MLS Club de Foot Montreal

Ignacio Piatti Named Impact Most Valuable Player for Fourth Consecutive Season

Published on October 31, 2018 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
Club de Foot Montreal News Release


MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact announced on Wednesday that Argentine midfielder Ignacio Piatti has been named the club's Most Valuable Player in 2018, receiving the Giuseppe Saputo Trophy for the fourth consecutive season, while American goalkeeper Evan Bush was named Defensive player of the year.

In his fifth season with the Impact, Piatti was the club's top scorer with 16 goals and earned the most assists with 13, appearing in 32 regular season games, all starts, for a total of 2,821 minutes played. He also finished the season tied for second in MLS with one hat-trick, tied for third with five game-winning assists and four penalty-kick goals, sixth with 16 goals and 78 fouls suffered, tied for seventh with three multi-goal games and tied for 10th with 13 assists. He also played two Canadian Championship games.

Throughout the regular season, Piatti set several personal records with the Impact, including 100 starts, 100 games played, and 10,000 career minutes in MLS. He passed Patrice Bernier for most career assists and most game-winning assists in club history in MLS, before surpassing Mauro Biello in first place in club history, in the first and second divisions, for most assists in one season, after setting the new MLS club record. He reached 50 career regular season goals in MLS on April 21 against LAFC, while also scoring his first career hat-trick in MLS during the same game.

He also surpassed Eduardo Sebrango for second place in club history, in the first and second divisions, with 63 career regular season goals.

Piatti was named MLS Player of the Week twice, in weeks 10 and 16, and was selected seven times on the MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week. He was also nominated once for the MLS Goal of the Week and was selected four times as the Videotron player of the game by the supporters.

The Argentine once again featured in the MLS All-Star Game for a third consecutive year, this time in Atlanta on August 1, against Italian club Juventus.

Goalkeeper Evan Bush honoured

Goalkeeper Evan Bush was named Defensive player of the year for the second time of his career, after earning the honour with the club in 2011.

Bush, who played his seventh MLS season with the Impact and eighth with the club, led all MLS goalkeepers with 132 saves and finished tied for first in goal with 34 games played, 34 starts and 3,060 minutes played, second with 184 shots faced, tied for third with 10 clean sheets, sixth with a 71.7 save percentage and tied for seventh with 14 wins.

This season, he reached 50 career regular season wins and 150 career games played with the Impact, in the first and second divisions. He surpassed Greg Sutton for most career saves and regular season minutes with the club, also in the first and second divisions. He reached 10,000 career minutes played with the Impact in MLS, on March 10 in Columbus.

He was selected three times on the MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week, another three times on the bench, and was voted Videotron player of the game nine times by the supporters, a season-high for the Bleu-blanc-noir.

Giuseppe Saputo Trophy recipients (MLS):

2018: Ignacio Piatti

2017: Ignacio Piatti

2016: Ignacio Piatti

2015: Ignacio Piatti

2014: Andrés Romero

2013: Marco Di Vaio

2012: Patrice Bernier

Defensive Player of the Year (MLS):

2018: Evan Bush

2017: Daniel Lovitz

2016: Hassoun Camara

2015: Laurent Ciman

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