Monday, September 29, 2014

Martins, Morales, Donovan Reach Milestone

This weekend, Seattle's Obafemi Martins, Vancouver's Pedro Morales and LA's Landon Donovan all reached double digit goals and assists on the year making them just the 2nd, 3rd and 4th players to reach the milestone this season (Robbie Keane was the first). This milestone has been a surprisingly hard one to reach over the years with only 28 individuals reaching it since the league's inception in 1996. For Donovan and Keane, it marks the second time in their careers with Keane accomplishing the feat last year and Donovan doing it way back in 2005. Preki and Jaime Moreno are the only players in league history to accomplish the feat more than twice, both of them doing in 4 times. What makes this year even more unique is that it marks only the second time in the league's history that more than three players accomplished the feat in the same season. You have to go all the way back to 1998 to find the only other instance of this happening. Here's a list of all the players in MLS history to notch at least 10 goals and 10 helpers in a single season.

2014

Robbie Keane - LA Galaxy - 17 Goals, 14 Assists
Obafemi Martins - Seattle Sounders - 15 Goals, 10 Assists
Landon Donovan - LA Galaxy - 10 Goals, 18 Assists
Pedro Morales - Vancouver Whitecaps - 10 Goals, 10 Assists

2013

Diego Valeri - Portland Timbers - 10 Goals, 13 Assists
Robbie Keane - LA Galaxy - 16 Goals, 11 Assists

2012

Thierry Henry - New York Red Bulls - 15 Goals, 12 Assists


2011

Dwayne De Rosario - DC United - 16 Goals, 12 Assists

2010

Sebastien Le Toux - Philadelphia Union - 14 Goals, 11 Assists
Fredy Montero - Seattle Sounders - 10 Goals, 10 Assists

2009

None

2008

Jaime Moreno - DC United - 10 Goals, 10 Assists

2007

None

2006

Jeff Cunningham - Real Salt Lake - 16 Goals, 11 Assists
Christian Gomez - DC United - 14 Goals, 11 Assists
Jaime Moreno - DC United - 11 Goals, 10 Assists

2005

Amado Guevara - New York Metrostars - 11 Goals, 11 Assists
Landon Donovan - LA Galaxy - 12 Goals, 10 Assists
Josh Wolff - Kansas City Wizards - 10 Goals, 10 Assists

2004

Amado Guevara - New York Metrostars - 10 Goals, 10 Assists

2003

Preki - Kansas City Wizards - 12 Goals, 17 Assists

2002

Mark Chung - Colorado Rapids - 11 Goals, 10 Assists

2001

Diego Serna - Miami Fusion - 15 Goals, 15 Assists
Jeff Cunningham - Columbus Crew - 10 Goals, 13 Assists

2000

Clint Mathis - New York Metrostars - 16 Goals, 14 Assists
Jason Kreis - Dallas Burn - 11 Goals, 13 Assists
Diego Serna - Miami Fusion - 16 Goals, 10 Assists

1999

Jason Kreis - Dallas Burn - 18 Goals, 15 Assists
Jaime Moreno - DC United - 10 Goals, 13 Assists
Roy Lassiter - DC United - 18 Goals, 11 Assists

1998

Marco Etcheverry - DC United - 10 Goals, 19 Assists
Mauricio Cienfuegos - LA Galaxy - 13 Goals, 16 Assists
Eduardo Hurtado - New York Metrostars - 11 Goals, 15 Assists
Cobi Jones - LA Galaxy - 19 Goals, 13 Assists
Preki - Kansas City Wizards - 10 Goals, 13 Assists
Ronald Cerritos - San Jose Clash - 13 Goals, 12 Assists
Jaime Moreno - DC United - 16 Goals, 11 Assists
Welton - LA Galaxy - 17 Goals, 11 Assists

1997

Preki - Kansas City Wizards - 12 Goals, 17 Assists
Ronald Cerritos - San Jose Clash - 12 Goals, 10 Assists
Lawrence Lozzano - San Jose Clash - 10 Goals, 10 Assists

1996

Preki - Kansas City Wiz - 18 Goals, 13 Assists
Eric Wynalda - San Jose Clash - 10 Goals, 13 Assists

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