Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Curt Onalfo fired by DC United

Back in March, I noticed when compiling the offense/defense ranks by year that KC's offense tanked under Onalfo after a good first season. Meanwhile, DC United was going into the season with a six year streak of being in the top half of the league on offense, tied for the longest ever.

Something had to give, and with DC sitting dead last in points and on offense, Onalfo has been fired.

KC offense rankings

2006 - 6th (Gansler/Bliss)
2007 - 5th (Onalfo's first year)
2008 - 12th
2009 - 13th (Onalfo/Vermes)

DC offense rankings

2004 - 2nd (Nowak)
2005 - 1st
2006 - 1st
2007 - 1st (Soehn)
2008 - 7th
2009 - 2nd
2010 - 16th (Onalfo)

Out of the 17 coaches who have been in charge of multiple teams, only one has had a better record with their second team than the first. That would be Fernando Clavijo, who was below average with both the Revs and Rapids.

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Kansas City Wizards - Best Goals 2009 Compilation



Final Record: 8-13-9 (33 pts)

Goals:

10) Zoltan Hercegfalvi
9) Davy Arnaud
8) Josh Wolff
7) Davy Arnaud
6) Davy Arnaud
5) Josh Wolff
4) Josh Wolff
3) Davy Arnaud
2) Claudio Lopez
1) Claudio Lopez

Note: Only goals scored in the 2009 regular season were considered.

Arnaud's Seattle goal was low due to the fact that it probably should've been saved. That was the game where Kasey Keller was red carded and replaced in the net by pool keeper Ben Dragovan, remember? That was also the first Sounders loss. Another goal that I had questions about was from the final match day, the Kei Kamara diving header against DC. I was going to include it, but it really looks like either an own goal by Rodney Wallace or maybe it took a deflection off him. I couldn't tell due to the lack of a good camera angle.

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Other 2009 Goal Comps

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