Juggling more than one competition at once is a time-honored dilemma for many teams, in MLS and around the world. In North America, teams involved in the Concacaf Champions League have had to decide whether to focus on that, or their league season.
For Sporting Kansas City, the choice has been to compete on both fronts, and so far it's paying off.
Sporting KC haven’t lost in MLS play since Week 1, a last-minute road defeat to Western Conference leaders LAFC. In the middle of managing a stretch of seven games inside 25 days, with trips to Toluca, Los Angeles, Panama City, back to Kansas City and then Colorado, they still have seven points from four MLS matches so far, and find themselves in the semifinal round of Champions League play.