[MLS] Projections that Sporting Kansas City can improve enough to reach the playoffs this season are tempered by a 10-game road trip it must navigate before theunveiling of Livestrong Sporting Park on June 9. The best way to deal with a road trip – regardless of length – is to look at the next game, […]
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Young Brit lands job as voice of Sporting Kansas City
Last month, 21-year-old Callum Williams was working as a freelance announcer and interviewer for games in England’s minor leagues when he got the idea tosend a sample of his work to Rob Thomson, Sporting Kansas City’s vice president of communications. On Saturday, Williams will be SKC’s leadannouncer and presenter on the KSMO telecast of the […]
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MLS clubs stock up on imported center backs
[THE SIXER] Six MLS Eastern Conference teams who didn’t make the 2010 playoffs have imported center backs who could see a lot of action during the 2011season. RODRIGO BRASESCO (D.C. United). Top draft pick Perry Kitchen should get plenty of time in the middleof the D.C. backline, but his U-20 commitments mean that Brasesco will […]
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Much traveled Brazilian defender lands in KC
[MLS] This is his 14th professional team, so the fact that Julio Cesar has extensive experience can be regarded with admiration or anxiety. Julio Cesar Santos Correa, 32, has signed with Sporting Kansas City following stints with clubs in Honduras, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, England, Mexico, Greece, Romania and Turkey. RealMadrid and AC. Milan are […]
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FC Dallas signs highly rated keeper
[MLS] FC Dallas signed its sixth homegrown player, 16-year-old keeper Richard Sanchez. He is the third FCD youth signingwith ties to the Mexican national team program. The California-born Sanchez was recently named the top goalie at a youth tournament in Chile. Sanchez played for Texas FC and FC Dallas with astint in between at Spanish […]
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Bunbury injury could have been worse
Sporting Kansas City forward Teal Bunbury will be sidelined for 2-4 weeks with a dislocated elbow suffered in a challenge in Tuesday’s preseason game againstHouston. But it wasn’t a broken elbow, and he won’t be out as long as 4-5 months as first feared. “He suffered a pretty significant injury,” said assistant coach Kerry Zavagnin. […]
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Bunbury thrilled and humbled by U.S. opportunity
[U.S. SOCCER] For Teal Bunbury, the main topic is no longer why he decided to do what he did, but rather what he can do with that decisionbehind him. He’s not the first soccer player to change national allegiances, but not every player forsakes the nation his father played for, in this case Canada, to […]
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Sapong set to prove himself in K.C.
[MLS] James Madison University failed to reach the NCAA playoffs last season, but the Dukes’ CJ Sapong became the first player in JMUhistory to get picked in the first round of the MLS draft. It might be difficult for a rookie striker to break into an MLS lineup, but one of Sapong’s biggest fans says […]
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Kansas City re-signs its iron man
[MLS] One of the more versatile players to play for Kansas City the past few seasons will be back in 2011. Midfielder/defender MichaelHarrington, who has played more games for the team during the past four seasons than any other player, has signed a new contract. Taken as the No. 3 overall pick in the 2007 […]
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Kansas City abandons status quo
[MLS] First the Wiz, then the Wizards, now Sporting Kansas City. MLS’s Kansas City team introduced its third name as part of its re-branding efforts inanticipation of the opening of a new stadium next season by ownership group OnGoal. The changes include new colors — indigo and a shade of light blue called “SportingBlue” — […]