The Kansas City Wizards will begin their journey through the 2010 MLS season on Tuesday, as players and technical staff will report to the Kansas City Chiefs indoor practice facility for the first day of preseason training.

Training will commence at 11a.m. CT on Tuesday, and will continue through the week at the same start time. Players and staff will be available to the media immediately following each training session. Practices have been moved to the Chiefs indoor facility due to forecasted inclimate weather. Media should park in the gravel lot on the west side of the practice facility, and should enter the practice facility through the doors on the west side of the building.

"The entire technical staff is very excited to have the players back for the start of preseason training," Wizards Manager Peter Vermes said. "We have a long process ahead of us, and we can't wait to get started."

The Kansas City team that arrives on Tuesday will be quite different than the one that left it at the end of last season. The Wizards added five players in the MLS SuperDraft last week, including Teal Bunbury, winner of the 2009 MAC Hermann Trophy, awarded annually to the nation's best collegiate soccer player. The team also added two international players in Colombian defender Pablo Andrés Escobar and Guadeloupian midfielder Stéphane Auvray.

The off-season has been a successful one off the field as well for the Wizards organization. The team broke ground on a new soccer-specific stadium in Kansas City, Kansas this past Wednesday, with team President Robb Heineman personally manning the bulldozer that shoveled the first load of dirt. The stadium is expected to seat 18,000 people, and is targeted for completion in 2011.