For the Glory KC: Vermes Sporting KC Media Day Exclusives and an LA Galaxy Preview

For the Glory KC is back with the 11th episode of season two (Episode 18 overall)!

The votes were tallied and two episodes a week won! We are going to give it a try. This is our first “second” episode in a week and media day drug it out a bit, but otherwise I think we can (maybe) control ourselves and make these a more digestible length to do two.

On this week’s second episode Sheena and I talk about my day at Sporting Kansas City media day! I had the chance to observe practice, talk to coaches and players and in particular get in a one-on-one conversation with Peter Vermes. I usually make these podcast “articles” pretty short, but there are a few things I think need to live via the written word somewhere, so I’m sneaking them in here. They are all nerdy roster construction questions (but there is plenty of non-nerdy roster stuff in the episode).

Peter Vermes confirmed the following:

• Gadi Kinda has to be a Designated Player and cannot be bought down (despite what we had previously thought).
• Johnny Russell’s contract was structured in a way to front load it enough to make him not a DP this year.
• Sporting KC has talked with Alan Pulido about a contract extension (his deal expires after this season).

Here is a quick rundown of topics:

• SKC Media Day
• PV Quotes
• LA Galaxy Preview
• Digital Crawl

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The temporary intro/outro music is by Kristian Leo and is from the song “Ride it Like You Mean It.”