Talking KC sports: How Peter Vermes helped shape soccer + Royals & NCAA top seeds
Sporting Kansas City’s progress and popularity as an MLS franchise helped shape the region as a soccer hotbed to the point of landing games in next year’s FIFA World Cup.
And no person was more responsible for that growth than Peter Vermes.
But losses are piling up again for Sporting KC, and Vermes and the franchise parted ways Monday. In this installment of SportsBeat KC, The Star’s sports podcast, columnist Vahe Gregorian and host Blair Kerkhoff discusses Vermes’ important contributions to the area’s sports landscape.
And we also dive into the Royals. They came out of the gate flat for their home-opening series but got a nice lift from Kris Bubic in their first road game.
And who among us saw this all-No. 1 seed Final Four coming? Someone on our show did.