Next Stop: Kansas, on Impact Odyssey

Johnny Russell (SKC) and Dan Lovitz (IMFC) two current internationals who will be on view at Children’s Mercy Park on Saturday afternoon, do battle in Montreal’s 2-0 win over Sporting Kansas last June.It’s not quite Paris, London, New York, but after San Jose, Houston and Orlando, the Montreal Impact entourage winds up this Saturday in Kansas City, the fourth instalment of an initial six-leg road-trip intro to the new season.

And they won’t be splashing into the City of Fountains without a fair level of optimism.

Children’s Mercy Park, a traditionally difficult place to get points at, holds happy memories from earlier Impact visits. Two of their first three MLS encounters in Missouri ended in…