Sporting Kansas City midfielder Paulo Nagamura was named MLS Player of the Week on Tuesday for Week 24 of the 2015 regular season. Nagamura scored the game-tying and game-winning goals in the final 10 minutes of Sporting Kansas City’s 4-3 comeback victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Saturday.
VOTE: Nagamura for Goal of the Week
The two-goal performance was the second brace of Nagamura’s 11-year MLS career and earns the 32-year-old Brazilian his first MLS Player of the Week honor. He also led all players with an 86.67% passing accuracy in Saturday’s match.
A two-time MLS Cup champion, Nagamura leads Sporting Kansas City’s roster with 248 league appearances (including postseason). He has 15 goals and 19 assists in his MLS career, and is one of only five midfielders with a goal or assist in each of the past 11 MLS seasons.
The MLS Player of the Week is selected each week of the regular season by a panel of journalists from North American Soccer Reporters. The group consists of members of print, television, radio and online media.
Sporting KC's MLS Player of the Week History
1996 - Preki (Week 8), Mark Chung (Week 12)
1997 - Preki (Weeks 12 & 14)
1998 - Vitalis Takawira (Week 10)
1999 - Chris Klein (Week 19)
2000 - Peter Vermes (Week 10), Tony Meola (Week 15)
2001 - Chris Klein (Week 2), Chris Brown (Week 3)
2002 - Chris Klein (Week 4), Tony Meola (Week 21)
2003 - Chris Klein (Weeks 2 & 27), Preki (Weeks 9 & 12), Igor Simutenkov (Week 15)
2004 - Davy Arnaud (Week 14)
2005 - Josh Wolff (Weeks 7 & 20)
2006 - Scott Sealy (Week 12), Davy Arnaud (Week 24), Josh Wolff (Week 27), Jose Burciaga Jr. (Week 28)
2007 - Eddie Johnson (Weeks 2, 8 & 9), Scott Sealy (Week 24)
2008 - Claudio Lopez (Week 30)
2009 - Josh Wolff (Weeks 5, 9 & 25)
2011 - Omar Bravo (Week 1), Graham Zusi (Week 23)
2013 - Graham Zusi (Week 10)
2014 - Graham Zusi (Week 4), Benny Feilhaber (Week 19)
2015 – Paulo Nagamura (Week 24)
