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Lopez Returning to Mexico?

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The rumor mill is back up and running again, this time involving the Wizards designated player leaving Kansas City to go back to Mexico to play. The rumor has Lopez leaving the Wizards to go play for Puebla FC in the Mexican first division, where he'd join fellow MLSer, Duilio Davino. According to the article, Lopez is already dealing with the team's sporting director, Gustavo Moscoso. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, puebla fc, rumor

Wizards Up for End of Season Awards

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Four Wizards are up for End of the Year awards from MLS.

First, the Wizards have two goals up for the MLS Goal of the Year. The first nominee is Davy Arnaud's long range blast against the LA Galaxy at Arrowhead stadium. The other nominee is Josh Wolff's bicycle kick against Chivas USA a few weeks later. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Defender of the Year, Jimmy Conrad, Josh Wolff, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Newcomer of the Year, goal of the year, year end awards

Speaking of Goals of 2008/Conrad and Lopez up for Awards

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So just after the YouTube clip comes the start of official Sierra Mist Goal of the Year award voting. Number one and two from the previous clip are on the ballots for the award, which will face some stiff competition from flukey goals like Danny Cepero's goalkeeper tally and that David Beckham guy's long-range bomb into the open net against us in the dying seconds of our game out in LA. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Jimmy Conrad, Josh Wolff, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Sierra Mist Goal of the Year

Octobert Player of the Month

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The regular season is over, the playoffs start on Saturday, and it's time to award the final Down the Byline Player of the Month award for this season. In the month of October, the Wizards went undefeated, going 3-0-1 winning against New England at home and away, and San Jose at home. They also tied the Fire at home 1-1. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Herculez Gomez, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Player of the Month

Charla con Piojo/Interview Schedule

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The Claudio Lopez QnA with ESPN Deportes just ended. Read the transcript in Spanish here. The people from ESPN told us it was one of the most anticipated live chats ever by an MLS player, with questions coming from many countries all around the world. Great job Piojo, and thanks!

Also, many media outlets are getting pumped up about our postseason opener this Saturday. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, ESPN, Interview Schedule, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer

Charla Con Piojo/Interesting Tidbit

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For those out there who speak Spanish, check in here at ESPNDeportes.com for a live chat with Claudio Lopez that will take place tomorrow at 12:45 p.m. CT. Submit a question then check back at the same URL afterward to see if your question is picked.

Also interesting to note is that Kansas City and Columbus finished the regular season as two teams with the fewest fouls committed. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: 2008 Playoffs, Claudio Lopez, Columbus Crew, ESPN, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Ticket Specials

Sunday After Stats

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Stats from last night's 3-1 win over the New England Revolution.

Kerry Zavagnin's appearance was his 237th and final regular season appearance for the Wizards, a club record. He finished with 20,516 minutes played in league play, also a club record.

Davy Arnaud's goal was his 32nd goal in MLS play, breaking the tie with Mo Johnston for 3rd on that list. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Jimmy Conrad, Kansas City Wizards, Kerry Zavagnin, Kevin Hartman, Major League Soccer, Michael Harrington, Stats

Houston Reserves Win 3-0

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Houston won 3-0 today against Chivas USA's second team on three second-half goals to secure the MLS Reserve Division crown. We finish 2nd with an 8-1-2 record on the season. Claudio Lopez's former club Racing is currently up 2-0 on Argentine league-leading San Lorenzo on a pretty 2nd minute goal and a PK in the 20th minute. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Houston Dynamo, International football, KCW Reserves, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer

Bring on the Crew

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The Wizards will go into the playoffs on a high, after dispatching the New England Revolution last night in New England, 3-1. The game started off a little slow, but it was the Wizards who had the best chance early, as a cross by Claudio Lopez bounced right through the box, unfortunately Abe Thompson was not able to catch up with it. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, New England Revolution

Adding to Your Reading List

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Here are four stories you need to read. Some of them were posted before we clinched a playoff berth, so give the authors some slack for that.

1. MLSnet.com piece from our friend Bob Rusert on Kerry Zavagnin and his fond regular-season farewell last weekend. Some very good, insightful quotes here from KZ and company. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Charity Events, Claudio Lopez, Coach Onalfo, Jimmy Conrad, Kansas City Wizards, Kerry Zavagnin, Major League Soccer, Peter Vermes, Soccer 365, goal.com

Claudio Lopez, Player of the week and other stuff...

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As many of you know by now, Claudio Lopez was named the MLS Player of the Week. A goal and two assists in a dramatic 3-2win will get that for you. This goal reminds of the magic of Lopez. Sometime he can just put a ball around/over a keeper in the coolest ways. Each week, the team has a press conference. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: , Claudio Lopez, Video

Claudio "El Piojo" Lopez Wins MLS Player of the Week

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Congrats to Piojo! He certainly deserves it. His maestro-like performance from Saturday has us controlling our own destiny as we enter the final week of the MLS regular season schedule. With his beautiful goal and two great assists, who knows where we would be right now. Check out our release on the subject here and watch the videos of his great plays below:

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Player of the Week

Lopez Player of the Week

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Wizards forward, Claudio Lopez was named MLS player of the week today for his performance against San Jose on the weekend. Lopez, in his first start since early September, had a hand in all 3 of the Wizards goals, scoring the first and assisting on the other 2. He looked like the player many Wizards fans expected from their DP when he signed before the season. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Player of the Week

Sunday After Stats

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Stats from this week's 3-2 win over San Jose.

Davy Arnaud's goal was his 6th of the year tying him with Jimmy Conrad for team high.

Arnaud's 31st league goal which ties him with Mo Johnston for 3rd on that list.

Arnaud's 160th start in all competitions, breaking tie with Matt McKeon for 6th on that list. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Jack Jewsbury, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Stats

Wizards Leave it Late

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A fantastic ending to a back and forth game out at Community America Ballpark last night, as the Wizards got a goal late in stoppage time from Herculez Gomez to put the Wizards back into 7th place in the playoff race. KC now has to match New York's result next week, or hope that DC United does not get a win on Sunday next week. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Herculez Gomez, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Nick Garcia, San Jose Earthquakes

WHAT A WIN!

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Amazing. That's the only way to describe. Claudio Lopez was simply fantastic tonight, as was the rest of the team. We outshot SJ 23-7. What a touching moment with Kerry Zavagnin before the match. Too bad we didn't score earlier so he could have come on toward the end. Check out the quotes and notables from tonight:

KANSAS CITY WIZARDS HEAD COACH CURT ONALFO
On the play of Claudio Lopez
"About five weeks ago, he hit a point where he was just tired. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Kansas City Wizards, Kerry Zavagnin, Major League Soccer, Notables, Quotes, San Jose Earthquakes, Wizards Win

Sierra Mist Goal of the Year

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We're on quite a roll over the past few weeks with Sierra Mist Goal of the Week nominations and wins, and it's about time to start thinking about the Sierra Mist Goal of the Year award. We already have two Wizards nominated automatically by virtue of winning the Goal of the Week honor (Davy Arnaud's upper-90 bomb in week 25 and Josh Wolff's spectacular bicycle kick in week 27). Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Jimmy Conrad, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Michael Harrington, Sierra Mist Goal of the Week, Sierra Mist Goal of the Year

Practice Confrontation

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Thad checks in with his write up from the press conference yesterday, as well as a report from practice today. As Thad says in his write up, the big news is the fact that today out at practice there was a disagreement between Coach Onalfo and midfielder, Carlos Marinelli. The disagreement got the attention of the staff and people watching practice. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Carlos Marinelli, Claudio Lopez, Curt Onalfo, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, The Back Post, practice

We Don't Like the Road

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First a little history, 23 weeks ago, I was still waiting on my son to arrive, Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton were still fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillcrest Road was still scheduled to begin building in the summer, and the Wizards won their last road game. Who would have thought that with only 1 road game left this season, that the Wizards only road win would come in Chicago, a place they've notoriously had trouble winning at. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Alecko Eskandarian, Ante Razov, Bicycle Kick, Chivas USA, Claudio Lopez, Community America Ballpark, Herculez Gomez, Hillcrest Road, Home Depot Center, Josh Wolff, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Michael Kennedy, Sasha Victorine, arrowhead, dramatic fashion

Dancing with the Wizards

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Last night on the Conrad Show, Hillcrest made his radio debut and at one point asked Jimmy which Wizards player would be the best on Dancing with the Stars. Jimmy said Kerry Zavagnin was the pick and even noted that Kerry had actually been approached by the show's producers about the possibility. Well, now you get to decide. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Conrad, Dancing with the Wizards, Jimmy Conrad, Kansas City Wizards, Kerry Zavagnin, Kevin Hartman, Major League Soccer, Michael Harrington, claudio

What Would The Little Fella Like For Breakfast News

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Soccer America points out today that Columbus is the first team to qualify for this seasons MLS playoffs! See more in Columbus Crew section.

~and~

Which big money MLS player has been a bigger disappointment this season: Dulio Davino, Marcelo Gallardo or Claudio Lopez?

~and~

A TV pundit in Germany has referred to Juergen Klinsmann as "the white Barak Obama". Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Columbus Crew, Houston Chronicle, Houston Dynamo, MLS Playoffs, Major League Soccer, Marcelo Gallardo, Mike Magee, Puerto Rico Islanders, United States, concacaf champions league, davino, santos laguna, soccer america

Moving on Up

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A win is always welcome at this venture of the season. With every match extremely crucial to having a shot at the postseason, these three points will go a long way. The new signings (not so new anymore) Abe Thompson and Herculez Gomez left a strong mark on the match, with Gomez looking dangerous on a number of different occasions.

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Reserves Pump TFC 6-0 Sunday

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Sorry for the delayed post, here's the release about the match. On the Marinelli goal, I've seen elsewhere that Souter scored, but the refs said the initial fumble by Edwards went over the line and Souter pushed it in afterward. Enjoy the rest of the rundown.

KCW Reserves Defeat Toronto FC Reserves 6-0 Sunday

Kansas City Gets Hat Trick from Ivan Trujillo, Two Goals from Ryan Pore

MLS Reserve Division Match
Sunday, September 21, 2008 – 10:00 a. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Carlos Marinelli, Claudio Lopez, Ivan, Ivan Trujillo, KCW Reserves, Kansas City Wizards, Kerry Zavagnin, Major League Soccer, Refs, Ryan Pore, Swope Park, Toronto FC, Wizards Win, hat trick, scorer, shutout, trujillo

Reserves Destroy Toronto

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The KC Wizards reserves had no problem taking down the Toronto FC reserves this morning out at the Wizards Swope Park training complex. Ivan Trujillo had a hattrick as the reserves beat Toronto 6-0 today. The first half for the game was fairly quiet, as the Wizards and Toronto didn't have many great chances. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Carlos Marinelli, Claudio Lopez, Danny Dichio, Iván Trujillo, Kansas City Wizards, Kerry Zavagnin, Kevin Souter, Major League Soccer, Michael Kraus, Pizarro, Reserves, Ryan Pore, Swope Park, Toronto FC, free kick, hattrick, trujillo

Olympian Muna Lee to Sign Autographs Saturday

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Muna Lee

United States Olympic sprinter Muna Lee will be on hand at the match Saturday to sign autographs for fans inside CommunityAmerica Ballpark in the same place Brandi Chastain did back in June. Lee will join Claudio Lopez, Josh Wolff, Peter Vermes and Curt Onalfo as Olympians in the building. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Josh Wolff, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Olympics, Peter Vermes

Wizards Cruise in Friendly

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The Wizards played a friendly today at their Swope Park training complex against the U-23 Arkansas Wizards. Hillcrest Road has a more indepth write up on the game. The Wizards, though, had no problem taking out their Arkansas counterparts, as they beat them 13-0. All healthy Wizards players got into the game and most played a half. Click to continue reading...

Wizards Return to Arrowhead with Win

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The Wizards returned to Arrowhead for the only time this season and came away with a big 2-0 win over the LA Galaxy. While last week seemed hopeless, this game, gives hope to the idea that the Wizards actually could make the playoffs this year. With 4 of the last 6 games at home, the Wizards can certainly put up a fight for a playoff spot, but will need help to get in. Click to continue reading...

KC Welcomes Beckham and the Galaxy

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Tomorrow afternoon, the Wizards return to Arrowhead Stadium to take on David Beckham and the Galaxy at 4 pm. Both team's are struggling right now, as since the all star break, the two are a combined 1-7-5. LA hasn't won since June. KC's only win since the all star break was a game against Chivas USA that they probably should have only gotten a point out of. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: All Star, Arrowhead Stadium, Buddle, Chivas USA, Claudio Lopez, Conrad, David Beckham, Donovan, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, Major League Soccer, Sasha Victorine, Soccer, Thompson, preview

Thompson to Start Saturday

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In Bob Luder's article today about the newest Wizard, Abe Thompson, we get mention that Thompson will be starting up top on Saturday against LA. Onalfo says that Thompson brings a calming influence to the team, and are incorporating him into the offense to get him ready for this Saturday. With that said, we'll likely see Claudio Lopez drop back into the midfield, as Thompson will go up top with Josh Wolff. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Abe Thompson, Bob Luder, Claudio Lopez, Conrad, Josh Wolff, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, Major League Soccer, Sasha Victorine, midfield, wizard

Don't Forget: Jersey Auction

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Hey guys, hopefully no one has forgotten about the jersey auction currently ongoing over at kcwizards.com to benefit a spoonful of charities. Go bid on your favorite player' s jersey here. If you don't remember who we're helping out, read about it:

Jerseys start at $150 or $200, and the auction runs through September 15. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Auctions, Charity Events, Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Jack Jewsbury, Jimmy Conrad, Josh Wolff, Kansas City Soccer Foundation, Kansas City Wizards, Kerry Zavagnin, Kevin Hartman, Major League Soccer, Michael Harrington, Pizarro, Sasha Victorine

Let's Face It

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This team is not good. Today in Houston, it was abundantly clear, as the Wizards fell to Houston 3-1. In hot an humid conditions down in Houston, the Wizards lost Matt Marquess to cramps before the game had even started. When the game started the team came out a little sluggish, Houston did at the same time though, and it was a rather dull start to the game. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Abe Thompson, Brad Davis, Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud, Dynamo, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City Wizards, Kevin Hartman, Major League Soccer, Nate Jaqua, Wade Barrett, humid conditions, shutout, tony caig

Goodbye Ryan McMahen, We Hardly Knew Ye

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With the trade yesterday for Abe Thompson, the Wizards had to make room on their senior roster for him. To make room, the Wizards waived 3rd year midfielder, Ryan McMahen. Most of you are probably saying "Who?", well I'm going to give you some information on what McMahen's been doing with us the past almost 3 years. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Abe Thompson, Carolina Railhawks, Claudio Lopez, Competitions, Des Moines Menace, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Ryan McMahen, Seattle, Stats, supplemental draft

Gomez Leaves Colorado's Peaks for KC's Fruited Plain

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In an effort to prevent Jimmy Conrad from being the team's Golden Boot winner for 2008 the Wizards have augmented their attack by signing Herculez Gomez from Colorado. Basically that means that if Claudio Lopez can't get the job done, it will be up to Gomez to keep Jimmy's head from becoming as vast as the Kansas plains. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: , Claudio Lopez, Colorado Rapids, Golden Boot, Herculez Gomez, Jimmy Conrad, Jimmy Conrad Has a Posse, Kansas City Wizards

Trade: Herculez Gomez to Kansas City

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The Colorado Rapids have traded forward Herculez Gomez to the Kansas City Wizards in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft, as well as a first-round pick in the '09 Supplemental Draft and an undisclosed sum of allocation money.Gomez, 26, was once one of the brightest young stars in the league when he was with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Claudio Lopez, Colorado Rapids, Jimmy Conrad, Joe Cannon, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS SuperDraft, Major League Soccer, Ugo Ihemelu, Young Stars, gomez, midfield, offseason, playing time, supplemental draft, technical director

Kickin' It With Al Hopkins: WTF Edition

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Allen Hopkins points out two things in this clip that really do make you think "WTF?". The first is how is LA not scoring of Becks corners? Is it that he's serving up weak-sauce, his teammates not knowing what to do with ass this good or have the league's other teams actually found a way to stop Goldenballs? Click to continue reading...

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Tags: , Brand Beckham, Claudio Lopez, ESPN, Jimmy Conrad, Jimmy Conrad Has a Posse, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, Videos, allen hopkins

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