The other two call ups are KC's Haitian contingent, Mechack Jerome and Peterson Joseph. Both are back with the national team for two games against the previous two World Cup champions. Haiti will play Spain at Sun Life Stadium down in Miami on June 8th. Haiti will then travel to Brazil where they will take on the 2006 World Cup champions Italy on the 12th in the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro as Italy prepares for the Confederations Cup. The pair would not miss any league games, but the two would miss a potential 4th round US Open Cup match on the 12th should Sporting win their first game.
The win puts Kansas City in an interesting position team wise. That gives KC a total of 7 players currently on the roster that will be traveling with their national team over the next month or so, with Matt Besler, Kei Kamara, Soony Saad, and Graham Zusi being the other four. If those 7 were all to be gone at the same time, KC would only have 17 available players in Kansas City when you don't count the 4 players on loan in Orlando and Teal Bunbury recovering from his ACL tear still.
There is some good news in this though. First, there is no time during this stretch that Kansas City that all seven of those players will be gone. For Houston only Saad and Lopez are likely to be unavailable. For the US Open Cup game on Tuesday the 28th those two plus Besler and Zusi will not be available. The June 1st game against Montreal will see three, Lopez, Besler, and Zusi. Should KC win their third round US Open Cup match, they'll be missing five for the fourth round match on the 12th as Besler and Zusi will be joined by Mechack Jerome, Peterson Joseph, and Kei Kamara for that match. The other good news is that KC's schedule during this run is fairly light. KC only has two league games and potentially two Open Cup games affected by these call ups. It could certainly have been a lot worse for Kansas City.
To see the break down of about when players will be gone check out the below graph I crudely drew up. (Click to see full size.)
4 comments:
I agreed with your tweet the other day correcting people about "offsides," which is truly annoying, but I also found it somewhat amusing given the prevalence of typos on this blog. The title of your post contains two in the last four words. Can you spot them?
all of which is to say, glass houses & all that. Move past typos & grammar errors online. Life is more fun without bickering over the details.
Your blog is a great resource on the Wizards/Sporting, so take this mild criticism for what it's (it is) worth.
Is this about in line with what the other teams in the league are facing this summer? Or are we an outlier?
Thanks for all the work you put into the blog, btw. I honestly don't know if I'd be a fan without your coverage of the team.
If Myers can get and stay healthy, then I think we are in pretty good shape for this run of games. We will have to see players like Feilhaber and Peterson play entire matches most likely. And we might see players like Thomas and Ellis at least on the bench.
I do wonder what PV is going to do in terms of our loanees. We may not want the likes of Dwyer and Songo'o Cup tied.
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