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name: Kenny Cooper
position: F height: 6-3 weight:207 Birthdate: October 21, 1984 Hometown: Dallas, TX last club: Manchester United (England) |
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| Regular Season Stats | full bio l year-by-year stats l video highlights |
| year | club | gp | gs | min | g | a | sht | sog | fc | fs | c | ej |
| 2009 | FC Dallas | 15 | 15 | 1,331 | 7 | 1 | 52 | 29 | 15 | 23 | 2 | 0 |
| Career | 90 | 86 | 7,474 | 40 | 10 | 269 | 135 | 106 | 149 | 6 | 0 | |
| Most Recent Video Highlights |
| date | clubs | video description |
| 06/20/09 | Crew @ FC Dallas |
 Cooper drives home PK
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| 06/07/09 | Quakes @ FC Dallas |
Cooper equalizes for FCD
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| 05/31/09 | FC Dallas @ Fire |
Cooper sella goleada
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Acquired
Signed on Feb. 6, 2006 from Manchester United (England).Professional Experience
2008: Was named to the MLS Best XI Team and won the MLS Comeback Player of the Year award…Was voted the team's MVP by members of the local media…Led the team with 18 regular season goals, tying the all-time Dallas individual season high set by Jason Kreis in 1999…Finished second in the MLS Golden Boot race behind Landon Donovan (20 goals)…Reached 33 career goals, moving into second in Dallas history behind Kreis (91)…FCD is 19-1-9 when Cooper scores a goal since entering MLS in 2006…Totaled four multi-goal games on the year. Finished tied for the league lead with four game-winners…Fourteen of Cooper's 18 goals either tied or gave FCD the lead in games, while the other four increased the team's lead…Earned back-to-back MLS Player of the Week honors for his two-goal performances against LA on July 27 and at Toronto on Aug. 3…Was the only FCD player to start all 30 regular season games…Earned his first career MLS All-Star First XI selection and was selected to start the side's 3-2 win over England's West Ham United on July 24.2007: Scored the team's first goal of the year on 4/7 at RSL…Came in off the bench in the 2-1 win vs. RSL on 5/20, ending a streak of having started 25 consecutive regular season games, which was the longest active streak…The team is 13-0-2 when he scores dating back to 2006...Scored all four of his goals on the year in the first eight games (was the team's leading goal-scorer at that point) and added two assists before suffering a broken right tibia from a hard challenge on 6/9 vs. LA…Returned from the injury to start and play 61 minutes in 1-0 Reserve win over Houston Dynamo on 9/30…Came on as a substitute in the 76th minute of U.S. Open Cup Final vs. New England on 10/3. It was Cooper's first first-team action since the injury…Was listed on 18-man MLS game roster at CLB on 10/6 though did not play…Returned to the starting lineup on 10/11 vs. Chivas, his first start since 6/3 at HOU…Played the full 90 minutes in 10/20 2-0 loss to KC, the first time he had gone the distance since 5/26 at CHV.
2006: Finished the year second on the team and tied for sixth in MLS with 11 goals scored in 31 games… FC Dallas was 10-0-1 in regular season play when he scored…earned his first MLS Player of the Week award in Week 16 after tallying a goal and an assist in 3-2 win @ CHI on 7/15…won the Sierra Mist MLS Goal of the Week for his 14th minute strike against Real Salt Lake on 9/23 in 2-1 win…registered the first hat-trick of his professional career in the U.S. Open Cup Fourth Round win over Charleston on 8/2, which FCD won 5-3 on penalty kicks after the game finished 3-3…scored the game-winner, and first MLS goal, in his MLS debut against Chicago on 4/1 at Pizza Hut Park…made his first career start in the 2-1 win vs. RSL on 4/8 and also scored Dallas' first goal.. …finished the year with six game-winning goals, tying for the League-lead…had six of his 11 goals nominated for Sierra Mist MLS Goal of the Week. 2005-2006: Scored five goals in 12 Reserve League games for Manchester United Reserves…Was loaned to Oldham Athletic on 1/29 after the end of his Academica spell, where he scored three goals in five starts with Oldham's first team…Entered as a substitute in FA Cup game vs. Bolton on 1/30 (lost 1-0). 2003-2004: Scored twice in a 3-1 against local rivals Manchester City on 5/11 to give United the Manchester Senior Cup, returning the trophy to Old Trafford for the 26th time in its long history…The Manchester Senior Cup is a tournament played among the five professional teams in Manchester… Scored for Man. United Reserves in 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest on 8/12, the same day that he was named to his first United first-team squad list …His 32nd minute strike was the first of United's campaign in the Barclays Premiership Reserve League North…Loaned to Academica Coimbra in Portugal 8/24.International
2009: Played the second half in USMNT's 3-2 friendly win over Sweden on 1/24…Participated in February camp ahead of 3/11 WCQ against Mexico, but was not selected for the final roster.2008: Started and scored the game-winner in U.S. Men's National Team World Cup Qualifier versus Guatemala on Nov. 19…Participated in USMNT camp in ahead of friendly versus Argentina on June 8, but did not see action.
2007: Made his international debut with the U.S. National Team on 1/20 in a 3-1 vs Denmark at The Home Depot Center, and scored his first international goal. Also played for the U.S. in a friendly versus Guatemala at Pizza Hut Park on 3/28.
