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Across State Lines: Anibaba Retires

As the MLS season creeps ever closer, a former Sporting Kansas City defender, Jalil Anibaba has called time on his playing career. Anibaba announced this past week that he was retiring as a professional soccer player and joining Nashville SC as a club ambassador. Over his twelve year playing career in MLS, Anibaba made 245 appearances in league play, starting 217 of them. He made sixteen appearances, fourteen starts for Kansas City in the 2015 season. He scored seven goals in league play in his career, one of those with Kansas City, the tying goal in the wild 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Union in 2015.