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May 20, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Sporting Kansas City News Release

Sporting Kansas City (3-7-3, 12 points) will hit the road for a third straight weekend as the team travels to California to take on the San Jose Earthquakes (3-5-4, 13 points) at 6:30 p.m. CT on Sunday at PayPal Park.

The Western Conference clash will be locally televised on 38 The Spot with three hours of coverage beginning at 6 p.m. CT. The broadcast will stream live on SportingKC.com and in the Sporting KC app for viewers in Kansas and Missouri (excluding St. Louis area per MLS policy), as well as ESPN+ for out-of-market subscribers. Radio commentary will also air on SiriusXM FC, Sports Radio 810 WHB and La Grande 1340 AM.

In addition, Sporting KC pub partners

across the Midwest will be showing the match including enhanced watch parties at Chicken N Pickle locations in North Kansas City, Mo., and Wichita, Kan., featuring food and drink specials as well as Sporting KC ticket giveaways.

Sporting Kansas City snapped a seven-game regular season winless run on Wednesday with a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids at Children’s Mercy Park and will now return to the road looking to end a nine-game winless streak in away matches that dates back to last October.

MLS All-Star Daniel Salloi scored both goals for Sporting KC on Wednesday, however will be suspended for Sunday along with centerback Andreu Fontas as the match ended 9v9 with four red cards shown by referee Drew Fischer in second half stoppage time. Manager Peter Vermes will, however, be boosted by the return of midfielder Roger Espinoza and defender Robert Voloder after serving suspensions of their own in the mid-week match.

Vermes, who has now played and coached in 600 regular season games in MLS history, will coach his 417th regular season match on Sunday – making him the manager for exactly half of Sporting Kansas City’s 834 regular season matches all time. Vermes is the longest tenured head coach with one club in MLS history,…

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