I had the chance to chat with one of the nicest guys in sports: Wizards midfielder Kerry Zavagnin.
What did he think of playing before a team record crowd of 32,867 last Thursday at Arrowhead Stadium?
“That was nice,” he said. “More importantly, a lot of people who went to the game were entertained, and while the home team didn’t win, it was in a lot of ways an exciting and entertaining game. It’s nice that we could provide that. It would have been better if we’d been able to win, but hopefully we converted some people into soccer fans and that’s the goal when you get a crowd like that.”
Even if the crowd didn’t get to see that guy from England, right?
“What guy?” Zavagnin quipped.
And for Wizards fans who worry about another late season fade, just know that Zavagnin is not sweating it.
“For some reason, I don’t know why, it feels so much different from the other seasons that we ended with such a bad run,” he said. “I feel like we play well. When you look at the game the other night, the other team has three shots with one on goal and it’s a deflection that lands on the guy’s head. We’re not scoring and not finishing chances on our end, but I really feel good about our team and I don’t feel like any of us feel like there’s a lot of pressure to do things that we haven’t been doing. We feel good about our chances.”
Not just to make the playoffs, but to make some noise when the postseason begins.
“I don’t think anybody would expect us to do well,” Zavagnin said. “First of all, there are probably a lot of people who think we’re never going to make the playoffs, and after that, they think we’re going to be a two-game-and-out kind of team, but we’re going to be a tough team whoever we play.”
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Thanks for the interview Pete. You have access to things normal bloggers don't, and giving us this kind of look is always more appreciated than speculation on a 3 division conference. Got any word on whether Scott Sealy will be back for Friday?
Unfortunately for Kerry, he seems to be a little delusional about his teams performance, and how the 32,000 fans saw it. Yes KC for the most part shut the Galaxy down, but they should have.
That was a terrible team, and they came in and took 3 points from us in our stadium when we most needed them. Talk about blowing a major opportunity to make some fans.
What happened to the team that was putting up 20+ shots every game even when we struggled to finish?
Since the opening stretch of games where EJ was on fire, the offense has become very mediocre. The defense all season could only pray to be called mediocre.
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