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Sacha Kljestan is only part-way through his second season with the New York Red Bulls, but has already put his name among the club's all-time elite attacking players. He is in RBNY's all-time, all-competitions assist-making top 10. Last year, he delivered the joint-second best assist-making season in the club's history: tying Clint Mathis' 14-assist 2000 season, and falling just short of Thierry Henry's club-record 16-assist 2014.
Kljestan scores goals too. Indeed, he scored twice in his last game - the 2-2 tie with Philadelphia on July 17.
Those goals lifted Kljestan into a select group of players in the history of this twice-named team: those who have registered 40 or more combined goals and assists. Sacha is just the 14th player to reach the RBNY 40 club. Per MetroFanatic's statistics archive:
| Name | Games Played | Games Started | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Goals+Assists | Minutes/Goal or Assist |
| Thierry Henry | 135 | 130 | 11510 | 52 | 49 | 101 | 114 |
| Amado Guevara | 117 | 114 | 10284 | 39 | 39 | 78 | 132 |
| Juan Pablo Angel | 112 | 109 | 9648 | 62 | 14 | 76 | 127 |
| Bradley Wright-Phillips | 109 | 99 | 8698 | 60 | 16 | 76 | 114.5 |
| Clint Mathis | 110 | 99 | 8839 | 45 | 26 | 71 | 124.5 |
| Giovanni Savarese | 96 | 69 | 6425 | 44 | 13 | 57 | 113 |
| John Wolyniec | 167 | 97 | 9231 | 36 | 18 | 54 | 171 |
| Dane Richards | 176 | 148 | 13413 | 23 | 30 | 53 | 253 |
| Lloyd Sam | 126 | 101 | 8630 | 24 | 26 | 50 | 173 |
| Tab Ramos | 131 | 122 | 10447 | 10 | 39 | 49 | 213 |
| Adolfo Valencia | 65 | 53 | 4785 | 29 | 18 | 47 | 102 |
| Dax McCarty | 188 | 180 | 16029 | 14 | 27 | 41 | 391 |
| Mark Chung | 98 | 90 | 8237 | 13 | 28 | 41 | 201 |
| Sacha Kljestan | 62 | 60 | 5180 | 14 | 26 | 40 | 130 |
Forty combined goals and assists is a modest career total for an attacking player, but for RBNY it is a significant milestone. And Kljestan is currently delivering an assist or goal every 130 minutes or so: consistent with the rate of what might be considered the second tier of the club's all-time attacking elite (Amado Guevara, Clint Mathis, and Juan Pablo Angel).
Only Giovanni Savarese, Thierry Henry, Bradley Wright-Phillips, and Adolfo Valencia (the king of the Red Bulls' 40 club for his rate of a goal or assist every 102 minutes) have broken the 40-goals-or-assists mark by contributing to scoring at a significantly higher rate.
Congrats, Sacha! We won't bet against you pushing much higher up this list before your Red Bulls days are done.