Editing Sporting Kansas City (section)

===MLS Cup champions (2013)===
[[File:Obama with 2013 MLS Cup winner Sporting Kansas City team October 2014.jpg|thumb|right|President [[Barack Obama]] honored the team and their victory in [[MLS Cup 2013]], in the East Room of the White House.]]
In [[2013 Major League Soccer season|2013]], Kansas City took advantage of MLS's newly created retention funds to renew contracts with U.S. national team players [[Graham Zusi]] and [[Matt Besler]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Davis|first1=Steve|title=About those MLS retention funds: They have already been put to significant use|url=http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/02/about-those-mls-retention-funds-they-have-already-been-put-to-significant-use/|website=ProSoccerTalk|date=August 2, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907041541/http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/08/02/about-those-mls-retention-funds-they-have-already-been-put-to-significant-use/|archive-date=September 7, 2013|access-date=September 23, 2013}}</ref> Sporting had finished second in the Eastern Conference and overall with 17 wins, 10 losses, and tied 7 times in the regular season. In the 2013 MLS Playoffs, Sporting KC defeated [[NE Revolution]] in the conference semifinals and [[Houston Dynamo]] in the conference finals, advancing to [[MLS Cup 2013]]. SKC defeated [[Real Salt Lake]] on penalties (7–6) after the match was tied 1–1 in regulation and overtime. It was the coldest MLS Cup game on record.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/07/mls-history-the-record-is-set-for-coldest-kickoff-temperatures-any-major-league-soccer-match/|title=MLS history: the record is set for coldest kickoff temperatures any Major League Soccer match|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114071754/http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/07/mls-history-the-record-is-set-for-coldest-kickoff-temperatures-any-major-league-soccer-match/|archive-date=January 14, 2014|access-date=January 3, 2014}}</ref>