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Player news is starting to pick up a little bit for Sporting KC. The team today made two
announcements on player news, and a new rumor has cropped up on another player.
First, after the announcement yesterday of the trade for Michael Thomas' rights, the team today
announced that they had signed the Olathe native to a contract.
STARTERSHere we go! MLS playoffs begin tonight!
MLS CUP PLAYOFFSWild Card RoundMatches & Scores:
(Seed included)
-Wed Oct 26
FC Dallas(1) v New York Red Bulls(4) - 8:00PM CT on Fox Soccer
-Thu Oct 27
Colorado Rapids(2) v Columbus Crew(3) - 9:00PM CT on Direct Kick
QuarterfinalsMatches & Scores:
1st Leg
-Sat Oct 29
Real Salt Lake v Seattle Sounders FC - 9pm CT on Fox Soccer
Higher seeded WC winner v Sporting Kansas City - 6pm CT on Fox Soccer
-Sun Oct 30
Philadelphia Union v Houston Dynamo - 3pm CT on ESPN2
Lowest seeded WC winner v LA Galaxy - 7pm CT - TV TBA
2nd Leg
-Wed Nov 2
Seattle Sounders FC v Real Salt Lake - 7pm CT on ESPN2
-Thu Nov 3
Houston Dynamo v Philadelphia Union - 7:30pm CT on ESPN2
-TBA
LA Galaxy v Lowest seeded WC winnerSporting Kansas City v Higher seeded WC winnerdN
SeedingsWESTW1 67 LA Galaxy
W2 63 Seattle Sounders
W3 53 Real Salt Lake
EASTE1 51 Sporting Kansas City
E2 49 Houston Dynamo
E3 48 Philadelphia Union
WILD CARDWC1 52 FC Dallas
WC2 49 Colorado Rapids
WC3 47 Columbus Crew
WC4 46 New York Red Bulls
dN
General Playoff News
Jeff Carlisle of ESPN previews the Wild Card games.
Back in late July we heard from Robb Heineman that the friendly against Chivas de Guadalajara was
looking good to take place in October this year. Late last night the Star put out an article saying
that today the team would announce that the friendly will take place on Wednesday, October 12th at
LIVESTRONG Sporting Park.
Today posted on the Star that it looks like Nick Garcia is going to be training with the team. It
sounds like it's not quite a trial, but not quite just training either. And with the way that the
center defense has played at times this season, one might think this is a good move to sign for the
former Wizards player.
Today on the KC Star's website, Robb Heineman was involved in a chat and gave out plenty of little
bits of information regarding the team. No real earth shattering information, but certainly some
interesting information. With the Star running the Q&A, it was a chance for some fans to try and
get some questions in that might be screened if the team had done the Q&A.
Today on the KC Star's website, Robb Heineman was involved in a chat and gave out plenty of little
bits of information regarding the team. No real earth shattering information, but certainly some
interesting information. With the Star running the Q&A, it was a chance for some fans to try and
get some questions in that might be screened if the team had done the Q&A.
I just got beaten in posting this by Gooch over at the Star who basically posted some of the same
information. But I spent enough time working on this I'm going to post anyway.
Over the weekend, the MLS Players' Union put out the salaries for players through May 1st. When
the list was released there were certainly a few questions about the list.
Well this rumor has lasted longer than the Diego Chara rumor did earlier this week. Earlier today
Charles Gooch tweeted about Peter Vermes being excited about a possible transfer deadline deals. He
also mentioned the the name Cristian Nazarit. Nazarit, or Nazarith as his wikipedia page spells it,
currently plays for Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia.
Today the KC Star had a story about the fund raising in the current mayoral race in Kansas City,
Missouri between Sly James and Mike Burke. Normally that's something that's not really talked about
on this blog. But the interesting thing was that the Star listed some of the people/organizations
that contributed the maximum to James' campaign.
Today the KC Star had a story about the fund raising in the current mayoral race in Kansas City,
Missouri between Sly James and Mike Burke. Normally that's something that's not really talked about
on this blog. But the interesting thing was that the Star listed some of the people/organizations
that contributed the maximum to James' campaign.
Tonight, the Terez Paylor at the KC Star is reporting the finalization of a contract with Julio
Cesar Santos Correa, the Brazilian center back. Last week, Robb Heineman posted on Twitter that
Cesar and Milos Stojcev would be announced within the week. Well we have the first one of those now
according to the Star.
Tonight, the Terez Paylor at the KC Star is reporting the finalization of a contract with Julio
Cesar Santos Correa, the Brazilian center back. Last week, Robb Heineman posted on Twitter that
Cesar and Milos Stojcev would be announced within the week. Well we have the first one of those now
according to the Star.
Earlier today on Bigsoccer someone pointed out this Tweet by BBC commentator/report, Callum
Williams. Gooch over at the Star has been able to get confirmation of this that Williams would be
heading over to become a presenter and commentator on the television broadcasts on KSMO. It looks
like he will be the lead commentator on the broadcasts, replacing Dave Borchardt.
Last night after posting about the Jack Jewsbury trade, someone posted about the allocation money
we were getting for Jewsbury. During my response I realized that along with explaining the
allocation money process it'd be interesting to look at how much money KC had available under the
cap. Well Gooch over at the Star beat me to both punches in the same post last night.
Jack Jewsbury by Sporting KC
A few days delayed but here's some of the news that's come out the Sporting KC preseason camp that
began Monday. Sporting's players will spend this week undergoing various fitness tests, taking
physicals and partaking in light training at the Kansas City Chiefs' indoor training facility
before moving on to Arizona, where SKC will spend the majority of their time prior to opening their
season at Chivas USA.
So the first day of preseason is in the books, and unfortunately I was unable to make it. This blog
doesn't pay the bills so I was at work while preseason was going on. But the rest of the KC soccer
blogosphere was there today and there is plenty of information that you can look at. I doubt I'll
be able to make it out to a practice before the team heads down to Arizona, but there is certainly
plenty to look over.
So the first day of preseason is in the books, and unfortunately I was unable to make it. This blog
doesn't pay the bills so I was at work while preseason was going on. But the rest of the KC soccer
blogosphere was there today and there is plenty of information that you can look at. I doubt I'll
be able to make it out to a practice before the team heads down to Arizona, but there is certainly
plenty to look over.
