Date |
Time (CT) |
Event |
|---|---|---|
Mon., April 9 |
VOTE: Johnny Russell for MLS Goal of the Week |
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Tue., April 10 |
7:15pm |
Sporting KC Show on Sports Radio 810 WHB |
SportingStyle matchday preorders reopen online |
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Thu., April 12 |
ESPN+ launches for MLS/USL live streams |
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Fri., April 13 |
5pm |
Children's Mercy's 1st Prom (The Victory Project) |
Sat., April 14 |
10am |
U-15s vs Houston Dynamo Youth at Swope Soccer Village |
12:30pm |
U-17s vs Houston Dynamo Youth at Swope Soccer Village |
|
12:30pm |
U-19s vs Houston Dynamo Youth at Swope Soccer Village |
|
7:30pm |
<strong>Rangers vs OKC Energy FC at SMS District Stadium</strong><br>
(ESPN+) |
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Sun., April 15 |
3pm |
<strong>Sporting KC vs Seattle Sounders at Children's Mercy Park</strong><br>
(ESPN, 810 AM, 1480 AM) |
5pm |
The Final Whistle Postgame Show on Sports Radio 810 WHB |
Sporting Kansas City (4-1-1, 13 points) continued the club's strong start to the 2018 season on Sunday with a 2-0 road win at the LA Galaxy to remain atop the Western Conference and will now prepare for the team's next test when back-to-back Western Conference champions Seattle Sounders FC visit Children's Mercy Park (1 Sporting Way, Kansas City, KS) at 3 p.m. CT on Sunday in a nationally-televised match-up on ESPN. Tickets for the marquee match are available on SeatGeek.com or by calling 888-4KC-GOAL to purchase the Coca-Cola Sunday Family Four Pack (four tickets, four Coca-Cola products, four chips and four hot dogs).
Sunday's match will be Faith and Family Day at Children's Mercy Park, featuring discounted South Stand tickets and pre-game speeches from Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Chris Conley and former University of Kansas Big 12 Player of the Year and NBA champion Wayne Simien. 7eventh Time Down will perform a postgame concert on the Toyota Plaza and Sporting Kansas City's Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler and Ike Opara will also participate in a postgame Q&A with Simien.
In addition to Sporting Kansas City's showdown with Seattle on Sunday, the Sporting KC Academy and Swope Park Rangers will both be in action at home on Saturday.
The first-place Rangers, coming off a 1-1 draw in San Antonio on Kharlton Belmar's league-leading fifth goal of the year, will host OKC Energy FC at 7:30 p.m. CT at Shawnee Mission South District Stadium (5800 W. 107th St., Overland Park, KS) in a rematch of last year's Western Conference Championship. The first 500 fans in attendance will receive commemorative SPR champions t-shirts. Tickets, starting at $9, are available on SeatGeek.com.
The Sporting KC Academy will welcome Frontier Division rivals Houston Dynamo Youth to Kansas City for a U.S. Soccer Development Academy tripleheader at Swope Soccer Village (6310 Lewis Rd., Kansas City, MO). The U-15s will kick off at 10 a.m. CT, followed by the U-17s and U-19s at 12:30 p.m. CT. All three matches are free and open to the general public to attend with in-game updates available on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat (skcacademy).
This Tuesday, SportingStyle will reopen preorders for pickup at Sunday's match. Fans can shop a limited assortment of items and have first access to the new scarf of the match. The SportingStyle Pop in Store is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Budweiser Brew House at Children's Mercy Park. Follow @SportingStyle on Twitter and Instagram for sneak peeks of all the latest club apparel, including the team's popular Scarf of the Match series.
Sports Radio 810 WHB will air the weekly Sporting KC Show at 7:15 p.m. CT on Tuesday with hosts Nate Bukaty and Carter Augustine. The official radio home of Sporting Kansas City, Sports Radio 810 WHB will also carry SKCvSEA live on Sunday followed by The Final Whistle Postgame Show with Dave Borchardt and Chad Reynolds.
Sporting KC winger Johnny Russell is one of five nominees for MLS Goal of the Week with voting open online at MLSsoccer.com through midnight PT on Wednesday. Russell celebrated his 28th birthday on Sunday by scoring his second goal of the season to go along with two assists in his maiden MLS campaign.
On Thursday, ESPN+ will launch as the new home for Major League Soccer's out-of-market streaming package (currently known as MLS LIVE) and the USL's official streaming subscription service in the United States. ESPN+ will be available to fans for $4.99/month or $49.99/year featuring live sports and ESPN content in addition to MLS and USL matches.
On Friday, Sporting Kansas City's foundation The Victory Project will co-host Children's Mercy's 1st Prom from 5-6:30 p.m. CT at the Children's Mercy Adele Hall Campus. "A Night with the Stars" will feature appearances by Sporting Kansas City players as Children's Mercy patients are treated to a one-of-a-kind experience.
For news, videos, photos and instant updates throughout the 2018 season, follow Sporting KC on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat (sportingkc), and download the club's official mobile app Sporting KC Uphoria on the App Store or Google Play.
