Should we get Worked up About the Sporting KC Losses?

For the Glory KC is back with the 120th episode of the show!

Sporting Kansas City played their first two competitive games of 2025. While we warned you not to overreact to the initial results, it hasn't stopped a slice of the fanbase from getting quite worked up. We work our way through both the freezing cold of the Inter Miami game and the slightly less cold, but rainy Austin FC game to talk takeaways.

Daniel Salloi caught a fair amount of grief for his performance in both games. But there was a lot of other notable things that happened. There were Sporting KC debuts for Dejan Joveljic, Manu Garcia, Shapi Suleymanov and Jacob Bartlett. 19-year-old Bartlett started both games! We give our opinions on their performances and those of their peers.

Plus, a look at the injury report, a few tactical wrinkles, and a breakdown of the Austin goal before getting to some breaking news from the week. Sporting KC cut Alenis Vargas and signed Andrew Brody. Erik Thommy was named captain and Roger Espinoza got hired to SKC's coaching staff. And a little roster composition news came out as well.

Finally, the KC Current had another relatively quiet week, but they extended the contract of new signing Haley Hopkins who just arrived via trade. They also had a few national team call-ups and some new NWSL rules came out, including a bump in the salary cap from $2.75 million to $3.5m.

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

• A ref asking for Messi's jersey
• USWNT results
• Benny Feilhaber's new job
• KC Comets just keep winning
• and a Tony Meola update

Here is a rundown of topics (and approximate start times):

• Sporting KC freeze against Inter Miami - 8:11
• SKC vs. Austin FC in the Season Opener - 26:48
• Captain Erik Thommy - 48:32
• Alenis Vargas released - 52:01
• Andrew Brody signed - 57:18
• Sporting KC story round-up - 1:00:27
• Sheena does Manu Garcia bio - 1:07:30
• KC Current news - 1:14:46
• Digitial Crawl - 1:18:28

Upcoming Games

• Sporting KC @ Inter Miami - Tuesday, Feb. 25th - 7:00 PM CST
• Sporting KC vs. San Jose Earthquakes - Sat., Mar. 1st - 7:30 PM
• SheBelieves Cup USWNT vs. Japan - Wed. Feb 26th - 9:30 PM (San Diego)

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