The Swope Park Rangers have announced the club’s 2019 preseason roster, consisting of 10 players under USL Championship contract, 13 members of the Sporting Kansas City Academy and 11 trialists.
Led by second-year head coach Paulo Nagamura, the Rangers will play their first of six preseason friendlies on Saturday at Swope Soccer Village, facing Barton Community College at 2 p.m. CT. Admission is free and open to the public.
SPR have signed three new midfielders this offseason—Alexsander, Ayyoub Allach and Jerome Ngom Mbekeli—who join returnees Rassambek Akhmatov, Camilo Benitez, Justin Bilyeu, Wilson Harris, Felipe Hernandez, Will Little and Ethan Vanacore-Decker.