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While the Kansas City Kings tryouts for the upcoming PASL season have yet to occur, the team's first game of the season is tonight in St. Louis. Tonight, the Kings will take on the St. Louis Illusion of the PASL-Pro division . While the Illusion are in the Pro division, the Kings are in the PASL ...
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Twitter has brought us plenty of breaking news since it's become one of the quickest ways to spread news, and the Wizards have done their fair share of it. Wizards President Robb Heineman has given fans some news today as he announced " verbal agreement on assistant coach. hopefully announe ...
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Last night the Wizards hosted a presentation on their World Cup bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup for members of the "new media" aka blogs. Due to other commitments, I was unable to attend the event, but Thad over at The Back Post did attend and has TONS of great information about the bid over ...
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Yesterday we learned the rules for this year's
expansion draft, where the Philadelphia Union will select 10
players from the 15 current MLS teams to help to begin their process for building their roster. The Wizards are allowed to protect 11 ...
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Next week, the Philadelphia Union will have their pick of the current MLS teams' unprotected roster players, today we learned the rules that those teams will use to choose the players that they will protect. The rules are very similar to the rules that were used last year for the Seattle ...
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Jimmy Conrad got his 27th cap earlier today coming on for Jonathan Spector in the 70th minute of the United States 3-1 loss to Denmark. The US led 1-0 at the half thanks to a Jeff Cunningham goal, but struggled right out of the game in the second half, giving up 3 goals in the first 10 minutes ...
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Frankie Hejduk
We're down to only 2 former Wizards still playing in MLS, as Chris Klein and LA will meet Yura Movsisyan and Real Salt Lake Sunday in MLS Cup. Still there was more action around the world this week with FIFA international games being played. Two former Wizards competed with their respective ...
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Eddie Johnson
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Chris Klein
There's very little in this rumor right now, so take that for what you will. In a post by Ives Galarcep earlier today about the MLS coaching carousel, he makes a passing mention of Octavio Zambrano , who used to coach in MLS but has most recently been coaching in Hungary. Ives mentions Zambrano ...
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Club Deportivo Chivas USA
The Kansas City Wizards 2 Generation Adidas players will be making their way over to South Africa with the rest of an MLS Generation Adidas team . Roger Espinoza and Chance Myers were both named to the team that will leave later this month for a 10 day tour of the World Cup hosting country. ...
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Chance Myers
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Those that remember when the Wizards signed midfielder, Santiago Hirsig, may remember that Hirsig was released from his contract with San Lorenzo due to issues over being paid. Those issues appear to now be resolved as Hirsig and the club have apparently reached an agreement. Instead of the ...
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The Wizards 2009 season on the field wasn't that great, but off the field, the team has had a good offseason. Jimmy Conrad brought home the Humanitarian of the Year, Chet North brought home Head Athletic Trainer of the Year, and now the Wizards grounds crew has been awarded the Field of the Year ...
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Jimmy Conrad
Bob Bradley had said there'd likely be some changes to the lineup between the Slovakia and Denmark games this week. Today we learned who was dropped and who was added to the roster ahead of the game on Wednesday in Aarhus, Denmark. Dropped from the roster was Clint Dempsey and Steve Cherundolo ...
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Jimmy Conrad
Bob Bradley
Clint Dempsey
Steve Cherundolo
The Wizards season is over and it's time to take a look at how the Wizards players stacked up this season grade wise. It wasn't a good season and many of the players grades reflect that. Some fan favorites suffered for the way the team had played this season as well. You can check out the ...
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Two Wizards had the honor of being called up to their respective national teams during this international break. Jimmy Conrad (along with former Wizard Eddie Johnson) were in Bratislava as the US took on Slovakia. Conrad was on the bench for the United States, but did not see the field in the ...
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Jimmy Conrad
Eddie Johnson
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The US just kicked off against Slovakia and Wizards defender and captain, Jimmy Conrad is on the bench for the US today. Conrad is number 5 and is one of two central defenders on the game day roster with Clarence Goodson. Former Wizard, Eddie Johnson is also on the bench for the US after being ...
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Jimmy Conrad
Eddie Johnson
The former Wizards season in MLS continues to wind down and while there weren't a lot of goals this week by players, there was some news involving former Wizards. First I've added two new players to the list, as the Jermaine Hue and the Jamaican league started up a little bit ago. And the ...
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Preki
Club Deportivo Chivas USA
The Wizards had 4 goals up for Goal of the Year, and 2 of those goals have made it to the final 10 , one from each Davy Arnaud and Claudio Lopez. Arnaud's goal is his blast from the first game of the season against Toronto. Lopez's goal is his shot from midfield that looped in over Donovan ...
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Claudio Lopez
Kevin Hartman
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D.C. United
I've been sitting on this story for a few days looking for confirmed news of it, but it appears that Wizards forward, Kei Kamara has been called up by the Sierra Leone national team for their upcoming friendly in Holland against Willem II of the Eredivisie. Kamara's Facebook status talks about ...
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Kei Kamara
The Wizards season is over, and the indoor season for the KC Kings is gearing up. The two time defending Midwest Regional Champions and runner up at the PASL International Finals last year, Kings will be hosting tryouts on Wednesday, November 25th at the KC Soccer Dome. Registration starts at ...
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As speculated last night, the Wizards have officially removed the interim tag from Peter Vermes and he is now the Wizards "new" head coach. My reservations from last night still stand. I'm worried about the fact that on the surface there appears to be no change from last year. Most of these ...
