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Chad Marshall started his 240th career match last Saturday in the tilt against Toronto FC. Marshall, also a member of the 20,000 minutes club (21,382), became the 15th defender all-time to join a list of players that have made 240 or more career regular- season starts and recorded 20,000+ minutes of action. That list of 38 total field players features six active defenders. Marshall has made 20 starts this season for the Crew and leads that list of six active defenders as the only player that has averaged 20 or more starts in a season for 10 consecutive seasons. In fact, in his 10-year career, Marshall (to date) has averaged 24 starts a season -- all with the Black & Gold.
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With back-to-back matches of two goals, Federico Higuain has made his way up the club’s charts for multiple-goal games. In fact, Higuain’s fourth multiple-goal game in 37 career matches ties him with Guillermo Barros Schelotto for sixth on the list as Schelotto had four multiple-goal games in 102 career games. Stern John leads all Crew players with 12 multiple goal games in just 55 contests and Pipa now trails Dante Washington’s fifth-place spot by just a single multiple-goal game. Washington recorded five multiple-goal performances in 76 matches.
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Danny O’Rourke is less than a match away from moving up the club’s all-time list for regular-season minutes played. Entering this weekend, O’Rourke is eighth on the list with 12,074 minutes played for the Black & Gold, trailing Robert Warzycha by 75 minutes for seventh on the list. A 76-minute performance would give O’Rourke sole possession of the seven spot. In his nine-year career that included stops in San Jose (2005) and New York (2006), O’Rourke has recorded 15,524 career minutes of regular- season action in 185 appearances. He’s still looking for that elusive first career goal, but has nine career assists.
