Category: Sporting KC

Sporting Kansas City has recalled defender Saad Abdul-Salaam from his loan with the San Antonio Scorpions, the club announced on Tuesday.

Abdul-Salaam will be available for selection on Wednesday when Sporting Kansas City plays host to the New England Revolution at 7 p.m. at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan.

Abdul-Salaam has started five matches for the reigning North American Soccer League champions while on loan, including starts in back-to-back victories in the last two weeks.

The 23-year-old rookie was selected 12th overall in the first round of the 2015 MLS SuperDraft out of the University of Akron, where he scored three goals and added 12 assists in 54 games over three seasons.

Sporting KC (3-2-5, 6th place) will play host to 2014 MLS Cup runners-up New England Revolution (5-2-4, 2nd place) at 7 p.m. Wednesday in a nationally televised match on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. A limited number of tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com and the first 10,000 fans inside Sporting Park will receive sunglasses courtesy.
– Story from Sporting KC

Sporting Kansas City will play twice in four days this week as the team begins a stretch of the schedule in which their next five regular season matches all feature opponents from the 2014 MLS Cup playoffs.

On Wednesday, Sporting Kansas City (3-2-5, 6th place) will play host to MLS Cup finalists New England Revolution (5-2-4, 2nd place) at 7 p.m. at Sporting Park in a nationally televised match on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes.

A limited number of tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com and the first 10,000 fans inside the stadium will receive Sporting KC sunglasses.

The team then travels to Seattle to take on the reigning Supporters’ Shield and U.S. Open Cup champions Sounders FC (6-3-1, 3rd place) at 9 p.m. on Saturday at CenturyLink Field. The match will be televised locally on KMCI-TV 38 the Spot and across the Midwest on SKCTV with three hours of coverage beginning at 8:30 p.m.

Sporting KC (3-2-5, 14 points) begins a two-game home stand at 7:30 p.m. Saturday with the Colorado Rapids at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan.

It will be Sporting KC’s 100th match at Sporting Park since the stadium opened June 9, 2011.

The match will be shown live locally on KMCI-TV 38 the Spot and across the Midwest on SKCTV with coverage beginning at 7 p.m. Following the match, a Special Olympics Unified Sports exchange game will be held at Sporting Park between Special Olympics Kansas and Special Olympics Colorado.

Peter Vermes’ side has yet to lose at Sporting Park this season and faces a Rapids club that has one win in its last 24 MLS matches dating back to July 2014.

Despite sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference, Colorado (1-2-7, 10 points) has avoided defeat in eight of its first 10 games en route to a league-leading seven draws. Pablo Mastroeni’s team has recorded four consecutive 1-1 draws entering Saturday and opened the season with three straight 0-0 stalemates in March.

Gabriel Torres (four goals) and Dillon Powers (four assists) lead the Rapids going forward, while Clint Irwin is tied for second in MLS with four clean sheets.

Recent history in the head-to-head matchup favors Sporting KC, who are unbeaten in 10 straight MLS matches against Colorado dating back to 2009 with a 5-0-5 record (including postseason). In addition, Kansas City has not lost to the Rapids at home since September 2002, a run of 13 straight MLS matches without a defeat (9-0-4 record including postseason).

A limited number of tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com and the first 5,000 fans inside the stadium will receive cooling neck wraps courtesy of Providence Medical Center.
– Information from Sporting KC