Preseason

The Sporting Kansas City midfield will have a new look in 2013 and SportingKC.com's pre-season video series turned the cameras toward one of the leading candidates to control the middle of the park for the club's upcoming campaign: Oriol Rosell.

The youngster, whose #20 jersey matches his age, played just 127 minutes during the regular season last year after arriving from FC Barcelona B in August, but is now poised to step into a starting role with the departures of Roger Espinoza (Wigan Athletic) and Julio Cesar (Toronto FC). Rosell's story from the famed fields of La Masia to the bright lights of Major League Soccer was featured by MLSSoccer.com last week.

Despite limited action, Rosell made the most of his opportunities throughout the second part of the 2012 season. He scored the game-winning goal in his second appearance, becoming the third youngest goal scorer in club history, and his strong showing in the Eastern Conference Semifinals against Houston saw him become the youngest KC player to start an MLS postseason match all-time. In six career MLS appearances, Sporting Kansas City is 5-0-1 and has not conceded a goal with Rosell on the field.

Should he emerge as a key contributor, he'll join the shortlist of promising young prospects to watch in Major League Soccer. In fact, MLSSoccer.com's "24 under 24" series last year featured only four players younger than Rosell:

• Omar Salgado (VAN) -  No. 1 pick in  2011 SuperDraft has played at  U-20 level for Mexico and U.S.
• Luis Gil (RSL) - Bradenton product is with U.S. U-20's at the CONCACAF Championship
• Juan Agudelo (CHV) - Striker has 17 appearances for  USMNT since debuting at age 17 in 2010
• Andy Najar -- 2010 Rookie of the Year recently transferred to Belgian champs Anderlecht

Be sure to follow Uri on Twitter and Instagram as Rosell begins his first full season in MLS. Currently in his first pre-season with the club, it appears he's taken in several of the sights that Orlando has to offer:

Sporting Kansas City could finish anywhere from first to fourth in Group B depending on the results of Saturday's matches. They will face the Tampa Bay Rowdies at 7 p.m. CT while D.C. United plays Montreal Impact at 12 p.m. CT. The basics are that Sporting KC need D.C. to beat Montreal to have a chance of finishing first place and a draw or better would guarantee at least third place or better. The full details of possible outcomes are below.

Group B Standings (through two matches)

Sporting KC will finish first place if

• They defeat Tampa Bay, D.C. United beats Montreal, and Sporting KC has advantage in tiebreakers

Sporting KC will finish second place if

• They defeat Tampa Bay and Montreal beats D.C. United
• They defeat Tampa Bay, D.C. United beats Montreal and has advantage in tiebreakers (see below)
• They draw with Tampa Bay and Montreal beats D.C. United

Sporting KC will finish third place if

• They draw with Tampa Bay and D.C. United beats Montreal
• They defeat Tampa Bay, D.C. United beats Montreal, and don't have advantage in tiebreakers (see below)

Sporting KC will finish fourth place if

• They lose to Tampa Bay and D.C. United draws with Montreal
• They lose to Tampa Bay and D.C. United defeats Montreal
• They lose to Tampa Bay, Montreal beats D.C. United, and don't have advantage in tiebreakers (see below)

Tiebreakers

If Two Teams Tie:

Starts with tie breaker number 1 and proceed through each level, as needed to determine a winner.

1. Head to head result
2. Net goal differential
3. Most goals scored
4. Least goals allowed
5. Minus 1 game point for each red card/send-off
6. Coin toss. The team whose home city, is first alphabetically will call the coin toss.

• If more than two teams are involved in a tie, tie breaker number 2 will be used first to rank the teams.
• If teams are still tied, tie breaker number 3 will be used to rank the teams, and so on until a tie is broken.
• Once a team has been ranked higher or lower, the tie breaking procedure begins for the remaining tied teams with number 1.
• If more than two teams are still tied after tie breaker number 5 a coin toss will be held with the odd team being eliminated.
• The tie breaking procedure begins for the remaining tied teams with number 1.

Dreams do come true at Walt Disney World, just ask Sporting Kansas City Season Ticket Members Brian Bechtold and Mollie Black. The pair of Overland Park, Kan. natives joined the team in Orlando this week and returned home on Wednesday with quite the story to share with their friends and family: we're engaged!

Brian popped the question on Sunday in front of the iconic Spaceship Earth at Epcot and Mollie was proudly showing off the ring when I caught up with them at the team's training session on Tuesday morning. Hear from both of them below and be sure to congratulate the Cauldron lovebirds when you see them in the Members Stand on March 16.

Major League Soccer generated considerable buzz throughout the global soccer scene in July 2012 with the announcement that MLS would become the first "smart league" in the world with the integration of the adidas micoach Elite System for all 19 clubs during the 2013 season. Now on the cusp of opening day, SportingKC.com sat down with the team's fitness coach Mateus Manoel to discuss the data-tracking technology and the benefits it offers by providing coaches, trainers and players with real-time performance metrics such as heart rate, speed, acceleration, distance, field position and power.