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Sporting Sounds: Matt Besler recalls attending inaugural KC Wiz match at 9 years old

Tonight at 7 p.m. CT, SportingKC.com will stream the Kansas City Wiz's inaugural MLS match against the Colorado Rapids from April 13, 1996.

Among the 21,141 in attendance at Arrowhead Stadium on that historic spring evening? Current Sporting Kansas City captain and defender Matt Besler, the club's all-time leader in appearances, starts and minutes played.

"Our anticipation for the game was building and building," Besler said this morning during his weekly appearance on Sports Radio 810 WHB with Border Patrol hosts Nate Bukaty, Steven St. John and Jake Gutierrez. "I was nine years old and was there with my parents and brothers.