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A member of SportingKC is the latest player to test positive for COVID-19 at the MLS is Back Tournament.

The club confirmed Friday that one of its players had recorded a pair of consecutive positive test results. Sporting Kansas City said the positive test results followed mandatory testing on two consecutive days upon arrival last Sunday in Florida and five testing days since.Sporting Kansas City is scheduled to open its tournament Sunday against Minnesota United.

The news comes one day after Nashville SC became the second team forced to withdraw from the tournament due to multiple COVID-19 tests. FC Dallas pulled out on Monday for the same reason.Players, staff and officials are being tested ever other day at the tournament, which marks the league’s first action since it halted play March 12 due to the global pandemic.Anyone who has spent at least 10 minutes within two metres of a person who has tested positive will be tested again.

 

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