David Wright

Left Forward - Sporting Kansas City
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1052 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

24 Sep 2046
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market24 Sep 2046

Ignacio Santana is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sporting Kansas City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad24 Sep 2046

Jack Kortkamp gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match22 Sep 2046

A bad afternoon for Sporting Kansas City against Minnesota United FC

0‑1 to Minnesota United FC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad24 Sep 2046

Chapa falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings24 Sep 2046

Nobody could get near Ryan Weah

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Sep 2046

Chapa left out for tactical reasons at Sporting Kansas City

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
1018 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

29 Jan 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Jan 2046

George Yedlin breaks a bone — 104 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market29 Jan 2046

Gio Moore asks to leave Sporting Kansas City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad29 Jan 2046

Words at Sporting Kansas City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chapa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

1014 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

1 Jan 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom1 Jan 2046

Sporting Kansas City hand the job to Ryan Xavi Simons

“I have supported clubs like this one. I know what a bad Saturday feels like here.” The new man starts with nothing behind him and everything in front of him.

Squad1 Jan 2046

20 seasons of Jack Kortkamp

487 appearances across 20 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Sporting Kansas City know what they have.

Market1 Jan 2046

Gio Moore puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sporting Kansas City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad1 Jan 2046

Alex Steffen is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sporting Kansas City will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad1 Jan 2046

Words at Sporting Kansas City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chapa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad1 Jan 2046

Jack Kortkamp is playing like a man with something to prove

The oldest phenomenon in the sport: a new voice in the dressing room and suddenly everybody is available for everything. Jack Kortkamp is training as though the last team sheet never existed, because as far as he is concerned it does not.

In brief

986 Edition

The Sporting Kansas City Post

19 Jun 2045
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Jun 2045

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Wright

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sporting Kansas City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad19 Jun 2045

Luca Howard breaks a bone — 118 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market19 Jun 2045

Only the photograph left for Ignacio Santana

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ignacio Santana will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sporting Kansas City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings19 Jun 2045

Nobody could get near Sean Musah

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces19 Jun 2045

The crowd has taken to Gio Moore

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match17 Jun 2045

Christian Musah sends Sporting Kansas City past Real Salt Lake

It finished 1‑0, and it was Christian Musah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sporting Kansas City.

Player ratings19 Jun 2045

Nothing got past Owen Weah

19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad19 Jun 2045

Chapa falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad19 Jun 2045

The manager makes an example of Tyler Johnson

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief