{"id":10623,"date":"2012-03-25T20:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2012-03-25T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:46:39","slug":"joseph-and-reis-reach-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=10623","title":{"rendered":"Joseph and Reis Reach Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the only two remaining members from the old Revolution teams of glory days of yesteryear, veterans Shalrie Joseph and Matt Reis are New England lifers, and so it made yesterday\u2019s 1-0 shutout win over Portland that much sweeter when both players reached career milestones as the steady duo played a major part in the Revs\u2019 big win.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph, at 33, has been the Revs\u2019 anchor in the center of the field since practically the turn of the century and yesterday afternoon completed a triumvirate of club longevity records, passing first-year coach and longtime teammate Jay Heaps\u2019 career minutes mark.<\/p>\n<p>The Revs\u2019 talismanic captain was forced into an emergency start out of position at center back, but proved a major catalyst in the shutout.<\/p>\n<p>In the 54<sup>th<\/sup> minute, Joseph passed the team\u2019s former stalwart left back Heaps (21,619), finishing the night with a total of 21,656 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read it the other day on Twitter, somebody sent that message to me on Twitter and I was kind of surprised,\u201d said Joseph, who is still far away from the twilight of his career. \u201cI look forward to playing a lot more minutes and hopefully setting standards for Revolution minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPGiH8LkrJY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"470\" height=\"348\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joseph is also the club\u2019s career leader in starts (242) and games played (246), making arguably the greatest player in franchise history indisputably the most prolific field player to ever don the Revs\u2019 kit.<\/p>\n<p>Both Joseph and Reis are 10-year team veterans and so it was fitting that the indomitable Revolution goalkeeper would reach a major milestone on the same day, registering his 1,000<sup>th<\/sup> career save.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just means I\u2019ve been playing for a long time and I\u2019ve faced a lot of shots,\u201d Reis said, sidestepping any self-adulation. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have the longevity and be able to play and keep making saves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"348\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CKO-ZuvAatQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With a sure-handed 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute stop on a screamer from the Timbers\u2019 Franck Songo\u2019o, Reis became just the sixth keeper in MLS history to reach quadruple-digit saves, joining the likes of Dallas goalie Kevin Hartman, Vancouver\u2019s Joe Cannon and Real Salt Lake\u2019s Nick Rimando.<\/p>\n<p>Reis faced 13 shots on the game, but only three on target. He turned 26<sup>th<\/sup> minute try by last year\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall pick, Darlington Nagbe, as well as another powerful volley from Songo\u2019o in the 69<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of quality on the ball as you\u2019ve seen,\u201d Portland coach John Spencer said of Songo\u2019o. \u201cHe can strike a great ball, and Matt Reis pulls off a wonder save. But as they say, the only stat that counts\u2026 is that they put one in the back of the net and we never did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this year\u2019s crop of personnel looking heavy on midfielders, yesterday\u2019s shutout was a testament to just how important the sturdy consistency of Joseph and Reis is to New England\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe and A.J. (Soares) had a good partnership and to be honest, we were hoping to have (new signing) Flo Lechner start there, so Shalrie was playing a lot of midfield leading into the week,\u201d said Heaps, who was also absent Darrius Barnes, Stephen McCarthy and John Lozano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to pull him aside yesterday when Flo needed some additional testing,\u201d Heaps said. \u201cShalrie had to be reactive and be the captain that he is. And I tell you right now, he was spot on all night. I don\u2019t think he took a bad spot and he was able to lead us from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vets reach milestones in minutes and saves as Revs win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/josephfeature6.jpg?fit=490%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10633,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions\/10633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}