May 12, 2023 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Sporting Kansas City News Release
Sporting Kansas City will host Minnesota United FC at 7:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at Children’s Mercy Park as the club kicks off a highly-anticipated MLS Rivalry Week.
Tickets for the Western Conference clash are available via SeatGeek, including the Mother’s Day Ticket Pack and the Sporting U Pass . In conjunction with Mother’s Day weekend, all women’s apparel at SportingStyle will be 20% off at Saturday’s match and fans in attendance can visit the Mazuma Plaza prior to kickoff to make greeting cards, participate in a photo opportunity and receive a flower to give their mothers.
Tito’s Handmade Vodka is the official match sponsor and all fans can enjoy $2 off Tito’s cocktails with $1 donated to Great Plains SPCA from every Tito’s cocktail purchased. In addition, Children’s Mercy Park concessions will also be offering $2 off Guy’s Hometown Pretzels throughout Saturday’s match.
MLS Season Pass subscribers will be able to watch SKCvMIN live on Apple TV in English and Spanish with pre-match programming starting at 7:10 p.m. CT. All of the action will also be shown at each of the club’s pub partners in the Sporting Pub Network and radio coverage will air locally in English on Sports Radio 810 WHB and in Spanish on La Grande 1340 AM with streams available in the Sporting KC app.
On Saturday, Sporting will play the club’s lone home fixture in a stretch of five matches in 14 days and it comes against a Minnesota United FC side that SKC is a perfect 7-0-0 against at home in the regular season. The last time the teams met at Children’s Mercy Park resulted in a 4-1 victory for Sporting on Sept. 17, 2022 as Erik Thommy scored the game-winning goal.
Coincidentally, the strike was Thommy’s last goal until the 28-year-old German playmaker opened the scoring, and later provided the game-winning assist, in Sporting’s stunning 2-1 win over the first-place Seattle Sounders last Sunday. Thommy earned MLS Team of the Matchday honors for his performance and enters Matchday 12 among the top five MLS players in both shots (36) and shots on target (15).
Fellow Designated Player Alan Pulido was also on the scoresheet last Sunday, scoring his first regular season goal since Aug. 14, 2021 after missing all of 2022 due to injury. The World Cup veteran now has 23 goals contributions (15 goals, eight assists) in 31 regular season starts since joining the club in 2020.
Alongside Pulido and Thommy in the team’s…
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