EASTERN DIVISION Record (Points)/Place: D.C. UNITED 3-4-0 (9 points)/T-3rd D.C. United F Santino Quaranta, the youngest player to take the field in an MLS game, wasted no time in becoming the youngest player to score a goal … At 16 years and five months of age, Quaranta eclipsed the previous mark held by teammate Bobby Convey, who tallied his first career strike at 16 years and eleven months of age, in last season’s opener against Kansas City on April 7 … He converted a pass from F Abdul Thompson Conteh in the 69th minute of his second match … Conteh’s first assist of the season moved his point total to 13, third best in the league … D.C.’s offense has come from many sources, with 14 players – the most of any team – recording at least one point … The team averages 2.14 goals per game, tops in the league … Their 24 assists also lead the league … United is the only team in the league with a positive goals differential (+2) and a losing record … In three wins D.C. led opponents in shots on goal,30-14, but in their four losses they have trailed 23-24 in that statistic … D.C. is 2-1 in division play, but 1-3 vs. the Central and West … United is 3-1 at home in RFK Stadium this season, but is 0-3 on the road … D.C. and the MetroStars, the top two scoring teams in the league, are the only teams without a road victory … United will face German Bundesliga power Bayer Leverkusen in an international friendly Wednesday, May 23, at 8:00 p.m. at RFK Stadium before returning to league play at Miami on May 30 … M Bobby Convey will be in the limelight once again next week, featured on ESPN’s “The Life” on Saturday, June 2 at 10 a.m. (EST) on ESPN … D Mark Watson (2 assists in 5 appearances) will miss up to four MLS matches while he joins the Canadian national team for the FIFA Confederations Cup in Korea and Japan … D.C. leads the league in both home and road attendance, drawing an average of 21,260 in four games at RFK Stadium … On the road, teams that have hosted United have drawn and average of 19,536 fans. METROSTARS 6-2-1 (19 points)/1st The MetroStars face a tough road schedule over the next two months with only one of eight games to be played in the friendly confines of Giants Stadium … So far this season, the Metros are 0-1-1 on the road with only one goal in those matches … The only home match in that stretch comes when the Western Division leading Earthquakes come to the Meadowlands on June 16 … F Clint Mathis remains atop the leader board in scoring, with 18 points (7g., 4a.) in 8 games … He also leads the league in shots (38), shots on goal (16) and goals scored … GK Tim Howard, D Mike Petke, D Steve Jolley, M Mark Chung and M Tab Ramos have started every game for the Metros, with Howard, Petke and Jolley playing all 820 minutes of the team’s season … The team is tops in the league in shots, shots on goal, goals, blocks and fouls suffered … Nine of the 12 goals scored against the Metros’ have come in the second half, with eight coming in the last 30 minutes … The MetroStars have yet to be defeated in a one-goal match (4-0) … Last season through eight games, the MetroStars were 3-5 with just 10 goals scored … This season has seen the MetroStars get off to the best start ever through eight games … The MetroStars and D.C. United, the top two scoring teams in the league, are the only teams without a road victory … Saturday, the MetroStars take on Bayern Munich, the top-ranked club team in the world at the Meadowlands … The game starts at 7 p.m. vs. the champions of the German Bundesliga, who won their 17th championship in 101 years … The team will arrive in New York this Friday after playing in the Champions League Final in Milan on Wednesday against Valencia of Spain … Petke will break Miles Joseph’s club record for games played on Thursday night when he makes his 92nd appearance in a MetroStars uniform. MIAMI FUSION 5-1-1 (16 points)/2nd The Miami Fusion have the second-best point total in the league and are the only team with just one loss … The Fusion defense, sparked by GK Nick Rimando, has been the best in MLS, allowing just five goals through seven games (.70 GAA) – including only one goal in the first half … The stingy defense has allowed Miami to stay in the front of the pack despite a ninth-ranked offense … Rimando boasts the best GAA in MLS, and is second in shutouts (3), save percentage (.806) and save ratio (5.00) … Just one day after being sworn in as an American citizen, D Pablo Mastroeni recorded his first MLS goal in his 82nd career appearance … M Preki also got in on the night of firsts, scoring his first goal for the Blue-and-Gold on a penalty kick vs. Tampa Bay … The win over the Mutiny brought the team’s winning streak at Lockhart to seven games, dating back to August 5 of last season … F Diego Serna and M Jim Rooney rank second in the league with 4 assists … The Fusion will travel to Charlotte, N.C. on June 19 for a friendly against its A-League affiliate, the Charlotte Eagles … Newly acquired midfielder Lazo Alavanja made his Fusion debut coming on as a substitute for Preki in the 82nd minute vs. Tampa … M/F Alex Pineda Chacon’s first assist of the season also came in the last game, moving his point total for the season to 11, ranking fourth in MLS … The Honduran continues to lead the league in game-winning goals (3) … Rimando and M Chris Henderson have played every minute in all seven games this season … Miami earns a chance to move into a tie for first in the East with a win vs. Colorado, with the MetroStars idle until a rare Thursday night match at Kansas City. NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION 3-6-0 (9 points)/T-3rd Despite an 0-6 start, the Revolution are now tied with San Jose for longest current winning streak (3 games) … It took only eight days for New England to go from 12th place in the league to ninth, with three consecutive wins … The Revs have drawn more penalty kicks (5) than any other team in MLS … Three of those PK conversions have come in the team’s last three matches, and two were the deciding goal in the match … F Matthew Okoh converted a game-winning PK against Colorado on May 19, the same day he celebrated his 29th birthday … CatT brought the Player of the Week award to New England for the 12th time in team history with his two-goal performance last week, while drawing the deciding PK against the Rapids … D Ted Chronopoulos and F Wolde Harris are the only other members of the current squad to win the award … D Joey Franchino is the only member of the team to start every game this season, playing all 811 minutes … F Wolde Harris and M Andy Williams have scored Jamaica’s only two goals in two games of the Caribe Copa … Harris notched his goal in a 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago, while Williams tallied in the 1-0 win in the first game of the tournament … Eight of the Revs nine games have been decided by one goal, with a record of 3-5 in such matches … M Roland Aguilera, acquired from Columbus for John Harkes, debuted against Colorado in the 89th minute … His only MLS points have come against the Revolution … Chronopoulos has started all three wins, and during the past two season’s the team is 15-8-5 with him in the lineup and 1-11-1 without him … M Braedon Cloutier also made his season debut three games ago and has started all three games. CENTRAL DIVISION Record (Points)/Place: CHICAGO FIRE 4-2-1 (13 points)/1st The Chicago Fire will try to match MLS’ records for home unbeaten (15) and winning streaks (9) on Saturday versus the MLS Western Division leaders San Jose Earthquakes, the current record holders of the longest MLS home unbeaten streak … Fire midfielder Justin Evans was drafted by San Jose in the second round of the 2000 MLS SuperDraft … He appeared in 13 games for San Jose before being released later in the year … ‘Keeper Zach Thornton has not allowed a goal this season at Soldier Field (270 minutes) and is ranked first among MLS ‘keepers with four clean sheets … Thornton leads the league with a 5.83 save ratio making 35 saves in seven games, he is second in the league with a 0.83 goals against average … Forward Dema Kovalenko has registered a goal and assist in three consecutive home games … Kovalenko, the Fire’s leading scorer with nine points (three goals and three assists), is tied for sixth in MLS in scoring … The Fire have scored first in every game in 2001, except in a 2-1 OT loss at New England on May 12 … The Fire have a record of 41-14-2 when wearing their red uniforms, while in the white version the team is 18-23-5 … Including MLS Cup Playoff and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup matches, the Fire has an unbeaten streak of 21 games at home … The team is 20-0-1 in that stretch … The Fire defense has allowed an average of 0.86 goals per game through seven games, the second fewest goals allowed per game in the league. COLUMBUS CREW 2-3-2 (8 points)/3rd The Crew’s dramatic 2-1 OT victory over D.C. United on Saturday (May 19) made a winner of Greg Andrulis in his first game as interim head coach … Andrulis assumed his new title on Thursday, May 17, following the dismissal of longtime head coach Tom Fitzgerald … On Saturday, the Crew went two men down, marking the first time in club history that Columbus has been at a two-man disadvantage … The Crew improved their record to 2-0-7 in overtime after Saturday’s OT win over United … Columbus went 1-0-5 in OT a year ago and is now 1-0-2 in 2001 … The last time the Crew and this week’s opponent Colorado met at Crew Stadium (April 22, 2000), Colorado’s Marcelo Balboa scored one of the most talked about goals in MLS history – on a 55th-minute bicycle kick – that would go on to be named the league’s 2000 MLS Goal of the Year … The U.S. National Deaf Soccer Team will take on the Dayton Gemini, of the Division IV United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League, prior to the Crew’s match against Colorado … Rookie Crew forward Edson Buddle, who was named to the U.S. under-20 national team last week for the upcoming Toulon Festival in France, did not depart with the squad on May 20, due to the two Crew’s red-card suspensions (Ansil Elcock and Tenywa Bonseu) and player injuries … Buddle will remain in Columbus through the Crew’s game vs. Colorado on Saturday, May 26 … Columbus is 2-0 when scoring first and 0-3-1 when allowing the first goal … They are also 2-1-0 in one-goal decisions. DALLAS BURN 3-3-1 (10 points)/2nd After conceding 10 goals through the first four games of the season, the Dallas Burn have conceded just one goal and are currently riding a two-game, 193-minute shutout streak … The last goal conceded by the Burn defense was an 87th minute strike by Colorado on May 5 … The team record for most consecutive shutout minutes is 344, set through the first four games of 1999 … Additionally, the Burn defense has proven to be the stingiest in the league, allowing a league-low 62 shots through seven games, an average of only 8.8 shots per game … As a reminder, the Burn game at D.C. United, originally scheduled for this Saturday, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. (ET) … Burn midfielder/defender Jorge “Zarco” Rodriguez will miss the next two games (Wednesday vs. San Jose and 6/2 vs. Miami) to play with the El Salvador national team in the UNCAF Copa de Naciones tournament in Honduras … Last Saturday’s game at Los Angeles marked only the second time all season the Burn has been outshot in a game … For the year, they are 1-0-1 when being outshot … After losing their first six road games last year and not registering an away win until the 12th road game of the year, the Burn are already 1-1-1 in their three road contests this year … With three shutouts through the first seven games of the season, Burn ‘keeper Matt Jordan is on pace to break his team record of 11 shutouts in a season, set in 1999 … With their 0-0 overtime tie at Los Angeles Saturday, the Burn are still undefeated in overtime matches, posting a 1-0-5 record … The Burn have scored five of their 12 goals in the final 15 minutes of matches … Dallas ranks third in the league in home scoring, averaging 2.25 goals per home game … Four of the Burn’s seven games have been decided by one goal, with the team going 2-2 in those contests. TAMPA BAY MUTINY 2-5-1 (7 points)/4th Following a much-needed week off after playing five games in the last 15 days leading up to last Saturday, the Tampa Bay Mutiny will play the home portion of their back-to-back series with in-state rival Miami Saturday at Raymond James Stadium … The Mutiny, on a two-game losing streak and a five-game regulation winless streak overall, are looking for their first home win in 2001 … Beginning with Saturday’s match against Miami, this will be Tampa Bay’s longest homestand of the season (three games) … The Mutiny have never gone more than five games without a win (five straight regulation losses in 1998; five straight regulation and shootout losses in 1999) … Without Mamadou Diallo in the lineup this season, Tampa Bay is 0-3-0 with one goal (PK) scored … Tampa Bay’s last three goals have been via penalty kick; Diallo scored the Mutiny’s last goal from the field in the 78th minute on May 9 versus L.A. … Tampa Bay has allowed four penalty kick goals this season, three in the last two matches … The team season record is seven (1996) … Only four players – Steve Ralston, Carlos Valderrama, Eric Quill and Scott Garlick – have started all eight matches in 2001 for the Mutiny … Saturday, that list will be cut to three due to Ralston’s red card suspension … Garlick leads MLS in saves (45) … Despite only one assist in his last four matches, Valderrama still leads MLS (6) … Diallo is second in MLS in points (14) and tied for second in goals (6) in two less games in each category than the leader, MetroStars’ Clint Mathis (18/7) … Diallo leads MLS in points per game (2.75) … Ralston will have to wait to break the 14,000-minute mark … He needed 81 minutes Saturday but played 33 due to his red card booking; he was the first to 10, 11, 12 and 13,000 minutes in MLS … Steve Trittschuh had the screws removed from his right fibula last Friday; he could be back in three weeks or less … Chad McCarty is out of his soft cast and has started running on the side. WESTERN DIVISION Record (Points)/Place: COLORADO RAPIDS 2-5-1 (7 points)/4th The Colorado Rapids have not yet beaten a team from the Eastern or Western Divisions but are 2-0 vs. the Central … The Rapids are 0-4-1 when allowing the first goal … D Marcelo Balboa is just two assists from joining the 20-20 club for his career … After an 0-3-1 record in April, Colorado is at .500 (2-2) in the month of May … The Rapids have scored only two goals, a pair of penalty kicks by M John Spencer, in their last three games … The team has lost two consecutive games by a 1-0 margin, with both goals being scored on PK’s … After going down with an injury in practice last Friday, GK Adin Brown is listed as doubtful with a sprained neck and is not expected to start against Miami on Wednesday … Spencer is fifth in MLS with 10 points, and he is the only Rapids’ player with more than three points this season … The team is 2-2-1 when Spencer scores … The Rapids are one of three teams not to pick up a red card yet this season … Colorado has scored only one first half goal and is yet to have the lead in a game going into halftime this season … Each of the Rapids games have been decided by one goal … D Lance Key is the Rapids’ iron man as the only player to be on the field for all 630 minutes … Six players have appeared in all eight matches, with three starting every game. KANSAS CITY WIZARDS 3-4-1 (10 points)/3rd Including the playoffs, the Wizards have not lost at home since August 18, 2000 vs. Miami (6-0-2) … Nine different players have scored this season, led by M Matt McKeon and F Chris Brown with seven points each … K.C. has scored the first goal in five of its first eight matches and are 2-3 in those contests … F Mo Johnston passed Preki for most games played in a Wizard uniform with his 146th appearance at Chicago … F Roy Lassiter, listed as probable for this week’s match, is just two points away from becoming the first member of the 200-point club … F Gary Glasgow remains with the Trinidad and Tobago national team in the Caribbean Cup until May 26 … He has played in all three of the team’s matches in the tournament … GK Tony Meola, second in MLS with 36 saves, is two saves away from tying Mike Ammann for the team record for most all-time saves … After making his MLS debut in the loss to Chicago, M/D Jose Burciaga traveled with the U.S. U-20 national team to France for the Toulon Festival … Burciaga joined Nike Project 40 D Michael Green to play in three games … The duo then suited up for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds (A-League) in a U.S. Open Cup Qualifying match, with Green scoring the game-winning goal on a header in the 53rd minute … M Mark Santel has come off the bench in all but one of the Wizards eight games … Kansas City has only lost once this season when giving up the first goal … Kansas City is one of two teams to lead MLS with seven players starting each of the team’s matches thus far … In eight games, the Wizards have given up 13 goals … Last season it took 19 games for opponents to reach this total. LOS ANGELES GALAXY 3-3-2 (11 points)/2nd All three of the Galaxy’s wins have come against the Western Division … GK Matt Reis is undefeated in his five starts this season, including his second shutout of the season last week at Dallas … Reis is 3-0-2 between the pipes, playing in all three of L.A.’s overtime games, and has a 1.30 GAA to earn the starting job over Kevin Hartman … D Greg Vanney leads the team in scoring with seven points (3g, 1a) and is just two goals and one assist away from the 20-20 club for his career … D Alexi Lalas remains out as he rehabs a sprain of his posterior cruciate ligament and there is no word when a return is expected … The Galaxy have taken more corner kicks than any other team in the league (57), averaging more than seven per game … No other team averages higher than six … The team has allowed seven goals in the first 30 minutes of matches, worst in MLS … The Galaxy are the only MLS team to average two or more goals on the road … L.A. joins New England and Colorado as the only teams not to have a player sent off this season … M Danny Pe±a needs to play in two more games to reach his 100th appearance for his career with the Galaxy … F Cobi Jones is eight assists from joining the 50-50 club and eight points away from reaching the 150-point plateau, which has only been reached by six other players … The Galaxy are 2-0 when leading at the half … Eleven different players have recorded at least one point for L.A. this season … New England comes to the Rose Bowl this week and overall, L.A. is 8-3-1 all-time vs. the Revolution. SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES 4-2-1 (13 points)/1st The Western Division leading San Jose Earthquakes are off to their best start ever under Head Coach Frank Yallop, and have never been in first place this late in the season … Last season it took the ‘Quakes 13 games to reach 13 points … This season it has taken seven … They are also more than halfway to surpassing last season’s win total of seven … Despite the fast start, San Jose has only one win in its division … The team will face the top two teams in the Central, Dallas and Chicago this week … At 2-1-1, the team has the best road record in MLS after winning only two games on the road in 2000 … The Earthquakes have seven players that have started every game this season … Kansas City is the only other team that can boast this feat … F Landon Donovan became the youngest ‘Quake to score his first MLS goal with his counterattacking strike against the MetroStars coming at 19 years, two months and 15 days … The win over the Metros continues an unbeaten streak of six games that dates back to April 25, 1998 vs. the top team in MLS … GK Joe Cannon has been in net for the last five of those matches … With his appearance against the MetroStars, F Ronald Cerritos joined John Doyle, Eddie Lewis and Jeff Baicher as the only players to appear in 100 games for San Jose … M Manny Lagos and F Ronald Cerritos are riding two-game point streaks … San Jose’s defense is third in the league, having allowed just nine goals … It ranks second with just 75 shots allowed, behind this week’s opponent Dallas (62) … Cannon and M Richard Mulrooney have played every minute of every match this season … F Dwayne Rosario will join the Canadian national team after Wednesday’s game for the FIFA Confederations Cup in Japan to face Japan, Cameroon and Brazil in the first round … He could return as early as June 5 … The May 30 match vs. Colorado will be the first game of a doubleheader … The second game will feature Portugal’s Benfica against Mexico’s Altas.