1999 Kansas City Wizards season

Kansas City Wizards

1999 season
Head coach	Ron Newman Ken Fogarty Bob Gansler
Major League Soccer	West: 6th Overall: 11th
Top goalscorer	League: Preki (7) All: Preki (7)
Average home league attendance	8,183
Home colors Away colors
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The 1999 Kansas City Wizards season was played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. MLS did not allow matches to end in ties in 1999 and thus Shootouts were used to decide draws, the stats that follow do not include shootout goals scored and the teams actually point total in the regular season was 20 even though it is shown below as 24. Shootout win= 2 points, Shootout loss= 0 points. The Wizards first ever manager Ron Newman was let go and replaced with Bob Gansler. ^[1]

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   USA Tony Meola 2 DF   USA Brandon Prideaux 3 FW   ENG Paul Wright 3 DF   USA Tony Soto 4 DF   USA Scott Uderitz 5 FW   USA Brian Johnson 6 DF   USA Sean Bowers 7 MF   USA Brian Loftin 8 MF   USA Chris Brown 9 FW   CAN Alex Bunbury 10 FW   SCO Mo Johnston 11 MF   USA Preki 12 FW   ZIM Vitalis Takawira 13 MF   USA Vicente Figueroa 14 DF   USA Michael Green

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW   USA Scott Vermillion 16 MF   USA Jake Dancy 17 MF   USA Chris Klein 18 GK   USA Chris Snitko 19 MF   USA Chris Henderson 20 DF   NGA Uche Okafor 21 MF   USA Francisco Gomez 22 DF   USA Alexi Lalas 23 FW   USA Nino Da Silva 24 MF   USA Ryan Turner 25 DF   YUG Refik Sabanadzovic 30 GK   USA Anthony Latronica 30 GK   MEX Cesar Delgado 31 GK   USA David Winner

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Competitions

Major League Soccer

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
32	8	0	24	33	53	−20	24	6	0	10	24	21	+3	2	0	14	9	32	−23

Last updated: 1999.
Source: Major League Soccer

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
March 20, 1999	Dallas Burn	A	0–4
March 27, 1999	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	0–3
April 3, 1999	New England Revolution	H	0–1
April 10, 1999	San Jose Earthquakes	H	1–1 (L)	Brown
April 17, 1999	Colorado Rapids	A	1–1 (L)	Lalas
April 24, 1999	Miami Fusion	A	0–1
April 28, 1999	Columbus Crew	H	0–1
May 8, 1999	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–1	Lalas Klein
May 15, 1999	D.C. United	H	3–3 (L)	Henderson Klein Preki
May 22, 1999	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	1–3	Johnston
June 6, 1999	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	0–1
June 12, 1999	Dallas Burn	H	1–0	Own Goal
June 20, 1999	MetroStars	H	6–0	Brown 2 Klein Johnston Preki Gomez
June 26, 1999	D.C. United	A	0–3
July 3, 1999	Tampa Bay Mutiny	A	1–1 (W)	Bunbury
July 7, 1999	Colorado Rapids	H	1–2	Bunbury
July 10, 1999	Dallas Burn	A	0–5
July 22, 1999	Tampa Bay Mutiny	H	4–3	Lalas Preki Klein 2
July 25, 1999	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–2	Bunbury
July 31, 1999	San Jose Earthquakes	H	2–2 (W)	Preki 2
August 5, 1999	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	1–2	Johnston
August 8, 1999	Columbus Crew	A	1–2	Brown
August 14, 1999	MetroStars	A	2–1	Klein Bunbury
August 25, 1999	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–2
August 29, 1999	Miami Fusion	H	2–0	Henderson Preki
September 4, 1999	San Jose Earthquakes	A	0–2
September 7, 1999	New England Revolution	A	2–3	Preki Henderson
September 10, 1999	Colorado Rapids	A	0–0 (L)
September 18, 1999	Dallas Burn	H	1–1 (L)	Lalas
September 25, 1999	Colorado Rapids	H	0–0 (L)
October 6, 1999	San Jose Earthquakes	A	0–1
October 9, 1999	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	0–1

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS		Total		Minutes		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	League	Total
22	DF	Alexi Lalas	30	4	30	4	2700	2700	0	0
19	MF	Chris Henderson	30	3	30	3	2625	2625	0	0
11	MF	Preki	30	7	30	7	2572	2572	0	0
17	MF	Chris Klein	30	6	30	6	2198	2198	0	0
10	FW	Mo Johnston	29	3	29	3	2537	2537	0	0
8	MF	Chris Brown	28	4	28	4	1679	1679	0	0
20	DF	Uche Okafor	26	0	26	0	2269	2269	0	0
5	FW	Brian Johnson	26	0	26	0	1674	1674	0	0
6	DF	Sean Bowers	25	0	25	0	1827	1827	0	0
19	MF	Scott Vermillion	24	0	24	0	1630	1630	0	0
13	--	Vicente Figueroa	22	0	22	0	1312	1312	0	0
9	FW	Alex Bunbury	19	4	19	4	1579	1579	0	0
18	GK	Chris Snitko	16	0	16	0	1395	1395	0	0
12	FW	Vitalis Takawira	18	0	18	0	651	651	0	0
2	DF	Brandon Prideaux	15	0	15	0	937	937	0	0
16	MF	Jake Dancy	14	0	14	0	964	964	0	0
1	GK	Tony Meola	9	0	9	0	765	765	0	0
23	FW	Nino DaSilva	8	0	8	0	331	331	0	0
31	--	David Winner	7	0	7	0	631	631	0	0
21	MF	Francisco Gomez	7	1	7	1	339	339	0	0
25	DF	Refik Sabanadzovic	6	0	6	0	436	436	0	0
3	FW	Paul Wright	6	0	6	0	148	148	0	0
3	--	Tony Soto	4	0	4	0	176	176	0	0
4	DF	Scott Uderitz	2	0	2	0	143	143	0	0
30	--	Cesar Delgado	1	0	1	0	90	90	0	0

Final Statistics

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References

1. Yannis, Alex. "SOCCER: NOTEBOOK; Gansler Helps to End The Wizards' 0-10 Skid", New York Times. May 11, 1999.