Plaza Branch and Central Library will open late at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17 due to the Kansas City Marathon.
No single person made Kansas City the international soccer destination it is today. Powered by a diverse group and fueled by a love of the beautiful game, soccer is now played in neighborhoods across the city.
Today, the city has professional men’s teams: Sporting Kansas City and the Kansas City Comets. The city is also the first in the world to build a stadium exclusively for its professional women’s team, the Kansas City Current.
Kansas City is honored to be a host city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and to be part of the world’s largest sporting event. This exhibition of historic photographs is based on the KCUR 89.3 podcast A People’s History of Kansas City and invites guests to participate in this chapter of Kansas City’s soccer story and to learn more about what led to this historic moment.
Produced in collaboration with the Missouri Valley Special Collections.
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