Talk:Kansas City Wizards

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[edit] Copa MercoNorte section

This section seems bias in favor of the Wizards. I think it should be reformatted to remove the instances of "questionable." Unless of course there are sources to cite that make the same claims.

The section POV is much better now! Thanks. Rballou 17:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International Competition

I think the whole international competition section needs to be worked on. I think the Chicago Fire International Competition section is more concise than current layout. Any thoughts? Rballou 14:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nationality Icons

What, if any, is the wikipedia policy on indicating nationality? I notice in this article that Preki has an American flag by his name and Bob Gansler has a Hungarian flag. I find it difficult to believe that either one of them isn't an American citizen by now. If it should properly indicate place of birth, then they should both do so, and if it should indicate current citizenship, then they should both indicate that. I would do it but I don't know which is correct.

According to the discussion on the WikiProject page for Clubs it seems that they should have the flag for the national team that they have played for. If they have not played for a team, then I think they get the flag of their birth nationality. Not sure on this though, especially when the person in question is a coach. Rballou 18:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Players

I think the notable players sections (not just for the Wizards, but for MLS teams in general) should be changed to notable former players. I realize that MLS teams have far less notable former players, but I'm not sure we need to duplicate players who are already listed in the current roster. Thoughts? Rballou 22:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copa Games

I formatted the Copa Merconorte games like the 2006 FIFA World Cup page, but I am not sure if we want all this information or if this should be moved to a 2001 Copa Merconorte page. I found the following information about the 2001 cup:

I have moved the games to the Copa Merconorte 2001 page. --Rballou 05:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roster change

Now that the 2006 FIFA World Cup is over, should we remove the astericks for the roster noting that certain players are on the national team. From my understanding, the roster is pretty fluid accept during tournaments. Thoughts? Rballou 22:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and removed the asterisks and notation about players on the national team.Rballou 14:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Squad Template

I created the roster squad template:

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Kansas City Wizards – current squad

1 Hartman • 2 Harrington • 3 Myers • 5 Zavagnin • 6 Watson • 7 López • 8 McMahen • 9 Victorine • 10 Marinelli • 11 Morsink • 12 Conrad • 13 McKenzie • 14 Jewsbury • 15 Hohlbein • 16 Colombano • 17 Espinoza • 18 Kronberg • 19 Sealy • 20 Wahl • 21 William • 22 Arnaud • 23 Trujillo • 24 Marquess • 25 Leathers • 26 Souter • 29 Pore • 30 Kraus • 31 Pardo • 33 Pizzaro • Coach: Onalfo

Rballou 21:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:KC Wizards new logo.jpg

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[edit] History Section

The comment about being proven the worst club in MLS history? If true, surely there should be some numbers to back up such a claim?

[edit] Picture of Shirts

The picture of the home/away shirts, while much prettier than the hodgepodge approximations we have usually on team's websites, they are eggregiously outdated and are in serious need of update. Can someone with a little more technical skill work on this? -- Grant.Alpaugh 15:49, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current Season

Most football clubs have some sort of current/ most recent season page- I believe templates can be found in the wikiproject for Football, would anyone be interested in such a thing? Maybe the best MLS version of this belongs to Houston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Houston_Dynamo_season Morry32 (talk) 00:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)Matthew