Sporting Kansas City announces the signing of Gianluca Busio, 15, during a news conference on Friday, August 25, 2017. Busio is the youngest player signed in Major League Soccer since Freddy Adu. By
The emotional response will be the most carefully examined, the most extensively dissected and the most heavily scrutinized. Will Sporting Kansas City’s failure in Mexico define the season? Or will it merely be a blip in an otherwise prosperous year?
Over the long term, the results will bear the actual data. But in the short term, another factor is looming larger — the physical response.