UNF POS GOALKEEPER GP GS MIN SHTS SV GA GAA PG PA W L T SO O'TIME 18 GK Matt Pickens 2 2 180 7 5 2 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0 0-0-0 ----------- Team totals 2 2 180 7 5 2 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0 0-0-0 Opponent totals 2 2 180 5 3 2 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0 0-0-0
2011 SPORTING KANSAS CITY VS. COLORADO RAPIDS (0-0-2) UNF POS PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E CP 11 MID Ryan Smith 1 0 45 1 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 MID Graham Zusi 2 2 180 1 0 2 1 1 4 0 6 0 0 0 9 FWD Teal Bunbury 2 1 97 0 1 2 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 22 MID Davy Arnaud 1 1 90 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 DEF Matt Besler 2 2 180 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 99 FWD Omar Bravo 2 2 175 0 0 10 2 2 0 4 0 1 0 0 78 DEF Aurelien Collin 2 2 180 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 FWD Birahim Diop 2 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 M/D Roger Espinoza 1 1 90 0 0 1 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 DEF Michael Harrington 2 2 180 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 23 FWD Kei Kamara 1 1 90 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 DEF Chance Myers 2 2 179 0 0 3 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 GK Jimmy Nielsen 2 2 180 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 MID Craig Rocastle 1 1 90 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 55 DEF Julio Cesar 1 1 90 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 17 FWD C.J. Sapong 2 1 83 0 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 DEF*Seth Sinovic 1 1 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ----------- Team totals 2 2 180 2 1 28 7 22 23 8 6 3 0 0 Opponent totals 2 2 180 2 1 15 5 23 22 3 7 5 0 0 GAME-WINNING GOALS: None GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: None PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: None UNF POS GOALKEEPER GP GS MIN SHTS SV GA GAA PG PA W L T SO O'TIME 1 GK Jimmy Nielsen 2 2 180 5 3 2 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0 0-0-0 ----------- Team totals 2 2 180 5 3 2 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0 0-0-0 Opponent totals 2 2 180 7 5 2 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0 0-0-0
COLORADO RAPIDS VS. SPORTING KANSAS CITY ALL-TIME REGULAR-SEASON RESULTS Sporting 20 wins, 83 goals Rapids 17 wins, 65 goals Ties 12 04/13/1996 KC 3 vs COL 0 (KC) 05/05/1996 COL 4 vs KC 0 (D) 07/10/1996 KC 2 vs COL 0 (KC) 08/07/1996 COL 4 vs KC 2 (D) 06/28/1997 KC 3 at COL 3 KC SOW (D) 08/28/1997 KC 1 vs COL 0 (KC) 09/06/1997 KC 2 at COL 1 (D) 09/26/1997 KC 5 vs COL 2 (KC) 05/31/1998 COL 2 vs KC 1 (D) 07/19/1998 KC 4 vs COL 1 (KC) 08/08/1998 KC 3 vs COL 1 (KC) 09/02/1998 COL 3 vs KC 2 (D) 04/17/1999 COL 1 vs KC 1 COL SOW (D) 07/07/1999 COL 2 at KC 1 (KC) 09/10/1999 COL 0 vs KC 0 COL SOW (D) 09/25/1999 COL 0 at KC 0 COL SOW (KC) 04/01/2000 KC 3 vs COL 0 (KC) 04/29/2000 KC 5 at COL 0 (D) 08/02/2000 KC 3 vs COL 1 (KC) 08/26/2000 COL 1 vs KC 1 (OT) (D) 07/18/2001 COL 0 vs KC 0 (OT) (D) 08/12/2001 COL 2 vs KC 2 (OT) (D) 08/19/2001 KC 3 vs COL 2 (KC) 03/23/2002 KC 1 vs COL 1 (OT) (KC) 05/11/2002 COL 2 vs KC 0 (D) 09/14/2002 COL 2 at KC 1 (KC) 09/20/2002 COL 1 vs KC 1 (OT) (D) 07/04/2003 COL 3 vs KC 2 (D) 08/22/2003 KC 2 vs COL 2 (OT) (KC) 09/13/2003 COL 1 vs KC 0 (D) 10/04/2003 KC 4 vs COL 2 (KC) 05/01/2004 KC 2 vs COL 0 (KC) 06/09/2004 KC 1 at COL 0 (D) 09/10/2004 COL 3 vs KC 1 (D) 09/25/2004 KC 1 vs COL 0 (KC) 04/02/2005 KC 3 vs COL 2 (KC) 07/04/2005 COL 2 vs KC 1 (D) 07/08/2006 COL 1 vs KC 0 (D) 09/09/2006 KC 4 vs COL 1 (KC) 05/19/2007 COL 1 vs KC 1 (DS) 07/22/2007 KC 2 vs COL 2 (KC) 04/05/2008 KC 3 vs COL 2 (CA) 08/16/2008 COL 2 vs KC 1 (DS) 03/28/2009 COL 2 vs KC 1 (DS) 09/26/2009 KC 0 vs COL 0 (CA) 04/10/2010 KC 1 vs COL 0 (CA) 07/17/2010 COL 1 vs KC 1 (DS) 05/28/2011 COL 1 vs KC 1 (DS) 07/06/2011 KC 1 vs COL 1 (SP) MLS CUP PLAYOFFS 10/04/1997 COL 3 at KC 0 (KC) 10/08/1997 COL 3 vs KC 2 (D) 09/16/2000 KC 1 vs COL 0 (KC) 09/20/2000 COL 0 vs KC 0 (OT) (D) 09/24/2000 KC 3 vs COL 2 (KC) 11/04/2003 COL 1 vs KC 1 (D) 11/08/2003 KC 2 vs COL 0 (KC) 10/30/2011 KC 2 at COL 0 (DS) 11/02/2011 KC 2 vs COL 0 (SP) U.S. OPEN CUP 09/15/1996 COL 3 at KC 2 (KC, QF) 08/06/2003 COL 3 vs KC 2 (X8, 4R) 06/04/2008 COL 2 at KC 2 COL SOW (Y7, Q3) 04/13/2010 COL 2 at KC 1 (Y9, Q2)
HEAD-TO-HEAD: Rapids Sporting KC Category 1 2 OT Tot. 1 2 OT Tot. Goals 28 37 0 65 30 53 0 83 Shots 278 341 9 628 290 385 7 682 Shots on Goal 107 125 2 234 129 175 3 307 Fouls 346 375 8 729 316 313 12 641 Offsides 73 61 2 136 81 77 0 158 Corner Kicks 134 133 8 275 108 123 3 234 GOALS SCORED IN 15-MINUTE INTERVALS: 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90 OT Total COL 8 10 10 12 8 17 0 65 KC 4 12 14 20 10 23 0 83 CAREER COACHING RECORDS: Oscar Pareja vs. KC 0-0-0 (1.00 pts./game) Peter Vermes vs. COL 1-0-4 (1.40 pts./game) ALL-TIME SERIES LEADERS: Rapids Sporting KC Goals 8 John Spencer 9 Klein/Preki Assists 7 Chris Henderson 16 Preki Shots 53 John Spencer 83 Preki Shots on Goal 29 John Spencer 35 Preki Fouls Committed 35 Pablo Mastroeni 34 McKeon/Zavagnin Fouls Suffered 36 Chris Henderson 47 Kerry Zavagnin Wins 3 4 players tied 7 Tony Meola Losses 5 Cannon/Hahnemann 5 Tony Meola Shutouts 3 Scott Garlick 6 Tony Meola Saves 44 Marcus Hahnemann 65 Tony Meola Goals Allowed 17 Marcus Hahnemann 18 Tony Meola ALL-TIME SERIES GAME HIGHS: Rapids Sporting KC Goals 2 7 players tied 2 8 players tied Assists 2 4 players tied 3 Preki (10/4/03) Shots 8 Mark Chung (9/14/02) 9 Onandi Lowe (8/12/01) Shots on Goal 5 John Spencer (8/22/03) 4 9 players tied Fouls Committed 7 Chris Martinez (8/2/00) 7 Chris Henderson (8/26/00) Fouls Suffered 6 Henderson/Beckerman 7 3 players tied Saves 9 4 players tied 9 Bo Oshoniyi (9/10/04) Goals Allowed 5 Grafer/Kramer 4 Mike Ammann (8/7/96) 2012 W-L-T BREAKDOWNS: COLORADO RAPIDS SPORTING KANSAS CITY W-L-T Streak (started) W-L-T Streak (started) At Halftime: Leading 1-0-0 4 Ws (7/20/2011) 3-1-0 1 Ls (5/12/2012) Tied 4-1-0 2 Ws (4/28/2012) 4-0-0 6 Ws (10/15/2011 Trailing 0-5-0 5 Ls (3/25/2012) 0-2-0 2 Ls (4/21/2012) First Goal: Scored 5-1-0 1 Ws (5/6/2012) 6-1-0 1 Ls (5/12/2012) Allowed 0-5-0 5 Ls (3/25/2012) 1-2-0 2 Ls (4/21/2012) Goals Scored: 0 goals 0-3-0 3 Ls (4/7/2012) 0-2-0 3 Ls (9/17/2011) 1 goals 0-3-0 3 Ls (3/25/2012) 4-1-0 1 Ls (5/12/2012) 2 goals 4-0-0 5 Ws (10/22/2011 1-0-0 3 Ws (9/28/2011) 3 goals 0-0-0 1 Ls (7/16/2011) 2-0-0 4 Ws (8/17/2011) 4 or more 1-0-0 16 Ws (9/16/1998) 0-0-0 31 Ws (5/2/1996) Goals Allowed: 0 goals 4-0-0 4 Ws (3/10/2012) 5-0-0 10 Ws (8/3/2011) 1 goals 1-1-0 1 Ls (4/14/2012) 2-1-0 1 Ls (4/21/2012) 2 goals 0-4-0 6 Ls (8/27/2011) 0-2-0 2 Ls (5/5/2012) 3 goals 0-0-0 18 Ls (4/22/2007) 0-0-0 2 Ls (4/23/2011) 4 goals 0-1-0 3 Ls (6/26/2011) 0-0-0 20 Ls (5/5/1996)
COLORADO RAPIDS CAREER STATISTICS VS. SPORTING KANSAS CITY (17-20-12) PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT John Spencer 13 12 1172 8 4 53 Chris Henderson 24 21 2006 6 7 32 Mark Chung 11 10 959 5 2 30 Wolde Harris 12 7 663 5 2 18 Conor Casey 7 7 628 5 0 20 Ross Paule 11 10 935 4 3 18 Paul Bravo 15 14 1192 3 0 33 Marcelo Balboa 19 19 1732 2 2 35 Terry Cooke 7 5 515 2 2 10 Steve Trittschuh 11 11 990 2 2 14 Kyle Beckerman 14 9 913 2 1 14 Sean Henderson 6 5 428 2 0 4 Jovan Kirovski 4 4 296 2 0 8 Shaun Bartlett 4 4 325 1 2 7 Chris Carrieri 10 9 774 1 2 17 Wes Hart 11 9 778 1 2 6 Scott Benedetti 4 4 347 1 1 4 Omar Cummings 7 6 538 1 1 13 Zach Kingsley 6 4 291 1 1 4 Alain Nkong 3 1 159 1 1 4 Jose Burciaga Jr. 2 2 179 1 0 3 Jordan Cila 3 2 154 1 0 4 Jeff Cunningham 2 1 127 1 0 7 John DiRaimondo 1 1 90 1 0 2 Facundo Erpen 3 3 270 1 0 2 Jean Harbor 4 4 324 1 0 9 Clint Mathis 2 1 96 1 0 2 David Patino 4 4 338 1 0 9 Zizi Roberts 3 2 212 1 0 9 Richard Sharpe 2 0 15 1 0 2 Chris Martinez 13 11 954 0 3 3 Adrian Paz 8 7 599 0 3 11 Carlos Valderrama 7 7 670 0 3 4 Colin Clark 5 5 375 0 2 5 Seth Trembly 8 3 317 0 2 3 Peter Vermes 11 10 914 0 2 4 Mehdi Ballouchy 6 6 456 0 1 8 Nat Borchers 10 10 910 0 1 1 Jason Boyce 1 1 40 0 1 1 Eric Denton 3 3 270 0 1 3 Robin Fraser 9 9 850 0 1 1 Denis Hamlett 3 3 270 0 1 0 Nicolas Hernandez 4 4 344 0 1 6 Peguero Jean Philippe 4 4 260 0 1 8 Ritchie Kotschau 16 14 1277 0 1 6 Jeff Larentowicz 4 4 360 0 1 3 Tyrone Marshall 2 2 180 0 1 0 Thiago Martins 1 0 33 0 1 0 Pablo Mastroeni 22 21 1841 0 1 11 Jacob Peterson 5 3 218 0 1 7 Jamie Smith 2 0 73 0 1 0 Roy Wegerle 5 3 213 0 1 4 Team totals 49 49 4470 65 66 628 Opponent totals 49 49 4470 83 82 682 GOALKEEPER GP MIN SHTS SV GAA PG Ian Feuer 3 270 12 11 0.33 0 Preston Burpo 2 180 9 7 0.50 0 Matt Pickens 5 450 24 19 1.00 0 Scott Garlick 8 750 45 32 1.44 1 Dusty Hudock 2 180 16 13 1.50 0 Joe Cannon 8 720 54 39 1.63 2 Scott Vallow 1 100 5 3 1.80 1 Bouna Coundoul 3 270 14 7 2.00 0 Chris Woods 2 180 18 14 2.00 0 David Kramer 5 470 25 12 2.11 1 Marcus Hahnemann 8 720 64 44 2.13 1 Adin Brown 1 90 10 7 3.00 0 Paul Grafer 1 90 11 6 5.00 0 ----------- Team totals 49 4470 307 214 1.67 6 Opponent totals 49 4470 234 163 1.31 9
CURRENT COLORADO RAPIDS PLAYERS CAREER STATISTICS VS. SPORTING KANSAS CITY (17-20-12) PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT Conor Casey 7 7 628 5 0 20 Brian Mullan 22 21 1915 4 4 29 Tyrone Marshall 28 23 2120 4 2 14 Omar Cummings 7 6 538 1 1 13 Jeff Larentowicz 13 13 1170 1 1 10 Marvell Wynne 14 14 1260 0 2 1 Pablo Mastroeni 27 26 2301 0 1 13 Jamie Smith 2 0 73 0 1 0 Andre Akpan 1 0 33 0 0 4 Quincy Amarikwa 2 0 59 0 0 1 Hunter Freeman 7 6 482 0 0 1 Kosuke Kimura 7 7 622 0 0 2 Ross LaBauex 2 2 138 0 0 0 Drew Moor 11 11 990 0 0 3 Joseph Nane 3 1 145 0 0 2 Scott Palguta 2 2 134 0 0 1 Matt Pickens 8 7 615 0 0 0 Wells Thompson 8 4 440 0 0 2 Team totals 49 49 4470 65 66 628 Opponent totals 49 49 4470 83 82 682 GOALKEEPER GP MIN SHTS SV GAA PG Matt Pickens 8 615 34 25 1.17 1 ----------- Team totals 49 4470 307 214 1.67 6 Opponent totals 49 4470 234 163 1.31 9
SPORTING KANSAS CITY CAREER STATISTICS VS. COLORADO RAPIDS (20-17-12) PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT Preki 26 24 2175 9 16 83 Chris Klein 21 21 1840 9 3 43 Vitalis Takawira 14 10 889 8 3 32 Mo Johnston 18 17 1534 7 7 38 Davy Arnaud 18 15 1442 5 2 37 Josh Wolff 13 11 925 4 3 20 Jimmy Conrad 18 18 1579 3 0 12 Frank Klopas 8 5 492 3 0 15 Gary Glasgow 7 5 486 2 2 11 Matt McKeon 19 17 1563 2 2 26 Francisco Gomez 11 4 508 2 1 18 Eddie Johnson 3 3 244 2 1 6 Miklos Molnar 2 2 158 2 1 7 Roy Lassiter 5 4 319 2 0 3 Scott Sealy 5 2 225 2 0 6 Paul Wright 9 5 483 2 0 10 Mark Chung 12 12 1080 1 8 34 Kerry Zavagnin 27 26 2399 1 4 10 Chris Henderson 8 8 730 1 2 11 Brian Johnson 8 3 342 1 2 1 Chris Brown 14 6 833 1 1 12 Jack Jewsbury 14 12 1052 1 1 17 Igor Simutenkov 6 4 385 1 1 7 Ryan Smith 3 2 196 1 1 8 Ryan Tinsley 8 8 684 1 1 2 Stephen Armstrong 6 6 433 1 0 7 Alex Bunbury 4 3 287 1 0 8 Michael Harrington 10 10 879 1 0 1 Kei Kamara 4 4 360 1 0 10 Michael Kraus 1 0 23 1 0 1 Alexi Lalas 4 4 360 1 0 6 Uche Okafor 16 15 1338 1 0 5 Mike Sorber 3 3 267 1 0 3 Dave van den Bergh 1 1 83 1 0 4 Graham Zusi 4 3 241 1 0 2 Eric Quill 6 5 432 0 3 5 Jose Burciaga Jr. 9 9 774 0 2 10 Mike Burns 5 3 281 0 2 1 Carlos Marinelli 3 2 217 0 2 2 Sasha Victorine 6 6 491 0 2 10 Teal Bunbury 4 2 201 0 1 6 Peter Byaruhanga 1 1 45 0 1 0 Eric Eichmann 2 1 102 0 1 2 Diego Gutierrez 15 14 1257 0 1 10 Tony Meola 17 17 1580 0 1 0 Bo Oshoniyi 8 8 730 0 1 0 Ryan Pore 5 2 112 0 1 1 Craig Rocastle 3 2 161 0 1 0 Scott Uderitz 6 4 352 0 1 1 Team totals 49 49 4470 83 82 682 Opponent totals 49 49 4470 65 66 628 GOALKEEPER GP MIN SHTS SV GAA PG Garth Lagerwey 2 135 7 5 0.67 0 Jimmy Nielsen 4 360 9 6 0.75 0 Chris Snitko 2 100 5 4 0.90 1 Tony Meola 17 1580 85 65 1.03 3 Bo Oshoniyi 8 730 44 31 1.36 2 Kevin Hartman 6 540 31 22 1.50 2 Mike Ammann 9 800 46 29 1.91 0 Pat Harrington 2 135 5 1 2.00 0 David Winner 1 90 2 0 2.00 1 ----------- Team totals 49 4470 234 163 1.31 9 Opponent totals 49 4470 307 214 1.67 6
CURRENT SPORTING KANSAS CITY PLAYERS CAREER STATISTICS VS. COLORADO RAPIDS (20-17-12) PLAYER GP GS MIN G A SHT Kei Kamara 12 12 960 2 0 21 Paulo Nagamura 13 13 1099 2 0 13 Michael Harrington 10 10 879 1 0 1 Graham Zusi 4 3 241 1 0 2 Teal Bunbury 4 2 201 0 1 6 Bobby Convey 10 10 908 0 1 14 Matt Besler 5 4 363 0 0 1 Aurelien Collin 2 2 180 0 0 0 Roger Espinoza 4 3 291 0 0 2 Chance Myers 3 2 199 0 0 3 Jimmy Nielsen 4 4 360 0 0 0 Jacob Peterson 3 1 97 0 0 1 Julio Cesar 1 1 90 0 0 1 C.J. Sapong 2 1 83 0 0 3 Luke Sassano 3 1 146 0 0 2 Seth Sinovic 3 3 199 0 0 0 Team totals 49 49 4470 83 82 682 Opponent totals 49 49 4470 65 66 628 GOALKEEPER GP MIN SHTS SV GAA PG Jimmy Nielsen 4 360 9 6 0.75 0 ----------- Team totals 49 4470 234 163 1.31 9 Opponent totals 49 4470 307 214 1.67 6
COLORADO RAPIDS vs. SPORTING KANSAS CITY The Colorado Rapids return home after three road matches to host Sporting Kansas City at 7:00 p.m. MT on Saturday, May 19. The Rap-ids are 5-6-0 (W-L-T) and in 5th place in the Western Conference, hav-ing lost their last match 2-0 to D.C. United on Wednesday, May 16. Colorado are 17-20-12 all-time against Kansas City, and are 14-4-7 against them at home. They have tied their last three regular season meetings since July 17, 2010, all by scores of 1-1. The Rapids will also have a shot at revenge against KC on Saturday, who eliminated Colorado from the playoffs in 2011. Sporting are 7-3-0 and started off the season strong with seven straight victories, but are now riding a three-game losing skid as they head to altitude and Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Edu makes MLS debut in D.C. Rapids forward Edu made his MLS debut against D.C. United on Wednesday night, coming on as a sub for forward Conor Casey in the 66th minute. Fellow newcomer Harrison Henao also made the trip, but did not enter the match and awaits his MLS debut, which could be made on Saturday. Henao, a Colombian midfielder signed on April 11, joined the Rapids after winning the 2010-11 Colombian Liga Postobon season with his former club Once Caldas. Edu brings to Colorado his experience in Spain’s La Liga with Celta de Vigo and Real Betis, where he scored a combined 69 goals in nine seasons, and also helped both clubs to their first UEFA Champions League appearances. For their full bios, visit www.ColoradoRapids.com. Conor Casey makes first start of 2012 Forward Conor Casey made his first start of the 2012 season against D.C. United on Wednesday night. He played 65 minutes and was a noticeable presence in the offensive third, getting several at goal. It was his first start since July 16, 2011 when he ruptured his achilles tendon at Seattle Sounders FC. Rapids come up short at D.C. United The Colorado Rapids dropped a 2-0 result to D.C. United on Wednes-day, May 16 to end their three-game road swing. Although possession leaned slightly more in favor of the Rapids, Colorado were unable to capitalize on many chances throughout the game. Dwayne De Rosario tallied first for D.C. in the 25th minute, and Hamdi Salihi expanded the lead in the 60th. Despite an impressive performance from goalkeeper Matt Pickens, who made eight saves on the night, the Rapids fell 2-0.
Colorado Rapids host EPL side Swansea City in July The Colorado Rapids will host English Premier League side Swansea City on Tuesday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m. MT at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. The Swans finished their 2011-12 Premier League season with an impressive 1-0 victory over 8th place Liverpool to give them a 12-15-11 record, good for 11th in the table. Tickets to the match will go on sale to the public at starting Saturday, May 26 at 10:00 a.m. MT. A special presale will be available for Season Ticket Holders from Tuesday, May 16 through Friday, May 25. For more infor-mation, visit www.ColoradoRapids.com or call 303-825-GOAL Rapids host 17th annual 4thFest celebration The Colorado Rapids and Commerce City have announced details for the 17th annual 4thFest, an Independence Day Celebration at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park presented by Westerra Credit Union. The 4thFest will be a community festival with live music, family activities, and one of the largest fireworks displays in the state of Colorado, which will follow the Rapids match against Vancouver Whitecaps FC, presented by HealthONE. For more information on 4thFest, visit www.4thfestcolorado.com, and to purchase tickets to the Rapids vs. Whitecaps match, call 303-825-GOAL or visit www.ColoradoRapids.com. Rapids host Montreal Impact on May 26 The Colorado Rapids host 2012 expansion team Montreal Impact for the first time on Saturday, May 26 at 7:00 p.m. MT. The Impact are currently 3-5-3 with 12 points, good for 7th place in the Eastern Con-ference. Before coming to Colorado, they will first face New York Red Bulls at home on Saturday. Tickets to the match are available by calling 303-825-GOAL or visiting www.ColoradoRapids.com Pickens claims Rapids shutout record With the 2-0 blanking of FC Dallas on Sunday, May 6, Colorado Rapids goalkeeper Matt Pickens recorded his 26th career shutout for the Rap-ids, the most of any goalkeeper in franchise history. He surpassed Joe Cannon, who earned 25 shutouts for the Rapids from 2003-2006. It was the 37th clean sheet of Pickens’ eight-year career, which ranks 11th in MLS history. Ironman Moor plays 200th career MLS game On Saturday, April 21, Colorado Rapids defender Drew Moor played his 200th regular season MLS match (it was his 77th for the Rapids). Moor is the 70th player in MLS to reach the milestone out of more than 1500 players ever to play in the league.
MLS Regular Season Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012 7:00 pm MT Location: Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Television: Altitude Radio: Mile High Sports Radio 93.7 FM 1510 AM ESPN Deportes Radio 87.7 FM
SPORTING KANSAS CITY Overall: 7-3-0 21 pts, T-3rd in East Home: 4-1-0 Away: 3-2-0 GF: 13 GA: 7 GD: +6
COLORADO RAPIDS Overall: 5-6-0 15 pts, 5th in West Home: 3-1-0 Away: 2-5-0 GF: 15 GA: 14 GD: +1
COLORADO RAPIDS GAME NOTES David Lindholm, Director of Media Relations - (720) 320-9302, [email protected]
Rachel Sweeney, Media Relations Coordinator - (303) 512-3014, [email protected]
HOW THE RAPIDS WERE BUILT
YEAR MLS
SUPERDRAFT
MLS SUPPLEMENTAL
DRAFT
MLS RE-ENTRY DRAFT
MLS ALLOCATION DRAFT
TRADES OFF-SEASON
SIGNINGS MID-SEASON
SIGNINGS
2002 Mastroeni (MIA) - 1/11
2007 Cummings (3rd Rd.) - 1/12
Kimura (3rd Rd.) - 1/18
Casey (TOR) - 4/19
2009 Ceus (3rd. Rd.) - 1/15 Pickens (CHI) - 1/15 Moor (DAL) - 8/31
Smith - 7/28 Palguta - 3/17
2010 Akpan (2nd Rd.) - 1/14 LaBauex (2nd Rd.) - 1/14
Larentowicz (NE) - 1/22 Thompson (NE) - 1/22 Wynne (TOR) - 3/25 Amarikwa (SJ) - 4/7 Wallace (DAL) - 7/30 Mullan (HOU) - 9/15 Nane (TOR) - 11/30
Joyce - 3/9 Armstrong - 8/16
2011 Ababio (1st Rd.) - 4/14
Marshall (VAN) - 1/3
2012 Cascio (1st Rd.) - 1/12
Yamada (3rd Rd.) - 1/17
Freeman (HOU) - 1/6 Castrillón - 1/25 Rivero - 2/16 Zapata - 2/24
Hill - 3/28 Henao - 4/11 Edu - 4/25
Injury Update Defender Marvell Wynne and forward Omar Cummings are both out for about three more weeks recovering from injuries. Wynne pulled his right hamstring on May 1 before the match at New England, while Cum-mings sprained his left ankle in the 12th minute of the game at FC Dal-las on May 6. Colorado Rapids captain Pablo Mastroeni will be out indefinitely as he recovers from a head injury suffered early this season. Midfielder Ross LaBauex underwent surgery for a sports hernia suf-fered on March 30 and is listed as out on the injury report, in addition to being added on to the Disabled List last week, while he recovers. Midfielder Jamie Smith is still in the process of returning from ACL sur-gery (he tore it during 2011 playoffs on 10/27 versus Columbus Crew). Smith is currently on the Disabled List, which opens up his International roster spot until he is removed. Defender Anthony Wallace, who was recovering from a knee injury suffered in August of 2011, was set back another 6-9 months after tearing his Achilles during training on Sunday, March 4. World Cup of Wine and Beer The fifth annual World Cup of Wine and Beer will be hosted by the Col-orado Rapids and Kroenke Sports Charities on Thursday, July 12 on the pitch at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park (or on the covered concourse in the case of inclement weather). The event, which will be attended by Rapids players and coaches, is one of several fundraising events put
on annually by KSC and features food and drinks from Rapids partners and area businesses, gaming tables, a silent auction and more. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.ColoradoRapids.com. All-Time Games Played The Colorado Rapids have three players in the top 20 list for all-time MLS regular season games played. Defender Tyrone Marshall is 6th with 327, captain Pablo Mastroeni sits at 8th with 318, and Brian Mul-lan has played 290 games good for 20th on the list. Marshall and Mastroeni are the only active players in the top 10 list. Top 10 all-time MLS regular season games played: 1. Steve Ralston 378 2. Jeff Cunningham 365 3. Jaime Moreno 340 4. Chris Klein 333 5. Andy Williams 332 6. Tyrone Marshall* 327 7. Jesse Marsch 321 8. Pablo Mastroeni* 318 9. Chris Henderson 317 10. Carey Talley 315 * Active players
2012 MLS SEASON CATEGORICAL RECORD Overall Home Road Overall MLS Games 5-6-0 3-1-0 2-5-0 Against Western Conference 2-3-0 1-1-0 1-2-0 Against Eastern Conference 3-3-0 2-0-0 1-3-0 Scoring 0 goals 0-3-0 0-0-0 0-3-0 Scoring 1 goal 0-3-0 0-1-0 0-2-0 Scoring 2 goals 4-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 Scoring 3 goals 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Scoring 4+ goals 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 Conceding 0 goals 4-0-0 3-0-0 1-0-0 Conceding 1 goal 1-1-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 Conceding 2 goals 0-4-0 0-1-0 0-3-0 Conceding 3 goals 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Conceding 4+goals 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 Scoring first 5-1-0 3-0-0 2-1-0 Conceding first 0-5-0 0-1-0 0-4-0 Leading at halftime 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 Tied at halftime 4-1-0 2-0-0 2-1-0 Trailing at halftime 0-5-0 0-1-0 0-4-0 On NBC Sports Network 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 On TeleFutura/Galavision 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 On ESPN 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 On Altitude 4-5-0 3-1-0 1-4-0 In March 2-1-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 In April 2-3-0 2-1-0 0-2-0 In May 1-2-0 0-0-0 1-2-0 In June 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 In July 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 In August 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 In September 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 In October 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 On a Wednesday 0-2-0 0-0-0 0-2-0 On a Friday 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 On a Saturday 2-3-0 2-1-0 0-2-0 On a Sunday 3-1-0 1-0-0 2-1-0
2012 Goal Scorers #3 Moor - H #4 Larentowicz - P #10 Rivero - L #12 Amarikwa - R #13 Hill - R, R, L #14 Cummings - R, R, L #23 Castrillón - R, H, H #32 Cascio - R, L Key L - Left Footed: 4 R - Right Footed: 7 H - Header: 3 F - Free Kick P - Penalty: 1
RAPIDS NATIONAL TEAM PLAYERS (as of 5/14) NAME COUNTRY CAPS GOALS Ceus Haiti 7 0 Castrillón Colombia 29 5 Cummings Jamaica 28 8 Marshall Jamaica 70 5 Smith Scotland 2 0 Casey U.S.A. 19 2 Hill U.S.A. 2 0 Larentowicz U.S.A. 4 0 Mastroeni U.S.A. 65 0 Moor U.S.A. 5 0 Mullan U.S.A. 4 0 Wallace U.S.A. 1 0 Wynne U.S.A. 5 0
2012 MLS SEASON MISCELLANEOUS STATS Quickest Goal: Castrillón 21’ - 5/2 @ NE Quickest Goal Against: Henry 3’ - 3/25 @ NY Game Winning Goals after 75’: Game Tying Goals after 75’: Multi-Goal Games: Hill (2) - 4/28 vs. CHV Hat Tricks: Hat Tricks Against: Own Goals For: Own Goals Against: Wynne 21’ - 4/21 vs. LA Red Cards: Larentowicz 58’ - 3/18 @ PHI Opp. Red Cards: Hernandez 34’, Perez 36’ - 5/6 @ DAL
RAPIDS AWARD WINNERS 2012 MLS All-Star: MLS Player of the Month: MLS Player of the Week: MLS Goal of the Week: Amarikwa vs. CLB - Nominee Week 1; Cum-mings vs. LA - Nominee Week 7; Cascio vs. CHV - Nominee Week 8 MLS Save of the Week: Pickens vs. CLB - Nominee Week 1; Pickens @ RSL - Nominee Week 5; Pickens @ SEA - Nominee Week 6
COLORADO RAPIDS GAME NOTES David Lindholm, Director of Media Relations - (720) 320.9302, [email protected]
Rachel Sweeney, Media Relations Coordinator - (303) 512-3014, [email protected]
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irthdate
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Status
2 H
unter Freeman
D
EF
5-11 170
01/08/1985 A
llen, TX
Virginia
Houston (M
LS)
3 D
rew M
oor
DEF
6-0
165 01/15/1984
Dallas, TX
Indiana
FC D
allas (MLS
) 4
Jeff Larentowicz
M
ID
lah-REN
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6-1
175 08/05/1983
W. C
hester, PA
B
rown
N
ew England (M
LS)
5 Joseph N
ane
MID
N
AH
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6-2
185 03/12/1987
Yaounde, C
am.
Old D
ominion
Toronto FC (M
LS)
6 A
nthony Wallace
D
EF
5-11 160
01/26/1989 S
t. Petersburg, FL
South Florida
FC D
allas (MLS
) 7
Josh Janniere
MID
jan-EER
5-7
160 11/04/1992
Toronto, Can.
Toronto FC (M
LS)
IN
T 8
Eddie Ababio
D
EF ah-B
AH
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5-10 170
01/01/1988 Tam
pa, FL UN
C
9 C
onor Casey
FW
D
6-1
190 07/25/1981
Denver, C
O
Portland
Toronto FC
(MLS
) 10
Martín R
ivero
MID
m
ar-TEEN re-VA
RE-oh
5-9 160
11/13/1989 R
oldán, Argentina
Rosario C
entral (AR
G)
INT
11 B
rian Mullan
M
ID
5-7
155 04/23/1978
Littleton, CO
C
reighton H
ouston (MLS
) 12
Quincy A
marikw
a
FWD
ah-M
AR
E-ik-wa
5-9
180 10/29/1987
Bakersfield, C
A
UC
-Davis
S
an Jose (MLS
) 13
Kam
ani Hill
FW
D
kah-MA
H-nee
6-0
175 12/28/1985
Berkeley, C
A
UC
LA
Vitória S
.C. (P
OR
) 14
Om
ar Cum
mings
FW
D
5-10
165 07/13/1982
Bodles C
rescent C
incinnati 15
Wells Thom
pson
MID
5-10 155
11/25/1983 W
inston-Sal., N
C
Wake Forest
New
England (MLS
) 16
Ross LaB
auex
MID
la-B
O
5-9 150
12/05/1988 C
hicago, IL Virginia
17 Ian Joyce
GK
6-3 200
07/12/1985 K
innelon, NJ
Seton H
all S
outhend United (EN
G)
18 M
att Pickens
G
K
6-3
200 04/05/1982
Wash., M
O
Missouri S
tate Q
ueens Pk. R
angers (ENG
) 19
Andre A
kpan
FWD
6-0 190
12/09/1987 G
rand Prairie, TX
Harvard
20 Jam
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ith
MID
5-8 164
11/20/1980 G
lasgow, S
cot.
A
berdeen (Scotland)
IN
T 21
Luis Zapata
DEF
loo-EES za-P
AH
-tah
5-10 170
04/24/1980 C
ali, Colom
bia
D
eportivo Pasto (C
OL)
INT
22 M
arvell Wynne
D
EF
5-9 171
05/08/1986 P
oway, C
A
UC
LA
Toronto FC
(MLS
) 23
Jaime C
astrillón
MID
cas-tree-Y
ON
5-11 185
04/05/1983 M
edellín, Colom
bia
Independiente M
edellín (CO
L) IN
T 24
Kohei Y
amada
M
ID
KO
H-hey ya-M
AH
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135 01/08/1989
Hyogo, Japan
Thespa Kusatsu (JA
P)
INT
25 P
ablo Mastroeni
M
ID
MA
HS
-troh-eny
5-10 170
08/29/1976 P
hoenix, AZ
N.C
. State
Miam
i (MLS
)
27
Kosuke K
imura
D
EF K
OS
E-kay kih-MO
O-rah
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RAPIDS PLAYER MINI BIOS
EDDIE ABABIO, #8, Defender
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; not in 18
Last MLS Game:
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Quick Facts:
Selected by the Rapids in the first round (18th overall) of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft; Signed 4/14/11.
A defender who can also play in the midfield, was the Rapids first pick in the
2011 MLS SuperDraft.
Member of UNC’s three consecutive College Cup Final Four squads.
Made his first professional appearance and scored a goal against Isidro Metapán
in CONCACAF Champions League play on September 28.
ANDRE AKPAN, #19, Forward
2012: (MLS) 5 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 23 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; not in 18
Last MLS Game: 05/02/12 @ NE
Last MLS Goal: 04/30/11 vs. CHI
Last MLS Assist:
2011: (MLS) 12 GP / 5 GS – 1 G / 0 A in 479 min
Quick Facts:
Drafted by Colorado in the second round (22nd overall) of the 2010 MLS SuperDraft.
Rapids first pick in 2010 MLS SuperDraft.
Finished his collegiate career as Harvard’s all-time leading scorer with 47 goals
33 assists.
The 2009 Ivy League Player of the Year.
Made his Rapids debut against Chivas USA on September 4, 2010.
QUINCY AMARIKWA, #12, Forward
2012: (MLS) 3 GP / 0 GS – 1 G / 0 A in 53 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; not in 18.
Last MLS Game: 03/25/12 @ NY
Last MLS Goal: 03/10/12 vs. CLB
Last MLS Assist: 04/03/11 vs. DCU
2011: (MLS) 15 GP / 5 GS – 1 G / 1 A in 510 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired on April 7, 2010 in a trade from the San Jose Earthquakes in exchange
for Colorado’s natural second round 2012 MLS SuperDraft pick.
A quick, high-energy player with an ability to unbalance defenses.
Made his Rapids debut at Kansas City on April 10, 2010 scoring his first goal for
Colorado against Philadelphia on Sept. 29 that season.
Scored 31 goals and seven assists in four years for the Aggies, finishing his
career in the top five in goals in UC Davis history.
DAVY ARMSTRONG, #28, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; not in 18
Last MLS Game:
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Quick Facts:
Signed by the Rapids on August 16, 2010 as the club’s first-ever homegrown
player.
First player to come through the Rapids youth system and be signed to the first
team as a Homegrown Player.
The 2008 Colorado State Player of the Year.
Entered the Rapids youth system in 2007 and played on the Rapids U-17 and U-
18 teams.
TONY CASCIO, #32, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 11 GP / 10 GS – 2 G / 1 A in 856 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at forward in a 4-4
-2 formation, playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 04/28/12 vs. CHV
Last MLS Assist: 04/28/12 vs. CHV
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Selected by the Colorado Rapids with the 14th overall selection (first round) of
the 2012 MLS SuperDraft on January 12, 2012.
A versatile midfielder from Gilbert, Ariz.
Was drafted by the Rapids in the first round (14th pick overall) of the 2012 MLS
SuperDraft.
Scored 24 goals and added 25 assists in 85 overall matches for the University of
Connecticut.
Led the Rapids with four goals during the 2012 Preseason.
Made MLS debut in the season opener against Columbus on March 10, 2012.
Scored his first MLS goal at Philadelphia on March 18, 2012.
CONOR CASEY, #9, Forward
2012: (MLS) 3 GP / 1 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 111 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at forward in a 4-4
-2 formation, playing 65 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 07/09/11 vs. VAN
Last MLS Assist: 03/19/11 vs. POR
2011: (MLS) 14 GP / 11 GS – 6 G / 1 A in 809 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired in a trade from Toronto FC on April 19, 2007 in exchange for a third
round pick in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, allocation money, and the MLS rights to Riley O’Neill.
Rapids all-time leading scorer with 48 goals.
MLS Cup 2010 MVP.
Set Colorado single season scoring record with 16 goals in 2009.
Named to the 2009 MLS Best XI squad.
2009 MLS All-Star starter and named to 2010 MLS All-Star Inactive Roster.
Scored his first two international goals in the U.S.’s 2010 World Cup qualifying
win against Honduras on October 10, 2009 that clinched a trip to South Africa for the Americans.
Made his 2012 debut on April 28 after recovering from a torn achilles tendon,
suffered on July 16, 2011 at Seattle.
JAIME CASTRILLÓN, #23, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 11 GP / 11 GS – 3 G / 1 A in 932 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at left midfield in a
4-4-2 formation, playing 78 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 05/06/12 @ DAL
Last MLS Assist: 03/25/12 @ NY
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Signed as an International Player on January 25, 2012.
A dynamic and exciting box-to-box midfielder.
Played over 300 matches in the Colombian first division, scoring more than 50
goals.
Has made 29 appearances with the Colombian National Team.
Scored three goals for the Rapids during the 2012 Preseason.
Made MLS debut in the season opener against Columbus on March 10, 2012.
Scored his first MLS goal at Philadelphia on March 18, 2012.
STEWARD CEUS, #31, Goalkeeper
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 GA / 0.00 GAA / 0 SVS in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; unused sub
Last MLS Game:
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Last MLS Shutout:
2011: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 GA / 0.00 GAA / 0 SVS in 0 min
Quick Facts:
Selected by the Rapids in the third round (37th overall) of the 2009 MLS
SuperDraft.
The first University of Albany player to be drafted by an MLS club.
Finished his collegiate career as Albany’s all-time leader in shutouts (19) and
saves (325).
Named 2008 America East Conference Goalkeeper of the Year.
Earned first international cap with Haitian National Team on Nov. 2, 2012 as
starter in a 0-0 draw.
OMAR CUMMINGS, #14, Forward
2012: (MLS) 10 GP / 10 GS – 3 G / 1 A in 812 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; injured (left ankle sprain)
Last MLS Game: 05/06/12 @ DAL
Last MLS Goal: 04/21/12 vs. LA
Last MLS Assist: 04/28/12 vs. CHV
2011: (MLS) 21 GP / 18 GS – 3 G / 6 A in 1686 min
Quick Facts:
Drafted by Colorado in 3rd round (31st overall) of the 2007 MLS SuperDraft.
Considered one of the most dangerous strikers in MLS, having been named to
the All-Star team in 2011 and starting against Manchester United.
Rapids Golden Boot winner in 2010 and tied for MLS assist lead in 2009 with a
Rapids single season record 12 assists.
Blazing speed and finishing ability has been a factor in earning regular call-ups to
the Jamaican National Team.
EDU, #37, Forward
2012: (MLS) 1 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 25 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Entered the match as a 66th minute
sub for Conor Casey
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Signed on April 26, 2012
Made his professional debut with São Paulo Futebol Clube of Brazil in 1997
before moving to Celta de Vigo of Spain’s La Liga, where he helped them to their first ever UEFA Champions League appearance, and scored 28 goals in 117 games.
Joined Real Betis of Spain’s La Liga, scoring 41 goals in 136 appearances 2004-
2009, and again helping the team to their first UEFA Champions League appear-ance.
Has one cap with the Brazil National Team; scored two goals for the Under-23
squad in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Made his MLS and Rapids debut on May 16 at D.C. United. HUNTER FREEMAN, #2, Defender
2012: (MLS) 3 GP / 2 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 210 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at right defender
in a 4-4-2 formation, playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 04/17/11 vs. NE
Last MLS Assist: 07/30/11 vs. SEA
2011: (MLS - HOU) 23 GP / 22 GS – 41 G / 2 A in 1909 min
Quick Facts:
Signed by the Colorado Rapids on January 6, 2012 after being acquired in Stage
2 of the 2011 MLS Re-Entry Draft.
A versatile defender with experience in MLS and abroad.
Originally came to the Rapids as the seventh overall pick in the 2005 MLS
SuperDraft as a Generation adidas player.
Played two seasons for IK Start in the Norwegian Premier League, then returned
to the United States to play one season with Houston before coming to the Rapids.
Recovering from surgery on February 21 on his ankle to remove fragments;
currently listed as Doubtful on the Injury Report but is back to running regularly.
HARRISON HENAO, #TBD, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; unused sub.
Last MLS Game:
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Signed by the Rapids on loan on April 11, 2012 from Once Caldas.
Made his professional debut with Once Caldas of the Colombian First Division in
the 2010-11 season, and played in Copa Libertadores matches with the club in both the 2010-11 and 2011-12 tournaments.
KAMANI HILL, #13, Forward
2012: (MLS) 8 GP / 1 GS – 3 G / 0 A in 277 min
Rapids’ Last Match (3/18/12 @ New York): Entered the match as a 46th minute
sub for Brian Mullan.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 04/28/12 vs. CHV
Last MLS Assist:
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Signed by the Colorado Rapids on March 28, 2012.
Scored in his MLS and Rapids debut on April 1, 2012 vs. Chicago Fire.
Played for VfL Wolfsburg of the German Bundesliga from 2007-09.
IAN JOYCE, #17, Goalkeeper
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 GA / 0.00 GAA / 0 SVS in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; not in 18
Last MLS Game: 08/29/10 vs. HOU
Last MLS Shutout: 08/28/10 vs. HOU
2011: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 GA / 0.00 GAA / 0 SVS in 0 min
Quick Facts:
Signed on March 9, 2010.
Produced shutout win in his MLS debut and lone appearance of the 2010 season.
Professional career includes stints in England with Grays Athletic FC, Watford
and Southend United.
Spent a brief trial stint with Colorado during the team’s preseason in England in
February 2010 before signing with the club.
KOSUKE KIMURA, #27, Defender
2012: (MLS) 9 GP / 9 GS – 0 G / 2 A in 735 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP, unused sub.
Last MLS Game: 05/06/12 @ DAL
Last MLS Goal: 07/23/11 vs. NE
Last MLS Assist: 03/10/12 vs. CLB (2)
2011: (MLS) 34 GP / 34 GS – 1 G / 1 A in 2996 min
Quick Facts:
Drafted by Colorado in the third round (35th overall) of the 2007 MLS
Supplemental Draft.
The first Japanese player in the history of Major League Soccer.
Versatile and tenacious player who has played either side of the backline and in
the midfield.
Scored the game winning goal in the 2010 Eastern Conference Final.
First on-field appearance with the Rapids was against the Chinese national team
in an International friendly at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on June 10, 2007.
ROSS LaBAUEX, #16, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 2 GP / 1 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 79 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; injured (sports hernia)
Last MLS Game: 03/25/12 @ NY
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: (MLS) 11 GP / 4 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 313 min
Quick Facts:
Drafted by Colorado in the second round (23rd overall) of the 2010 MLS
SuperDraft.
Skillful midfielder, who can play centrally or wide, and who creates problems for
opposing teams’ defenses with his quick moves and natural ability.
Served as a senior captain on the University of Virginia’s 2009 NCAA Men’s
Soccer Championship team.
JEFF LARENTOWICZ, #4, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 10 GP / 10 GS – 1 G / 0 A in 868 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at center midfield
in a 4-4-2 formation, playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 04/28/12 vs. CHV
Last MLS Assist: 04/03/11 vs. DCU
2011: (MLS) 34 GP / 34 GS – 7 G / 1 A in 3051 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired in a trade on January 22, 2010, along with Wells Thompson from New
England in exchange for Preston Burpo, Cory Gibbs, allocation money and Colorado’s natural third round 2011 MLS SuperDraft pick. Signed to a new contract with the Rapids on January 22, 2010.
One of the league’s premier talents in the midfield.
Named to the 2010 MLS All-Star Team.
Played in every regular season game, a career-high 34 matches, in 2011.
Was the Rapids’ 2011 Golden Boot winner with seven goals.
TYRONE MARSHALL, #34, Defender
2012: (MLS) 6 GP / 4 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 343 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at central defend-
er in a 4-4-2 formation, playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 04/10/10 @ RSL (for SEA)
Last MLS Assist: 07/06/11 @ KC
2011: (MLS) 27 GP / 24 GS – 0 G / 1 A in 2177 min
Quick Facts:
Selected by Colorado with the 16th pick in Stage 2 of the 2010 MLS Re-Entry
Process on December 15, 2010 and signed by the Rapids on January 3, 2011.
Returned to Colorado in 2011, having begun his professional career with the
Rapids after being drafted by the club in the first round (11th overall) of the 1998 MLS College Draft.
Two-time MLS All-Star (2003, 2005), two-time MLS Cup champion (2002, 2005)
and a three-time U.S. Open Cup champion (2005, 2009, 2010).
A fixture on the Jamaican National Team, he has 82 caps for the Reggae Boyz
and has scored five international goals.
Third amongst active MLS players with 321 games played, 6th all-time.
PABLO MASTROENI, #25, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 2 GP / 2 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 150 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; injured (headaches).
Last MLS Game: 03/18/12 @ PHI
Last MLS Goal: 07/29/11 @ PHI
Last MLS Assist: 08/20/11 vs. CHV
2011: (MLS) 30 GP / 30 GS – 1 G / 4 A in 2517 min
Quick Facts:
Selected by the Rapids with the first overall pick in the 2002 MLS Allocation Draft.
One of the franchise’s most renowned and respected players both on and off the
field.
Rapids all-time leader in games played, games started and minutes played.
Named Rapids team captain on Sept. 23, 2004 and has lived up to that
responsibility ever since.
Fourth amongst active MLS players with 316 games played, and ninth all-time in
MLS in games played as of the start of the 2012 season.
Has compiled 65 caps with the U.S. Men’s National Team and played in the 2002
and 2006 World Cups.
DREW MOOR, #3, Defender
2012: (MLS) 11 GP / 11 GS – 1 G / 0 A in 990 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at central defend-
er in a 4-4-23 formation, playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 03/10/12 vs. CLB
Last MLS Assist: 07/20/11 vs. NY
2011: (MLS) 32 GP / 32 GS – 4 G / 1 A in 2880 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired in a trade on August 31, 2009, along with a second round 2010
SuperDraft pick and allocation money from FC Dallas in exchange for Ugo Ihemelu.
Set an MLS record on August 27, 2011 for the most consecutive complete games
played of any field player at 69 straight matches, consisting of 6,210 consecutive minutes of MLS regular-season action.
In 2010, Moor became only the third field player in MLS history to play every
minute of every possible MLS game (both regular season and playoffs).
Won two NCAA Championships with Indiana in 2003 and 2004.
Has been capped by the U.S. National Team five times.
Scored the first goal of the 2012 Rapids season in the 44th minute against Co-
lumbus on March 10.
BRIAN MULLAN, #11, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 11 GP / 11 GS – 0 G / 3 A in 939 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at right midfield in
a 4-4-2 formation, playing 45 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 08/05/11 vs. CLB
Last MLS Assist: 05/06/12 @ DAL
2011: (MLS) 22 GP / 19 GS – 1 G / 1 A in 1665 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired on September 15, 2010 along with a fourth round 2013 MLS SuperDraft
pick in a trade with the Houston Dynamo in exchange for midfielder Colin Clark and allocation money.
A five-time MLS Cup champion, capturing titles with Los Angeles (2002), San
Jose (2003), Houston (2006 and 2007) and Colorado (2010).
A native of Littleton, Colorado, he attended Regis Jesuit High School.
The 1996-97 Colorado High School Player of the Year.
Has tied Dema Kovalenko for most consecutive playoff appearances in MLS
history with 11, having made it to the postseason every year of his professional career.
Received a red card in the April 3, 2011 match against Seattle for a foul against
Steve Zakuani, which resulted in a ten-match suspension.
JOSEPH NANE, #5, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; not in 18.
Last MLS Game: 10/22/12 @ VAN
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: (MLS) 10 GP / 2 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 308 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired on November 30, 2010 in a trade with Toronto FC in exchange for
Colorado’s natural third round 2012 MLS SuperDraft pick.
A native of Cameroon, Nane appeared in 18 overall competitions for Toronto his
rookie season.
Provides a physical presence in the midfield.
Made his first appearance for the Rapids on April 8, 2011 at FC Dallas
SCOTT PALGUTA, #29, Defender
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; unused sub
Last MLS Game: 08/05/11 vs. CLB
Last MLS Goal: 07/09/11 vs. VAN
Last MLS Assist:
2011: (MLS) 9 GP / 5 GS – 2 G / 0 A in 550 min
Quick Facts:
Signed with the Rapids on March 17, 2009.
Began his professional career with USL-1 club, the Rochester Rhinos, before
joining the Rapids.
A versatile defender, who started all but one game during his collegiate career
and is one of only two players from the Ivy League to be drafted into the USL First Division.
Scored his first MLS goal against Houston, a game-winner, on May 4, 2011.
MATT PICKENS, #18, Goalkeeper
2012: (MLS) 11 GP / 11 GS – 14 GA / 1.27 GAA / 42 SVS in 990 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at goalkeeper,
playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Shutout: 05/06/12 @ DAL
2011: (MLS) 34 GP / 34 GS – 41 GA / 1.21 GAA / 77 SVS in 3060 min
Quick Facts:
Traded to Colorado from Chicago on January 15, 2009 along with the 28th pick in
the 2009 MLS SuperDraft for allocation money and the 20th pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft.
After three seasons with the Rapids, sits among the Top 5 all-time in club history
in wins and shutouts.
Has won the MLS Cup with Colorado in 2010 and U.S Open Cup with Chicago in
2006.
Has earned 22 career shutouts with Colorado Rapids. Needs three more to tie all
-time Rapids leader Joe Cannon with 25 shutouts.
MARTÍN RIVERO, #10, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 7 GP / 7 GS – 1 G / 3 A in 601 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at central midfield
in a 4-4-2 formation, playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 05/06/12 @ DAL
Last MLS Assist: 05/02/12 @ NE
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Signed on loan as an International Player on February 16, 2012.
A young and creative player with a great deal of potential.
Scored five goals in 53 total games for his previous club Rosario Central.
JAMIE SMITH, #20, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; injured (L ACL tear).
Last MLS Game: 10/22/12 @ VAN
Last MLS Goal: 05/04/11 @ HOU
Last MLS Assist: 06/26/11 @ CLB
2011: (MLS) 20 GP / 18 GS – 3 G / 4 A in 1519 min
Quick Facts:
Signed by the Rapids on July 28, 2009.
Joined the Rapids following an extensive professional career in Europe.
Smith’s career began in Scotland with Celtic FC, followed by stints with Dutch
side ADO Den Haag and most recently Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen FC.
A midfielder who can provide good service from the wings or play more centrally,
he has earned two Scotland National Team caps.
Recovering from a torn ACL on October 27, 2011. Listed as Out on the Injury
Report.
WELLS THOMPSON, #15, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 7 GP / 1 GS – 0 G / 1 A in 154 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Entered the match as a 79th minute
sub for Jaime Castrillón.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal: 07/20/11 vs. NY
Last MLS Assist: 04/01/12 vs. CHI
2011: (MLS) 31 GP / 22 GS – 3 G / 3 A in 1935 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired in a trade on January 22, 2010, along with Jeff Larentowicz from New
England in exchange for Preston Burpo, Cory Gibbs, allocation money and Colorado’s natural third round 2011 MLS SuperDraft pick.
Wide midfielder who’s equally strong with both feet and excels when running at
defenders.
Originally drafted by New England in the first round, fifth overall, of the 2007 MLS
SuperDraft.
Thompson’s game-winning goal in the final of the 2007 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open
Cup gave the Revs their first cup championship in club history.
Named the Rapids’ 2011 Humanitarian of the Year.
ANTHONY WALLACE, #6, Defender
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; injured (L Achilles tear).
Last MLS Game: 08/05/11 vs. CLB
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist: 04/03/11 vs. DCU
2011: (MLS) 10 GP / 8 GS – 0 G / 1 A in 719 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired in a trade with FC Dallas on July 30, 2009 in exchange for Colorado’s
natural 4th round 2011 SuperDraft pick and a conditional 2012 SuperDraft selection.
Earned first U.S. National Team cap on January 22, 2011 vs. Chile.
Has been a member of the United States U-17 and U-18 teams and was a
member of the U.S. U-20 squad that participated in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.
Was recovering from a knee injury suffered in August of 2011, but was set back
another 6-9 months after tearing his achilles during a training session on Sunday, March 4.
MARVELL WYNNE, #22, Defender
2012: (MLS) 8 GP / 8 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 720 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; injured (R hamstring strain)
Last MLS Game: 04/28/12 vs. CHV
Last MLS Goal: 10/11/08 @ DAL* (for TOR)
Last MLS Assist: 07/29/11 vs. NY
2011: (MLS) 29 GP / 28 GS – 0 G / 2 A in 2530 min
Quick Facts:
Acquired on March 25, 2010 from Toronto FC in exchange for midfielder Nick
LaBrocca and Colorado’s third round 2011 MLS SuperDraft pick.
Known as one of the fastest players in MLS, has made a transition since coming
to the Rapids from a wide defender to a central back.
Former first overall selection in the 2006 MLS SuperDraft by New York.
Has four caps with the U.S. Men’s National Team and was a member of the
Men’s Olympic Team that competed in Beijing in 2008.
KOHEI YAMADA, #24, Midfielder
2012: (MLS) 0 GP / 0 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 0 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): DNP; unused sub.
Last MLS Game:
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Selected by the Colorado Rapids with the 14th pick of the third round of the 2012
MLS Supplemental Draft on January 17, 2012.
A young midfielder from the Japanese second division, played 34 matches over
two seasons for his previous club Thespa Kusatsu.
LUIS ZAPATA, #21, Defender
2012: (MLS) 11 GP / 11 GS – 0 G / 0 A in 990 min
Rapids’ Last Match (5/16/12 @ D.C. United): Started the match at left defender in
a 4-4-2 formation, playing 90 minutes.
Last MLS Game: 05/16/12 @ DC
Last MLS Goal:
Last MLS Assist:
2011: N/A
Quick Facts:
Signed by the Rapids as an International Player on February 24, 2012.
A speedy and skilled left back.
Helped his last team, Deportivo Pasto, to its first Primera B title and a promotion
to the Colombian first division.
Made his MLS debut in the season opener against Columbus on March 10, 2012.
RAPIDS BIOS NOT IN THE MEDIA GUIDE KAMANI HILL - #13 6-0, 175, Forward Acquired: Signed on March 28, 2012. Hill joins the Rapids after spending the last six years playing professionally in Europe. Originally from Berkeley, Calif., Hill played two sea-sons at UCLA from 2004-05, scoring nine goals and adding 13 assists in 40 games (32 starts). He then joined VfL Wolfsburg of the Ger-man Bundesliga, making his debut with the club in January of 2007. He made a total of nine appearances with the first team, as well as several with the club’s second team. He joined Vitório S.C. of Portugal in 2009 and was also loaned to Aves of the Portuguese second division in 2010. The striker made a pair of substitute appearances with the U.S. National Team in 2007, first in a 4-1 win over China on June 2, and then in a 1-0 loss at Sweden on August 22. Hill also made several appearances with the U.S. Under-20 National Team in 2005. HARRISON HENAO - #39 5-9, 155, Midfielder Acquired: Signed on April 11, 2012. Henao comes to the Rapids on loan having played all of his professional career so far in Colombia. He made his professional debut with Once Caldas in the 2010-11 Colombian ‘Liga Postobon’ season, becoming a regular in the side that won the championship that season. He also played in Copa Libertadores matches with the club in both the 2010-11 and 2011-12 tournaments. LUIS EDUARDO “EDU” SCHMIDT - #37 6-0, 185, Forward Acquired: Signed on April 26, 2012. Edu comes to the Rapids with an impressive career playing in Brazil and Spain. He made his first professional appearance with São Pau-lo Futebol Clube of Brazil in 1997 before moving to Celta de Vigo of La Liga, the top division in Spain. He helped Celta to its first-ever appearance in the UEFA Champions League, and scored 28 goals in 117 appearances with the club. Joining Real Betis of La Liga in 2004, he played five seasons, scoring 41 goals in 136 appearances and again helping the team to their first Champions League appear-ance. He moved back to Brazil in 2009, and has since played with Internacional and Vitória in his home country. The Brazilian made his only appearance with the Brazilian National Team against Thailand on February 23, 2000. He also scored twice as a member of the Under-23 team in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
COLORADO RAPIDS GAME NOTES David Lindholm, Director of Media Relations - (720) 320.9302, [email protected]
Rachel Sweeney, Media Relations Coordinator - (303) 512-3014, [email protected]
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CLB PHI NY CHI RSL SEA LA CHV NE DAL DC
2-0 2-1 1-4 2-0 0-2 0-1 1-2 4-0 1-2 2-0 0-2
2 Hunter Freeman 45 75D 90D
3 Drew Moor 90D 90D 90D 90D 90M 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D
4 Jeff Larentowicz 90M 58M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M
5 Joseph Nane
6 Anthony Wallace
7 Josh Janniere
8 Eddie Ababio
9 Conor Casey 1 45 65F
10 Martin Rivero 87M 90M 90M 70M 84M 90M 90M
11 Brian Mullan 90M 90M 86M 90M 90M 90M 88M 90M 90M 90M 45M
12 Quincy Amarikwa 21 7 25
13 Steven Emory
13 Kamani Hill 8 14 21 78M 20 15 76 45
14 Omar Cummings 86F 83F 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 89F 90F 14F
15 Wells Thompson 16 22 65M 24 12 3 12
16 Ross LaBauex 14 65M
17 Ian Joyce
18 Matt Pickens 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G
19 Andre Akpan 4 4 7 2 6
20 Jamie Smith
21 Luis Zapata 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D
22 Marvell Wynne 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D
23 Jaime Castrillon 90M 90M 90F 82M 76M 69M 90M 90M 90M 87M 78M
24 Kohei Yamada
25 Pablo Mastroeni 74M 76M
27 Kosuke Kimura 90D 90D 90D 90D 60D 90D 90D 45D 90D
28 Davy Armstrong
29 Scott Palguta
31 Steward Ceus
32 Tony Cascio 69M 68M 90F 66M 30 83M 90M 90M 90F 90F 90F
34 Tyrone Marshall 25 3 90D 90D 45D 90D
37 Edu 25
39 Harrison Henao
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Game #1 03/10/2012 COL 2 vs CLB 0 W Moor 1 (Kimura 1) 44; Amarikwa 1 (Kimura 2) 89
Game #2 03/18/2012 COL 2 at PHI 1 W Castrillon 1 (unassisted) 56; Cascio 1 (unassisted) 62
Game #3 03/25/2012 COL 1 at NY 4 L Cummings 1 (Castrillon 1) 77
Game #4 04/01/2012 COL 2 vs CHI 0 W Cummings 2 (Mullan 1, Rivero 1) 58; Hill 1 (Thompson 1) 92+
Game #5 04/07/2012 COL 0 at RSL 2 L
Game #6 04/14/2012 COL 0 at SEA 1 L
Game #7 04/21/2012 COL 1 vs LA 2 L Cummings 3 (unassisted) 63
Game #8 04/28/2012 COL 4 vs CHV 0 W Cascio 2 (Rivero 2) 50; Hill 2 (Cummings 1, Cascio 1) 82; Larentowicz 1 (penalty kick) 84; Hill 3 (unassisted) 93+
Game #9 05/02/2012 COL 1 at NE 2 L Castrillon 2 (Rivero 3) 21
Game #10 05/06/2012 COL 2 at DAL 0 W Castrillon 3 (Mullan 2) 61; Rivero 1 (Mullan 3, Hill 1) 74
Game #11 05/16/2012 COL 0 at DC 2 L
SPORTING KANSAS CITY vs COLORADO RAPIDS
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COACheS - ReGULAR SeASON
MLS exPeRIeNCeMLS ReCORD
YeAR wITh TeAMReCORD wITh TeAM
4th season34-31-214th season34-31-21
1st season5-6-0
1st season5-6-0
2012 ReGULAR SeASON TeAM STATS
2012 ReGULAR SeASON INDIvIDUAL LeADeRS
GOALSASSISTSShOTS
ShOTS ON GOALGAMe-wINNING GOALSGAMe-wINNING ASSISTS
fOULS SUffeReDfOULS COMMITTeD
CAUTIONSejeCTIONS
GOALS AGAINST AvGwINS
ShUTOUTSSAveS
Hill/Cummings/Castrillon 3Mullan/Rivero 3
Cummings/Cascio 29 Omar Cummings 13
Tony Cascio 2Mullan/Rivero
Tony Cascio 16Jeff Larentowicz 17Jeff Larentowicz 4Jeff Larentowicz 1
Matt Pickens 1.27 Matt Pickens 5Matt Pickens 4
Matt Pickens 42
No. Pos. Name Pronunciation 1 GK Jimmy Nielsen neel-sen 2 DEF Michael Harrington 3 DEF Korede Aiyegbusi co-red-eh eye-eh-BOO-see 4 DEF Kevin Ellis 5 DEF Matt Besler BEEZ-ler 6 MID Paulo Nagamura POW-lo na-ga-MOO-ra 7 DEF Chance Myers 8 MID Graham Zusi ZOO-see 9 FWD Teal Bunbury BUN-buh-ree 11 MID Bobby Convey CON-vee 12 MID Konrad Warzycha Var-ZEE-hah 13 DEF Lawrence Olum OH-lumm 14 FWD Dom Dwyer 15 MID Roger Espinoza 16 DEF Seth Sinovic sin-OH-vick 17 FWD C.J. Sapong sah-PONG 18 GK Eric Kronberg Krawn-berg 19 MID Peterson Joseph 20 DEF Shawn Singh sing 21 GK Jon Kempin 22 FWD Soony Saad soo-NEE sod 23 FWD Kei Kamara kye kah-MAHR-ah 24 DEF Cyprian Hedrick sip-ree-an HE-drick 32 DEF Luke Sassano sah-SAHN-noh 37 FWD Jacob Peterson 55 DEF Julio Cesar JEW-lee-o SEH-sahr 78 DEF Aurelien Collin au-REEL-ee-en 88 MID Michael Thomas
SPORTING KANSAS CITY ROSTeR
4 Kei Kamara6 Graham Zusi46 Kei Kamara20 Kei Kamara2 Sapong/Kamara4 Graham Zusi23 Kei Kamara18 Kamara/Espinoza3 Collin/Myers1 Roger Espinoza
0.70 Jimmy Nielsen7 Jimmy Nielsen 5 Jimmy Nielsen25 Jimmy Nielsen
As of 5/18/2012:eastern Conf. GP w L T P 1. New York Red Bulls 11 7 3 1 222. Sporting Kansas City 10 7 3 0 213. D.C. United 13 6 4 3 214. Chicago Fire 9 4 2 3 155. New England Revolution 10 4 6 0 126. Houston Dynamo 9 3 3 3 127. Montreal Impact 11 3 5 3 128. Columbus Crew 9 3 4 2 119. Philadelphia Union 9 2 6 1 710. Toronto FC 8 0 8 0 0western Conf. GP w L T P1. Real Salt Lake 13 8 3 2 262. San Jose Earthquakes 11 7 2 2 23 3. Seattle Sounders FC 10 7 2 1 22 4. Vancouver Whitecaps FC 10 5 3 2 175. Colorado Rapids 11 5 6 0 156. FC Dallas 12 3 6 3 127. LA Galaxy 10 3 5 2 118. Chivas USA 10 3 6 1 109. Portland Timbers 10 2 5 3 9
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ON GOAL %fOULS COMMITTeDfOULS SUffeReD
CAUTIONSejeCTIONS
2012 RegulaR season Mls standings
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2012 DIGITAL PROPeRTIeS
OSCAR PARejA
• Colorado striker Kamani Hill played two years at UCLA, the same university that Sporting Kansas City defender Chance Myers attended. Hill was there for the 2004 and 2005 sea-sons while Myers played for the Bruins from 2006-2007.
• Rapids defender Jeff Larentowicz and Sporting KC’s Seth Sinovic both played for the New England Revolution prior to joining their current clubs. Their time spent with New England did not overlap.
• Colorado’s Tyrone Marshall and Sporting Kansas City’s Paulo Nagamura were teammates at the LA Galaxy from 2005-2006.
• RapidsmidfielderPabloMastroeniplayedcollegiatesoccerat NC State. Several years later, Kansas City defender Ko-rede Aiyegbusi also competed for the Wolfpack.
• Rapids defender Drew Moor was teammates with Sporting Kansas City striker Jacob Peterson at Indiana where they led their team to the National Title in 2003 and 2004.
• Colorado’s Brian Mullan played college ball at the University of Creighton, the same school Sporting KC’s Seth Sinovic played collegiate soccer.
• Sporting Kansas City suffered their third loss of the 2012 season on May 12th against the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park. The loss marked the 202nd loss in club history bring-ing Kansas City’s all-time record below .500 at 201-202-100.
• SportingKCstrikerKeiKamararanksfirstintheLeagueforshots on goal with 20 and second in the League for shots with 46, behind Fredy Montero.
• Kei Kamara’s next game-winning assist will move him into a tie for 10th place on the club’s all-time chart, joining Mark Chung, Matt McKeon, and Sasha Victorine.
• Kei Kamara’s next game-winning goal will move him into a tie with Digital Takawira for fourth on the club’s all-time chart.
• Sporting Kansas City’s next successful penalty kick will be the 50th in club history. The club has converted 73% of penalties taken.
• Jimmy Nielsen is third in the League for lowest goals against average this season with 0.70 behind Michael Gspurning and Bill Hamid.
• Nielsen is tied for second among MLS goalkeepers for most wins with 7 behind Nick Rimando’s 8.
• Nielsen is tied with Joe Cannon for most shutouts (5) of any MLS goalkeeper.
• Jimmy Nielsen’s next shutout will move him into sole pos-session of second place on Sporting Kansas City’s all-time goalkeeping chart for clean sheets.
• Nielsen’s next win will tie Kevin Hartman for fourth most by a KC goalkeeper.
• Sporting Kansas City leads the League with 71 corner kicks in 2012.
• Sporting Kansas City has no wins in May in the last three seasons (last May win dates back to May 16, 2009 in a 2-0 win at RSL — a span of 12 straight May matches without a win).
• Graham Zusi’s next game-winning assist will move him into solepossessionoffifthplaceonSportingKansasCity’sall-time chart.
Sporting Kansas City last played the Colorado Rapids on No-vember 2, 2011 in the second leg of a two-legged aggregate goal series during the MLS Cup playoffs. Kansas City won 2-0 on goals from Aurelien Collin and C.J. Sapong in that order.
Both goals came as a result of a feed from Graham Zusi, who becamethefirstplayerinclubhistorytorecordamulti-assistgame in postseason.
Thefirstgoalwasnettedinthe28thminutewhenCollinbeatColorado goalkeeper Matt Pickens to the end of a Zusi free kick. The Frenchman’s header soared past Pickens to give Kansas City the 1-0 advantage. The second goal, also from a Zusi free kick, occurred in the 76th minute, but this time it was the head of Sapong who powerfully placed the ball past Pickens to give Sporting KC the assurance goal moving their lead to two.
Sapong’s goal would be the last of the match, giving Sporting Kansas City the 2-0 victory. The aggregate score of the two game series revealed a 4-0 triumph in favor of Sporting KC after starting the series with a 2-0 win at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, where they will again face the Rapids this Saturday.
BunburyscoredbothgoalsinthefirstlegoftheseriesatDick’sSporting Goods Park.
• SportingKansasCitymidfielderJacobPetersonbeganhisMajor League Soccer career playing for the Colorado Rap-ids in 2006. He spent four seasons in Colorado playing 92 games and scoring eight goals before being traded to To-ronto FC prior to the 2010 season.
• ColoradoRapidsdefenderEddieAbabiomadehisfirstMLSappearance on November 2, 2011 at LIVESTRONG Sport-ingParkasasubstituteintheEasternConferenceSemifi-nals.
• Colorado goalkeeper Matt Pickens was born in Washington, Missouri. Pickens attended Meramec Community College before transferring to Missouri State University to play col-lege soccer from 2000 to 2003.
• Rapids defender Quincy Amarikwa started his MLS career playing for the San Jose Earthquakes in 2009 where he wasteammateswithSportingKansasCitymidfielderBobbyConvey for two seasons.
• ColoradomidfielderDavyArmstrongwasborn inAurora,Colorado while Rapids striker Conor Casey moved to Colo-radoattheageoffiveandconsidersDenverhishometown.SportingKansasCitymidfielderRogerEspinoza,originallyborn in Honduras, moved to the United States when he was 12. Like Casey, he also moved to Denver. Espinoza initially started high school at Denver South (the same high school Casey attended) before transferring to Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora. Espinoza will not be playing in Saturday’s match due to a red card received in last Saturday’s contest at Chicago.
• Colorado’s Omar Cummings and Sporting Kansas City’s Bobby Convey and Matt Besler were teammates together when they played Manchester United as members of the MLS All-Star team at Red Bull Arena.
• Colorado defender Hunter Freeman played for the Houston Dynamo in 2011. Freeman’s 100th MLS appearance was in a 1-1 draw against Kansas City at Robertson Stadium. Ironically, the last game Hunter Freeman appeared in for Houston was a 3-0 loss to Kansas City at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park on September 10, 2011.
• Freeman was teammates with Sporting KC’s Luke Sassano in 2008 when they both played for the New York Red Bulls.
NOTewORThY MILeSTONeS...
2012 MAjOR eveNTS AT LIveSTRONG SPORTING PARK
• Concert: Buzz Beach Ball (June 2, 2012) • Inaugural Kevin Gray Father’s Day 5K Run & Walk and
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KANSAS CITY CONNeCTIONS...
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Results | Sporting Kansas City falls out of the top spot in the East-ernConferencewitharecordof7-3-0(21points)forthefirsttimethis season. The team had a historic start to 2012, garnering seven straight wins to start the season. However, Kansas City lost the last threematchesmarkingthefirsttimeKChaslostthreematchesina row since 2011 on April 30th versus the New York Red Bulls, May 14th to the LA Galaxy and May 21st against the Seattle Sounders.
Kansas City looks to get a result in this weekend’s road match against the Colorado Rapids after tying both matches against the Rapids during the 2011 regular season.
Seth Sinovic | Seth Sinovic missed his second match since earning a spot in the starting XI on May 28, 2011. Sinovic broke his wrist against the Portland Timbers on April 21st. The Creighton product underwent surgery on April 24th and appears to be working his way back into the mix.
Sinovic has practiced for two weeks now, and even played in a Re-serve League match last weekend in which Kansas City earned a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire. Veteran Michael Harrington started for Kansas City against Montreal and Chicago and provides an experi-enced replacement for Sinovic having been in MLS since 2007.
Roger espinoza | Sporting Kansas City’s Roger Espinoza was shown a red card in the 61st minute of last weekend’s loss against the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park. Vermes will have to make an ad-justmenttohisthree-manmidfieldforthesecondtimethisseason.The red card marks the third straight game Kansas City has seen an ejection against the Fire.
In the MLS Reserve League match the following day, Chicago and Sporting KC each earned an additional red card. Sporting KC won theReserveLeaguematch-up3-1attheFire’spracticefield.
Rapids | The Rapids played a midweek match on Wednesday against D.C. United at RFK Stadium. The outcome was a 2-0 loss for Colorado off goals from D.C. United’s Dwayne De Rosario and Hamdi Salihi. Sporting Kansas City also played D.C. on the road this seasonintheirfirstmatchof2012butcamehomefromRFKSta-dium with a 1-0 victory from a Sapong header in the 93+ minute.
executive of the Year | Sporting Club CEO Robb Heineman was named 2012 Executive of the Year by TheStadiumBusiness Awards. The award ceremony was held in Turin, Italy last Tuesday. Heine-man, Cliff Illig and Mike Illig attended the Ceremony.
Executive of the Year is awarded to a sports venue leader, pioneer or
visionary that has over-delivered in the past 12 months. Heineman was recently chosen as one of the most promising young executives in sports business under the age of 40 by SportsBusiness Journal at the organization’s Forty Under 40 Awards gala in March.
venue of the Year | LIVESTRONG Sporting Park won TheSta-diumBusiness Awards for Venue of the Year for the world’s best stadium, arena or sports venue – from the small club to the mega-capacity national sports facilities. The $200+ million venue was up against competition from four different continents.
Other nominees for Venue of the Year included the site of the 2012 NBA All-Star Game (Amway Center) and 2011 Rugby World Cup (Forsyth Barr Stadium), as well as the home of Brighton & Hove Albion FC (The American Express Community Stadium).
The club’s state-of-the-art facility, opened to rave reviews in June 2011, has already hosted the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams, along with the English Premier League’s Newcastle United FC and Mexico’s Club Deportivo Guadalajara. The stadium was se-lected to host the group stage of the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup andservedasthesiteforthesemifinalsandchampionshipmatchesof the CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in April of 2012. The stadium is set to host Stoke City FC of the Barclay’s Pre-mier League in August.
LIVESTRONG Sporting Park also won the Community Award for a stadium, arena and major sports complex that has found new ways to support, enhance and improve its local community.
Product Innovation Award | With a unique vision and expertise in technology, Sporting Kansas City launched Sporting Innovations in October of 2011. Sporting Innovations (SI) is a sports technol-ogy company focused on developing and deploying next-generation technology to support the sports industry, and its fans. Sporting Innovations won the Product Innovation Award for their FAN360 Application. FAN360 is a real time delivery of interactive experiences by injection of sociographic data to create social intelligence and facilitate engagement.
Sports Team of the Year | Sporting Kansas City has been nomi-nated by the 2012 SportsBusiness Awards for Sports Team of the Year. In addition, LIVESTRONG Sporting Park received nomination for Sports Facility of the Year. The winners of Street and Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal 2012 awards will be announced on May 23, 2012 at the New York Marriott Marquis at Times Square.
2012 ReGULAR SeASON TeAM STATS
SPORTING KANSAS CITY NewS, NOTeS AND heADLINeS
SCORING 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 6 7 13OPP. 3 4 7
fOULS 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 60 67 127OPP. 66 61 127
CAUTIONS 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 9 8 17OPP. 8 10 18
ShOTS 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 65 94 159OPP. 38 63 101
SOG 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 22 27 49OPP. 7 19 26
OffSIDeS 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 6 10 16OPP. 15 18 33
ejeCTIONS 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 0 1 1OPP. 1 0 1
CORNeRS 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 39 32 71OPP. 11 25 36
PK 1 2 TOTALSPORTING 1 0 1OPP. 0 2 2
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ALL-TIMe ReGULAR SeASON GAMe hIGhS
GOALSASSISTSShOTS
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SAveSGOALS ALLOweD
2 8 Players Tied3 Preki9 Onandi Lowe4 9 Players Tied 7 Chris Henderson7 3 Players Tied
9 Bo Oshoniyi4 Mike Ammann
7 Players Tied 24 Players Tied 2
Mark Chung 8John Spencer 5
Chris Martinez 7Henderson/Beckerman 6
4 Players Tied 9Grafer/Kramer 5
SPORTING KANSAS CITY Category 1 2 OT Tot.Goals 30 53 0 83Shots 290 385 7 682Shots on Goal 129 175 3 307Fouls 316 313 12 641Offsides 81 77 0 158Corner Kicks 108 123 3 234
Category 1 2 OT Tot. Goals 28 37 0 65Shots 278 341 9 628Shots on Goal 107 125 2 234Fouls 346 375 8 729Offsides 73 61 2 136Corner Kicks 134 133 8 275
Date Score Result Location4/13/1996 3-0 W Arrowhead Stadium5/5/1996 0-4 L Mile High Stadium7/10/1996 2-0 W Arrowhead Stadium8/7/1996 2-4 L Mile High Stadium6/28/1997 3-3 SOW Mile High Stadium8/28/1997 1-0 W Arrowhead Stadium9/6/1997 2-1 W Mile High Stadium9/26/1997 5-2 W Arrowhead Stadium5/31/1998 1-2 L Mile High Stadium7/19/1998 4-1 W Arrowhead Stadium8/8/1998 3-1 W Arrowhead Stadium9/2/1998 2-3 L Mile High Stadium4/17/1999 1-1 SOL Mile High Stadium7/7/1999 1-2 L Arrowhead Stadium9/10/1999 0-0 SOL Mile High Stadium9/25/1999 0-0 SOL Arrowhead Stadium4/1/2000 3-0 W Arrowhead Stadium4/29/2000 5-0 W Mile High Stadium8/2/2000 3-1 W Arrowhead Stadium8/26/2000 1-1 T (2OT) Mile High Stadium7/18/2001 0-0 T (2OT) Mile High Stadium8/12/2001 2-2 T (2OT) Mile High Stadium8/19/2001 3-2 W Arrowhead Stadium3/23/2002 1-1 T (2OT) Arrowhead Stadium5/11/2002 0-2 L Invesco Field at Mile High9/14/2002 1-2 L Arrowhead Stadium9/20/2002 1-1 T (2OT) Invesco Field at Mile High7/4/2003 2-3 L Invesco Field at Mile High8/22/2003 2-2 T (2OT) Arrowhead Stadium9/13/2003 0-1 L Invesco Field at Mile High10/4/2003 4-2 W Arrowhead Stadium5/1/2004 2-0 W Arrowhead Stadium6/9/2004 1-0 W Invesco Field at Mile High9/10/2004 1-3 L Invesco Field at Mile High9/25/2004 1-0 W Arrowhead Stadium4/2/2005 3-2 W Arrowhead Stadium7/4/2005 1-2 L Invesco Field at Mile High7/8/2006 0-1 L Invesco Field at Mile High9/9/2006 4-1 W Arrowhead Stadium5/19/2007 1-1 T Dick’s Sporting Goods Park7/22/2007 2-2 T Arrowhead Stadium4/5/2008 3-2 W CommunityAmerica Ballpark8/16/2008 1-2 L Dick’s Sporting Goods Park3/28/2009 1-2 L Dick’s Sporting Goods Park9/26/2009 0-0 T CommunityAmerica Ballpark4/10/2010 1-0 W CommunityAmerica Ballpark7/17/2010 1-1 T Dick’s Sporting Goods Park5/28/2011 1-1 T Dick’s Sporting Goods Park7/6/2011 1-1 T LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
ALL-TIMe ReGULAR SeASON ReSULTS
GOALS SCOReD IN SeRIeS BY INTeRvAL 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90 OT Tot.KC 4 12 14 20 10 23 0 83 CHI 8 10 10 12 8 17 0 65
ALL-TIMe ReGULAR SeASON SeRIeS STATS
ALL-TIMe ReGULAR SeASON SeRIeS LeADeRS
John Spencer 8Chris Henderson 7
John Spencer 53John Spencer 29
Pablo Mastroeni 35Chris Henderson 36
4 Players Tied 3 Cannon/Hahnemann 5
Scott Garlick 3Marcus Hahnemann 44
Marcus Hahnemann 17
GOALSASSISTSShOTS
ShOTS ON GOALfOULS COMMITTeDfOULS SUffeReD
wINSLOSSeS
ShUTOUTS SAveS
GOALS ALLOweD
9 Klein/Preki16 Preki83 Preki35 Preki34 McKeon/Zavagnin47 Kerry Zavagnin
7 Tony Meola5 Tony Meola6 Tony Meola65 Tony Meola18 Tony Meola
SPORTING KANSAS CITY
SPORTING KANSAS CITY
Date Score Result Location10/4/1997 0-3 L Arrowhead Stadium10/8/1997 2-3 L Mile High Stadium9/16/2000 1-0 W Arrowhead Stadium9/20/2000 0-0 T (2OT) Mile High Stadium9/24/2000 3-2 W Arrowhead Stadium11/4/2003 1-1 T Invesco Field at Mile High11/8/2003 2-0 W Arrowhead Stadium10/30/2011 2-0 W Dick’s Sporting Goods Park11/2/2011 2-0 W LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
ALL-TIMe POST SeASON ReSULTS
COLORADO RAPIDS
COLORADO RAPIDS
COLORADO RAPIDS
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Sat., March 17th 3-0 W vs. New England 19,777Sun., March 25th 2-1 W vs. FC Dallas 15,161 Sat., April 7th 1-0 W vs. Los Angeles Galaxy 20,323Sat., April 14th 1-0 W vs. Real Salt Lake 19,422 Sat., May 5th 1-0 L vs. Montreal Impact 20,404
2012 hOMe ATTeNDANCe
SPORTING KANSAS CITY ReGULAR SeASON LeAGUe LeADeRS
GOALKeePeR ShUTOUTS PLAYER TEAM GP SHO 1. jimmy Nielsen KC 10 51. Joe Cannon VAN 10 53. Tally Hall HOU 9 43. Matt Pickens COL 11 43. Nick Rimando RSL 12 4
PLAYER TEAM GP G1. Chris Wondolowski SJ 11 112. Kenny Cooper NY 11 92. Thierry Henry NY 8 94. Maicon Santos DC 12 65. Chris Pontius DC 12 56. Kei Kamara KC 10 46. Sear Sene NE 9 46. Will Bruin HOU 6 46. Dominic Oduro CHI 9 46. Fabian Espindola RSL 11 46. Alvaro Saborio RSL 13 46. Steven Lenhart SJ 9 46. David Estrada SEA 10 4
PLAYER TEAM GP SH1. Fredy Montero SEA 10 48 2. Kei Kamara KC 10 463. Chris Wondolowski SJ 11 444. Maicon Santos DC 12 425. Dwayne De Rosario DC 13 386. Thierry Henry NY 8 347. Kenny Cooper NY 11 32
PLAYER TEAM GP A1. Dwayne De Rosario DC 13 72. Graham Zusi KC 10 63. Steven Beitashour SJ 11 53. Thierry Henry NY 8 55. Marvin Chavez SJ 9 45. Roy Miller NY 8 46. 11 players tied with 3...
GAMe-wINNING GOALS
PLAYER TEAM GP GWG1. Kenny Cooper NY 11 41. Chris Wondolowski SJ 11 43. Chris Pontius DC 12 34. Kei Kamara KC 10 24. C.j. Sapong KC 10 24. Alvaro Saborio RSL 13 24. Brad Davis HOU 7 24. David Estrada SEA 10 24. Dominic Oduro CHI 9 24. Eddie Johnson SEA 7 24. Fabian Espindola RSL 11 24. Saer Sene NE 9 24. Thierry Henry NY 8 24. Tony Cascio COL 11 2
SAveS PLAYER TEAM GP SV1. Matt Pickens COL 11 42 2. Ryan Meara NY 11 413. Dan Kennedy CHV 10 38 4. Matt Reis NE 10 375. Donovan Ricketts MTL 11 365. Nick Rimando RSL 12 367. Andy Gruenebaum CLB 9 327. Troy Perkins POR 10 32
GAMe-wINNING ASSISTS PLAYER TEAM GP GWA1. Graham Zusi KC 10 42. Steven Beitashour SJ 11 22. Javier Morales RSL 10 22. Brian Mullan COL 11 22. Blas Perez DAL 10 22. Martin Rivero COL 7 27. Kei Kamara KC 8 17. Chance Myers KC 8 17. Bobby Convey KC 8 17. 53 others tied with 1...
PLAYER TEAM GP SOG1. Kei Kamara KC 10 202. Thierry Henry NY 8 192. Chris Wondolowski SJ 11 194. Kenny Cooper NY 11 175. Will Bruin HOU 9 165. Fredy Montero SEA 10 167. Robbie Keane LA 9 147. Saer Sene NE 9 14
ASSISTS GOALS
GOALKeePeR wINS PLAYER TEAM GP W1. Nick Rimando RSL 12 82. jimmy Nielsen KC 10 72. Jon Busch SJ 11 72. Ryan Meara NY 11 75. Michael Gspurning SEA 7 55. Matt Pickens COL 11 57. Joe Cannon VAN 10 47. Matt Reis NE 10 47. Joe Willis DC 9 48. 7 players tied with 3...
ShOTS ON GOAL
ShOTS
MULTI-GOAL GAMeS PLAYER TEAM GP GAMES1. Thierry Henry NY 8 31. Chris Wondolowski SJ 11 33. Kenny Cooper NY 11 23. Maicon Santos DC 12 23. Steven Lenhart SJ 9 2
hAT TRICKS PLAYER TEAM GP HATS1. David Estrada SEA 10 11. Thierry Henry NY 8 11. Chris Pontius DC 12 1
CORNeR KICKS PLAYER TEAM GP CK1. David Beckham LA 8 422. Graham Zusi KC 10 413. Nick DeLeon DC 9 354. Brad Davis HOU 7 324. Martin Rivero COL 7 326. Bobby Convey KC 10 267. Javier Morales RSL 10 258. Freddy Adu PHI 6 248. Danielle Hernandez DAL 10 24 8. Felipe Martins MTL 11 24
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DATe OPPONeNT GOAL SCOReRSSat., March 10th 1-0 W @ D.C. United SapongSat., March 17th 3-0 W vs. New England Zusi/Kamara/SapongSun., March 25th 2-1 W vs. FC Dallas Collin/KamaraSun., April 1st 1-0 W @Chivas USA SapongSat., April 7th 1-0 W vs. Los Angeles Galaxy KamaraSat., April 14th 1-0 W vs. Real Salt Lake CollinWed., April 18th 3-1 W @Vancouver Whitecaps FC Collin/OG/KamaraSat., April 21st 1-0 L @Portland Timbers OGSat., May 5th 1-0 L vs. Montreal Impact NoneSat., May 12th 2-1 L @Chicago Fire ConveySat., May 19th @Colorado RapidsSun., May 27th vs. San jose earthquakesSun., May 29th U.S. Open Cup @ LIVESTRONG Sporting ParkSat., june 16th vs. Toronto fCWed., June 20th @Seattle SoundersSat., June 23rd @Philadelphia Unionfri., june 29th vs. Chicago fireWed., July 4th @Montreal ImpactSat., july 7th vs. houston DynamoSat., July 14th @Columbus CrewWed., July 18th @Houston DynamoSat., july 21st vs. New england RevolutionSat., july 28th vs. Columbus CrewSat., August 4th @New England RevolutionSat., Aug. 11th vs. D.C. UnitedSat., August 18th @Toronto FCSun., Aug. 26th vs. New York Red BullsSat., Sept. 1st vs. Toronto fCfri., Sept. 14th vs. houston DynamoWed., Sept. 19th @New York Red BullsSat., Sept. 22nd @Montreal Impactfri., Sept. 28th vs. Chicago fireSun., October 7th @Columbus CrewSat., October 20th @New York Red Bullswed., Oct. 24th vs. Philadelphia Union
SPORTING KANSAS CITY (1-0-0) VS D.C. UNITED (0-1-0)DATE: March 10, 2012 -- RFK Stadium
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot D.C. United 0 0 0Sporting Kansas City 0 1 1
Scoring Summary:KC--Sapong 1 (Zusi 1) 93+
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: Teal Bunbury DC: Cautions: John Lozano
Stats Sporting Kansas City DC UnitedTOTAL SHOTS: 17 (Kamara 6) 7 (De Rosario/Salihi/Santos)SHOTS ON GOAL: 8 (Kamara 3) 1 (Santos 1)FOULS: 16 (4 tied with 3) 12 (Boskovic/Woolard 2)OFFSIDE: 0 3CORNER KICKS: 5 3SAVES: Nielsen 1 Hammid 7
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi, Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 85), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar, Teal Bunbury (C.J. Sapong 75).
D.C. UNITED--Bill Hamid, Robbie Russell, Daniel Woolard, Brandon Mc-Donald, Dejan Jakovic, Andy Najar, Chris Pontius (Danny Cruz 74), Perry Kitchen, Branko Boskovic (Josh Wolff 66), Dwayne De Rosario, Hamdi Salihi (Maicon Santos 80).
Referee: Mark GeigerReferee’s Assistants: Sean Hurd, Steven Taylor4thOfficial:MarkKadlecik.Attendance: 16, 314.Temperature: 44.
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION (0-2-0) VS SPORTING KANSAS CITY (2-0-0)DATE: March 17, 2012 -- LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot New England Revolution 0 0 0Sporting Kansas City 2 1 3
Scoring Summary:KC--Zusi 1 (Kamara 1) 28KC--Kamara 1 (unassisted) 39KC--Sapong 2 (Sinovic 1, Zusi 2) 47
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: Zusi 28, Myers 45NE: Ejections: McCarthy 14
Stats Sporting Kansas City New EnglandTOTAL SHOTS: 27 (Kamara 7) 11 (Nguyen/Simms 3)SHOTS ON GOAL: 7 (Kamara/Sapong 3) 6 (Guy 2)FOULS: 12 (Myers 3) 10 (Sene 2)OFFSIDE: 4 2CORNER KICKS: 4 1SAVES: Nielsen 6 Reis 4
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION--Matt Reis, Kevin Alston, Chris Tierney, A.J. Soares, Stephen McCarthy (Ejected 14), Benny Feilhaber (Jeremiah White 61), Clyde Simms, Shalrie Joseph, Lee Nguyen, Kelyn Rowe (Ryan Guy 45), Saer Sene (Diego Fagundez 57).
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin (Lawrence Olum 59), Matt Besler, Graham Zusi (Paulo Nagamura 57), Bobby Convey, Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar (Luke Sassano 76), C.J. Sapong.
Referee: Silviu PetrescuReferee’s Assistants: Philippe Briere, Corey Parker4thOfficial:DavidGantar.Attendance: 19,777.Temperature: 74 and Cloudy.
2012 Schedule and Box Scores
FC DALLAS (1-1-1) VS SPORTING KANSAS CITY (3-0-0)DATE: March 25, 2012 -- LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot FC Dallas 1 0 1Sporting Kansas City 1 1 2
Scoring Summary:DAL--Ricardo Villar 2 (free kick) 25KC--Collin 1 (Zusi 3) 49+KC--Kamara 2 (Myers 1, Zusi 4) 88
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: Collin 32, Myers 36, Espinoza 93+DAL: Cautions: D. Hernandez 49+
Stats Sporting Kansas City FC DallasTOTAL SHOTS: 18 (Kamara 11) 8 (Villar 2)SHOTS ON GOAL: 9 (Kamara 5) 1 (Villar 1)FOULS: 15 (Myers 4) 11 (4 Tied with 2)OFFSIDE: 1 0CORNER KICKS: 7 5SAVES: N/A Hartman 7
FC DALLAS--Kevin Hartman, Zach Loyd, Hernan Pertuz, George John, Ugo Ihemelu, Bryan Leyva (Andrew Wiedeman 70), Daniel Hernandez, Jair Benitez, Ricardo Villar (Bobby Warshaw 45, Luis Perea 90), Andrew Jacobson, Blas Perez.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi (Lawrence Olum 91+), Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 93+), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar, C.J. Sapong.
Referee: Abiodun OkulajaReferee’s Assistants: Frank Anderson, Peter Balciunas4thOfficial:YaderReyes.Attendance: 15,161.Temperature: 81 and Sunny.
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SPORTING KANSAS CITY (4-0-0) VS CHIVAS USA (1-3-0)DATE: April 1, 2012 -- The Home Depot Center
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot Chivas USA 0 0 0Sporting Kansas City 0 1 1
Scoring Summary:KC--Sapong 3 (Zusi 5) 47
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: Sinovic 34CHV: Cautions: Rauwshan McKenzie 84
Stats Sporting Kansas City Chivas USATOTAL SHOTS: 19 (Kamara 4) 6 (3 Tied with 2)SHOTS ON GOAL: 6 (Sapong 3) 0 (26 Tied with 0)FOULS: 15 (Myers 4) 11 (Minda 3)OFFSIDE: 0 3CORNER KICKS: 7 1SAVES: N/A Kennedy 4
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi (Paulo Nagamura 89), Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 73), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar, C.J. Sapong (Teal Bunbury 72).
CHIVAS USA--Dan Kennedy, James Riley, Ante Jazic (Cesar Romero 80), Heath Pearce, Rauwshan McKenzie, Ryan Smith, Laurent Courtois, Os-waldo Minda, Nick LaBrocca, Alejandro Moreno (Miller Bolanos 72), Casey Townsend.
Referee: Edvin JurisevicReferee’s Assistants: Anthony Vasoli, Frank Anderson4thOfficial:AllenChapman.Attendance: 13,372.Temperature: 64 and Clear.
2012 Box Scores
LA GALAXY (1-3-0) VS SPORTING KANSAS CITY (5-0-0)DATE: April 7, 2012 -- LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot LA Galaxy 0 0 0Sporting Kansas City 1 0 1
Scoring Summary:KC--Kamara 3 (Convey 1) 40
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: None.LA: Cautions: Donovan
Stats Sporting Kansas City LA GalaxyTOTAL SHOTS: 14 (Espinoza/Zusi 3) 4 (Magee 3)SHOTS ON GOAL: 4 (Kamara 2) 0 (31 Tied with 0)FOULS: 9 (Kamara 5) 12 (Donovan 4)OFFSIDE: 2 1CORNER KICKS: 7 2SAVES: N/A Saunders 3
LA GALAXY--Josh Saunders, Sean Franklin, Todd Dunivant, Tommy Meyer, A.J. DeLaGarza, Landon Donovan, Mike Magee, Michael Stephens (Mar-celo Sarvas 77), Juninho (Kyle Nakazawa 72), Edson Buddle (Chad Barrett 56), Robbie Keane.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi, Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 69), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar (Paulo Nagamura 78), C.J. Sapong (Teal Bunbury 87).
Referee: Jorge GonzalezReferee’s Assistants: Adam Wienckowski, Brian Poeschel4thOfficial:MichaelKennedy.Attendance: 20,323.Temperature: 60 and Cloudy.
REAL SALT LAKE (5-2-0) VS SPORTING KANSAS CITY (6-0-0)DATE: April 14, 2012 -- LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot Real Salt Lake 0 0 0Sporting Kansas City 0 1 1
Scoring Summary:KC--Collin 2 (Zusi 6) 63
Misconduct Summary:RSL: Cautions: Johnson 51KC: Cautions: Nagamura 76RSL: Cautions: Steele 78
Stats Sporting Kansas City Real Salt LakeTOTAL SHOTS: 10 (Kamara/Sapong 3) 10 (Espindola 3)SHOTS ON GOAL: 3 (3 Tied with 1) 1 (Borchers 1)FOULS: 13 (Espinoza 4) 14 (Espindola/Steele 3)OFFSIDE: 0 2CORNER KICKS: 11 4SAVES: Nielsen 1 Rimando 2
REAL SALT LAKE--Nick Rimando, Tony Beltran, Chris Wingert, Jamison Olave, Nat Borchers, Will Johnson, Luis Gil (Paulo Junior 76), Kyle Becker-man, Sebastian Velasquez (Jonny Steele 63), Fabian Espindola, Alvaro Saborio.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic (Michael Harrington 89), Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi, Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 82), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar (Paulo Nagamura 51), C.J. Sapong.
Referee: Kevin StottReferee’s Assistants: Adam Wienckowski, Brian Poeschel4thOfficial:TylerPloeger.Attendance: 19,422.Temperature: 72 and Cloudy.
SPORTING KANSAS CITY (7-0-0) VS VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC (2-2-2)DATE: April 18, 2012 -- BC Place Stadium
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot Sporting Kansas City 1 2 3Vancouver Whitecaps FC 0 1 1
Scoring Summary:KC--Collin 3 (unassisted) 24KC--own goal (Bonjour) 51KC--Kamara 4 (Myers 2) 65VAN--Le Toux 3 (unassisted) 79
Misconduct Summary:VAN: Cautions: Hassli 6KC: Cautions: Collin 18KC: Cautions: Nagamura 38VAN: Cautions: DeMerit 67
Stats Sporting Kansas City VancouverTOTAL SHOTS: 8 (Kamara 3) 19 (da Silva 5)SHOTS ON GOAL: 2 (Kamara/Collin 1) 7 (da Silva 3)FOULS: 14 (Espinoza 4) 13 (Hassli 4)OFFSIDE: 3 6CORNER KICKS: 4 5SAVES: Nielsen 6 None
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi, Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 52), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Paulo Nagamura (Lawrence Olum 77), C.J. Sapong (Teal Bunbury 62).
VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC--Joe Cannon, Lee Young-Pyo, Jordan Harvey, Jay DeMerit, Martin Bonjour (Long Tan 87), Atiba Harris (Omar Salgado 79), DavideChiumiento,GershonKoffie,JohnThorrington(Camilo60),SebastienLe Toux, Eric Hassli.
Referee: Baldomero ToledoReferee’s Assistants: Ian Anderson, Kevin Duliba4thOfficial:AlejandroMariscal.Attendance: 15,382.Temperature: 52 and Clear.
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SPORTING KANSAS CITY (7-1-0) VS PORTLAND TIMBERS (2-4-1)DATE: April 21, 2012 -- Jeld-Wen Field
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot Sporting Kansas City 0 0 0Portland Timbers 1 0 1
Scoring Summary:POR--own goal (Myers) 41
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: Collin 66KC: Cauitons: Besler 88POR: Cautions: Purdy 22POR: Cautions: Palmer 44POR: Cautions: Boyd 81
Stats Sporting Kansas City Portland TimbersTOTAL SHOTS: 16 (Kamara/Sapong 4) 12 (Boyd 4)SHOTS ON GOAL: 2 (Kamara 2) 2 (Boyd/Brunner 1)FOULS: 12 (Collin 3) 16 (Chabala/Chara 3)OFFSIDE: 1 5CORNER KICKS: 7 7SAVES: Nielsen 2 Perkins 2
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi, Bobby Convey (Teal Bunbury 71), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar (Paulo Nagamura 76), C.J. Sapong.
PORTLAND TIMBERS--Troy Perkins, Steve Purdy (Freddie Braun 78), Mike Chabala, Hanyer Mosquera, Eric Brunner, Darlington Nagbe (Franck Songo’o 89), Diego Chara, Lovel Palmer, Jack Jewsbury, Jorge Perlaza (Eric Alexander 84), Kris Boyd.
Referee: Hilario GrajedaReferee’s Assistants: Kermit Quisenberry, Paul Scott4thOfficial:SorinStoica.Attendance: 20,438.Temperature: 73 and Sunny.
MONTREAL IMPACT (3-5-2) VS SPORTING KANSAS CITY (7-2-0)DATE: May 5, 2012 -- LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot Sporting Kansas City 0 0 0Montreal Impact 1 1 2
Scoring Summary:MTL--Felipe Martins 1 (Braun 1) 30MTL--Bernier 1 (penalty kick) 64
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: Cesar 35MON: Cautions: Rivas 36MON: Cautions: Bernier 45MON: Cautions: Ubiparipovic 53MON: Cautions: Wahl 77
Stats Sporting Kansas City Montreal ImpactTOTAL SHOTS: 22 (Kamara/Zusi 5) 6 (Rivas 2)SHOTS ON GOAL: 4 (4 Tied with 1) 2 (Bernier/Martins)FOULS: 9 (Collin 2) 15 (Martins 5)OFFSIDE: 4 5CORNER KICKS: 11 1SAVES: N/A Ricketts 4
MONTREAL IMPACT--Donovan Ricketts, Jeb Brovsky, Tyson Wahl, Nelson Rivas(Matteo Ferrari 62), Hassoun Camara, Sinisa Ubiparipovic (Andrew Wenger 84), Lamar Neagle, Felipe Martins, Patrice Bernier, Justin Braun, Eduardo Sebrango (Davy Arnaud 70).
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Michael Harrington, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Graham Zusi, Julio Cesar (Paulo Nagamura 79), Roger Espinoza, Kei Kamara, C.J. Sapong (Teal Bunbury 66), Bobby Convey.
Referee: Juan GuzmanReferee’s Assistants: Brian Poeschel, Jonathan Johnson4thOfficial:JorgeLunaHernandez.Attendance: 20,404.Temperature: 86 and Sunny.
2012 Box Scores
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SPORTING KANSAS CITY (7-3-0) VS CHICAGO FIRE (4-2-3)DATE: May 12, 2012 -- Toyota Park
Goals by Period 1 2 Tot Sporting Kansas City 1 0 1Chicago Fire 0 2 2
Scoring Summary:KC--Convey 1 (Espinoza 1, Kamara 2) 31CHI--Grazzini 1 (penalty kick) 61CHI--Oduro 4 (Nyarko 2) 81
Misconduct Summary:KC: Cautions: Cesar 4CHI: Cautions: Pardo 38CHI: Segares 40KC: Cautions: Myers 57KC: Cautions: Kamara 93+KC: Ejections: Espinoza 62CHI: Cautions: Puppo 79
Stats Sporting Kansas City Chicago TOTAL SHOTS: 8 (Espinoza 3) 18 (Pappa 6)SHOTS ON GOAL: 4 (Espinoza 2) 6 (Pappa 2)FOULS: 12 (4 Tied with 2) 13 (Segares 4)OFFSIDE: 1 6CORNER KICKS: 8 6SAVES: Nielsen 4 Johnson 3
SPORTING KANSAS CITY--Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers, Michael Harrington, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler (Lawrence Olum 88), Graham Zusi, Bobby Convey (Jacob Peterson 78), Roger Espinoza (Ejected 62), Kei Kamara, Julio Cesar, C.J. Sapong (Teal Bunbury 74).
CHICAGO FIRE--Sean Johnson, Jalil Anibaba, Gonzalo Segares, Arne Friedrich (Dan Gargan 29), Austin Berry, Logan Pause (Rafael Robayo 71), Pavel Pardo, Sebastian Grazzini (Federico Puppo 80), Marco Pappa, Patrick Nyarko, Dominic Oduro.
Referee: Jose Carlos RiveroReferee’s Assistants: Ian Anderson, Chris Strickland4thOfficial:TerryVaughn.Attendance: 14,159.Temperature: 53 and Overcast.
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24, Aurelien Collin, 4/18 at VAN
25, Ricardo Villar, 3/25 vs DAL
93+, C.J. Sapong, 3/10 at DC88, Kei Kamara, 3/25 vs DAL
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81, Dominic Oduro, 5/12 at CHI
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51, Martin Bonjour, 4/18 at VAN
41, Chance Myers, 4/21 at POR
62, Roger Espinoza, 5/12 at CHI
14, Stephen McCarthy, 3/17 vs NE
50, Saved, Kei Kamara, 3/25 vs DAL
64, Goal, Patrice Bernier, 5/5 vs MON 61, Goal, Sebastian Grazzini, 5/12 vs CHI
23y74d, C.J. Sapong, 3/10 at DC
28y351d, Bobby Convey, 5/12 at CHI
22y12d, Teal Bunbury, 3/10 at DC
34y280d, Jimmy Nielsen, 5/12 vs CHI
SKC Miscellaneous Stats - 2012 Regular Season2012 Record When…• Scoringfirstgoal:6-1-0• Concedingfirstgoal:1-2-0• Leading at halftime: 3-1-0• Tied at halftime: 4-0-0• Trailing at halftime: 0-2-0 0 goals scored: 0-2-0 1 goal scored: 4-1-0 2 goals scored: 1-0-0 3 goals scored: 2-0-0 4+ goals scored: N/A 0 goals allowed: 5-0-0 1 goal allowed: 2-1-0 2 goals allowed: 0-2-0 3 goals allowed: N/A 4+ goals allowed: N/A• Wearing Sporting Blue: 6-2-0• Wearing Dark indigo: 1-1-0• Leading at 75’ 5-0-0• Tied at 75’ 2-1-0• Trailing at 75’ 0-2-0• Outshooting opponent 6-1-0• Outshot by opponent 1-1-0• Shots even 1-0-0• One-goal games 5-2-0• On ESPN 1-0-0• On NBCSN N/A• On KCTV5 N/A• On KSMO-TV 6-3-0• Day games (before 5pm)
1-0-0• Games 5pm or later: 6-3-0• With red card received… 0-1-0• With red card against… 1-0-0• Temperature 75 & up… 1-1-0• Temperature below 75… 6-2-0• InPacifictimezone…2-1-0• In Mountain time zone… N/A• In Central time zone… 4-2-0• In Eastern time zone… 1-0-0• vs. Eastern Conference 2-2-0• vs. Western Conference 5-1-0• On grass… 6-2-0• On turf… 1-1-0
Home and Away...• Overall All-time: 201-202-100• 2012 At home: 4-1-0• All-time at home: 135-73-43• 2012 On road: 3-2-0• All-time on road: 66-129-57
Record By Month.. March 2012: 3-0-0 March all-time: 8-6-1 April 2012: 4-1-0 April all-time: 35-27-11 May 2012: 0-2-0 May all-time: 25-35-16 June 2012: N/A June all-time: 32-25-19 July 2012: N/A July all-time: 35-29-20 Aug. 2012: N/A Aug. all-time: 31-39-12 Sept. 2012: N/A Sept. all-time: 22-31-11 Oct. 2012: N/A Oct. all-time: 13-10-10
Team-by-team (in 2012)...• vs. Chicago: 10-22-9 (0-1-0)• vs. Chivas USA: 7-4-4 (1-0-0)• vs. Colorado Rapids: 20-17-12
(0-0-0)• vs. Columbus Crew: 18-20-5
(0-0-0)• vs. D.C. United: 17-18-9
(1-0-0)• vs. FC Dallas: 20-19-8 (1-0-0)• vs. Houston Dynamo: 3-5-4
(0-0-0)• vs. LA Galaxy: 18-22-11 (1-
0-0)• vs. Miami Fusion: 3-4-1• vs. Montreal Impact: 0-1-0
(0-1-0)• vs. N.E. Revolution: 20-13-9
(1-0-0)• vs. New York Red Bulls: 17-
17-9 (0-0-0)• vs. Philadelphia Union: 1-0-3
(0-0-0)• vs. Portland Timbers: 2-1-0
(0-1-0)• vs. Real Salt Lake: 7-5-3
(1-0-0)• vs. SJ Earthquakes: 19-20-7
(0-0-0)• vs. Seattle Sounders FC: 1-5-0
(0-0-0)• vs. Tampa Bay Mutiny: 10-6-1• vs. Toronto FC: 5-3-4 (0-0-0)• vs. Vancouver Whitecaps 1-0-
1 (1-0-0)
SKC Regular Season Record Breakdown
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#3 | D | Korede AiyegbusiHt: 5-5 Wt. 155 DOB: 7/15/1988Hometown: London, UKCollege: North Carolina StateAcquired: ‘10 MLS SuperDraft 2nd Round(#20)
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals N/AAssists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed 1, 4 times, last: April 30, 2011, KC at NYFouls Suffered 1, June 10, 2010, KC vs PHILast..Appearance August 17, 2011, KC vs PORGoal N/AAssit: N/A 2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
MINI BIOSCOACHING STAFF
Peter VermesManager
Kerry ZavagninAssistant Coach
Zoran SavicAssistant Coach
John PascarellaGoalkeeping Coach
Mateus ManoelFitness Coach
#9 | F | Teal BunburyHt: 6-2 Wt. 175 DOB: 2/17/1990Hometown: Prior Lake, MNCollege: AkronAcquired: ‘10 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#4)
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 2, 2 times, last: Sept. 10, 2011, KC vs HOUAssists 1, 5 times, last: Aug. 27, 2011, KC vs DALShots on Goal 4, 2 times, last: Oct. 1, 2011, KC at SJShots 7, 2 times, last: Oct. 1, 2011, KC at SJFouls Committed 7, August 27, 2011, KC vs DALFouls Suffered 5, Oct. 16, 2010, KC at NELast..Appearance May 12, 2012 KC at CHIGoal Oct. 30, 2011, KC at COLAssist Aug. 27, 2011, KC vs DAL2012 Record when: he starts 1-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#5 | D | Matt BeslerHt: 6-0 Wt. 170 DOB: 2/11/1987Hometown: Overland Park, KSCollege: Notre DameAcquired: ‘09 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#8)
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 2 times, last: Oct. 22, 2011, KC at DCAssists 1, 2 times, last: August 6, 2011, KC vs SEAShots on Goal 2, Oct. 9, 2010, KC vs SEAShots 2, 2 times, last: July 16, 2011, KC at HOU Fouls Committed 3, Mar. 27, 2010, KC vs DCFouls Suffered 4, Sept. 26, 2009, KC vs COLLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal Oct. 22, 2011, KC at DCAssist Aug. 6, 2011, KC vs SEA2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 0-0-0
#55 | D | Julio CesarHt: 6-1 Wt. 170 DOB: 11/18/1978Hometown: Sao Luis, Maranhao, BrazilLast Club: Maritimo Funchal (Portugal)Acquired: Signed as Discovery on 3/14/11
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 1, 2 times, last: Sept. 5, 2011, KC vs LAAssists 1, 2 times, last: Oct. 15, 2011, KC vs NYShots on Goal 1, 5 times, last: April 1, 2012, KC at CHVShots 2, 2 times, last: April 1, 2012, KC at CHVFouls Committed 3, 4 times, last: Oct. 22, 2011, KC at DCFouls Suffered 3, 2 times, last: Oct. 1, 2011, KC at SJLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal Sept. 5, 2011, KC vs LAAssist Oct. 30, 2011, KC at COL2012 Record when: he starts 6-3-0 he scores 0-0-0
#55 | D | Aurelien CollinHt: 6-2 Wt. 169 DOB: 03/08/1986Hometown: Enghien-les-Bains, FranceLast Club: Vitoria Setubal (Portugal)Acquired: Signed as Discovery on 4/15/11
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 1, 6 times, last: April 18, 2012, KC at VANAssists N/AShots on Goal 2, Sept. 17, 2011, KC at RSLShots 4, May 5, 2012, KC vs MONFouls Committed 6, Apr. 23, 2011, KC at NEFouls Suffered 3, 2 times, last: July 16, 2011, KC at HOULast..Appearance May 12, 2012 KC at CHIGoal April 18, 2012, KC at VANAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 3-0-0
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#2 | D | Michael Harrington Ht: 6-0 Wt. 170 DOB: 1/24/1986Hometown: Greenville, NCCollege: North CarolinaAcquired: ‘07 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#3)
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 5 times, last: Oct. 5, 2008, KC vs CHIAssists 2, Sept. 22, 2010, KC vs HOUShots on Goal 2, Oct. 2, 2010, KC at NYShots 2, 5 times, last: Oct. 2, 2010, KC at NYFouls Committed 6, July 11, 2009, KC at NEFouls Suffered 4, July 14, 2007, KC vs RSLLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal Oct 5, 2008, KC vs CHIAssist Oct. 12, 2010, KC at CHI2012 Record when: he starts 0-2-0 he scores 0-0-0
#11 | M | Bobby ConveyHt: 5-9 Wt. 150 DOB: 5/27/1983Hometown: Philadelphia, PALast Club: San Jose EarthquakesAcquired: Trade with San Jose 12/02/11
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 2, May 31, 2003, DC at DALAssists 3, 2 times, last: May 8, 2010, SJ vs NYShots on Goal 4, May 31, 2003, DC at DALShots 8, May 31, 2003, DC at DALFouls Committed 5, August 6, 2011, SJ vs PORFouls Suffered 7, May 3, 2003, DC vs DALLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal May 12, 2012, KC at CHIAssist April 7, 2012, KC vs LA2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 0-1-0
#4 | D | Kevin EllisHt: 5-9 Wt. 160 DOB: 06/30/1991Hometown: Kansas City, MOCollege: Barton County CCAcquired: Signed as Home Grown on 2/18/11
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals N/AAssists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed N/AFouls Suffered N/ALast..Appearance N/AGoal N/AAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#14 | D | Dom DwyerHt: 5-9 Wt. 180 DOB: 7/30/1990Hometown: Cuckfield, EnglandCollege: University of South FloridaAcquired: ‘12 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#16)
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals N/AAssists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed N/AFouls Suffered N/ALast..Appearance N/AGoal N/AAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#15 | M | Roger Espinoza Ht: 5-11 Wt. 160 DOB: 10/25/1986Hometown: Aurora, COCollege: Ohio StateAcquired: ‘08 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#10)
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 2 times, last: August 3, 2011, KC vs RSLAssists 1, 9 times, last: July 23, 2011, KC vs TORShots on Goal 2, 3 times, last: May 12, 2012, KC at CHIShots 5, 2 times, last: March 17, 2012, KC vs NEFouls Committed 4, 4 times, last: April 18, 2012, KC at VANFouls Suffered 6, Sept. 17, 2011, KC at RSLLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal August 3, 2011, KC vs RSLAssist May 12, 2012, KC at CHI2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 0-0-0
#24 | D | Cyprian HedrickHt: 6’ Wt. 185 DOB: 10/06/1989Hometown: CameroonCollege: Coastal Carolina Acquired: ‘12 MLS Superdraft 2nd Round (#30)
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals N/A Assists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed N/AFouls Suffered N/ALast..Appearance N/AGoal N/AAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
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#18 | GK | Eric KronbergHt: 6-5 Wt. 210 DOB: 6/7/1983Hometown: Santa Rosa, CACollege: CaliforniaAcquired: ‘06 MLS SuperDraft 4th Round (#40)
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals Allowed 4, May 14, 2011, KC at LASaves 6, May 14, 2011, KC at LA
Last..Appearance June 12, 2011, KC at DALShutout June 4, 2011, KC at TOR2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0
#21 | GK | Jon KempinHt: 6-1 Wt. 170 DOB: 4/8/1993Hometown: Leawood, KansasLast Club: Sporting Kansas City Juniors Acquired: Signed 8/31/10
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals Allowed N/ASaves N/A
Last..Appearance N/AShutout N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0
#19 | M | Peterson JosephHt: 5-8 Wt. 132 DOB: 4/24/1990Hometown: Port-au-Prince, HaitiLast Club: SC Braga (Portugal)Acquired: Signed on 09/01/11
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals N/A Assists N/A Shots on Goal N/A Shots N/A Fouls Committed N/A Fouls Suffered N/A Last..Appearance Oct. 1, 2011, KC at SJGoal N/AAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#23 | F | Kei KamaraHt: 6-3 Wt. 185 DOB: 9/1/1984Hometown: Lawndale, CACollege: Cal-State Dominguez HillsLast Club: Houston DynamoAcquired: Trade with Houston Dynamo 9/15/09
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals 2, 4 times, last: July 23, 2011, KC vs TORAssists 2, 3 times, last: March 19, 2011, KC at CHVShots on Goal 5, 2 times, last: March 25, 2012, KC vs DALShots 11, March 25, 2012, KC vs DALFouls Committed 5, 4 times, last: April 7, 2012, KC vs LAFouls Suffered 7, June 28, 2008, SJ at CHILast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal April 18, 2012, KC at VANAssist May 12, 2012 KC at CHI2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 4-0-0
#7 | M | Chance MyersHt: 6-0 Wt. 165 DOB: 12/7/1987Hometown: Thousand Oaks, CACollege: UCLAAcquired: ‘08 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#1)
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals N/AAssists 1, 4 times last: April 18, 2012 KC at VANShots on Goal 2, May 3, 2008, KC at CLBShots 3, June 9, 2011, KC vs CHIFouls Committed 4, 5 times, last: April 1, 2012, KC at CHVFouls Suffered 4, May 12, 2012, KC at CHILast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal N/AAssist April 18, 2012 KC at VAN2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 0-0-0
#6 | M | Paulo NagumuraHt: 5-8 Wt. 155 DOB: 03/02/1983Hometown: Sao Paulo, BrazilLast Club: Chivas USAAcquired: Aquired in trade on 11/29/2011
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals 2, March 21, 2009, CHV vs COLAssists 1, 14 times, last: June 4, 2011, CHV vs PORShots on Goal 4, May 15, 2006, LA vs RSLShots 5, May 15, 2006, LA vs RSLFouls Committed 6, Sept. 13, 2007, CHV vs LAFouls Suffered 6, May 13, 2006, LA vs RSLLast..Appearance May 5, 2012, KC vs MONGoal Sept. 10, 2010, CHV vs NEAssist June 4, 2011, CHV vs POR2012 Record when: he starts 1-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
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#37 | F | Jacob PetersonHt: 5-10 Wt. 165 DOB: 1/27/1986Hometown: Portage, MichiganCollege: Indiana UniversityLast Club: San Jose EarthquakesAcquired: Signed on 01/19/2012
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 1, 9 times, last: Oct. 16, 2010, TOR at CLBAssists 1, 10 times, last: Aug. 27, 2011, SJ at TORShots on Goal 3, June 28, 2007, COL at DCShots 4, 4 times, last: April 16, 2011, TOR at DCFouls Committed 2, 7 times, last: July 20, 2011, SJ at VANFouls Suffered 5, Oct. 16, 2010, TOR at CLBLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal Oct. 16, 2010, TOR at CLBAssist Aug. 27, 2011, SJ at TOR2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#1 | GK | Jimmy NielsenHt: 6-3 Wt. 200 DOB: 8/6/1977Hometown: Aalborg, DenmarkLast Club: Vejle (Denmark)Acquired: Signed 2/15/10
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals Allowed 4, May 29, 2010, KC at RSLSaves 7, 3 times, last: June 22, 2011, KC at PHI
Last..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIShutout April 14, 2012 KC vs RSL2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0
#22 | F | Soony SaadHt: 5-10 Wt. 165 DOB: 08/17/1992Hometown: Dearborn, MichiganCollege: Univ. of MichiganAcquired: Weighted Lottery on 07/05/2011
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 1, August 17, 2011, KC vs. PORAssists N/AShots on Goal 1, August 17, 2011, KC vs. PORShots 1, 2 times, last: Sept. 5, 2011, KC vs. LAFouls Committed 1, Oct. 15, 2011, KC vs NYFouls Suffered 1, 2 times, last: Sept. 5, 2011, KC vs. LALast..Appearance Nov. 2, 2011, KC vs COLGoal August 17, 2011, KC vs PORAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#13 | D | Lawrence OlumHt: 6-2 Wt. 185 DOB: 7/10/1984Hometown: Nairobi, KenyaCollege: Missouri Baptist UniversityLast Club: Orlando City SC (USL PRO)Acquired: Signed 9/15/10
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals N/AAssists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed 1, April 18, 2012, KC at VANFouls Suffered N/ALast..Appearance April 18, 2012, KC at VANGoal N/AAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#17 | F | C.J. SapongHt: 6-2 Wt. 185 DOB: 12/27/1988Hometown: Manassas, VirginiaCollege: James Madison Acquired: ‘11 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#10)
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 1, 8 times, last: April 1, 2012, KC at CHVAssists 1, 5 times, last: Oct. 1, 2011, KC at SJShots on Goal 3, 2 times, April 1, 2012, KC at CHVShots 5, 2 times, last: March 17, 2012, KC vs NEFouls Committed 3, 2 times, last: April 14, 2012, KC vs RSLFouls Suffered 4, 2 times, last: June 12, 2011, KC at DALLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal April 1, 2012 KC at CHVAssist Oct. 1, 2011, KC at SJ2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 3-0-0
#32 | D | Luke SassanoHt: 6-1 Wt. 170 DOB: 10/14/1985Hometown: Orinda, CaliforniaCollege: University of California, BerkeleyLast Club: NY Red BullsAcquired: Trade with LA Galaxy on 12/15/10
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals 1, June 12, 2011, KC at DALAssists N/AShots on Goal 1, 3 times, last: June 17, 2011, KC vs SJShots 3, April 27, 2008, NY vs SJFouls Committed 3, May 25, 2008, NY vs CHIFouls Suffered 3, June 12, 2008, NY at DCLast..Appearance March 17, 2012, KC vs NEGoal June 12, 2011, KC at DALAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
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#12 | M | Konrad WarzychaHt: 6-1 Wt. 190 DOB: 02/14/1989Hometown: Dublin, OhioCollege: Ohio StateAcquired: ‘11 MLS SuperDraft 3rd Round
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals N/AAssists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed N/AFouls Suffered N/ALast..Appearance N/AGoal N/AAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#16 | D | Seth SinovicHt: 5-9 Wt. 170 DOB: 1/28/1987Hometown: Leawood, KansasCollege: CreightonLast Club: New England RevolutionAcquired: Signed May 10, 2011
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals N/AAssists 1, March 17, 2012, KC vs NEShots on Goal 1, 3 times, last: Oct. 22, 2011, KC at DCShots 3, April 17, 2010, NE at SJFouls Committed 3, Sept. 17, 2011, KC at RSLFouls Suffered 3, 4 times, last: April 14, 2012, KC vs RSLLast..Appearance April 21, 2012, KC at PORGoal N/AAssist March 17, 2012, KC vs NE2012 Record when: he starts 7-1-0 he scores 0-0-0
#8 | M | Graham ZusiHt: 5-10 Wt. 160 DOB: 8/18/1986Hometown: Longwood, FLCollege: MarylandAcquired: ‘09 MLS SuperDraft 2nd Round (#23)
Regular-Season Game Highs: Goals 2, 2 times, last: Aug. 17, 2011, KC vs PORAssists 2, 2 times, last: March 25, 2012: KC vs DALShots on Goal 3, 2 times, last: Aug. 17, 2011, KC vs PORShots 5, 2 times, last: May 5, 2012, KC vs MONFouls Committed 3, 4 times, last: March 10, 2012, KC at DCFouls Suffered 4, Sept. 17, 2011, KC at RSLLast..Appearance May 12, 2012, KC at CHIGoal March 17, 2012, KC vs NEAssist April 14, 2012, KC vs RSL2012 Record when: he starts 7-3-0 he scores 1-0-0
#88 | M | Michael ThomasHt: 5-8 Wt. 170 DOB: 1//1987Hometown: Belgrade, SFR YugoslaviaCollege: Notre DameLast Club: Borac Čačak (Serbia)Acquired: Signed 3/16/2011
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals N/AAssists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed N/AFouls Suffered N/ALast..Appearance N/AGoal N/A Assist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
#20 | D | Shawn SinghHt: 5-9 Wt. 145 DOB: 05/05/1989Hometown: Bakersfield, CaliforniaCollege: UCLAAcquired: ‘12 MLS Supplemental Draft 1st Round (16th). Signed 3/19/12
Regular-Season Game Highs:Goals N/AAssists N/AShots on Goal N/AShots N/AFouls Committed N/AFouls Suffered N/ALast..Appearance N/AGoal N/AAssist N/A2012 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0
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Korede Aiyegbusi GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 8 2 223 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 8 2 223 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Matt Besler GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 82 78 7030 2 2 19 7 58 41 5 0 10 0 1 1
KC - Post Season 3 3 270 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 85 81 7300 2 2 19 7 61 42 6 0 10 0 1 1
Teal Bunbury GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 62 34 3368 14 5 117 46 67 41 37 3 6 1 4 1
KC - Post Season 3 3 246 2 0 7 3 5 4 1 0 1 0 1 0
MLS - TOTAL 65 37 3614 16 5 124 49 72 45 38 3 7 1 5 1
Julio Cesar GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 36 34 2869 2 2 14 5 40 26 1 0 5 1 1 1
KC - Post Season 3 3 239 0 1 1 0 1 5 0 0 2 0 0 1
MLS - TOTAL 39 37 3108 2 3 15 5 41 31 1 0 7 1 1 2
Aurelien Collin GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 33 31 2781 6 0 28 9 55 27 5 0 13 1 3 0
KC - Post Season 3 3 270 1 0 4 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
MLS - TOTAL 36 34 3051 7 0 32 10 60 28 5 0 13 1 4 0
Bobby Convey GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 10 10 779 1 1 5 2 2 5 0 26 0 0 0 1
MLS - Reg. Season 174 162 14470 12 31 199 90 228 216 41 275 34 2 2 10
MLS - Post Season 5 5 450 2 1 7 3 8 8 1 11 0 0 1 0
MLS - TOTAL 179 167 14920 14 32 206 93 236 224 42 286 34 2 3 10
Dom Dwyer GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kevin Ellis GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Roger Espinoza GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 97 77 6847 2 10 79 21 127 122 8 13 15 4 1 2
KC - Post Season 5 4 288 0 0 1 0 3 5 1 0 2 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 102 81 7135 2 10 80 21 130 127 9 13 17 4 1 2
Michael Harrington GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 141 121 10937 5 13 34 21 125 101 9 4 17 0 0 4
KC - Post Season 5 5 450 0 0 0 0 3 7 0 0 1 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 146 126 11387 5 13 34 21 128 108 9 4 18 0 0 4
Cyprian Hedrick GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Peterson Joseph GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kei Kamara GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 75 65 5826 24 12 240 84 109 122 28 3 8 0 7 5
MLS - Reg. Season 155 115 10653 38 15 368 142 216 226 69 5 15 1 11 7
KC - Post Season 3 3 269 0 0 8 4 3 5 2 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - Post Season 5 4 347 1 0 9 5 5 7 4 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 160 119 11000 39 15 377 147 221 233 73 5 15 1 11 7
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Chance Myers GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 69 47 4523 0 4 47 13 68 44 3 4 5 1 0 1
KC - Post Season 3 3 270 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 72 50 4793 0 4 47 13 73 48 3 4 5 1 0 1
Paulo Nagamura GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 6 0 187 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 1 2 0 0 0
MLS - Reg. Season 164 145 12955 9 14 141 51 249 211 4 18 41 2 4 5
MLS - Post Season 10 9 909 0 0 9 5 16 24 1 0 4 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 173 154 13864 9 14 150 56 265 235 5 18 45 2 4 5
Lawrence Olum GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 4 0 58 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 4 0 58 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jacob Peterson GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 7 0 102 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - Reg. Season 145 82 7388 9 10 115 42 46 80 16 60 5 0 3 4
MLS - Post Season 3 2 161 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 148 84 7549 9 10 115 42 47 82 17 60 5 0 3 4
Soony Saad GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 4 0 39 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
KC - Post Season 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 6 0 43 1 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
C.J. Sapong GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 44 31 2832 8 5 74 34 42 58 10 0 0 0 3 2
KC - Post Season 3 3 270 1 0 5 5 8 7 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 47 34 3102 9 5 79 39 50 65 10 0 0 0 3 2
Luke Sassano GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 10 5 545 1 0 3 2 2 6 0 1 1 0 0 0
MLS - Reg. Season 48 30 2798 1 0 17 3 20 27 1 1 4 1 0 0
MLS - Post Season 4 4 341 0 0 1 0 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 52 34 3139 1 0 18 3 23 32 1 1 5 1 0 0
Shawn Singh GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Seth Sinovic GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 28 28 2276 0 1 9 2 19 26 2 0 3 0 0 0
MLS - Reg. Season 48 46 4036 0 1 17 3 33 37 2 0 6 0 0 0
KC - Post Season 3 3 265 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 51 49 4301 0 1 17 3 38 40 2 0 6 0 0 0
Michael Thomas GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Konrad Warzycha GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLS - TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Graham Zusi GP GS MIN G A SHT SOG FC FS OFF CK C E GWG GWA
KC - Reg. Season 74 44 4258 7 14 92 30 55 60 6 155 7 0 2 8
KC - Post Season 3 3 270 0 2 4 0 5 3 0 11 0 0 0 1
MLS Career - TOTAL 77 47 4528 7 16 96 30 60 63 6 166 7 0 2 9
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Jimmy Nielsen GP GS MIN SHT SVS SO GA GAA PG PA W L T
KC - Reg. Season 70 70 6277 253 178 22 76 1.09 4 5 29 24 16
KC - Post Season 3 3 270 9 7 2 2 0.67 0 0 2 1 0
MLS Career - TOTAL 73 73 6547 262 185 24 78 1.07 4 5 31 25 16
Jon Kempin GP GS MIN SHT SVS SO GA GAA PG PA W L T
KC - Reg. Season 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A 0 0 0 0 0
MLS Career - TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A 0 0 0 0 0
Eric Kronberg GP GS MIN SHT SVS SO GA GAA PG PA W L T
KC - Reg. Season 5 4 382 19 13 1 6 1.41 1 1 2 1 2
MLS Career - TOTAL 5 4 382 19 13 1 6 1.41 1 1 2 1 2
GOALKEEPING ALL-TIME STATISTICS
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DC NE DAL CHV LA RSL VAN POR MTL CHI
1-0 3-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 3-1 0-1 0-2 1-2
1 Jimmy Nielsen 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G
2 Michael Harrington 1 90D 90D
3 Korede Aiyegbusi
4 Kevin Ellis
5 Matt Besler 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 88D
6 Paulo Nagamura 33 1 12 39 77M 14 11
7 Chance Myers 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D
8 Graham Zusi 90M 57M 89M 89M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M
9 Teal Bunbury 75F 18 3 28 19 24 16
11 Bobby Convey 85M 90M 89M 73M 69M 82M 52M 71M 90F 78M
12 Konrad Warzycha
13 Lawrence Olum 31 1 13 2
14 Dom Dwyer
15 Roger Espinoza 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 62M
16 Seth Sinovic 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 89D 90D 90D
17 C.J. Sapong 15 90F 90F 72F 87F 90F 62F 90F 66F 74F
18 Eric Kronberg
19 Peterson Joseph
20 Shawn Singh
21 Jon Kempin
22 Soony Saad
23 Kei Kamara 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90F 90M
24 Cyprian Hedrick
32 Luke Sassano 14
37 Jacob Peterson 5 1 17 21 8 38 12
43 Birahim Diop
55 Julio Cesar 90M 76M 90M 90M 78M 51M 76M 79M 90M
78 Aurelien Collin 90D 59D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D
88 Michael Thomas
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F/M/D/G = starting position
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Game log:
Game #1 03/10/2012 KC 1 at DC 0 W Sapong 1 (Zusi 1) 93
Game #2 03/17/2012 KC 3 vs NE 0 W Zusi 1 (Kamara 1) 28; Kamara 1 (unassisted) 39; Sapong 2 (Sinovic 1, Zusi 2) 47
Game #3 03/25/2012 KC 2 vs DAL 1 W Collin 1 (Zusi 3) 49+; Kamara 2 (Myers 1, Zusi 4) 88
Game #4 04/01/2012 KC 1 at CHV 0 W Sapong 3 (Zusi 5) 47
Game #5 04/07/2012 KC 1 vs LA 0 W Kamara 3 (Convey 1) 40
Game #6 04/14/2012 KC 1 vs RSL 0 W Collin 2 (Zusi 6) 63
Game #7 04/18/2012 KC 3 at VAN 1 W Collin 3 (unassisted) 24; own goal (Bonjour) 51; Kamara 4 (Myers 2) 65
Game #8 04/21/2012 KC 0 at POR 1 L
Game #9 05/05/2012 KC 0 vs MTL 2 L
Game #10 05/12/2012 KC 1 at CHI 2 L Convey 1 (Espinoza 1, Kamara 2) 31