Monday, January 07, 2013

Schedule Coming Wednesday and an Eye on International Dates

MLS fans will be able to plan the rest of their year come Wednesday.  The league is set to release the rest of the 2013 schedule on Wednesday at 11am Central time.  KC already knows their first three games on the season, playing at Philadelphia, at Toronto, and then opening Livestrong for the season against Chicago. 

Outside MLS play, it's going to be a busy year, the year before the World Cup, there's going to be a lot of international soccer going on.  Not just that, but there's also the Gold Cup this summer that will be taking up time.  With players like Matt Besler, Benny Feilhaber, and Graham Zusi being in camp for the US right now and potentially being called in later this summer as well.  Along with that that, there's still other US players on Sporting KC's roster that could be called up, like CJ Sapong.  Then you have Peterson Joseph whose national team of Haiti has qualified for the Gold Cup as well.  You also have Kei Kamara, the Sierra Leone player of the year, will likely have trips to Africa for Sierra Leone's World Cup qualifying campaign.  Finally in probably the least likely of the call ups, Lawrence Olum spent time with the Kenya national team this offseason and they too have World Cup qualifiers this year.  So before the schedule comes out, here are a couple of dates to keep in mind while looking at the schedule and KC's potential players that could miss time.

March 22nd
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Costa Rica
Sierra Leone vs Tunisia
Kenya vs Nigeria

March 26th
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Mexico

June 4th
International match date

June 7th
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Jamaica
Sierra Leone vs Tunisia
Kenya vs Nigeria

June 11th
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Panama

June 14th
World Cup qualifiers
Sierra Leone vs Cape Verde
Kenya vs Malawi

June 18th
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Honduras

July 7th through July 28th
CONCACAF Gold Cup

August 14th
International match date

September 6th
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Costa Rica
Sierra Leone vs Equatorial Guinea
Kenya vs Namibia

September 10th
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Mexico

Octobere 11th
World Cup qualifiers
USA vs Jamaica

October 15th
USA vs Panama

November 15th through November 19th
International match date
Intercontinental playoff between CONCACAF and Oceania

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