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Today was the last day to vote for the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame class of 2009 and when I sat down to fill out my electronic ballot I fully expected it to be an easy process.

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PV with Piojo

After yesterday's national election day, there's still another vote of interest to Wizards fans. Technical Director Peter Vermes is nominated for the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame for the third straight year. Vermes has been one of the first former players out of the running in each of the last two years, so he is on voters' minds. Click to continue reading...

This year's list of players up for induction into the US Soccer Hall of Fame is out. And like last year, there is a good number of former Wizards that are up for induction into the US Soccer Hall of Fame. Included in the list is former Wizards great Preki, along with the team's current Technical Director, Peter Vermes. Click to continue reading...

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...

Thad over at The Back Post has two interviews posted the last two days. The first interview that he got posted yesterday was an interview with Wizards open tryout participant, Kevin Souter, including a nickname, "Soapy" from a Scottish cartoon called Oor Wullie. It's a really good interview including some good information on Souter's home town as well. Click to continue reading...

Peter Vermes chatted with Martin Rogers of Yahoo! Sports last week, and the article came out late last night. Rogers used the chat as a platform for discussing some of the big-money investors to join the League in the last couple of years such as Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig and the rest of OnGoal. Rogers also calls PV the most wanted man in MLS and references job offers from LA and Seattle. Click to continue reading...

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...

Goal Seattle has a great rundown of rumors and news surrounding the team's coaching search.

Added is a report from Ives that the K.C. technical director Peter Vermes turned down the job.

While current Sounder coach Brian Schmetzer remains in the pool, there is one name that's getting some mention. Click to continue reading...

Ives Galarcep is reporting that Wizards Technical Director, Peter Vermes has turned down Seattle Sounders FC for the chance to become their head coach. According to the report, Vermes is one of 3 candidates that the Sounders have reached out to about becoming the team's first head coach next season. Click to continue reading...

We'll try to post these more often from now on, but here's a list of shows that will host Wizards players this week. Tune in and enjoy!

Tonight—7:00 a.m.—Jimmy Conrad in-studio TV interview—38 the Sports Spot

Wednesday—6:45 a.m.—Bruce Arena phone interview—Sports Radio 810

Wednesday—8:15 a. Click to continue reading...

Coach Kelderman meets with the reserves before beating D.C. 4-2

Our friend Bob Luder of the KC Star checked in today with a story on our reserve squad and their success so far this season. Read it here, then click on the tag below for "KCW Reserves" to re-live some of the match recaps. Also in Bob's story is a link to an interesting one about our Technical Director PV. Click to continue reading...

Wizards technical director, Peter Vermes will remain with the Wizards. Bob Luder is reporting that Vermes had been offered the job of GM with the LA Galaxy, following the firing of Alexi Lalas. Vermes turned the position down. Honestly I can't blame him for it. The situation in LA is a circus and almost a no win situation for the man that takes the GM position. Click to continue reading...

Kansas City's Peter Vermes was offered the GM position before Bruce Arena, but turned it down.

Interesting.

Arena wasn't AEG's first choice.

From the Kansas City Star:

"A week ago (Tuesday), AEG asked for permission to speak to me," Vermes said. "Our ownership group (OnGoal LLC) .

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Busy day here at Hillcrest huh! Technical Director Peter Vermes stopped by local NPR station KCUR 89.3 this morning for a long chat about soccer. Keegan Pierce, press officer for Chivas USA, highlights the soccer hour for the first 7-10 minutes talking about our game against Chivas USA and the differences between MLS and Mexico, then Vermes sticks around for the rest of the time. Click to continue reading...

Stopped by training today for a little look at the guys before tomorrow's important match against Chivas USA. The session went well, with the starting group knocking the ball around and working on crosses. The reserves participated in 7-v-7 matches on a small field. Technical Director Peter Vermes and Coach Onalfo were involved, with their two teams squaring off in the final. Click to continue reading...

A little over a week ago, I wrote about a couple options that the Wizards had inside the league in regards to using their recently acquired allocation money to get another striker. One of those is off the table, as Chad Barrett is now in Toronto for the rights to Brian McBride. That does still leave two of my potential trades on the table. Click to continue reading...

With the recent trade of Scott Sealy, the Wizards again have an open roster spot to fill. From comments made by Coach Onalfo and Peter Vermes, the team is looking to fill that spot with a player. Will the Wizards go out and try to get a forward to partner Josh Wolff? Pushing Ivan Trujillo to the bench? Click to continue reading...

I had been planning on getting my brother to help blog about the Wizards Juniors trip to nationals this week, and he still might. But the Wizards look to have someone stepping up to blog on the team down in Arkansas this week. The team has set up a KC Wizards Juniors blog, which as the little blurb about the blog says, "This is the online home of news and information for the KCW Juniors, the official youth development arm of the Kansas City Wizards. Click to continue reading...

The hot stove is currently in Meltdown Mode this Monday....
According to this article in the Seattle Press-Intelligencer and on Centerline Soccer, Trinidad and Tobago international Scott Sealy will trade his Blue and White Kansas City kit for a Blue and Black San Jose one.

Excerpt from the PI:

"The San Jose Earthquakes acquired Kansas City Wizards forward Scott Sealy in exchange for allocation money, the Major League Soccer teams announced on Monday.

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Scott Sealy has been sent packing from Kansas City today. The Wizards veteran forward will team up with Darren Huckerby -who has to be the most hyped player signing from the Championship League ever- in northern California and attempt to invigorate San Jose's impotent attack. I've got no official press release to link to so I've posted the emailed release below. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards are in New Mexico, getting ready to play CSD Municipal tonight in the first ever New Mexico Cup. This game will be the first time the Wizards throw out their "new formation" of a flat midfield instead of a diamond. As mentioned in Onalfo's press conference earlier this week, a few players have not made the trip, Roger Espinoza, Sasha Victorine, and Claudio Lopez are all carrying small knocks that will keep them out as a precaution. Click to continue reading...

PRESS RELEASE

The Kansas City Wizards announced the tryout times for the five KCW Juniors teams. The KCW Juniors will have teams in the U-13, U-15, U-16, U-17 and U-18 age groups for the 2008-2009 season and designate six Technical Staff members to those teams. The Wizards will also form a U-19 squad for players returning from college to have a place to train and a way to stay connected to the organization.

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Preki was the closest of numerous former Wizards players up for election to the US Soccer Hall of Fame this year. Candidates need to be named on at least 75% of the 128 ballots to be elected to the Hall. Preki was named on 87 of them (68%). He was the highest finishing player along with Joy Fawcett. Click to continue reading...

In news that shouldn't really surprise anyone that has been reading this blog recently, the Claudio Lopez negotiation rumors are true. Bob Luder of the KC Star has a story today about the Argentine striker and the possibility of him coming to KC. Peter Vermes wants to have Lopez signed soon so that he can train with while they are down in Argentina for the next few weeks. Click to continue reading...

Yes, believe it or not, the fans are getting excited about the draft.

Lets be brutally honest, the fans opinions really mean nothing when it comes to player personnel decisions. What am I really saying? Peter and Curt could care less what you and I think. Just send the sales department your money for those tickets and Sing and Chant. Click to continue reading...

Continuing with the fantasy draft tonight are rounds 3 and 4. Here are the first two rounds.

3 (1). Team Shook - Chris Klein - Klein is second in every major offensive category in Wizards history with 39 goals, 45 assists, and 123 points. Klein is also fourth on the career list of games played and minutes played. Click to continue reading...

Ever since the January transfer window opened, I've posted many times about the rumors going around about where Eddie Johnson will land. Fulham, Derby County, Manchester City, Reading, Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Benfica, have all been linked in some form with the striker. Today in the Star, we finally get some talk from the front office about it. Click to continue reading...