Sporting Kansas City continued the Coachella Valley Invitational with a 2-1 victory over New York City FC on Wednesday at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif.<\/p>\n
Sporting Kansas City opened the scoring in the 23rd minute as Manu Garcia collected a loose ball at the top of the penalty area, dribbled to the endline and sent a cross that was touched on at the near post by Dejan Joveljic and hammered home by Calvin Harris at the top of the six-yard box.<\/p>\n
Joveljic then doubled Sporting’s lead three minutes later, capping off a 13-pass scoring sequence — in which nine different players were involved — with a first-time finish off a cross from Jake Davis.<\/p>\n
New York City FC pulled a goal back from the penalty spot five minutes into the second half as 17-year-old Seymour Reid converted after Jayden Reid was whistled for a foul on Drew Baiera inside the area.<\/p>\n
Sporting will conclude the club’s preseason with an exhibition against Austin FC at 12 p.m. CT on Saturday. The match will be available for fans to watch online via a free stream at SportingKC.com\/live.<\/p>\n
Sporting Kansas City vs. New York City FC
Feb. 11, 2026 \u2013 Empire Polo Club (Indio, Calif.)
Sporting Kansas City 2, New York City FC 1<\/p>\n
SKC – Calvin Harris (Dejan Joveljic, Manu Garcia) 23′
SKC – Dejan Joveljic (Jake Davis, Calvin Harris) 26′
NYC – Seymour Reid (penalty kick) 50′<\/p>\n
Sporting Kansas City Lineup
Stefan Cleveland (John Pulskamp 46′); Jake Davis, Ian James (Wyatt Meyer 46′), Jansen Miller (Ethan Bartlow 63′), Zorhan Bassong (Jayden Reid 46′); Kwaku Agyabeng (Cielo Tschantret 84′), Manu Garcia (Jacob Bartlett 46′), Daniel Salloi (Justin Reynolds 46′); Stephen Afrifa (Johann Ortiz 63′), Dejan Joveljic (Shane Donovan 467′), Calvin Harris (Shapi Suleymanov 46′)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sporting Kansas City continued the Coachella Valley Invitational with a 2-1 victory over New York City FC on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7269,9,24,55,54,56,44819,54937,1536],"class_list":["post-130753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-match-recap","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-preseason","tag-sporting-kansas-city","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}