With the clamor of a Sporting Kansas City practice engulfing the near field, Gerso Fernandes outlined its perimeter. A calf injury prevented his full inclusion, but he jogged for half an hour to maintain his fitness. Afterward, Sporting coach Peter Vermes asked about his health from across the field, and Fernandes replied with one thumb pointed toward the sky.
“He’ll be ready,” Vermes later said, and then he grinned, almost a revelatory response for what would come Saturday.
Fernandes was the center of attention — though not Montreal’s, apparently — in Sporting Kansas City’s 7-1 rout at Children’s Mercy Park on Saturday afternoon.