Peter Vermes is the longest tenured head coach in Major League Soccer, and Sporting Kansas City’s win on Sunday over the Seattle Sounders came on the day he hit his 10-year anniversary as the manager of Sporting.
It’s been a tenure filled with many more ups than downs while Sporting KC as a club have carved out a spot as perennial contenders, accumulating numerous deep playoff runs and four major trophies along the way.
Vermes, a player in Kansas City between 2000-02, had been operating as the technical director of the team starting in 2006, and stepped into the coaching role in 2009, forever changing the culture and the trajectory of the club.