Matt Besler is asked to describe his Sporting Kansas City’s 2016 season in three words. He tilts his head back. He purses his lips, he thinks and thinks and then he punctuates each word: “Up. And. Down,” he says. “Is that three words? Does that count?”
Yes, Matt. That’s a perfect description. Here’s why.
Besler, 29, of course, experienced the highest of highs on Sept. 2 when his first child with wife Amanda was born—a baby girl, Parker Rhea Besler. Matt would like to point out here that he was the one to find the name Parker—”I’m gonna take credit”—not his lovely wife, who Matt says does like gender-neutral names.