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2012 Regular season Team stats SPORTING KANSAS CITY
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9-4-2 (29 pts) 15 3rd in East 20 1.3 15 1 +5 239 (69) 28.9% 202 186 26 1
SPORTING Kansas City roster No. Pos. 1 GK 2 DEF 3 DEF 4 DEF 5 DEF 6 MID 7 DEF 8 MID 9 FWD 11 MID 12 MID 13 DEF 14 FWD 15 MID 16 DEF 17 FWD 18 GK 19 MID 20 DEF 21 GK 22 FWD 23 FWD 24 DEF 27 DEF 32 DEF 37 FWD 55 DEF 78 DEF 88 MID
Name Pronunciation Jimmy Nielsen neel-sen Michael Harrington Korede Aiyegbusi co-red-eh eye-eh-BOO-see Kevin Ellis Matt Besler BEEZ-ler Paulo Nagamura POW-lo na-ga-MOO-ra Chance Myers Graham Zusi ZOO-see Teal Bunbury BUN-buh-ree Bobby Convey CON-vee Konrad Warzycha Var-ZEE-hah Lawrence Olum OH-lumm Dom Dwyer Roger Espinoza Seth Sinovic sin-OH-vick C.J. Sapong sah-PONG Eric Kronberg Krawn-berg Peterson Joseph Shawn Singh sing Jon Kempin Soony Saad soo-NEE sod Kei Kamara kye kah-MAHR-ah Cyprian Hedrick sip-ree-an HE-drick Kyle Miller Luke Sassano sah-SAHN-noh Jacob Peterson Julio Cesar JEW-lee-o SEH-sahr Aurelien Collin au-REEL-ee-en Michael Thomas
2012 Regular Season MLS Standings As of 6/26/2012:
Eastern Conf. 1. D.C. United 2. New York Red Bulls 3. Sporting Kansas City 4. Chicago Fire 5. Houston Dynamo 6. Columbus Crew 7. New England Revolution 8. Montreal Impact 9. Philadelphia Union 10. Toronto FC Western Conf. 1. San Jose Earthquakes 2. Real Salt Lake 3. Vancouver Whitecaps FC 4. Seattle Sounders FC 7. LA Galaxy 5. Colorado Rapids 6. Chivas USA 8. Portland Timbers 9. FC Dallas
GP W L T P 17 9 5 3 30 16 9 4 3 30 15 9 4 2 29 15 7 5 3 24 15 5 5 5 20 14 5 5 4 19 15 5 7 3 18 16 5 8 3 18 13 3 8 2 11 13 1 10 2 5 GP W L T P 16 10 3 3 33 17 10 5 2 32 16 7 4 5 26 16 7 5 4 25 16 6 8 2 20 15 6 8 1 19 16 5 7 4 19 14 4 6 4 16 17 3 9 5 14
Chicago Fire
RECORD GAMES PLAYED CONFERENCE POSITION GOALS GOALS/GAME ALLOWED ALLOWED/GAME GOAL DIFFERENTIAL SHOTS (ON GOAL) ON GOAL % FOULS COMMITTED FOULS SUFFERED CAUTIONS EJECTIONS
7-5-3 (24 pts) 15 4th in East 20 1.3 19 1.27 +1 199 (78) 39.2% 168 178 26 2
2012 REgular season Individual Leaders SPORTING KANSAS CITY
Chicago fire
Dominic Oduro 5 5 Sapong/Kamara goals Sebastian Grazzini 5 8 Graham Zusi assists Marco Pappa 46 57 Kei Kamara shots Dominic Oduro 19 25 Kei Kamara shots on Goal 3 Kamara/Sapong game-winning goals Dominic Oduro 3 4 Graham Zusi game-winning assists Dominic Oduro 2 Patrick Nyarko 30 29 Roger Espinoza fouls suffered Dan Gargan 22 34 Aurelien Collin fouls committed Sebastian Grazzini 4 4 Aurelien Collin cautions Segares/Anibaba 1 1 Roger Espinoza ejections 1.00 Jimmy Nielsen goals against avg Paulo Tornaghi 1.00 Sean Johnson 6 9 Jimmy Nielsen wins Johnson/Tornaghi 1 6 Jimmy Nielsen shutouts Sean Johnson 38 33 Jimmy Nielsen saves
Coaches - REGULAR SEASON Frank Klopas
Peter Vermes 4th season 36-32-23 4th season 36-32-23
MLS Experience MLS Record Year with Team Record with Team
2nd season 15-10-13 2nd season 15-10-13
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