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.
