With World Cup decision approaching, Kansas City hopes USMNT game impresses

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kansas Metropolis isn’t simply identified for soccer and baseball. It’s additionally thought of because the soccer capital of America. 

This weekend, Kansas Metropolis is placing its finest foot ahead because it hosts the US Males’s Nationwide Soccer Group.

From Sporting Kansas Metropolis to the Kansas Metropolis Present, soccer has shortly turn into part of the sports activities tradition in Kansas Metropolis.

“I believe soccer is simply actually enjoyable to observe as a result of it actually might go anyway,” Alesia Mclear mentioned.

This weekend, the US takes on Uruguay at Youngsters’s Mercy Park. Regardless of one of many participant’s unfavorable feedback relating to fan attendance in Cincinnati on Wednesday, followers say Kansas Metropolis exhibits up for soccer.

“I believe it’s cool to see all of the totally different alternatives that (are) now being dropped at Kansas Metropolis,” McLear mentioned.

Forward of the matchup towards Uruguay, soccer followers had been capable of seize gear downtown on the US Soccer Fan Studio pop-up on Fundamental Road on Friday afternoon.

John Moncke with the Energy and Mild District hopes the soccer pleasure in KC resonates with the FIFA World Cup Choice Committee.

“That’s why it’s coming all the way down to the final vote with the FIFA choice committee,” he mentioned. “Twenty years in the past, I don’t know that Kansas Metropolis would have been on that quick record. We actually at the moment are.”

FIFA is predicted to make its World Cup announcement June 16.

“The World Cup is the largest sporting occasion on the earth, and it’s not only one recreation. It might be the equal to 3-5 Tremendous Bowls proper right here in Kansas Metropolis,” Monke mentioned.

This Sunday, followers can catch the US males’s workforce play beginning at 4 p.m. on FOX4.