Chris Likens, a part of the FC Kansas City ownership group, sent sexually suggestive emails about female soccer players in 2013 as he and his partners were setting up FCKC.
Likens and his sons, Brad and Greg Likens, are part of an ownership group with Brian Budzinksi. They also own the Missouri Comets, who play in the Major Arena Soccer League and were formerly coached by FCKC’s Vlatko Andonovski. Andonovski recently stepped down from coaching the Comets in order to focus on coaching FCKC.
An article in the Kansas City Business Journal detailed a complaint by Budzinski that he wanted to know “whether Brad and Greg Likens used the Comets' computers and servers to transmit scantily attired and suggestively posed pictures of FC Kansas City's female players in a way that created a hostile and discriminatory work environment.