On Monday morning, Sporting Kansas City players did something they have done hundreds of times previously at Compass Minerals National Performance Center.
They trained together as a full team.
However, Monday’s training session felt a bit more special. It was, after all, the first time Sporting had practiced as one group since Major League Soccer’s 2020 season was suspended March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After eight weeks of at-home workouts, nearly a month of voluntary individual workouts at Compass Minerals National Performance Center, and less than a week of small group trainings, Sporting relished the return to on-field normalcy.