MLS’s longest teaching reign ends as Vermes leaves Sporting Kansas Metropolis

MLS’s longest teaching reign ends as Vermes leaves Sporting Kansas Metropolis

April 1 – The longest-serving supervisor in Main League Soccer (MLS), Peter Vermes (pictured), has mutually agreed to half methods with Sporting Kansas Metropolis (SKC). 

Vermes, 58, who has been SKC head coach for nearly 16 years, led the membership to 4 main championships and 11 play-off appearances, together with eight in a row between 2011 and 2018. 

“It will be arduous to checklist all the folks I wish to thank after 20 seasons in managerial positions at Sporting Kansas Metropolis,” Vermes mentioned. 

“I’m grateful to everybody, particularly the possession, for giving me the chance of being a steward of this membership for the previous twenty years. I want the membership nothing however the perfect sooner or later.” 

Vermes made 78 appearances for the membership after they have been generally known as the Wizards, from 2000 and 2002, after which grew to become their sporting director in 2006 earlier than taking over the pinnacle teaching function in 2009. 

In 2012 Vermes received his first main trophy, touchdown the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, following up with the MLS Cup in 2013. He went on to win two extra U.S. Open Cups. 

Nevertheless, the previous few seasons have seen SKC amongst the league’s cellar dwellers, with this marketing campaign reaching a brand new low. At present, they’re lifeless final in MLS, which has led to the change in teaching. 

Taking up from Vermes will likely be Kerry Zavagnin, who performed 208 instances for the Wizards throughout the 2000s. 

Zavagnin, 50 has been the assistant to Vermes and now turns into the interim supervisor, efficient instantly. 

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