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**2012 Sporting Kansas City\Soccer Thread**
Sporting Kansas City was eliminated from MLS Cup contention after losing to Houston 2-1 aggreagate over the span of two games. They finished the year as US Open Cup Champions and a Kansas City team record of 63 points.
MLS Cup Final | LA Galaxy vs Houston Dynamo | December 1st, 3:30 CT  Final Regular Season Eastern Conference Standings Full MLS standings here.  2012 US Open Cup Champions.  Last edited by |Zach|; 11-26-2012 at 04:13 PM.. |
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01-24-2012, 02:55 AM
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There are only a few dozen members stand seats available for people who want season tickets. That rocks.
The Cauldron holds around 2k. They are close to selling 1.5k season tickets in the section with the remaining 500 to be distributed in single game ticket form by the Cauldron. Anyone jumping on the set of tickets granted from the membership site this coming year will get seats in the South Stands. |
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01-24-2012, 03:20 AM
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Speaking of supporters groups there have been some great organizations popping up. Some newer than others.
South Stands SC There has been a ton of work done by a group trying to organize the South Stands. It seems the South Stands are trying to be the family friendly brother of the Cauldron. They have a whole website http://www.southstandsc.org/ and membership opportunities. I like being in the rowdy north end but respect all the hard work these guys are putting in....hope this all works out for them.  The Ladies of SKC. This is exactly what it sounds like. There are alot of women in the Cauldron and a lot of talk of fostering a female friendly and centric sub section of the Cauldron. The two gals who are trying to get this thing off the ground are awesome people. http://twitter.com/ladiesofskc Here are some regional groups... - Mass St. Mob is the Lawrence\KU chapter of the Cauldron. Really fun guys any Jayhawkers should check them out.  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mass-...78898105504650 - The Columbia\MU chapter is KC Cauldron Como. The Columbia guys bring a great energy they are good to have around. They even represented at the most recent draft. They have watch parties and seem to be based out of a bar called McNally's  https://twitter.com/#!/KCCauldronCoMo - Missouri Western has just recently started getting a group organized and it seems as though they could use some help. I am looking at you Demonpenz. They are called the James Gang. http://twitter.com/#!/JamesGangSKC |
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01-24-2012, 08:24 AM
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Hey Zach, have you you heard anything about parking this year? They said that it might be changed up a little. I hope they still let us park where we did last year but wouldn't be surprised if they made that a premium lot. The location and tailgate atmosphere were great.
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Defender from Blue Valley West directed offseason workouts.
By TEREZ A. PAYLOR The Kansas City Star With the offseason departures of veterans Omar Bravo and Davy Arnaud, Sporting Kansas City enters the 2012 season in search of a captain. But if early returns are any indication — the team opened its preseason training camp Monday at the Chiefs’ practice facility — fourth-year defender Matt Besler will find himself in that leadership mix. “All the guys look up to him,” said coach Peter Vermes. And Besler, a 24-year-old who attended Blue Valley West High School, has proved his worth not only with words but with action. Players and coaches say he helped organize a group of players who stayed in Kansas City during the offseason to work out and train together for this upcoming season. Fullback Chance Myers was one of those players, along with Seth Sinovic, Roger Espinoza, Graham Zusi and Michael Thomas. Sinovic, who went to Rockhurst High School, and Thomas, who went to St. Thomas Aquinas, were no-brainers because of their local ties, but Myers and Zusi were harder sells. “I basically had to convince them that Kansas City isn’t that bad in the winter,” Besler said. “Chance is a California boy and Zuse is from Florida, so they were little scared of the weather. But I think they saw how I came in last season, and I think they wanted to make sure they put in the work this offseason.” Besler turned in a breakout campaign last season, thanks in large part to an intense workout program that had trainer Mateus Manoel’s fingerprints all over it. Besler led his teammates though the same program this winter for two to three hours a day, five days a week in December and January. “It’s a lot of cardio and strengthening of the leg muscles,” Besler said. “We usually used the Stairmaster, and we put it on full blast so we were basically sprinting on stairs, going on intervals.” Myers, who typically spends his offseason in his native California, said the way last season ended (a home loss in the Eastern Conference final) made the decision to stay and train an easy one. “A lot of guys were kinda peeved at the way the season ended,” Myers said. “We didn’t want it to end the way it did, so we wanted to get back to work as soon as possible.” And by all accounts, their hard work has paid off. Besler and Thomas were deemed the fittest guys on the team by Vermes, who is notorious for having a lack of patience for players who don’t come into camp in shape. Vermes also credited the other four for being part of a young nucleus that reported to camp in tip-top condition. “Overall, this is the fittest the team’s ever been coming back to the first day of preseason,” Vermes said. “And they’re all part of that core group that is in top shape.” “Those guys,” Vermes added, “are absolute animals right now.” It was, to be sure, a solid start for a young Sporting team that needs leadership, but appears to be in good hands. Vermes said he will wait on appointing a captain — goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen and Espinoza are also potential candidates — but Besler figures to be right in the mix. “He’s a voice in the locker room, definitely captain material,” Myers said. “We look to him, on and off the field, to push all of us.” |
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