It would appear that the Final Four of the tourney to qualify for the Olympics for Men's soccer will be played in KC in March.
Its a good chance to see the next wave of talent for the USMNT, since they are restricted to 3 overage players. After you pencil in Howard or Guzan and Donovan if he wants to do it again, the field players are almost all going to be U23.
I saw a couple of games in 2000. I didnt know it at the time, but it turned into a who's who of US soccer from 2000 to 2010. Guys you never heard of like Landon Donovan, Conor Casey, Brian Ching, DeMarcus Beasley, John O'Brien. It was a coming out party for the core group of young players that propelled the US so far in the 2002 WC. 2008 was pretty much the same story with names like Altidore, Holden and others emerging in South Africa, if you didnt follow the MLS closely.
So with Luis Gil, Omar Salgado, Juan Agudelo, Josh Gatt, Junior Flores and others waiting in the wings, its a good opportunity to go and enjoy some spring soccer.
I would go up there for those games, before I would drop a couple of hundred on a Sporting KC weekend, but that's just me.
Its a good chance to see the next wave of talent for the USMNT, since they are restricted to 3 overage players. After you pencil in Howard or Guzan and Donovan if he wants to do it again, the field players are almost all going to be U23.
I saw a couple of games in 2000. I didnt know it at the time, but it turned into a who's who of US soccer from 2000 to 2010. Guys you never heard of like Landon Donovan, Conor Casey, Brian Ching, DeMarcus Beasley, John O'Brien. It was a coming out party for the core group of young players that propelled the US so far in the 2002 WC. 2008 was pretty much the same story with names like Altidore, Holden and others emerging in South Africa, if you didnt follow the MLS closely.
So with Luis Gil, Omar Salgado, Juan Agudelo, Josh Gatt, Junior Flores and others waiting in the wings, its a good opportunity to go and enjoy some spring soccer.
I would go up there for those games, before I would drop a couple of hundred on a Sporting KC weekend, but that's just me.