Midfielder Ignacio Piatti Named to 2018 MLS Best Xi
November 11, 2018 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Club de Foot Montreal News Release
MONTREAL - Major League Soccer announced on Sunday that Montreal Impact midfielder Ignacio Piatti has been named to the 2018 MLS Best XI.
After being named Impact Most Valuable Player for a fourth consecutive season, Piatti becomes the first player in club history to be featured in the MLS Best XI twice in his career. He previously became the third player in Impact history to earn the honour in 2017, after striker Marco Di Vaio in 2013 and defender Laurent Ciman in 2015.
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 milestones 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 in 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.
The Best XI members received the most votes from the media, MLS players, MLS coaches and general managers.
2018 MLS Best XI
Goalkeeper: Zach Steffen (Columbus Crew SC)
Defenders: Kemar Lawrence (New York Red Bulls), Aaron Long (New York Red Bulls), Chad Marshall (Seattle Sounders FC)
Midfielders: Luciano Acosta (D.C. United), Miguel Almirón (Atlanta United), Ignacio Piatti (Impact de Montréal)
Strikers: Carlos Vela (Los Angeles Football Club), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (LA Galaxy), Josef Martínez (Atlanta United), Wayne Rooney (D.C. United)
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