Matt Besler was a Sporting Kansas City rookie in 2009, and although he had considered it something of a fairly tale to play for his hometown club, the reality didn’t match the illusion.
Sporting KC, then still known as the Kansas City Wizards, played soccer matches inside a minor-league baseball stadium — such an awkward fit that, even eight years later, everybody seems to provide a different example of just how incommodious it was.
Here’s Besler’s: In the second half of a match, he needed to use the restroom, so he asked a stadium employee to point him in the direction of the players’ bathroom.