EASTERN DIVISION Record (Points)/Place: D.C. UNITED 3-3-0 (9 points)/3rd D.C. United fielded the youngest player in MLS history last Wednesday, when F Santino Quaranta entered the game vs. the Revs in the 74th minute. At 16 years and 7 months old, he was three months younger than M Bobby Convey when Convey first appeared in the Black-and-Red … Following this Saturday’s match vs. Columbus, D Mark Watson will leave to join the Canadian national team for the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup in Korea and Japan … A starter in half of United’s games this season, he will miss the May 23 friendly with Bayer Leverkusen … On May 9 the team re-acquired A.J. Wood, who was recently waived by the Wizards. Wood will be working to make the transition from forward (24 goals in 117 appearances) to defense for the Black-and-Red … D.C. is first in MLS with 2.33 goals per game, thanks in part or F Abdul Thomson Conteh tying a team record for goals in a game with four in a 5-0 win over New England May 9 … D Carey Talley and M Ryan Nelson are the only members of the team to play every minute through six matches … Eight of the 11 goals D.C. has allowed this season have come in the second half of games … Through four home dates, United leads MLS in attendance with an average of 21,260. METROSTARS 5-1-1 (16 points)/1st The MetroStars lead MLS with 16 goals scored, and league scoring leader F Clint Mathis has scored more or as many goals as four other teams … With a victory vs. the Rapids this week, the Metros will tie the team record for consecutive wins (5) set last season … F Adolfo Valencia underwent surgery on his right knee to repair cartilage damage May 15 … He is expected to miss another 3-5 weeks and will be put on injured reserve … Including games played with the U.S. national team, Mathis has a 10-game point streak and his teams have an 8-1-1 record … His six-game point streak leads MLS, and he has recorded a goal in each of his last four MLS games … M Tab Ramos is tied for first in the league with 4 primary assists … Mathis has taken 10 more shots (32) than any other player in the league … D Steve Jolley is first in blocks, and Ramos is also first in fouls suffered at 26 … GK Tim Howard is tops in wins (7) and leads in catch/punches (33) … Bayern Munich, currently the number one team in the world according to ESPN.com, beat Real Madrid Wednesday to advance to the UEFA Champions League Final on Wednesday, May 23 … Three days later, the German club will meet the MetroStars at Giants Stadium. MIAMI FUSION 4-1-1 (13 points)/2nd The Miami Fusion enter the 2001 Florida Derby this Saturday vs. Tampa Bay with a six-game home win streak on the line … In those six wins Miami has outscored opponents 15-5 … Miami acquired former Indiana University standout Lazo Alavanja from Dallas for two second-round draft picks … The midfielder is expected to debut in Lockhart Stadium this Saturday … During their two-week hiatus from MLS action, the Fusion split a pair of friendlies … They topped the Haiti Cup 2001 All-Stars 4-3 and fell to English First Division Champions Fulham F.C., 5-0, playing a man down for most of the latter match … With a shutout against Tampa Bay, GK Nick Rimando can pass Jeff Cassar for the Fusion record for consecutive shutout minutes … Rimando has not allowed a goal in 229 minutes and is first in the league with a 0.65 G.A.A. … F Alex Pineda Chacon leads the league with three game-winning goals, and F Diego Serna leads with three game-winning assists … Miami is yet to score in the first 30 minutes of play and has not allowed a goal against in the first half … Four of the Fusion’s wins have come in one-goal games. NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION 1-6-0 (3 points)/4th The New England Revolution host the Columbus Crew this weekend, with former captain M John Harkes returning to face his former club just one week after being traded … Last week D Mauricio Wright wore the captain’s armband for the Revs … M Cate scored his first MLS goal, firing a penalty kick past Chicago’s Zach Thornton to give New England its first lead of the 2001 season … Former MetroStars and Earthquakes M Braedon Cloutier made his New England debut Saturday against the Fire playing 68 minutes on the right side … Wright and D Joey Franchino are the only players to be on the field for all 635 minutes of action this season … Last week F Matt Okoh revealed a “Happy Mother’s Day” T-Shirt, when he scored the game-winner in a 2-1 victory over Chicago, becoming the Revs leading scorer this season with his second goal (4 points) … The Crew come to Foxboro as the only team with fewer goals than the Revolution this season … F Wolde Harris and M Andy Williams will be joining the Jamaican national team to face Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean Cup. CENTRAL DIVISION Record (Points)/Place: CHICAGO FIRE 3-2-1 (10 points)/1st The Chicago Fire are riding a 13-game home regular season unbeaten streak (7 wins, 6 ties) with a seven-game winning streak at Soldier Field … The Fire has a 20 game unbeaten streak at home if one includes MLS Playoff and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup matches, going 19-0-1 during that stretch … Dema Kovalenko has registered a goal and assist in two consecutive home games and is the Fire’s leading scorer with six points (2g, 2a) … Goalkeeper Zach Thornton has recorded three shutouts which ties him with Miami’s Nick Rimando for the league lead … Thornton also has a 0.96 goals against average, which is second behind Rimando (0.65) … Forward Josh Wolff is second in MLS in game-winning goals with two, one less than Miami’s Alex Pineda Chacon … The Fire have a record of 40-14-2 when the team wears their red uniforms, while in the white version the team is 18-23-5 … Fire midfielder Diego Gutierrez was drafted by Kansas City in the second round of the 1996 MLS College Draft and played 28 of 32 games in 1996, but suffered a ruptured PCL and MCL in his left knee and missed all of 1997 … Since joining the Fire in 1998, Gutierrez has scorched his former team for four goals and one assist … The Fire indefinitely postponed the international friendly between Mexico and Ecuador previously scheduled at Soldier Field this Saturday, following the Fire’s match against the Kansas City Wizards … The postponement was due to the recent shooting of Ecuadorian national team head coach Hernßn Darfo G=mez. COLUMBUS CREW 1-1-2 (5 points)/4th Newly acquired midfielder/defender John Harkes (May 11) joined his new teammates on Saturday in Dallas, and played the full 90 minutes against the Burn … Columbus signed veteran English midfielder Ian Woan as a Discovery Player on May 9 and waived midfielder John DeBrito … Duncan Oughton, the Crew’s top pick in the 2001 MLS SuperDraft (No. 10 overall) made his professional debut Saturday at Dallas coming on as a 76th-minute substitute off injured reserve … The Cal State-Fullerton product had been out due to a severe high ankle sprain he suffered in spring training … Defender/midfielder Ansil Elcock has returned to the Trinidad & Tobago national team for the Copa Caribe 2001, which is being held in his homeland from May 15-25 … The Crew have set a new team record for longest consecutive stretch without scoring a goal … Columbus’ current streak, which is still active heading into Wednesday’s games, has reached 308 minutes … The Crew have been shut out in three consecutive games, with its last goal coming in the 62nd minute of its 2-1 win at Tampa Bay 4/14 (Perez) … The previous team record was 292 minutes, set between April 8-28, 1999 … Ironically, the 1999 season turned out to be the Crew’s best ever, as it finished with a record of 19-13 and came within one game of advancing to MLS Cup 1999. DALLAS BURN 3-3-0 (9 points)/2nd The Dallas Burn are ranked third in the league in scoring, averaging 2.00 goals per game and is second in shots on goal with 47 … Additionally, three Dallas players are ranked in the top nine in the league in scoring as Jason Kreis (2g, 4a, 8pts.) and Jorge Rodriguez (4g, 0a, 8pts.) are tied for seventh in the league in scoring with eight points and Bobby Rhine (2g, 3a, 7pts.) is tied for ninth with seven points … Kreis has registered at least one point in four of the five games in which he’s played and is tied for second in the league with four assists … Despite starting in only two games on the year, Rhine is second on the team in scoring, averaging 2.12 points per game … In the last two games, the Burn defense has conceded only one goal while limiting the opposition to just seven shots on goal … For the season, the Burn defense has allowed only 45 shots, tops in the league … Burn midfielder/defender Jorge “Zarco” Rodriguez will miss the two games following the Los Angeles match (5/23 vs. San Jose and 6/2 vs. Miami) to play with the El Salvador national team in Gold Cup qualifying matches in Honduras … Dallas is 2-0 when scoring the first goal and 1-3 when allowing the first goal. TAMPA BAY MUTINY 2-4-1 (7 points)/3rd Tampa Bay’s international friendly Wednesday versus Fulham F.C. will be its second of 2001 … On Jan. 19, the Mutiny and Celtic F.C. played to a 2-2 draw … Tampa Bay has not won in regulation in four straight matches (last 4/21 at NY/NJ, 3-1) … Mamadou Diallo has scored at least one goal in his last two games, and has at least two points in each of his last three … Diallo is second in MLS in points (14) and tied for second in goals (6) in one less game in each category … Scott Garlick leads MLS in saves with 41 … Tampa Bay (2-2-0) is tied for the most away wins with San Jose (2-1-1), and with Los Angeles as the best road goal-scoring team (8g) … The Mutiny (0-2-1) is one of two teams without a home victory, and one of only two sides (Dallas – 2) with more than one home loss … Gus Kartes played 46 minutes in earning his first under-20 international cap Saturday in a 1-1 draw against Costa Rica at the ARCO Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. … Ali Curtis received degrees in Political Science and Sociology from Duke last Sunday … Diallo is five goals shy of tying Roy Lassiter’s team mark of 37 … Lassiter needed 50 games to score 37 goals, while Diallo has played 33 career games for Tampa Bay. WESTERN DIVISION Record (Points)/Place: COLORADO RAPIDS 2-3-1 (7 point)/2nd The Rapids claimed their second victory of the season as forward John Spencer put two penalty kicks past Tampa Bay goalkeeper Scott Garlick, carrying the Rapids to a 2-1 victory … Spencer is now tied for fourth in league scoring with four goals and two assists (10 points) … Spencer has also garnered at least one point in every game he’s played for the Rapids … Saturday’s win against Tampa Bay was only the fourth game in MLS history where all three goals were scored on penalty kicks … The Rapids look to continue their winning ways on Wednesday night against MetroStars at Giants Stadium (8:00 p.m. ET) … The all-time series between the Rapids and the MetroStars is tied at 6-6-1 … Each team owns a 4-2 edge at home, with the lone draw coming earlier this year at Mile High in the second week of the season … Marcelo Balboa tied that match at 1-1 with a goal in the 83rd minute … MetroStar’s back-up goalie Paul Grafer played for the Rapids in 1997-98 … He also served as Colorado goalkeeper Adin Brown’s mentor at William and Mary, where both played their collegiate soccer … Robin Fraser, a four-time member of Major League Soccer’s Best 11 started his first game for the Rapids on Saturday in the win against Tampa Bay. KANSAS CITY WIZARDS 3-3-1 (10 points)/T1st The Kansas City Wizards beat the Kansas City Brass, 5-0, in an exhibition Saturday in Springfield, MO. during a two-week hiatus from MLS action … Guest F Henry Nowasu scored a pair of goals and M Andrew Gregor added two assists … The 2000 BIC Defender of the Year, Peter Vermes, was evaluated by Head Coach Bob Gansler during the match, and his status for this week will be a game-time decision … Vermes appeared in an MLS record 88-consecutive games before missing the first seven of this season due to an abdominal strain … The Wizards are part of a three way tie for first in the Western Division with 10 points … F Roy Lassiter remains at 198 points for his career, just two points away from becoming the first player in MLS to reach 200 points … Nine different players have scored for Kansas City, with M Matt McKeon and M Chris Brown leading the way with seven each … F Mo Johnston is tied with Preki (now with Miami) for most games played in a Wizards uniform (145) … After scoring just three goals in the opening 10 minutes of play in 2000, the team has recorded four goals during the first 10 minutes through just seven games … This week the Wizards face the Chicago Fire for the first time in the regular season since Kansas City won MLS Cup 2000 with a 1-0 victory over Chicago. LOS ANGELES GALAXY 3-3-1 (10 points)/T1st The Los Angeles Galaxy share the lead in the Western Conference with three other teams deadlocked at 10 points … F Luis Hernßndez returns from Club America in Mexico where he was on loan to join L.A. against the Dallas Burn … He finished his commitment Saturday as his club was knocked out of the playoffs by Pachuca … Rookie F Brian Mullan scored his first MLS goal just 39 seconds into L.A.’s last match against the Tampa Bay Mutiny … D Alexi Lalas will begin rehabbing his sprained posterior cruciate ligament this week, but no return date is set … The Galaxy is tied with the MetroStars for most shots taken this season (118) … Los Angeles faces the Burn this week … These teams hold the distinction of being the only teams in the league to make the playoffs every year … Matt Reis and Kevin Hartman have split time in net this season … Reis holds the edge over Hartman in winning the starting job with a 1.64 GAA and a 3-0-1 record while stopping 14 of 21 shots … Hartman has a 2.41 GAA and an 0-3-0 record allowing 7 goals on 15 shots … M Cobi Jones leads MLS with 28 corner kicks. SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES 3-2-1 (10 points)/T1st The Western Division leading Earthquakes host the Eastern Division leading MetroStars at 4:00 p.m. (ET) at Spartan Stadium in a match nationally televised on Telemundo … San Jose is 8-4-1 all-time vs. the MetroStars including a 5-1 record at Spartan Stadium … San Jose Earthquakes moved into a first place tie in the Western Division with a 3-2 victory at RFK Stadium on Saturday night in front of 36,528 fans … M Manny Lagos scored his first two goals of the season in that match, including one in stoppage time in the second half … F Ronald Cerritos also notched his first two assists of the season … In the last meeting between San Jose and the MetroStars the two teams played to a 0-0 draw at Giants Stadium on 6-28-00 … Defenders Jeff Agoos and Zak Ibsen and forward Dwayne DeRosario are all on two-game point streaks … Agoos and DeRosario have each notched an assist in the last two games … Canadian international DeRosario will join his country’s national team for the FIFA Confederations Cup in Tokyo, Japan following the Earthquakes match at Dallas on May 23 … Canada will play Japan, Cameroon, and Brazil in the first round and depending on the results, DeRosario will return on June 5, 8, or 10 … San Jose announced Friday that Portuguese giant Benfica will play Mexican league power Atlas in the second match of a doubleheader at Spartan Stadium following the Wednesday, May 30 clash between the Earthquakes and Colorado Rapids.