MLS Penalties Earned & Conceded - 2010

A list of all the penalties can be found here, on the MLS web site. There were 56 total, of which 48 were scored (85.7%). The big story this season was Dallas' David Ferreira earning 4 penalties to lead the league. That's the most since Mamadou Diallo & Igor Simutenkov did the same in 2002. My data is incomplete for the first few years, but I don't have anyone ever getting more than 4 in a season. Diallo also accomplished the feat in 2001, and Diego Serna did it as well in 2000. Interesting also to note fellow MVP candidate Chris Wondolowski drawing 2, with Edson Buddle nowhere to be found. I actually don't think Buddle has ever drawn a penalty in his MLS career. Most of the sources for this info were from match reports and matchtrackers (from 1999-2002, it was actually listed on MLSnet) , so please let me know if I'm wrong and you remember an instance where he has. Chad Marshall also drew 2, both I believe from corners, while Seattle's Jeff Parke led the league in penalties conceded with 3. The last player to concede more than 2 was Danny O'Rourke (4) in 2008, who added another 2 to his career total this year. Penalties Earned Ferreira, David DAL 4 Cunningham, Jeff DAL 2 Findley, Robbie RSL 2 Gaven, Eddie CLB 2 Marshall, Chad CLB 2 Wondolowski, Chris SJ 2 Bunbury, Teal KC 1 Cameron, Geoff HOU 1 Casey, Conor COL 1 Chavez, Marvin DAL 1 Ching, Brian HOU 1 Clark, Colin COL 1 Convey, Bobby SJ 1 Cronin, Sam TOR 1 Grabavoy, Ned RSL 1 Kandji, Macoumba NY 1 Landin, Luis Angel HOU 1 Le Toux, Sebastien PHI 1 Lenhart, Steven CLB 1 Leonardo LA 1 Montero, Fredy SEA 1 Moreno, Alejandro PHI 1 Ngwenya, Joseph HOU 1 Nyarko, Patrick CHI 1 Nyassi, Sanna SEA 1 Olave, Jamison RSL 1 Quaranta, Santino DC 1 Richards, Dane NY 1 Rogers, Robbie CLB 1 Shea, Brek DAL 1 Stephens, Michael LA 1 Stolica, Ilija NE 1 Ubiparipovic, Sinisa NY 1 White, O'Brian TOR 1 Yeisley, Jason DAL 1 Handball 13 Penalties Conceded Parke, Jeff SEA 3 Cann, Adrian TOR 2 Olave, Jamison RSL 2 O'Rourke, Danny CLB 2 Pickens, Matt COL 2 Usanov, Maxim TOR 2 Arrieta, Christian PHI 1 Attakora, Nana TOR 1 Barnes, Darrius NE 1 Beckerman, Kyle RSL 1 Bornstein, Jonathan CHV 1 Braun, Justin CHV 1 Brown, C.J. CHI 1 Conde, Wilman CHI 1 Coudet, Eduardo PHI 1 de Guzman, Julian TOR 1 Espinoza, Roger KC 1 Gargan, Dan TOR 1 Gonzalez, Leo SEA 1 Harris, Atiba DAL 1 Hejduk, Frankie CLB 1 Hernandez, Daniel DAL 1 Iro, Andy CLB 1 Jakovic, Dejan DC 1 James, Julius DC 1 Jazic, Ante CHV 1 John, George DAL 1 Joseph, Shalrie NE 1 Keller, Kasey SEA 1 Knighton, Brad PHI 1 Krol, Krzysztof CHI 1 Mansally, Kenny NE 1 Marshall, Tyrone SEA 1 Marshall, Yohance LA 1 McCarty, Dax DAL 1 Mendes, Carlos NY 1 Mullan, Brian COL 1 Nyarko, Patrick CHI 1 Orozco Fiscal, Michael PHI 1 Pappa, Marco CHI 1 Ream, Tim NY 1 Robinson, Dasan CHI 1 Russell, Robbie RSL 1 Segares, Gonzalo CHI 1 Seitz, Chris PHI 1 Simms, Clyde DC 1 Thornton, Zach CHV 1 Umana, Michael CHV 1 Wynne, Marvell COL 1 Team Breakdown Earned Conceded CHI 2 7 CHV 1 5 CLB 7 4 COL 4 4 DAL 9 4 DC 2 3 HOU 4 0 KC 2 1 LA 4 1 NE 1 3 NY 5 2 PHI 3 5 RSL 4 4 SEA 2 6 SJ 3 0 TOR 3 7 Further Reading 2007 Penalties Earned & Conceded 2008 Penalties Earned & Conceded 2009 Penalties Earned & Conceded

MLS 2009: Penalties Earned & Conceded

A list of all penalties can be found on the league stats page (scroll to the bottom). However, on that page they don't list who earned and conceded the penalties like they used to a few years back. I've always missed that, so I keep track of it myself by looking through match reports. This seems to be the year of the handball. The past four years have seen 10, 10, 6, and 6 handballs result in penalties. We still have a third of the 2009 season to go, and already there's been 14. All four players with two penalties conceded have been called twice for handballs in the box (Omar Gonzalez twice in the same game). The Columbus Crew's Danny O'Rourke is nowhere to be found on the conceded list after giving up a remarkable and possibly record breaking four penalties last year (several of which may have been dubious, but oh well). However, one man is making waves for earning penalties: DC United's Christian Gomez. He's already earned three penalties this year. The last player to earn three in a single season was Carlos Ruiz in 2005. Penalties Earned Christian Gomez DC 3 Bobby Convey SJ 1 Brad Davis HOU 1 Brian McBride CHI 1 Chris Pontius DC 1 Conor Casey COL 1 Dane Richards NY 1 David Ferreira DAL 1 Dominic Oduro HOU 1 Eddie Gaven CLB 1 Fabian Espindola RSL 1 Freddie Ljungberg SEA 1 Herculez Gomez KC 1 Jeff Cunningham DAL 1 Kheli Dube NE 1 Luciano Emilo DC 1 Maykel Galindo CHV 1 Omar Cummings COL 1 Patrick Nyarko CHI 1 Paulo Campos SJ 1 Robbie Findley RSL 1 Steve Ralston NE 1 Taylor Twellman NE 1 Wilman Conde CHI 1 Handball 14 Penalties Conceded Marvell Wynne TOR 2 Omar Gonzalez LA 2 Rodney Wallace DC 2 Seth Stammler NY 2 Alberto Celades NY 1 Bakary Soumare CHI 1 Bryan Jordan LA 1 Bryan Namoff DC 1 Carlos Johnson NY 1 Chad Marshall CLB 1 Cory Gibbs COL 1 Dasan Robinson CHI 1 Dejan Jakovic DC 1 Dema Kovalenko LA 1 Drew Moor DAL 1 Geoff Cameron HOU 1 George John DAL 1 Gergg Berhalter LA 1 Ivan Trujillo CHV 1 Jair Benitez DAL 1 Jed Zayner CLB 1 Jon Busch CHI 1 Jon Conway NY 1 Kevin Harmse TOR 1 Marc Burch DC 1 Matt Besler KC 1 Michael Harrington KC 1 Mike Zaher SJ 1 Nat Borchers RSL 1 Nick Rimando RSL 1 Osvaldo Alonso SEA 1 Pablo Mastroeni COL 1 Rauwshan McKenzie KC 1 Shavar Thomas CHV 1 Ugo Ihemelu COL 1 Will Johnson RSL 1 Further Reading 2007 Penalties Earned & Conceded 2008 Penalties Earned & Conceded