MLS Cup: Various interesting stats

1) 11 players in this year's MLS Cup have played in one of the previous 9. They are: Chris Albright Landon Donovan Kevin Hartman Cobi Jones Tyrone Marshall Peter Vagenas Joe Franchino Jay Heaps Daniel Hernandez Steve Ralston Taylor Twellman 2) 156 total players have played in an MLS Cup. 14 of them have represented 2 different teams (soon to be joined by Donovan): Jeff Agoos (DC/SJ) Chris Armas (LA/CHI) Jimmy Conrad (SJ/KC) Diego Gutierrez (CHI/KC) Wolde Harris (COL/KC) Chris Henderson (COL/KC) Zak Ibsen (LA/SJ) Dema Kovalenko (CHI/DC) Carlos Llamosa (DC/NE) Brian Mullan (LA/SJ) Brandon Prideaux (KC/DC) Ante Razov (LA/CHI) Peter Vermes (COL/KC) Josh Wolff (CHI/KC) Agoos, Kovalenko, and Prideaux are the only guys to win it with both teams. Ibsen has the fewest minutes of any of these players, 24 in two sub appearances. (EDIT: Kovalenko played for Chicago in 2000, not in 1998 when they won. My bad) 3) Stat leaders: Goals 3-Donovan 2-Eskandarian, Moreno, Sanneh Assists 2-Etcheverry, Nowak Yellow Cards 2-Etcheverry, Gutierrez, Olsen Red Cards 1-Kovalenko Games 6-Agoos 5-Moreno 4-Armas, Cienfuegos, Etchverry, Jones, Llamosa, Pope, Razov, Williams Minutes 550-Agoos 454-Moreno 393-Jones 4) Fewest minutes played in an MLS Cup: 1-Francisco Gomez 3-Geoff Aunger 8-Diego Walsh 9-Nate Jaqua 9-Ross Paule 9-Mike Slivinski 5) Of the 28 goals scored in the MLS Cups, 16 were by Americans and 10 by foreigners (2 own goals). Last year's game was the first without a foreign goal. Also, for 7 straight years (1997-2003), the winning team had a foreigner score.