A new season and full of challenges for manager Ben Olsen,
looking forward to building up a contender he had in the past two seasons,
except this 2020 he won’t have the likes of Wayne Rooney and Luciano Acosta.
Since these two in the previous two seasons became the spark
for this club revival and turnaround in 2018 when DCU was in the bottom of the
Eastern Conference, the arrival of Wayne Rooney resurrecting the club confidence
overall, in the end, the league highlights.
Now that Rooney is back in England with Championship side
Derby County and Luciano Acosta moving to Liga MX side Atlas from Guadalajara, the
black and Red manager is up for the challenge and with a mission to continue
forging a winner.
Still, with the start of the season just around the
corner, DCU is ready to front another edition that promises to be a one
disputed season, especially in the Eastern Conference considered as one tough
association.
Very well for manager Olsen, he is aware of the challenges
ahead his side will have in this edition of Major League Soccer welcoming two
new members in Nashville FC and Inter Miami these latter one seeded in the
Eastern Conference.
As DCU currently in its preseason and preparing for
opening day on February 29 with back to back home games in newly built Audi
Field playing against the Colorado Rapids and March 7 against newcomer Inter
Miami.
In the preseason the club has been hard at work to build a
contender and assuring a comeback to this upcoming season by getting goalkeeper
Earl Edwards Jr from USL affiliate Loudon United and French defender Frederick
Brilliant and (HG) academy prospect Kevin Paredes.
With new faces coming to Audi Field are Peruvian international
midfielder Edison Flores from Liga MX side Morelia, defender Julian Gressel
from Atlanta United, and goalkeeper Bill Hamid from FC Midtjylland from the Danish
league.
As the club is betting on its academy program and youth DCU
was successful and on target in the SuperDraft picking goalkeepers Simon Lefevre
21st and Andrew Verdi 65th
along with forward Josh Fawole 42nd
Something tells me that DC United will have a tough start
of the season holding spots above eight to tenth place or even in the bottom of
the table, until a sudden move of the club directives getting an ace under their
sleeve with a move that brought Wayne Rooney in 2018.
For manager Olsen knowing of his work being carefully observed
by his employers, the need to build a winning campaign is a must despite
missing a couple of his top playmakers that left for other leagues.
Come opening day a big maybe for the DCU to bring a
player or two to Audi Field to make all sorts of headlines with a big name player
or two from Europe or South America to build on a contender and see this club
return to its old glories past.
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