Real Salt Lake Comes up Short in MLS Cup Match




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Summary: For Real Salt Lake, the Major League Soccer season came to a disappointing end. The winner of the MLS Cup was never previously determined by as many as ten rounds of penalty kicks. But that’s what happened Saturday night against Sporting Kansas City. It came down to penalty kicks after the teams slugged it out for 120 minutes and the match remained deadlocked, 1-1. Sebastian Velasquez, the 22-year native of Colombia had a shot to win it for RSL in the eighth round, but was stopped by Sporting