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Three of Sporting KC's trialists are heading to Arizona with the Sporting KC team. Goalkeepers
Steve Spangler and Scott Angevine will be joined by former Michigan State midfielder, Cyrus Saydee
in Arizona. The team departs tomorrow.
Sadly for Irving Garcia, Matt Kuhn, Myron Samuel, and Kevin Struck the attempts to make the
Sporting KC roster end after a few days.
Today was Sporting KC's last training session in Kansas City before heading off to Arizona for a
few weeks. A fairly light session for the most part, that involved two teams scrimmaging, and a
third team working off to the side.
First game:
Orange team - Nielsen, Collin, Olum, Harrington, Warzycha, Thomas, Aiyegbusi, Dwyer, Kamara
Blue team - Kronberg, Myers, Cesar, Besler, Sinovic, Sassano, Joseph, Convey, Saad
Neutral - Zavagnin
Only one goal in this one, a Joseph Peterson and Luke Sassano worked a very nice 1-2 together
finishing with Joseph flicking the ball past Nielsen and into the net.
Sporting KC released the names today of their currently trialists that are in camp as the team
prepares for preseason training out at the Chiefs indoor training facility. There looks to be some
decent talent out there trialing right now, it'll be interesting to see who, if any, travel to
Arizona, and which ones potentially make the team.
In the final game of the year for Sporting KC, the Swope Park Rangers finished out the reserve
league season today at Swope Park against FC Dallas. The Rangers fell 5-3 to Dallas as Ruben Luna
scored 4 goals to help Dallas to the win. Luna opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Jeferson
equalized for the reserves in the 37th from the penalty spot after Soony Saad was fouled in the
box.
The Swope Park Rangers, Sporting KC's reserve side, moved their record in the reserve league this
year to 2-2-2 with a 1-0 win over the Colorado Rapids today at the Swope Park training complex. An
early goal by Soony Saad was the lone tally in the game. Both teams had some good chances, in a
game that was delayed for a period of time due to lightning.
The Swope Park Rangers fell in a reserve league game today out at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park to the
Chicago Fire. With Sporting KC set to take on Newcastle tomorrow, and a game against Toronto this
weekend, KC's lineup saw them field only six players that are actually on KC's roster. The other 5
starters, and all 5 substitutions were either trialists or Juniors players.
Nick Garcia when he was training with Sporting KC Earlier in the week on Callum Williams radio show
on 610 I mentioned that Nick Garcia was no longer with the team. Manager Peter Vermes had confirmed
that he was not with the team and had said there was "no mechanism for bringing him onto the team".
I understood that to mean that with Garcia's veteran status and the required salary and contract
In the first preseason game of the season for the Swope Park Rangers, the SKC reserves fell 3-2 to
the KC Brass, the local PDL side. The big attraction of the game was the inclusion of trialist Chad
Ochocinco in the game. Ochocinco came on as a substitute in the second 30 minute session and then
played the entire third session for the Rangers.
So today was the first day of Chad Ochocinco's 4 day trial with Sporting Kansas City, and the media
circus that was destined to follow was in tow. And after one day I think there's two words that
Wizards fans are going to be hearing a lot of over the rest of this week, humble pie. After his
first training session with the team, Ochocinco used the word humble in one form or another more
times than I think anyone would care to count.
Trinidad and Tobago youth international, Daneil Cyrus is now gone from camp with Kansas City. Cyrus
did not play in the team's double header against Portland and Montreal last weekend and was again
not in the lineup last night when KC took on the Arizona Sahuaros. There'd been no word on what had
happened to him but some were speculating that he was gone.
Yesterday on Twitter during the team's FIFA 11 tournament, Kei Kamara tweeted a post about one of
the games featuring K-Rex (Korede Aiyegbusi) and Sunisa. No one currently on the roster had a name
that sounded anything like that so I began to think it was a new trialist. My first guess was maybe
former New York Red Bulls midfielder, Sinisa Ubiparipovic.
Whether it's the Trialist 1 from the midweek intrasquad scrimmage or a new trialist, there's a new
player on the field for KC in their preseason game against Colorado this morning. He's Montenegrin
left sided midfielder, Milos Stojcev. Stojcev is from Red Star Belgrade's youth system but never
appeared once for the club.
Today before the team's intersquad scrimmage (where Korede Aiyegbusi (blue) and Kei Kamara (orange)
scored the two goals as the Blue team went 1-0-1, Orange went 1-1, and Yellow went 0-1-1), the team
put out the names of some of the trialists in camp who had previously been hidden under the name
Trialist 1-6.
Out in Arizona, Sporting KC got their preseason started as they took on the Columbus Crew at the
Reach 11 park in Phoenix Arizona. The game was divided into 3 30 minute periods. KC played 3
different teams in the 3 periods, each team had a mix of returning players and trialists and
rookies on the team.
Some national team news tonight, along with other Sporting KC news. First, Teal Bunbury has
apparently filed his one time national team switch with FIFA. What this means is that Bunbury will
officially be a US international and will be unable to switch back to Canada, who he represented as
a youth international.
It's amazing how quickly news moves in today's age. Earlier today I was shown this article from
Ecuador saying that former LDU Quito forward, Franklin Salas was on his way to KC. The article made
it sound like the deal was done. After Tweeting about the rumor, it was picked up by Charles Gooch
from the Star and The Full 90.
Late last night, Thad at The Back Post got an interview with Peter Vermes up on his blog where he
discusses a lot of things involving the preseason. So far Vermes seems to be pretty high on all of
the team's draft picks, including supplemental draft pick, Mike Jones. Vermes (and people at
training) confirmed that the Julio Cesar Santos is the same one that was guessed by people, the one
that's played in England, Mexico, Spain, and multiple other places around the world.
Robb Heineman continues to give us an inside look at some players that are in camp on trial as
preseason kicks off. Yesterday he told us about trialist Julio Cesar Santos, and today he gave us
four more names. Two have already been mentioned, the two Trinidad players, Daneil Cyrus and
Sheldon Bateau, both defenders.
Robb Heineman just tweeted that a trialist to keep an eye on this preseason is Julio Cesar Santos.
There are a few when you do a Google search for that name, but the one that stands out, is this one
that's currently listed as being on CS Maritimo's roster.
The reason that one stands out, is because of two reasons, first he previously played in the
Spanish first division, La Liga, which goes along with a previous tweet by Heineman this past week.
