Before the season even started, Dynamo Houston demonstrated their readiness to compete when they won the Carolina Challenge Cup, a three-game round robin preseason tournament.
Now that the season has started, some individual accomplishments and awards have already rolled in.
This week, Brian Ching was named MLS Player of the Week for Week 1 of the 2006 MLS regular season. Ching's four-goal performance last Sunday paved the way for his easy election for this honor. He had a hat trick in the first half and a fourth score midway through the second half. Ching's four-goal game marks the ninth time in MLS history that a player has scored at least four goals in one game. Clint Mathis holds the record for most goals by one player in an MLS game with five -- a mark he set while playing for the MetroStars against Dallas in 2000.
Alejandro Moreno won the Sierra Mist Goal of the Week for his goal in the 92nd minute off a bicycle kick. The acrobatic kick came after Dwayne De Rosario's cross from the left flank was knocked straight up into the air by a Colorado defender. Moreno's bicycle kick found the upper right corner of the net...on the top shelf, right where grandma keeps the cookies.
Finally, Dwayne De Rosario didn't receive an award, but he did receive recognition for his four assists (his pass to Moreno not counting as one of them), a feat that tied the MLS single-game record for assists. Four assists by an individual is even rarer than four goals by an individual, as only twice before had an individual tallied four assists in a game. The last time was by Chris Henderson in 1999...a whole millennium ago.
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