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Year Two with Sporting KC’s Erik Thommy

From struggles to focus to fun.

It’s typical - seeing people the way you first perceive them to be, always. It takes on other forms: typecasting, labeling, gender roles… Roger Moore as 007. George Harrison as the “quiet” Beatle. Who does the grocery shopping.

For Sporting Kansas City’s Erik Thommy, the clean-cut midfielder, with his perfect posture; his steely, almost piercing glare in the team photo; and his sleek good looks, is seen as the straight man to Willy Agada’s joyous fervor, the somewhat stodgy Rob McElhenney to his goofy, happy-go-lucky, Wrexham A.