Juice Boxes and Post Game Stats: 300 Stars for Zusi
Stats and milestones from the weekend.
From a football perspective, it was a tough weekend for Kansas City as two of the KC teams, Sporting KC and the KC Comets, played in three games and the teams tied 3-0 over the weekend. Sporting lost a 2-1 game en route to FC Dallas. The Comets, meanwhile, lost a home game 6-5 to the Florida Tropics and 7-4 en route to the Baltimore Blast.
Here are the stats and milestones.
Sporty KC
Graham Zusi made his 300th league start for KC, the first player to reach that mark. He is one of five players to have reached that mark with a team, along with Nick Rimando, Kyle Beckerman, Diego Chara, Chris Wondolowski and Andrew Farrell.
Daniel Salloi’s goal was his 39th in the league, which ranks him sixth all-time on this list with Chris Klein.
It was his 42nd place finish in MLS competitions, tying him with Klein also at No. 6 all-time on that list.
Salloi scored his seventh goal in an all-time league game against Dallas, making him the only all-time top scorer against them and breaking his tie with Johnny Russell and Preki.
It was Salloi’s 10th goal in all competitions against Dallas. He is the Klein (10 vs CO), Preki (10 vs CO, 13 vs LA, 10 vs SJ), Digitial Takawira (10 vs CO).
Salloi scored his 15th goal in all competitions away from home, tying him with Takawira in seventh all-time on this list.
Salloi made his 176th appearance in all competitions, breaking his tie with Chance Myers for 15th all-time on that list.
It was his 158th appearance in MLS competitions, breaking with Myers for 16th all-time on that list.
It was Salloi’s 149th league appearance, tying him with Mo Johnston and Michael Harrington for 14th all-time on that list.
Felipe Hernandez made his 36th substitute appearance in all competitions, tying it with Myers in 15th all-time on that list.
It was his 32nd substitute appearance in the league, tying him with Jimmy Medranda and Paul Wright at No. 15 all-time on that list.
KC comets
3/18
Lucas Sousa’s 1st goal was his 49th in the league for KC, tying him with Geison at No. 11 all-time on this list. His second goal broke the tie and gave him sole possession of 11th all-time on this list.
He is the 11th player of all time to have scored 50 goals in league games for KC.
Sousa’s first goal was his 55th in all competitions for KC, breaking his tie with Robert Palmer for 10th all-time on that list.
Sousa’s 3 points gave him 75 goals/assists in league play for KC, tying him with Kiel Williams at 11th all-time on this list.
His 3 points gave him 83 goals/assists in all competitions for KC, putting him ahead of Williams and 11th all-time on this list.
Ray Lee’s goal was his 37th in the league for KC, tying him with Adam James at 16th all-time on that list.
Lee recorded his 31st assist in league play, breaking his tie with Williams and Stefan Stokic for 11th all-time on this list.
Ignacio Flores competed in all competitions for the 147th time, ranking 9th all-time on this list, tied with Robert Palmer.
3/19
Sousa’s goal was his 76th goal/assist for KC in league play, breaking their tie with Williams for 11th all-time on this list.
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