The sun sets on Kansas City’s All-Star Game era as Roma beats Major League Soccer’s best
Going to an All-Star competition feels like observing a political convention. Both events are preceded with months, weeks, hours and minutes of hype, bombast and anticipation for an event whose outcome, if not known beforehand, is fairly predictable.
Fireworks and acrobatics were the show for a record crowd of 21,175 at Sporting Park on Wednesday night to watch Italian squad Roma dismantle the Major League Soccer All-Stars by a score of 3-1.
Kansas City was up for this party, given that it was the city’s second major league All-Star Game in as many years. Kansas City also knows how to get out of work early for a midweek game; an hour before kickoff, Interstate 70 was nearly empty. People arriving to the stadium around that time were consigned to parking well past the Kansas Speedway; Sporting Park was invisible from that parking lot.
