When Gianluca Busio met with Sporting Kansas City’s management as a prospective academy player, they provided him a tour of the first-team facilities, hoping it might serve as motivational foreshadow for his future.
That future will arrive sooner than perhaps even he anticipated.
Sporting Kansas City has agreed to terms with the 15-year-old Busio on a homegrown contract, a source told The Star on Thursday.
Three months after his 15th birthday, Busio will be the youngest signing in Sporting KC history, surpassing homegrown talent Erik Palmer-Brown, who signed with the club at age 16 in August 2013.