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Why Kansas City Has Become A Soccer Hotbed
ResumeAs Major League Baseball awaits a list of names of players facing suspension for their involvement with performing enhancing drugs, Major League Soccer holds its All-Star Game tonight.
The league's best players take on Italy’s A.S. Roma at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas.
It’s tough to get a ticket for the match. And the same can be said for Sporting Kansas City's regular season games. The team is on a string of 27 straight sellouts of their world-class stadium that holds nearly 19,000.
From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Greg Echlin of KCUR explains why Kansas City has become a soccer hotbed.
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- Greg Echlin, sports reporter for KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri.
This segment aired on July 31, 2013.