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Did you notice the stat ESPN gave about David Beckham on the MLS Cup broadcast last night? I sure did. They noted that the Galaxy's goal differential was +10 when he was on the field during the 2009 season. The team as a whole was only +5, though I don't recall if the ESPN stat was for regular ...
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Real Salt Lake is the first American team to win a championship with a losing record in 60 years. In the history of the major four sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL), and also MLS and the NASL, only two teams have accomplished that. Both were in the NHL: 1949 Toronto Maple Leafs (22-25-13) 1938 ...
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Real Salt Lake
Major League Soccer
Final Record: 5-19-6 (21 pts) Goals: 10) Jorge Rojas 9) Macoumba Kandji 8) Dane Richards 7) Albert Celades 6) Juan Pablo Angel 5) Juan Pablo Angel 4) Juan Pablo Angel 3) John Wolyniec 2) Dane Richards 1) John Wolyniec Note: Only goals scored in the 2009 regular season were considered. NY ...
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Juan Pablo Angel
Dane Richards
New York Red Bulls
Jorge Rojas
Red Bull Arena
Time to revisit my projections for the last time. Who will be available for the Philadelphia Union to select? The rules were announced recently, and they're exactly the same as the past few drafts. The following players should graduate from Generation Adidas status: Alston, Beltran, Frei, ...
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Philadelphia Union
Peter Nowak
World Cup Qualifying is completed is completed. I've updated the 2010 World Cup Eliminations Timeline , which tells you exactly which date each team was eliminated and in what order. That won't require another update until June. But the real exciting news is that with all the qualifiers ...
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World Cup
FIFA
Portugal
Final Record: 11-7-12 (45 pts) Goals: 10) Chris Rolfe 9) Marco Pappa 8) Cuauhtemoc Blanco 7) Chris Rolfe 6) Peter Lowry 5) Patrick Nyarko 4) Brian McBride 3) Peter Lowry 2) Chris Rolfe 1) Brian McBride Note: Only goals scored in the 2009 regular season were considered. Finally getting ...
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Chris Rolfe
Brian McBride
Chicago Fire
Marco Pappa
Cuauhtémoc Blanco
For much more on this subject, see the original MLS team ages post . It includes the average age of every MLS team in league history. Age Breakdown First, I wanted to look at the leaguewide distribution of ages. The percentages here are based on the total number of minutes played in MLS ...
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This was brought to my attention in the play-by-play thread on Bigsoccer: Did you notice that MLS has changed its rules for playoff yellow card suspensions? I'm not sure if this was put into place this year or last year, but it definitely was not the case as of 2007. Two yellow cards in ...
Soccer
MLS Cup
Steve Nicol
1) I've updated the home/away records for each MLS team in each season through 2009: Check them out here. 2) If Omar Gonzalez wins the Rookie of the Year award, he'll be the youngest winner ever. He was 20.72 years of age as of July 1st. The current record-holder is Carlos Bocanegra in 2000, ...
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Major League Soccer
usasoccer.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of the
year again. The regular season is over, so now
we can look at the official numbers for fouls committed and fouls suffered and put them in the context of "per 90 minutes" rather than just raw totals. Which ...
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MLS Foul Awards 2009
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I've made a couple of new ones. A great way to kill some free time! MLS Players Off The Pitch - How familiar are you with the off the field activities of past and present MLSers? Includes both extremely well-known and extremely obscure examples. First MLS Game - Name the players and more ...
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Major League Soccer
San Jose Earthquakes
D.C. United
FIFA
usasoccer.blogspot.com - 25 days ago
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Taken from the game guide pdfs on MLSnet.
They appear each week, and also in the playoffs.
For the non-playoff teams who played each other last week (NY-TOR, KC-DC), I've added in the stats myself. I'll say it again: MLS should really promote these ...
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MLS Goal Details 2009
usasoccer.blogspot.com - 25 days ago
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Previous Updates #1 4/12 68 players remaining #2
5/25 34 players remaining #3 6/25 23 players remaining
#4 7/19 11 players remaining #5 8/17 5 players remaining OTFATT is short for "On the field, all the ...
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OTFATT 2009: Final Update
I won't put it on the main page because it's such a long post, so check it out here: All Time Best & Worst MLS Teams (single season & multiple) How do this year's teams stack up? Columbus lost three of their last four, which means that they ended up tied for the worst Supporters ...
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New York Red Bulls
Major League Soccer
Columbus Crew
This is my favorite time of the year to blog. Not because it's playoff time, but rather because the regular season is over and I can get into the business of comparing this year's teams historically. I'll have plenty of material in the coming weeks, so check back often. However, there's still ...
