100 players

[Sandon Mibut]

So, after capping for new guys last night, by my count, Arena has now used exactly 100 players since he took over. (My stats could be off, but I don't think so.)

Of those 100, 88 are field players, the other 12 goalkeepers. This includes giving 63 players their first caps.

Chris Armas, despite not playing much for the US the past two years, has played the most minutes and started the most games while Brian McBride and Eddie Lewis have played the most games under Arena. McBride is the leading goal-scorer of the "Arena Era" while Lewis and Landon Donovan are tied for most assists. Frankie Hejduk has the most yellow cards.

In the nets, Kasey Keller has played the most games and has the lowest GAA of any of the GKs Arena has used more than three times.

Here is the 100 players Arena has used, listed in order of minutes played UNDER ARENA, with goals, assists, yellows and reds.


PLAYER GP/GS MIN G/A Y/R
Chris Armas 58/56 4884 2/3 7/0
Landon Donovan 59/52 4812 19/15 6/0
Brian McBride 61/55 4369 20/8 3/0
Jeff Agoos 48/47 3972 1/3 4/0
Eddie Lewis 61/43 3898 7/15 5/1
Eddie Pope 42/42 3658 3/0 5/0
Claudio Reyna 43/41 3426 2/8 5/0
Frankie Hejduk 47/36 3414 3/1 11/1
Earnie Stewart 50/38 3335 11/6 6/0
Cobi Jones 54/32 3235 7/10 0/1
DaMarcus Beasley 42/34 2964 8/2 2/0
Tony Sanneh 38/33 2841 3/2 5/0
Clint Mathis 45/29 2684 12/8 7/1
Carlos Bocanegra 31/29 2560 5/5 5/0
Jovan Kirovski 37/29 2551 5/1 2/0
Pablo Mastroeni 34/29 2478 0/1 6/0
Carlos Llamosa 29/23 2155 0/2 3/1
Greg Vanney 29/24 2095 1/3 2/0
Greg Berhalter 33/26 1996 0/0 8/0
David Regis 22/22 1957 0/0 3/0
Bobby Convey 27/19 1799 1/3 5/0
Steve Cherundolo 22/21 1742 0/4 4/0
Joe-Max Moore 30/17 1680 7/4 2/0
Josh Wolff 28/17 1491 7/4 3/0
John O’Brien 20/17 1452 2/4 0/0
Cory Gibbs 15/13 1218 0/0 2/1
Ante Razov 23/13 1216 6/3 2/1
Robin Fraser 13/12 1170 0/0 0/0
Ben Olsen 22/12 1119 4/1 4/0
Richie Williams 20/11 1078 0/0 2/0
C.J. Brown 15/11 1074 0/0 1/0
Dan Califf 12/11 1016 1/0 4/0
Richard Mulrooney 14/9 887 0/0 0/0
Chris Klein 16/10 789 3/1 0/0
Steve Ralston 14/8 714 2/5 1/0
Chris Albright 13/5 629 1/0 1/0
Kerry Zavagnin 10/6 561 0/1 1/0
Conor Casey 6/6 391 0/1 2/0
Eric Wynalda 5/5 376 2/2 1/0
Chad Deering 7/4 369 0/1 0/0
Taylor Twellman 9/2 293 0/1 1/1
Eddie Johnson 5/3 290 6/0 0/0
John Harkes 4/3 288 0/0 2/0
Marcelo Balboa 3/3 270 0/0 0/0
Brian Ching 6/2 257 2/0 0/0
Jason Kreis 7/3 256 1/0 1/0
Nick Garcia 6/2 239 0/0 0/0
Sasha Victorine 4/3 222 1/0 0/0
Roy Lassiter 6/2 208 0/0 1/0
Jeff Cunningham 8/1 207 0/2 0/0
Manny Lagos 3/2 161 0/0 0/0
Matt McKeon 2/2 147 0/0 2/1
Clint Dempsey 3/1 140 0/0 0/0
Tab Ramos 3/1 139 1/0 0/0
Leo Cullen 3/1 139 0/0 0/0
Paul Bravo 2/2 136 1/1 1/0
Brian West 7/0 110 0/1 0/0
Brian Mullan 2/1 109 0/0 0/0
Mike Petke 2/1 103 0/0 0/0
Kyle Martino 4/1 100 0/0 0/0
Pat Noonan 2/1 99 1/0 0/0
Brian Maisonneuve 3/1 97 0/0 0/0
Wade Barrett 1/1 90 0/0 0/0
Tom Dooley 1/1 90 0/0 0/0
Ritchie Kotschau 1/1 90 0/0 1/0
Chad Marshall 1/1 90 1/0 1/0
John Wolyniec 2/1 85 0/0 0/0
Henry Gutierrez 1/1 78 0/0 0/0
Oguchi Onyewu 2/1 77 0/0 2/1
Ryan Suarez 1/1 77 0/0 1/0
Ramiro Corrales 1/1 65 0/0 0/0
Chris Henderson 2/1 45 0/0 0/0
Diego Gutierrez 1/1 45 0/0 0/0
Preki Radosavljevic 2/0 44 0/0 0/0
Joe Enochs 1/0 28 0/0 0/0
Pete Vagenas 2/0 27 0/0 0/0
Eddie Gaven 2/0 23 0/0 0/0
Chad McCarty 1/0 22 0/0 0/0
Mark Chung 1/0 21 0/0 0/0
John Thorrington 1/0 19 0/0 0/0
Imad Baba 1/0 15 0/0 0/0
Jon Spector 1/0 14 0/0 0/0
Joe Franchino 1/0 13 0/0 0/0
Edson Buddle 1/0 11 0/0 0/0
Jesse Marsch 1/0 9 0/0 0/0
Nat Borchers 1/0 4 0/0 0/0
Alecko Eskandarian 1/0 2 0/0 0/0
Billy Walsh 1/0 1 0/0 0/0

PLAYER GP/GS MIN GA GAA W-L-T SO
Kasey Keller 42/40 3653 27 0.68 24-10-7 21
Brad Friedel 25/24 2145 22 0.96 12-6-5 9
Tim Howard 12/12 990 6 0.54 6-3-3 5
Tony Meola 12/11 955 7 0.65 6-2-2 5
Zach Thornton 7/6 523 4 0.68 1-2-2 2
Jonny Walker 3/3 225 1 0.40 1-0-1 1
Nick Rimando 3/1 180 0 0.00 1-0-0 1
Kevin Hartman 2/0 90 2 2.00 0-0-2 0
Jon Busch 1/1 90 0 0.00 1-0-0 1
Joe Cannon 1/0 45 0 0.00 1-0-0 0
Marcus Hahnemann 1/1 45 1 2.00 0-0-0 0
Tom Presthus 1/0 45 1 2.00 1-0-0 0

If a mod wants to come along and make the chart nice and more reader-friendly, please do so.

[denver_mugwamp]

Great work, Sandon. It's probably good that you're getting this started now because the Gold Cup, summer friendlies, and the last few WCQ games are probably going to add a couple dozen more names to the list. Depth is a wonderful thing.

[PALE568]

Donovan & Bease have a crazy high number of caps for their age. Very impressive.

I know FIFA tracks the number of caps over the course of a career - I wonder it there's an all-time record for most caps before your 25th birthday. Because Donovan could be in the 70s or 80s by then.

[Sandon Mibut]

Great work, Sandon. It's probably good that you're getting this started now because the Gold Cup, summer friendlies, and the last few WCQ games are probably going to add a couple dozen more names to the list. Depth is a wonderful thing.Yeah, some of the names at the bottom of the list are pretty damn good players and you could win a lot of games with those guys, but they happen to behind some better players so some of them won't get many more minutes with the nats.

And, I agree that the depth is pretty impressive and that is this list will only grow. My all-uncapped XI, AS OF TODAY, is as follows:

--------------------------------A. Brown
-------Russell-------------DeMerit------Conrad-------Burciaga

----------------------------------Clark
-------------------Philipakos---------------------Mapp
----------------------------------Magee
-----------------------Arnaud-------------J. Johnson

I expect this list to change as we get a look at more rookies and other young players this MLS season.

Donovan & Bease have a crazy high number of caps for their age. Very impressive.

I know FIFA tracks the number of caps over the course of a career - I wonder it there's an all-time record for most caps before your 25th birthday. Because Donovan could be in the 70s or 80s by then.Yeah, I don't know what the record for pre-25 caps is and I wouldn't know where to look. But, I gotta figure that whatever it is, Donovan would have to be pretty close to it. I mean, between now and the World Cup, he should get about 18 more caps, at least. That would have him pushing 80 caps by next summer when he'll be just 24 so he'd have almost another year to get more caps before his 25th birthday. Really is amazing.

[VioletCrown]

Yeah, I don't know what the record for pre-25 caps is and I wouldn't know where to look. But, I gotta figure that whatever it is, Donovan would have to be pretty close to it. I mean, between now and the World Cup, he should get about 18 more caps, at least. That would have him pushing 80 caps by next summer when he'll be just 24 so he'd have almost another year to get more caps before his 25th birthday. Really is amazing.

Damn. Especially when you look back at all the friendlies that were played pre-MLS. Donovan's numbers surpass many of those players who I now think of as having padded caps numbers.

Amazing.

[Sachin]

This stood out for me:

Carlos Bocanegra 31/29 2560 5/5 5/0
Jovan Kirovski 37/29 2551 5/1 2/0

Sachin

[zcgf02]

This stood out for me:

Carlos Bocanegra 31/29 2560 5/5 5/0
Jovan Kirovski 37/29 2551 5/1 2/0

Sachin

I noticed that too. Let's start Charlie Blackmouth and GAM up front! ;)

[JBigjake]

I noticed that too. Let's start Charlie Blackmouth and GAM up front! ;)

Eddie Johnson 5/3 290 6/0 0/0
SHAZAM!

[Sandon Mibut]

First off, thanks to Dark Knight for putting the chart in a much more readable text form. Certainly makes it easier to take all the info in.

Second, I made a slight error in my data with Friedel and Keller. Each have given up one more goal than I originally posted.

Keller has given up 28 goals under Arena and his Bruce Era GAA is 0.68.
Friedel has given up 23 goals under Arena and his Bruce Era GAA is 0.96.

(DK, if you want to edit that into the chart, feel free.)

Sorry about the mistake, I didn't catch it till I cross-checked some totals this afternoon. I should have done that before I posted.

[AndyMead]

Speaking of "standing out"

PLAYER GP/GS MIN GA GAA W-L-T SO
Joe Cannon 1/0 45 0 0.00 1-0-0 0
Marcus Hahnemann 1/1 45 1 2.00 0-0-0 0

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the above represents one game - Namely the pre-Confed Cup game in 2003 vs New Zealand.

[I. Tristeza]

Sorry about the mistake, I didn't catch it till I cross-checked some totals this afternoon. I should have done that before I posted.

I think we can find it in our hearts to forgive you...

Thanks for the research.... I wouldn't have guessed Kirovski would have played so many minutes under Arena. I also would have thought Convey would have played more minutes than a lot of the players in front of him. The list really brings home the fact that Arena has been running this squad for 7 years now (and doing a great job of it IMO)....

[Sachin]

I think we can find it in our hearts to forgive you...


Speak for yourself....

:D

Sachin

[GunnersBT]

In the "where are they now" category...

Henry Gutierrez?

Wow, were we thin in central midfield back then. If I remember correctly, Gutierrez put together a handful of good matches on a bad Fusion team, and Arena immediately capped him.

Where's Chad McCarty now? I was always surprised he never really made it in MLS.

[LeperKhan]

When did Billy Walsh play a minute?

[CbR]

When did Billy Walsh play a minute?

i think it was added there for comic relief

[gaucho]

Great moments in BigSoccer history:

John Wolyniec 2/1 85 0/0 0/0

What a hissy fit when this guy got capped!

[Anthony]

And still no cap for Ricketts. :D

[Deuteriumoxide]

Great moments in BigSoccer history:

John Wolyniec 2/1 85 0/0 0/0

What a hissy fit when this guy got capped!


I know... to think that US Soccer survived Taylor Twellman or Edson Buddle not getting another cap instead of ol' Wolyninho.

[Sandon Mibut]

When did Billy Walsh play a minute?9/8/99 in a friendly @Jamaica that ended 2-2.

Walsh was one of several players to get his first cap that day, joining an illustrious list that includes Kevin Hartman, the aforementioned Chd McCarty and Henry Gutierrez, Steve Cherundolo, Chris Albright and Josh Wolff.

Here's the lineup.

United States - Zach Thornton (Kevin Hartman, 46), Greg Vanney, Eddie Pope (Chad McCarty 68), Leo Cullen, Steve Cherundolo, Eddie Lewis, Richie Williams (captain), Ben Olsen, Henry Gutierrez (Chris Albright 78), Jason Kreis (Josh Wolff 46, Billy Walsh 90), Brian McBride (Ante Razov 46).

Kreis and Albright got the goals and boy, did the message boards back on ol' AOL Soccer and NAS go nuts talking about how Albright was going to be the next great US forward.

The game was the second of a double-header. In the first game, our U17 team beat their Jamaican counterpats 4-0.

Here's the lineup we fielded for that game:

United States - D.J. Countess, Seth Trembly (Peter Withers 76), Alex Yi (Greg Martin 67), Nelson Akwari, Oguchi Onyewu (Kellen Kalso 79), Bryan Jackson (Justin Detter 84), Kenneth Cutler, Kyle Beckerman (Bobby Convey 59), DaMarcus Beasley, Landon Donovan (Adolfo Gregorio 76), Jordan Cila (Abe Thompson 59).

Interestingly, their are almost as many players from the 17s lineup who have, or will, become fixtures with the national team than the team Arena fielded!

[Anthony]

Kreis and Albright got the goals and boy, did the message boards back on ol' AOL Soccer and NAS go nuts talking about how Albright was going to be the next great US forward.

IIRC, Albright soccer on his first TOUCH on the ball. Literally. Someone passed the ball, and he immediately struck it for a goal. No trap, no dribble.