For the Glory KC Awards

For the Glory KC is back with the 155th episode of the show!

Sporting Kansas City and the KC Current did literally nothing this week, so we are filling in with offseason content!

Sheena and I did our first ever “For the Glory KC Awards” and gave out many fake prizes to players on both teams. From MVP to Newcomer of the year to strange categories like best hair and best personality. There are the awards you’d expect and everything in between.

We also asked the question, which is more shocking? Peter Vermes getting fired with nearly four years left on his contract or Vlatko Andonovski stepping down unexpectedly after the greatest regular season in NWSL history?

Speaking of Vermes, he was reported to be up for the Atlanta United job that ultimately went to Tata Martino. Which left the question, where should Peter land if he stays in MLS? There are only a few jobs left open and the New York Red Bulls one looks like it’s going to Michael Bradley (according to Tom Bogert of the Athletic). So that only left open the Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew (soon enough), St. Louis City and of course Sporting KC.

In addition to picking Vermes’ landing spot, we ponder the question of how nervous should we be that Sporting KC still only have 14 signed players and no coach with preseason set to start in just over five weeks on January 10th?

We also cover the news about Kansas City and the 2031 Women’s World Cup, Bia Zaneratto possibly heading to Brazil and a lot of USWNT news for the full team, U-23s and U-20s.

In the Digital Crawl, we hit on a few more topics, including:

• MLS Cup where everyone is rooting for Vancouver over Miami
• The 2028 Copa America maybe coming to the USA
• Phoenix possibly landing MLS and NWSL expansion teams
• and UMKC’s NCAA Tournament fate

Here is a rundown of topics and start times:

• End of Year Awards – 3:22
• Sporting KC roster, coach and Vermes’ fate – 47:22
• 2031 WWC Update – 56:28
• KC Current roundup – 1:04:12
• She Scores – 1:06:35
• Digital Crawl – 1:17:31

Upcoming Games

• MLS Cup: Vancouver Whitecaps vs Inter Miami, Saturday, Dec. 6th at 1:30PM CST
• World Sevens Football Tourney
  • KC Current vs. Flamengo, Fri. Dec 5th at 4:00PM (TNT)
  • KC Current vs. Tigres, Sat. Dec 6th at 11:30AM (TNT)
  • KC Current vs AFC Toronto, Sat. Dec 6th at 3:30PM (truTV)
• Women’s College Cup (CPKC Stadium)
  • Florida State vs. TCU, Fri. Dec. 5th at 5:00PM
  • Duke vs. Stanford, Fri. Dec. 5th at 7:45PM
  • Finals at 6:00PM on Sunday

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Big thanks to Splitter Conspiracy (listen to them here) for our theme music made with the permission of the KC Cauldron.

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