December 2, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Sporting Kansas City News Release
Sporting Kansas City announced today that the club has re-signed MLS veterans Graham Zusi, Roger Espinoza and Andreu Fontas.
Zusi and Espinoza have signed one-year contracts through 2023 with options for 2024, while Fontas has signed a two-year deal through 2024.
One of the most accomplished players in club history, Zusi has spent his entire 14-year professional career at Sporting and won four major championships in Kansas City-the 2013 MLS Cup and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup titles in 2012, 2015 and 2017. He joined Sporting out of the 2009 MLS SuperDraft and has since become the longest-tenured player with one team in MLS history, helping the club to 10 playoff appearances since 2011 as one of the league’s premier players.
Zusi is Sporting’s all-time appearance leader with 395 matches played in all competitions, including 341 in the MLS regular season and 20 in the MLS Cup Playoffs. His 341 regular season appearances are fourth most in MLS history by a player for one club. He also ranks first on the club’s all-time charts in starts (348) and minutes (31,761) while placing second in assists (89) and ninth in goals (35). The versatile veteran-who has transitioned from central midfielder to winger to right back during his tenure in Kansas City-was selected to the MLS Best XI in 2012 and 2013, and his club-record seven All-Star selections between 2012-2019 were the most in MLS during that time.
Internationally, Zusi amassed five goals and seven assists in 55 appearances for the United States Men’s National Team from 2012-2017. He appeared in all four matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup as a wide midfielder, tallying two assists, before representing his country at the 2015 and 2017 Concacaf Gold Cups, winning the latter as a right back.
The 2022 campaign saw Zusi become the first player in MLS history to play 14 seasons all with one club and the 19th player to eclipse 30 goals and 70 assists in the regular season. He started 20 of 21 MLS appearances, tallying two goals-including a brilliant long-range blast in a 2-1 win at Nashville SC on June 19-and adding two assists in a 4-1 victory over the Portland Timbers on Aug. 21.
Espinoza has spent 13 seasons at Sporting Kansas City as one of Major League Soccer’s longest-serving midfielders, helping the club to three Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup championships and nine playoff appearances. In two separate spells at Sporting from 2008-2012 and…
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