When the Seattle Sounders visit the San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday night (7:30 p.m. PT; JOEtv, YouTube TV, 950 KJR AM, El Rey 1360 AM), defender Kelvin Leerdam will face another one of his former teammates.
Prior to joining the Sounders last summer, Leerdam spent the previous four seasons with Vitesse in the Eredivisie, the top flight in the Netherlands. The Earthquakes acquired one former Vitesse teammate, Valeri “Vako” Qazaishvili, last year before recently adding another in defender Guram Kashia, someone Leerdam knows very well.
“He’s a funny guy,” Leerdam said of Kashia.