Sporting Kansas City celebrates the club's 25th season this year as one of 10 original teams when Major League Soccer kicked off in April 1996. For the next five days, SportingKC.com will look back at 25 moments that led up to our inaugural match, beginning with...
July 4, 1988
The roots of Major League Soccer, and therefore Sporting Kansas City as a charter member of MLS, date back to 6:21 a.m. CT on the Fourth of July in 1988 when FIFA Executive Vice President Harry Cavan announced:
“I declare on behalf of FIFA that the host country for the 1994 World Cup will be the United States of America.