When: Saturday, December 5th, 7:00 PM CST
Where: Cable Dahmer Arena, Independence, Missouri
How to Watch: Facebook Pay Per View ($14.99 to purchase)
Kansas City will host Major Arena Soccer League’s first ever All-Star Game on Saturday at Cable Dahmer Arena, which will feature six players from the Kansas City Comets.
Saturday’s match will be the first indoor all-star game since 2001/02. Of the 39 players selected by player-coaches Leo Gibson (Kansas City Comets) and Nick Perera (Tacoma Stars), Gibson picked 21 players to represent the Eastern Conference, including six of the following Comets players:
GK: Nicolau Neto
DF: John Sosa; Robert Palmer
MF: Ignacio Flores
FW: Leo Gibson; Kevin Ellis
Three former Comets will be returning to Kansas City including:
GK: Danny Waltman (Tacoma Stars- Western Conference; spent five years with Comets from 2010-2015)
DF: Guerrero Pino (San Diego Sockers- Western Conference; spent two seasons with Comets from 2016-2018)
DF: James Togbah (Utica City FC- Eastern Conference; spent two seasons with Comets from 2017-2019)
The East
Despite impressing last season and being named Eastern Conference champions for 2019/20, Florida Tropics head coach Clay Roberts reportedly held his team out of participating in the All-Star Game.