The past two decades have sent Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber to 20 grand openings across the country, the vast majority of them brand-new soccer-specific stadiums.
His latest stop drove him to Kansas City, Kan., to tour Pinnacle, a new state-of-the-art training center designed for Sporting Kansas City and U.S. Soccer. He was struck by one key difference in the facility — its emphasis on becoming more competitive on the field.
“It’s almost getting to the point where you get a bit numb because we’ve had so many buildings that we’ve opened,” Garber said Tuesday.