Peter Vermes

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Sporting Kansas City (1-1-1) and the Chicago Fire (0-2-1) tied 0-0 on Saturday afternoon at Sporting Park in Kansas City. It was Sporting Kansas City's first home game of the season, and despite gray skies and cold weather, the blue-...

Sporting Kansas City says Ryan Smith is leaving the MLS team for family reasons and will not be back this season. The 24-year-old Smith was signed before the 2010 season and appeared in 26 games, recording three goals and seven assists. He missed the...

Bruce Arena of the Los Angeles Galaxy is selected MLS coach of the year....

When it comes to soccer, Chad Ochocinco looks like a football player.     The six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver seemed willing but unpolished during a practice game Monday, the fifth day of his tryout with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer.     He...

Switching from football to soccer won't be easy for Chad Ochocinco, if it happens at all. Locked out of his day job, Ochocinco opened a four-day tryout with Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday and by the end of his first day with the Major League Soccer...

After a five-day tryout proved that he was a good teammate who lacked enough soccer skills, NFL star Chad Ochocinco got what he was hoping for Tuesday -- a spot on the reserve team for Sporting Kansas City.     Now he'll work out a couple of times a...

What do NFL players do during a lockout?  For one Pro Bowl Wide Receiver and Dancing with the Stars alum, you try out for a soccer team.  Chad Ochocinco is taking his talents from Cincinnati's football field...to Kansas City's football pitch. "Due to the...

Now that he has a little free time on his hands, Chad Ochocinco will attempt to make the jump from pro football to pro futbol. Next week, the outspoken and locked-out Bengals wide receiver will get a four-day tryout with Sporting Kansas City of Major...

Chad Ochocinco was unsuccessful in his attempt to crack the roster of MLS soccer squad Sporting Kansas City, who evaluated the Bengals wide receiver in a week-long tryout. He wasn't offered a contract, but today he was named an "honorary member" of the...

Just before midnight Central time, Goal.com reported that Kansas City Wizards head coach Peter Vermes was arrested last week. It is bad enough that the head coach of an MLS team has been arrested. What Vermes is charged with makes the matter worse....

Peter Vermes, who played for the U.S. at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and the 1990 World Cup in Italy, today was named coach of Major League Soccer's Kansas City Wizards. Vermes, 42, the team's technical director, had served as......