Justin Mapp wasn't looking to become the answer to a trivia question. He just wanted to find the best place to continue his long MLS career – and it didn't take long to find that in Sporting Kansas City.
“It's something that I kind of wanted to explore right away,” the veteran midfielder told reporters on Monday, after signing with Sporting in the first free-agent deal in MLS history. “That's something I did a bit of last week, and here we are today.
“It all happened pretty quickly, but the process has been new for all of us, so we weren't exactly sure how it all would work.