In case you missed it, Atlanta United announced the signing of Josef Martinez as its third Designated Player on Thursday.
Here is a look at each's team's top three scorers last season .
Lastly, here is a list compiled by the league of all of the Designated Players, so that you can get a better sense of the competition and compare and contrast what Atlanta United has to those teams. This list can change up to March 1.
POR - Sebastian Blanco, Diego Valeri, Liam Ridgewell: Valeri had 14 goals and seven assists. Ridgewell played almost 2,000 minutes as a defender.
ATL - Josef Martinez, Miguel Almiron, Hector Villalba
LA - Jelle Van Damme, Giovani dos Santos, Romain Alessandrini: Dos Santos had 14 goals and 12 assists. Van Damme and Alessandrini are newly minted DPs. Van Damme played more than 2,400 minutes in defense last season.
FCD - Cristian Colman, Mauro Diaz, Carlos Gruezo: Diaz had five goals and 13 assists last season. Guezo played more than 2,200 minutes in the midfield.
HOU - Erick Torres, Mauro Manotas, Alberth Elis: Manotas had six goals and one assist in 22 appearances.
RSL - Albert Rusnak, Yura Movsisyan, Joao Plata: Plata had nine goals and 12 assists last seaosn. Movsisyan had nine goals and three assists last season.
SKC - Gerso Fernandes, Roger Espinoza, Graham Zusi. Espinoza had one goal and five assists last season. Zusi had two goals and four assists.
CLB - Jonathan Mensah, Federico Higuain
CHI - Nemanja Nikolic, David Accam
COL - Gashi, Tim Howard
MTL - Ignacio Piatti
NE - Kei Kamara, Xavier Kouassi
NYCFC - Andrea Pirlo, David Villa
NYRB - Sacha Kljestan, Gonzalo Veron, Damari Omer: Kljestan had six goals and 20 assists. Veron had three goals.
ORL - Kaka, Carlos Rivas, Bryan Rochez: Kaka had nine goals and 10 assists, Rivas had three goals and four assists.
PHI - Alejandro Bedoya, Maurice Edu
SJ - Simon Dawkins
SEA - Clint Dempsey, Nico Lodeiro: Dempsey had eight goals in 17 games, while Lodeiro was arguably the best player in the final 13 games with four goals and eight assists.
TOR - Jozy Altidore, Michael Bradley, Sebastian Giovinco: Altidore and Giovinco combined for 27 goals and 20 assists. Bradley had one goal and five assists in a midfield role that’s not suited for stats.
VAN - Matias Laba
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Doug will be in Chattanooga on Friday covering the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s exhibition against Jamaica. The U.S. team features Lawrenceville’s Walker Zimmerman and Atlanta United fullback Greg Garza. Jamaica features Atlanta United forward Romario Williams.
