Sporting Kansas City shocked and surprised the soccer world (especially St. Louis) when they were awarded the Homegrown player rights on Josh Sargent last week. Sargent of course, is the star of the United States Men’s U-17 club. He has been bagging goals left and right and Sporting KC could sure use a goal scorer.
The reason for the controversy is because Sargent hasn’t spent the requisite time with the SKC Academy but the reason they were allowed to claim him is because he falls within the clubs territory (for SKC that’s all of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma — which is beautifully shown by The Brotherly Game).