Before reliving Wayne Rooney’s monumental act from D.C. United’s wondrous victory late Sunday — a feat that sent shared video ricocheting around Europe when the workweek dawned a few hours later — it’s important to step back five days to a steamy afternoon in a rooftop bar on Audi Field’s north end.
The space is empty, except for Rooney, his wife and eldest of four sons dressed in United gear, two team staffers and a couple of reporters. The family is about to go house-hunting, but first, the English superstar agrees to discuss his first five weeks in Washington.